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I’m in Salt Lake Magazine!
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 @ 10:11PM
It's news to me. Our lovely and talented new promotions director, R-r-r-r-r-randi just informed me of this. I am on page 223 in the December issue. Check it out, and I will as well. Hmmm. Peace out, Portia Early
Hey, It’s from this Summer’s Best of The Beehive concert that I emceed last August. Dallon Weeks of the Brobecks is in there, too. Thank you, Salt Lake mag.
Local bands, you have one week…
Monday, October 29th, 2007 @ 12:51PM
...make that less than one week, to get in your one-song submission in for X96 Live and Local Volume Four!
The deadline is coming up this Friday, November 2, at 5pm., no exceptions! Erm, pretty please.
Again the addy is:
X96 Live and Local v.4
700 E. 515 S. Suite 1C
SL, UT 84102
If you can, please drop off your one-song submission in person to guarantee making the deadline.
Peace out,
Portia Early
X96 Live And Local Halloween Show
Monday, October 22nd, 2007 @ 10:34PM
To The Death, Tyler from Neon Trees, and more will be on the show this Sunday, October 28!
I will also take your scary, gothic-hard rock-industrial-Halloween requests. Of course, there will also be plenty of live music as well. The local artists coming are required to be in costume, so I can humiliate them later on myspace.
X96 Live and Local every Sunday night from 8-10 pm. on X96.
Corey, who’s Bogarting now?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 @ 9:24PM
X96 Live and Local X~SKAgavanza this Sunday night on X96 Live and Local!
This Sunday for the first time ever, I am having a huge Ska show for the first half of X96 Live and Local. Scotty of the 90’s former local Ska band Stretsch Armstronng will be there, along with Insatiable, and the newer Ska bands in the state. Then I will be taking your Utah band requests from 9-10 pm. X96 Live and Local this Sunday night from 8-10 pm.
X96 Live and Local v. 4 is coming!
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 @ 11:44AM
Now we just need music for the fourth local band compilation!
Send your greatest hit on a CD to:
X96 Live and Local Volume 4
700 E. 515 S. #1C
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Please send one song only. Deadline for submissions is November 2.
X96 Live and Local this Sunday, October 14.
Friday, October 12th, 2007 @ 7:30PM
Hey there. Portia here, host of X96's award-winning Utah indie band show, X96 Live and Local.
This Sunday, starting at 8:00 pm., Mury will be here to promote a little show on October 21 at the Avalon theater. They are opening for a band you might know called Yellowcard! Mury consists of former Take The Fall, The Contingency Plan, and Ayrton members. Mury (yes, a nifty misspelling of Murray, Utah) formed last Spring, and moved to California this Summer. But they are still considered local Utah darlings, and they already have a pretty good following here. When I say ‘darlings’, does that make you want to barf? Am I getting old in this great, state of ours?
Also appearing and playing acoustic at 9:30 pm, is Davis County’s Fourteen Days From Forever. I thought it would only be appropriate for the band to come on the 14th. Haha. Okay, that’s lame. http://www.myspace.com/fourteendaysfromforever
Coming up later in the month, the first X96 Live and Local X~SKAvaganza show will debut on the 21st. Scotty from 90’s local Ska band Stretsch Armstronng will be here, as well as new local Ska talent. Insatiable may also make an appearance. It will be one skankin’ good time.
On Sunday, October 28, it’s the second annual X96 Live and Local Halloween party, featuring plenty of scary, hardcore and gothic local music to give you nightmares on the Sabbath. Believe me, Utah may seem tame, but there is plenty of rebellion goin’ on here. In a good way, of course. I think. I also just found a cool pirate Capitan costume from Pib’s Exchange to wear just for the show, and I’m making guests Our Time In Space wear costumes as well. That’s a rule on the Halloween show. I know, the pirate thing is so last year, right? But the kick-ass vinyl boots I found were only $10 and they have metal heels. Who wouldn’t pass that up?
Please join me this and every Sunday night from 8-10 pm. for X96 Live and Local!
The X96 Live and Local stage will still be in the X96 Maverik Big Ass Show at the Salt Palace.
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 @ 2:13PM
In case you had any inquiries as if the Live and Local stage will still be at the X96 Maverik Big Ass Show because it has been moved, why yes it will.
The lineup is still as follows:
The Playdead Movement
Amber Alert
Thunderfist
SKINT
The Brobecks
Another Statistic
Acuna
The Market
Come find us at the Salt Palace Convention Center this Saturday, October 6 for the 13th Annual X96 Maverik Big Ass Show and support your Utah indie music scene!
xo
Corey stole my gray hat idea.
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 @ 5:11PM
We really don't plan to coordinate like this, just only to wear the same dress at Green Street sometimes.
myspace, myspace, myspace!
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 @ 5:02PM
You should know by now that myspace was originally created for musicians. Just about every band is on there, and Utah indie artists are no exception.
To browse through most of the current Utah rock bands on myspace, check out mine! http://www.myspace.com/djportia
MANICproject
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 @ 4:58PM
This artist does the X96 Live And Local theme song every Sunday night at 8pm. He is also a talented photographer!
X96 Live and Local news online. Woo!
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 @ 8:49PM
Utah local bands and fans, get ready to rumble.
This is going to be immensely exciting for local artists to be exposed (in the good way, of course) and to accept feedback as well. You can check out the X96 Live and Local playlists, (if there was a band, say, that you liked three weeks ago, you could look up that playlist and find it) Utah band concerts posted weekly and consistently updated; and Utah band spotlights, LL fond memories, upcoming LL guests and specialty shows, (like the X96 Live and Local X~SKAVAGANZA coming up on Sunday, October 21 at 8pm) and opportunities for your band to be involved in X96 Events and projects.
Speaking of events, check out the X96 Live and Local stage at the X96 Maverik Big Ass Show this Saturday, October 6, Featuring:
THE PLAYDEAD MOVEMENT
AMBER ALERT
THUNDERFIST
SKINT
THE BROBECKS
ANOTHER STATISTIC
ACUNA
and
THE MARKET
I will be there all day hanging with the local homies, so please come ovah and say hello! We’ll be by the South bathrooms. How convenient for us...and don’t forget Pleasant Grove’s very own VICTIM EFFECT will open on one of the main stages at 11am.
Speaking of projects, let me be the first to tell you that X96 is now taking one-song submissions for X96 Live And Local Volume 4, which will benefit The Utah Food Bank starting this Thanksgiving. Please send your one GREATEST HIT to: X96 Live and Local v.4, 700 E. 515 S. Suite 1C, SLC, UT 84102.
Thanks, and I am freaking thrilled to expose more of the Utah Indie scene (because we all know, it ain’t too shabby!!!) here on http://www.x96.com.
Portia’s New Blog
Monday, October 1st, 2007 @ 4:20AM
Welcome to Portia's Blog. Check back to find out all the latest Local Music News.