Artist: Lakefield Album: Swan Songs Genre: Indie Pop, Rock “We built something together, like you would build a house. Every rehearsal we’d decorate a room, or build a new addition. As the back-catalogue grew we started to tune our set to the type of show, instead of simply playing everything we had. When Sounds From The […]
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UTG INTERVIEW: Lakefield Discuss Their ‘Swan Songs’
February 17th, 2014 
Brian Leak Vancouver, BC’s Lakefield have succumbed to the pressures of life in and outside of their existence as a band, and as such have decided it best that they part ways, but not before leaving fans and new listeners alike with the aptly titled Swan Songs, a 6-track EP that will mark their final release. Guitarist […]
VINYL REVIEW: Their / They’re / There – ‘Analog Weekend’ EP
January 13th, 2014 Brian Leak Artist: Their / They’re / There Album: Analog Weekend EP Label: Topshelf Records, Polyvinyl Records Original Release Date: Dec. 10, 2013 The three members of Chicago’s grammatically adept post-indie math-pop outfit Their / They’re / There are certainly no strangers to the emo and indie rock scenes. Evan Weiss has been gracing endless headlines over […]
Their / They’re / There Stream New EP
December 3rd, 2013 Troy Sennett Their / They’re / There made their debut on Record Store Day in April of this year with an excellent EP of angular and frenetic emo rock, and the Chicago group, which features Evan Weiss (Into It. Over It.), Mike Kinsella (Owen, American Football), and Matthew Frank (Loose Lips Sink Ships), has wasted no time […]
REVIEW: Foxing – ‘The Albatross’
November 18th, 2013 Troy Sennett Artist: Foxing Album: The Albatross Genre: Emo “When the tide rolled in, there was nothing left but an albatross hanging from my neck, and just as you could not contain the sea, you could not contain me,” sings Foxing vocalist Conor Murphy on the opening track of The Albatross. The line is an allusion to […]
Their / They’re / There Stream New Song
November 7th, 2013 Troy Sennett Evan Weiss (of Into It. Over It.) just might be the most prolific man in music right now, so it came as no surprise when one of his many projects, Their / They’re / There, announced recently that they would release their second EP of 2013. The group, which also features Mike Kinsella (Owen, American […]
REVIEW: Misser – Every Day I Tell Myself I’m Going to Be A Better Person
May 30th, 2012 Tyler Osborne Artist: Misser Album: Every Day I Tell Myself I’m Going to Be A Better Person Genre: Pop-Punk/Punk Label: Rise Records Complete transparency: I generally hate side-projects. A lot of them are half-assed, boring, and just seem like material that didn’t fit as much into the original, more popular band’s newest album. There are obvious exceptions […]
Braid Reunion with Owen as Support
May 7th, 2012 Tyler Osborne Uhmm… yeah…. This is incredible. 90’s emo-punks Braid have announced that they are doing a reunion tour this August, and it could not be more exciting. On top of their nine stop tour, they will be bringing one of the kings of the emo genre Owen (Mike Kinsella, Ex-American Football) along with them. This is […]
We Phoned Teenage Cool Kids!
November 18th, 2008 James Shotwell After seeing TCK perform live at The Kickstand in Gainesville, I had to catch up with the boys from Denton, Texas for a Saturday afternoon conference. Teenage Cool Kids @ The Kickstand during THE FEST 7 Billy T of UTG: Ok! Go ahead and introduce yourselves and tell me what you do in […]
UTG PHOTOS: Island Life NYC – Nick Jonas, Shawn Mendes, Kiesza & More (9/8/15)
September 30th, 2015 MJ Rawls Until this show, I had never seen the Best Buy Theater filled and come together so lively with younger fans in all my history of going to concerts at the venue. Let’s be fair: usually the concerts I attend embody a bit older audience. Perhaps, I was just going to the wrong shows. Island Life–essentially […]
Dan Campbell Of The Wonder Years Reveals Solo Project, Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties
May 22nd, 2014 Troy Sennett You’re going to get to know Aaron West very well this summer. Who is Aaron West, you ask? He is the character at the center of Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties, the new solo project of Dan Campbell, vocalist of pop punk favorites The Wonder Years. Here’s what Campbell has to say about the […]
REVIEW: The Acacia Strain – ‘Above/Below’
November 19th, 2013 Kyle Florence Artist: The Acacia Strain Album: Above/Below 7″ Label: Rise Records Genre: Metal/Hardcore Before moving forward, I’d like to start out by saying that I usually shy away from reviewing this type of material, as the modest amount of tracks doesn’t leave a lot of wiggle room between “I absolutely loved it” and “I’d rather listen […]