indie Archive
01 Aug 2024
30 Days Out, Aug. 2024 #1: Jason Isbell, PAKT, Linda Lindas, Jlloyd MashUp
Yes, there’s a homegrown music festival this month that pretty much makes space for every local band. But you already know about that, so instead I present previews of four […]
24 Jun 2024
Cinders: Persistence of Vision
Cinders is a young band, but they started early. Together nearly a decade, the group has already toured overseas and become something of a hit on Spotify. The Salt Lake […]
01 Jun 2024
30 Days Out, June 2024 #1: Beach Boys, King’s X, Kim Gordon, Pinkish Floyd
Wow. Some big names – from both a commercial and critical perspective – are coming to town in the next 30 days. And a local group that serves up the […]
13 Apr 2024
Santa Cruda: Holy Hangover!
Most bands found themselves taking a hiatus when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. With venues closing, opportunities for bands to play in front of audiences vanished virtually overnight. But some musicians […]
12 Apr 2024
Floratura: Ready to Say Something
Tatiana Peña and Adrian “Treetop” Marquez initially teamed up as a musical duo in the late 2010s. “We started our musical journey together through protest,” says Peña. “We traveled the […]
11 Apr 2024
The New Horizons: Music of Many Colors
2017 was a busy year for Jimmy Palafox. Not only did he graduate from high school; he launched two new bands: Santa Cruz Latin Collective and The New Horizons. “I […]
10 Apr 2024
Santa Cruz Latin Collective: Keeping the Music Alive
While the Santa Cruz Latin Collective came together in 2017, its roots extend back to the early 1970s. The Bay Area has a proud history of Latin and Afro-Cuban music, […]
08 Apr 2024
Marnie Stern: Tapping Back Into a Solo Career
The string-tapping method employed by adventurous musicians isn’t new, and it wasn’t devised by Eddie Van Halen. Some 200 years ago, composer Niccolò Paganini used the technique on his violin. […]
04 Apr 2024
Album Review: Mushroom – Messages from the Spliff Bunker
A kind of indie-underground supergroup, Mushroom is at its core the brainchild of Pat Thomas. Combining avant-garde, free jazz and krautrock influences and textures might – to the causal listener, […]
27 Mar 2024
Quick Reviews, March 2024: New Releases
The Incurables – Inside Out & Backwards To the extent that one can make generalizations, it’s safe to say that most of the artists on Big Stir Records fall into […]