Our friends at fellow AbsoluteVoices site PropertyOfZack have a weekly discussion feature. This week, they’ve picked “My First Concert Experience”. In it, several staff members and musicians discuss their first concerts or shows and what it lead to. As you’d expect, Zack’s involves a member of blink 182, but there are a handful of surprises […]
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UTG LIST: Staff Recommendations For Record Store Day 2013
April 20th, 2013 
Adrian Garza It’s here! After twelve months of waiting Record Store Day 2013 is finally upon us and UTG is ready to help you decide which releases you hunt for this Saturday. It should go without saying at this point, but it’s extremely important everyone reading this head out to their local record store on Saturday, April […]
PRODUCT REVIEW: RHA MA450i Noise Isolating Aluminum Earphones
April 19th, 2013 Brian Leak Much like the review we did on the Canon 300EG custom gadget bag, product reviews here on UTG are a rarity, but when it comes to something relevant to our needs and practical uses, we can obviously make an exception. We were recently presented with a pair of the sleek RHA MA450i Noise Isolating Aluminum […]
Record Store Day 2013 Releases Updated Calendar (~400)
March 20th, 2013 Grant Trimboli Record Store Day 2013 has unleashed another updated version of their official calendar and can be seen here on UTGReview! Check out more than 385 releases by heading through and let us know which ones you and your friends are excited for. CASSETTE RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com): § Kill Rock Stars The Compilations(limited 3 cassette […]
Record Store Day 2013 Releases Update (358+)
March 13th, 2013 Grant Trimboli Record Store Day 2013 has once again unleashed an updated version of their official calendar and can be seen here on UTG Review! Check out more than 358 releases by heading through and let us know which ones you and your friends are excited for. CASSETTE RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com): *NEW* MGMT Alien Days […]
Record Store Day 2013 Releases Updated Calendar
March 4th, 2013 Grant Trimboli Record Store Day 2013 has unleashed an updated version of their official calendar and can be seen here on UTG Review! Check out more than 200 releases by heading through and let us know which releases you and your friends are excited for. CD RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com): Codeine What About the Lonely CD […]
Record Store Day 2013 Release List Announced
February 28th, 2013 Tyler Osborne Vinyl purchasing is on the rise in the industry. However it never really died. Celebrated since 2007, Record Store Day is a day in April (2013 will celebrate on April 20) where fans celebrate their local record shops by purchasing records. While I am of the strict belief that every day is record store day, […]
STREAM: Balance And Composure – “You Can’t Fix Me” And “Say”
February 22nd, 2013 Dayton O'Connor We dug the recent split EP from indie/emo stalwarts Braid and indie/emo young guns Balance and Composure. What was it called? Uh, they uh, titled it… Split. Hey, give the guys a break. They had to utilize their creative energies towards composing their tunes. And even if you haven’t picked up the album either as […]
REVIEW: Last Call – Dog Years
November 28th, 2012 Tyler Osborne Band: Last Call Album: Dog Years Genre: Pop-Punk Label: Broken Arrow Collective I really love checking out new bands. I’m sometimes pretty critical, because I have a lot of bands that I’m super into already. This may mean I’m getting old, or maybe I’ve just been oversaturated with music already, but lately I look at […]
Polyvinyl Records Release Extreme CD Bundle
October 13th, 2012 Dan Bogosian Polyvinyl Records, the record company behind such indie artists as Of Montreal, Braid, and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, is notorious for doing short promotions and having extreme deals. Now, do to an overstock and some returns, the label has two large bundles to offer: ten CDs for $15, or twenty CDs for $25. […]
Fun Fun Fun Fest Announce 2012 Lineup
September 5th, 2012 Josh Hammond November 2 through November 4, Austin, Texas is the place to be. With Fun Fun Fun Fest pulling into Auditorium Shores with a army of killer bands, music fans will be hard pressed to find a more entertaining weekend anywhere in the nation. The festival will feature such high profile and notable bands as Run […]
Fest 11 Drops Lineup
April 5th, 2012 Tyler Osborne Gainesville, FL based Fest 11 announced the initial set up bands today for it’s October festival, and it’s unnecessarily fantastic. With bands such as Streetlight Manifesto, Frank Turner, Mixtapes, Polar Bear Club, and TONS of fantastic punk bands, this year is going to be fantastic as always. They haven’t even dropped the huge headliners yet (last year Lifetime […]