The University Of Utah Local Band Showdown!

Monday, November 26th, 2007 @ 6:08PM

It's another chance for you to support Utah indie music with me this Friday night at the U of U Union Ballroom.

I judged this competition last year, and it was a blast! This year’s winner will play at the U’s Grand Kerfuffle concert this Spring. ASUU received a boatload of entries and picked the top eight, chosen by students who only listened to the music without knowing any of the band names. The semi-finals were held last week, and four were chosen for the finals:

Larusso http://www.myspace.com/larusso
Melodramus http://www.myspace.com/melodramus
Good Morning Maxfield http://www.myspace.com/goodmorningmaxfield
Patter Stats http://www.myspace.com/patterstats

I will host the event at 6:00 pm. SHARP, and audience participation is part of the voting, so you will be a vital part of the showdown. Oh, and MXPX will headline after the competition at 9:00 pm.

Get your tickets at the U of U Union Ballroom box office for only $15, $5 for students.

PCTV and me.

Monday, November 26th, 2007 @ 5:46PM

For over a year now, I have been making monthly appearances on Park City Television's "Mountain Views" show with host Ori Hoffer. It's a news and entertainment show which airs Mondays through Thursdays, with most of those days showcasing live Utah bands. In the past we've had a plethora of bands performing such as The Brobecks, Broke City, The Trademark, Victim Effect, and City Weekly SXSW and Slammy winners.

Tomorrow night, Tuesday November 27, Ori has hopefully found some bands to play Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas songs for the show which airs 6:00-7:00 pm. Honestly, I don’t know who or if he has booked yet. I just threw a bunch of potential local bands his way last week and he’s anticipatively picking and choosing right now. In fact, if he hasn’t found anyone yet, and you know “Grandma Got Run Over By An Emo”, please let us know.

Mountain Views is an immensely entertaining and fun show. You can catch it on Comcast Digital Cable channel 102, or online at http://www.parkcity.tv. If your band wants to be on Mountain Views in the near future, drop me an email: .

X96 Live and Local Volume Four: Where to get it now!

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 @ 9:26PM

Thank you for all of your generous donations for The Utah Food Bank the first of this week at Jiffy Lube on Foothill Drive. That was your first chance to get the fourth CD installment of X96 Live and Local.

Now, wherever you see the X96 Incident Management Vehicle, and perhaps our new vehicle, Kurty the X96 short bus; all you have to do is flash us (your X96 Freeloader card, you dirty kids) and we will give you X96 Live and Local Volume Four for free!

I will, of course, play more cuts off of the CD this Sunday night starting at 8:00 pm. on X96 Live and Local.

Thanks again for your support of fine, Utah indie music. I am especially proud of the 20 bands on the CD, and I hope you agree. Their websites are printed on the album, so feel free to contact them and give them the pat on the back they deserve. Also thanks again to Phil Istomin (the angry Russian) A.K.A. Manicproject, who designed the cover art. It looks so good, I haven’t been able to stop crying since Monday.

Ciao for now,

Portia Early

X96 Live And Local Volume Four is coming!

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 @ 10:12PM

X96 Live And Local Volume Four will be available THIS MONDAY with Radio From Hell broadcasting live at The Foothill Jiffy Lube passing out the CD with your food donations for The Utah Food Bank. Support your Utah indie bands by picking up the CD next week at the Jiffy Lube on 1577 S. Foothill Drive in Salt Lake, or wherever you see the X96 Incident Management Vehicle! MANICproject has put in hard time to create the entire CD artwork. I am so stoked for this effort!

1. Victim Effect - “Alice, Alice”
2. Mury “Backflips And Ninja Tricks”
3. Funk-Fu - “The Pirate Song”
4. The Brobecks - “2nd Boys Will Be 1st Choice”
5. Abby Normal - “Poor Us”
6. Amber Alert - “Action An Enemy Of Thought”
7. Fourteen Days From Forever - “We All Must Breathe”
8. Erratic Erotica - “Now (That) You Know”
9. Dear Stranger - “Your Audience”
10. The Explicit - “No Depression”
11. The Eden Express - “Insomniataraxia”
12. A Cassandra Utterance - “ Hey Blue Eyes”
13. The Market - “You Thought Wrong”
14. Off The Veil - “Mr. Sir”
15. Broke City - “More Than We Could Chew”
16. Ivy League - “The Only Escape”
17. Let’s Become Actors - “Don’t Lose Your Cool”
18. To The Death - “Pomp And Circumstance”
19. Manicproject - “Squareone”
20. DulceSky - “La Huida”

This will be the best LL comp yet, (well, of course, do you expect anything less?) and I hope you can donate to the Utah Food Bank to get yourself a copy, and show the world what a small piece of our fantastic indie scene has to offer. Go Land Of Zion!

More details to come…

Peace out,

Portia Early

X96 Live and Local Volume 4 entries are due tomorrow at 5pm.!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007 @ 5:42PM

If you want to be on our next local band compilation, you must get your one-song CD in by no later than 5pm on Friday, November 2. It must be original material, and no swearing for the kiddies please.

700 E. 515 S. #1C in the Trolley Corners building.

X96 Live and Local Volume 4 will be released on or around Thanksgiving to benefit The Utah Food Bank as we do every year.

Peace out,

Portia