Fresh from their big win at the Rocky Mountain Harmony Sweepstakes (Champions and Best Song “Monsters, Animals, THROAT (a band that’s managed by and includes Mister Tim) will be performing TONIGHT (8:00-11:00 pm) at the Velour Music Gallery 135 N. University Ave Provo, UT.
Lyrics with esoteric leanings, a fair amount of techno, and [...]

The second part of this interview is really more of a guest post. Mr. Tim one of the few people I know who lives artfully. He doesn’t just make music in his studio and then come home and forget about it. He doesn’t go to Church and be Mormon on Sunday and then go and [...]

. . . especially when they’re made with death,” says Mister Tim, the quirkiest voice in a cappella music.
I’ve known Mister Tim for more than 5 years and witnessed many artistic incarnations. The earliest (for me) was as our ward choir director. Intense, focused, squinting with the effort of tweaking our voices into [...]

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Neon Trees had a big 2010. After getting plucked from the Provo music scene to tour with The Killers in 2008, they finally dropped their first studio album Habits (Amazon) with plenty of buzz and exposure. First single “Animal” went platinum, and after hearing it a zillion times I grew to quite like it and [...]

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In yesterday’s post, I introduced Song/Cycles from New York’s Mormon Artists Group. Today we will read an excerpt from a roundtable discussion from the contributing composers (available in full at the front of the book).
But before we get to that however, residents of Utah should remind themselves that “on Monday, November 8, a performance of [...]

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Mormon Artists Group is at it again. In case you didn’t hear about their latest release, it is poetry set to music. The poetry is of high quality (some of them, I will admit, are among the best poems I’ve read in the last few years) and the music also ranges from the good to [...]

Craig McClean profiles Brandon Flowers for The Daily Telegraph and one section that stands out to me:
None the less, last year he told the Tribune newspaper in Salt Lake City – the Mormon faith’s heart, the capital city of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – ‘my faith influences the songs I don’t [...]

In a sense, Mormon Literature began 178 years ago this month, with the publication of the Evening and Morning Star.