“I remember Bruce Springsteen saying that people suffer ’cause they have to and I think that’s right but at least I got a record out of it this time round.” Australia’s Michael Cullen has had somewhat of a sparse musical career over the past two decades or more, having taken extensive breaks in between projects […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Gravity’
October 17th, 2013 
Grace Duffy “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” Of the many reflections by Neil Armstrong on the groundbreaking mission to the […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Steve Rennie, Manager of Incubus, Founder Of Renman Music & Business
September 24th, 2013 Dan Bogosian From time to time, a chance to interview someone we’ve long admired comes up that we simply cannot resist. Stevie Rennie is a music industry expert who started as a promoter in Los Angeles, became a record executive for Epic Records, and ended up managing Incubus. He’s now started his own website for those who […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Elysium
August 9th, 2013 James Shotwell Film: Elysium Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster Directed by: Neill Blomkamp One hundred and forty years from now the world as we know it will be a distant memory that future generations will only learn about from faded pages in books left strewn in the streets of once thriving cities. The rich will flee the Earth […]
Reading and Leeds stage times announced
August 22nd, 2011 Jenna Finally, after much anticipation, the stage times for Reading and Leeds 2011 have been announced. Headlining the dual-venue festival are My Chemical Romance, The Strokes, Muse, and Pulp. Click through to see a full list of stage times!
MOVIE REVIEW: The Smurfs
August 3rd, 2011 James Shotwell “No one expected The Smurfs to be an Oscar-worthy film and guess what, it isn’t. Hell, if they hadn’t already announced two sequels I would say most will forget such a film ever existed. The Smurfs is just a simple movie for children that happens to use a nostalgic icon that few are truly nostalgic for to kickstart a franchise and entertain our world’s young minds with non-offensive content. Who can complain about that?”
Introducing American Bang
February 6th, 2010 Grant Trimboli American Bang is comprised of a wildly talented gang of young rock ‘n rollers who’ve been playing together in assorted combination all their lives. After many incarnations of local bands, all four members – Johnston, lead guitarist Ben Brown, bassist Kelby Ray, and drummer Neil Mason – came of age musically as students of rock […]
Johnny Marr is still going at it.
October 15th, 2009 Chris Courtesy: Pitchfork Johnny Marr came to prominence in the 80s playing guitar in a little band called the Smiths. When that little band broke up, he went on to work with the everybody from the Talking Heads and Pet Shop Boys to Beck and Oasis. He founded Electronic with Bernard Sumner and released a solo […]
Alexisonfire To Release New Album and Tour
April 23rd, 2009 James Shotwell From the press release: Coming off their 2007 breakout album Crisis–which achieved platinum-selling status in Canada after debuting at #1 on the Top 200 Nielsen Soundscan Chart there–ALEXISONFIRE have announced they’ll release their fourth studio album OLD CROWS/YOUNG CARDINALS June 23 on Vagrant Records. Fans can get an early listen of “Young Cardinals”–the first single off the new album–up now […]
Live Report – Motley Crue – The Saints of Los Angeles Tour [AKA Cruefest 2]
February 16th, 2009 James Shotwell 2-213-09 Van Andel Arena Grand Rapids, MI www.vanandelarena.com I’ve been trying for a few years to see the Crue live in concert. I don’t know if it was nostalgia for an era of music I never got to experience or the desire to see a dirty and gritty rock band play to 20,000 people, but […]