Experimental, haunting ambiance. That is the best way to describe local Salt Lake City act ROOM. C. (bass) and Void (drums), the duo who make up the two-piece act, experiment heavily with improvisation...

  1… 2… 3… 4… I count mountains. The room was buzzing on Wednesday night upon the entrance of the New York-based Water From Your Eyes. Lit by dim blue lighting and heads bobbing from...

  On the corner of 500 S. and 200 E., rifling through the stacks of records while his bagel lay waiting next door, Jack Osmond searches for any familiar album kept stocked at Fountain Records....

  In 1969, Dave Bixby sat down alone in a cult leader’s living room, dampened with thick carpet and drapes, and recorded “Ode to Quetzalcoatl” on a two-track reel-to-reel tape recorder. Bixby...

  As doors opened to the public, Skrude was filing in, wearing costumes resembling characters from Scooby-Doo. “The Scooby-Doo idea was quite old, to be honest,” Dante Paz Soldán said. “The...

  They were drinking in the middle of July, but the calendar was stuck on June. Long-time friends and time management gods, Salt Lake’s favorite alternative band, Drunk in June, will be on...

As indie-rock aims to end another historic year, one band is making a name for itself, and that’s Geese. Releasing their first album in over two years, “Getting Killed,” dropped this past September....

  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...