In the days leading up to this year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Newsweek sat down with Lady Gaga to discuss her then upcoming performance. Never one to be shy about her work, Lady Gaga said that she planned something “rooted in New York-style performance art.” When asked if her performance would be a defining [...]

Poison gas clouds, a profusion of explosions, people getting assassinated — such is the imagery John Mayer invokes on his latest release, Battle Studies. What could cause these scenes of terror and confusion? The answer appears to be love. At age 32, Mayer has apparently amassed enough experiences in courting women to corroborate Pat Benatar’s [...]

Velour’s fourth annual Cowboys and Indies concert event ended in an interesting fashion on Saturday evening, juxtaposing the over-the-top antics of Seve Vs. Evan and ER with the more earnest fare of their cowboy counterparts in Code Hero and Moses. The unique pairings made for a night of somewhat uneven tones at time, but it [...]

Last night, Velour Live Music Gallery hosted part one of its fourth annual Cowboys and Indies festival, a two-night event that attempts to bridge the gap between Provo’s dominant genres — folk and indie — by putting leading local acts from both camps on the same stage. On Friday, Velour manager Corey Fox managed to [...]

John Mayer’s soon-to-be-released album Battle Studies (out Tuesday) just moved to the top of my most anticipated list. But for not the right reasons. As Rhombus’ illustrious editor can attest, I don’t get into new music easily, so the idea that a new release just became “anticipated” says something significant. In this case, significantly worrying [...]

Welcome to the first ever Rhombus Local Music Compilation. We’ve included some (but by no means all) of our favorite local artists in hopes of exposing you, our readers, to the great musical talent right in your own backyard. Featuring previously unreleased songs by the Vibrant Sound, Mudbison and Drew Danburry, plus great music from [...]

We haven’t done a ton of album reviews yet here at Rhombus, so we’re still throwing different things at the wall to see what sticks. For Imagine Dragons’ self-titled EP, we decided to have two of our contributors, Scott Manning and William Sutton, offer their thoughts on the disc, in order to provide you with [...]

If life has taught me anything in my 22 short years, it is that you don’t always get exactly what you want. The same goes for concerts. Saturday night’s Fictionist and NightNight show at Velour provided a microcosm of two bands at very different points in their musical evolution, one bursting with new creative life [...]

I believe in being honest, so I won’t pull any punches here — I generally loathe any type of religious music as a matter of personal principle. That’s not hyperbole. I’ve had horrible experiences with the genre. I used to become visibly angry when my mission companions would force me to listen to endless EFY [...]

My life is a series of intermittent events. Raise your hand if you feel the same. I haven’t exactly taken a poll on it recently, but I’m fairly certain that, especially for folks my age, it’s a moderately normal occurrence. One simply has to take a gander at their many friends’ Facebook pictures to see [...]