Deep Thoughts

Pull into the driveway to a porch full of woman. I smell cigarettes and wine but  ask when will the music begin. This crowd is so different besides the binary pairs. Leggings in all patterns,  all the gem colored hair.  I recognize one man in a turquoise bolo tie tuning his guitar  under a sky of rainbow lights. But I get uncomfortable,  I know I don't fit in.  Deep Thoughts aren't cool enough my writing will never win.  Then pink hair walks up with a jar of moonshine, a silver velvet skirt, handing me welcoming eyes.  So I find a seat  I can stay for the show. Others are sitting on the ground this echolalia they know. She looks like Esso sounds She sounds like Apple feels She feels like Mitchell sings ...Hey mama won't you come down Hey mama won't you come down... But she was born from grace. 

Scored these tickets for free as I usually do in this town. I invited two friends who hadn't met before. They were drunk in love by the time we finished a pre-show dinner at the Dodo. By their tenth shot from the last glasses the restaurant had, I was getting antsy to leave and see who would be opening the show for Thundercat. I figured we would have some kick ass warm up dance music. But no, there was a stand up comic. Fresh idea Mister Thundercat but my white ass was tryna dance. I sipped some whiskey until finally they entered the stage. I moved in toward the center of the hot audience, looking around to see a completely male audience.  Always a new crowd flowing through Urban Lounge. Finally the dance party began. My friends were those couples you see a sloppily grinding on each other. It's fine. I had fun dancing by myself in the middle of the crown. Thank you for coming to town Thundercat. Hope you come again and attract some ladies this time.

Best folk album of the last five years easily. Introduced to me because I actually am allergic to water. I would keenly call this a "feel-good" album. But it's also got depth and sadness and then anthems of bliss.  Ani is so fresh and sensual in finding her way around unique tuning and mellow vocal tones.  This album will always be remembered as one of the many that got me through a life heart break. She takes you on this journey of wanting some one with out losing yourself in it. Letting go of the woes that life brings us while also facing the pain that another's ignorant words can bring, like a branding on the heart. "Allergic to Water" is my personal favorite song on the album. She tells a story I've never heard beside my own. "But still, I drink because I have to I bathe because I have to and boy it's a pain."She sings about the irony of needing water to stay alive although she is allergic to it. While I feel that this song is me...

It's a Wednesday night  in a cold salty city.  We're driving to a show but by head feels shitty.  'Twelve dollar cover please' In a courtyard with no bar? Young ass kids at the show so we stuff the tip jar.  Cozy on the back wall,  the stage in perfect view.  A pink haired goddess stands  to get her strings in tune.  And a soft violin commences.  Goddess becomes the siren.  Dopamine floods the mind and I get lost admiring.  As she sings of graces, I'm falling into her. My whole being relaxes now my head doesn't hurt.  Pink clouds fill the venue, her music bounces off them.  Romantic trance continues maybe to play pretend.  That I'm the only one  she serenades tonight. Alone in this hall with her in the spotlight.  She says into the mic, 'that's our last song tonight,  what a lovely crowd thanks for treating us right' My fri...

'Repave' Did you fall in love with the cathartic sounds of Bon Iver back when we thought the Mayan calendar was running things? So did I. 'For Emma' was mmmmmmm yes. Something so special. Well the guy started a new band called Volcano Choir. This full band brings that heavier deeper sound that Justin Vernon had been holding back from us. Their album, 'Repave' was made way back in 2013 but it's been consistent on my sound track these days. I'm not gonna say this album will make you cry like his old stuff did. But it will make you feel things. There's a heavy spaces between each instrument  sound for you to fill with emotion. 'Alaskans' is my favorite song on this album, while I will always suggest to listen to the whole thing beginning to end. It will make you feel like you are on a stormy cliff watching waves crash at the bottom of the Cascadian range. Dress warm. xo, Jane

This photo was stolen from yourmeteor.com Seeing these jerks live was that last god damn straw that broke my back and forced me to start this music blog. Like I've mentioned before, I write for a local magazine and these days as journalists in the art world, we're so frickin' polite. SLUG magazine used be that cool underground magazine that would actually give an honest review about a show. Those days are gone. I'm so over babying these musicians. I've had plenty of old men come up to me and tell me I suck at guitar. Think I gave a damn? I probably got even better after that. I'm ready to draw the dagger down, deep into the belly of our music scene. So, back to this piece of shit band calling themselves "Your Meteor." I've seen the band live about four times since I  committed myself to  stalking the mullet clad bass player full-time. Have you ever been in an audience and felt a tsunami of sound being thrown from a band into the crowd? You mi...

Nobody. Just a Salt Lake native of Mount Olympus. Started playing guitar and singing professionally at age fifteen getting pimped out to play all kinds of gigs from coffee shops to music festivals. Something about spending those four years trying so hard to get my music out heard,  a quietness grew inside of me after I moved to Oregon for college. I no longer felt this insanely pressing urge to play my music for every one around. I began to realize that my music is for me, not you bitches! Yeah that was me.  But damn do I love those people that just want to be on stage every night sharing their blissful talent with the world. Now that I live back in Salt Lake City and can get into bars, the entirety of my social life has been residing in the venues around town. I fucking love going to shows and dancing to live music. You'll find me at Urban Lounge up by the speakers or the State Room kicking it alone in the pews sipping my crown on the rocks. While I am a staff writer ...