Your Story Matters: Mental Health Benefit Concert

October 25, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Collin Cooper | @coop.97 Saturday night, I got to attend the Mental Health benefit concert put on by Hope For Help in our own Grand Ballroom. The event started with an explanation of the movement, and an introduction of the idea that your story matters. They invited the group of students in attendance to stand […]

This Will Destroy You at Urban Lounge

April 3, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reagan High | Staff Writer | @HighReagan On Friday March 27 I saw the Texas band, This Will Destroy You. TWDY can be given the blanket term of “post-rock,” but with their last two albums they have really transcended that label. Their 2011 album Tunnel Blanket can be described as a dark and daunting ‘doomgaze’ trip […]

Thoughts on Velour’s Open Mic Night and the Provo music scene

March 9, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reagan High | Staff Writer Open mic night at the Provo music venue Velour is, to be quite honest, hit or miss. I seem to always be invited by a friend every couple of weeks to this event and then consequently spend about two hours on auto-pilot while various renditions of current top 40 indie-folk […]

Portland Cello Project to play in Salt Lake

February 24, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Tiffany Frandsen | Deputy Managing Editor  On Saturday night, a posse of cellists (and a drummer) is playing a conglomerate of indie, hip hop, jazz and pop covers at The State Room. The Portland Cello Project is on tour to showcase their new album, an homage to Elliott Smith, called To E.S. but are coming […]

Battle of the Bands at the Stereo Room, Round 1

February 18, 2015

Reading Time: 3 minutes Reagan High | Staff Writer Orem’s relatively new venue the Stereo Room hosted its first night of Battle of the Bands on Monday, Feb. 16th. This first round contained everything from soulful Americana to a symphonic, hard rock cello group. The four bands that played were Fyre and Reign, Split Duality, Active Strand, and Synergy. […]

Welcome to “Break-up Season” playlist

February 18, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Now that Valentine’s Day has come and gone, mid-February brings in break-up season. The times of the year with the highest number of break ups are after New Year’s and Valentine’s Day because they are “expectation holidays.” If you weren’t all in before one of these holidays and your significant other doesn’t meet your expectations, […]

The Stereo Room’s Battle of the Bands Preview

February 16, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photo by Nicola Pritchett  Tiffany Frandsen | Deputy Managing  Editor | @tiffany_mf The Stereo Room, a relatively new concert venue in Orem, is hosting a Battle of the Bands this week, from Monday, Feb. 16 to the final round on Friday, Feb. 20. The 16 new bands are divided into four groups, which will play […]

Happy Birthday, Velour.

February 15, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Photos by Gabi Campbell Tiffany Frandsen | Deputy Managing Editor | @tiffany_mf Six bands – all with ties to Provo – and hundreds of music fans, including Provo Mayor John Curtis, came to the two day bash to pay homage (or, you know, just to boogie along with good bands) to founder/owner Corey Fox and his […]