Ben and Austin have known each other since middle school. They formed a friendship that would eventually evolve into the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) super-machine known as AUXO. But before their...

  With the Cheshire Moon grinning through the rain clouds that have been haunting the Salt Lake valley throughout October, Erick Salazars’ You Shall Know Our Velocity transformed Kilby Court...

  August 1995. Two British bands—Blur and Oasis—were locked in a generational chart battle. Britpop was a movement attempting to bring British alternative music into the mainstream during...

  The first day of the Best Friends Forever Festival 2025 kicked off with a sky full of clouds and a crowd full of eager fans, ready for a weekend full of fantastic music. Early in the day, I had...

  Following Cursive on the main stage, the audience stuck around to secure their spot for Rilo Kiley, and soon afterward, Jimmy Eat World. The audience was, as expected, old heads, probably taking...

  Tiger Bike’s mission is to make music toward an “emo revival revival.” Though, they say the emo revival of the 2010s never died, they’re simultaneously making it cool again. The band...

  Knapsack dates back to the teenage grunge years of the 1990s, and 30 years later, they’re still one of the greats in the emo, indie rock scene.  “We've known each other since we were,...

  Many of our first memories are colored in by the distortions and limitations of the mediums that captured these moments in time. The first few years of my life are pieced together through family...

  Few things ignite as much controversy and admiration as an artist’s expression of identity, specifically when it challenges societal norms. Elvis Presley and Sabrina Carpenter, though from...

  Taylor Allision Swift is the red-lipped, blonde-haired, politically neutral billionaire popstar queen of America.  She is the most famous person on Earth. Her football star romance with the...

  At 9:50 p.m., Oct 2. I sat on my couch with Genius lyrics pulled up on my laptop, ready to listen to "The Life of a Showgirl" by Taylor Swift for the first time. At 10 p.m. I clicked play, not...

  Last Saturday, local band The Drought performed an EP release show of their new album “CHROME” to a large audience of fans and newcomers alike. The venue embodied the recent trend of backyard...