Odds are you've spotted them looking better than you on an evening drive downtown: sleek, stylish and simple machines ridden by equally style-savvy individuals. I'm talking, of course, about fixed-gear bicycles and their riders. Now that this bicycle trend has finally made its way to the Wasatch, a store has risen up among the hip clothing, record and art outlets on 300 South to cater to all your fixed-gear fashion needs: Disorderly House.
April 24 Loom $6 5:30 p.m. Kilby Court (741 S. 330 West) Labels like "post-hardcore" and "alt-hardcore" do little justice to a group like Loom whose ear-tingling aesthetic is impossible to distill into one- or two-word music tags. Grafted from other projects based in and around the Salt Lake Area (including Harmon's Heart, Her Candane, Trojan, Michigan, I Am The Ocean and Farewell My Enemy), Loom's intricate guitar work, electric viola and overall synergy have the beehive in a buzz from their debut EP, Angler.
April 17 Lucky I Am (of The Living Legends) $8 9 p.m. The Urban Lounge (241 S. 500 East) The fashion-savvy Luckyiam PSC is a member of the Cali-based, underground, hip-hop super group known as The Living Legends. Lucky is easily distinguished from his legendary brethren by his white, '60s era sunglasses and playful sense of humor.
April 12 Why? Urban Lounge (241 S. 500 East) 9 p.m. $10 Why? is composed of three visionary men who compensate for their lack of "virtuosic masturbatory shredding ability on the guitar" with the best indie-hop/psych-rock/folk-pop to ever grace the ears of this tickled Redux writer.
April 3 Daniel Johnston $15 7 p.m. In the Venue (579 West 200 South) The Sundance Film Festival's 2005 Directors Award went to Jeff Feuerzeig for his documentary on tragic indie icon Daniel Johnston. "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" portrays the musician as a self-educated and as yet unsung musical icon who has been crafting his Beatles-styled ballads since the late '70s with only a Sanyo Boombox as a recording studio.
Lake of Falcons is better than your average indie rock trio. Think Built to Spill tempered by Fugazi and mixed with a touch of Northwest grunge -- the indie rocker's perfect gramophone cocktail.
Besides having perhaps the best real name of any hardcore rapper -- Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr. -- Busta Rhymes, as he's more commonly known, boasts a distinctively fast flow and a long history of dropping science.
Electronica's bad boys Holy F*** create improvisational electronic music -- without employing the genre's staple use of loops, splicing and programming. This innovative approach to a dynamic genre has boded well for the Canadian duo, who managed to fill spots at Vegoose, Coachella (where they supported Brooklyn rapper Beans) and SXSW -- not to mention opening for Buck 65 on the European leg of his "Secret House Against The World" tour.
Feb. 28 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Saltair (12408 W. Saltair Drive) 8 p.m. $30 "Bone, bone, bone, bone, boone, booone, boone, bone. Now tell me what ya gonna do, when judgment comes for you?" Get all my thugs together, that's what. Specifically, I'm speaking of Bizzy, Krayzie, Layzie, not to mention Wish Bone, who have been tantalizing the ears of hip-hop fans since the early '90s with their characteristic fast-paced cadences and street testimonials.
After a late-night discussion revolving around their shared love for R&B/hip-pop (a la Mariah Carey), Will Schwartz and partner Tomo Yasuda conceived of the dance-inducing Hey Willpower. The group is a departure in sound from Schwartz's other project, indie rock group Imperial Teen, and provides a much-needed outlet for him to channel his inner Mariah.
