The much beleaguered Britney Spears has reason to celebrate this week: for only the third time in her career, she’ll have a song debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is called “3” and addresses the singer’s desire to participate in a threesome. Risqué, yes, but also not surprising given [...]

Ah, Fall: a season of wonder. This is the month of change: the leaves go from green to a lush mixture of colors; the air gets cooler but not unbearably so, ushering in a lovely breeze; everyone’s favorite TV shows have their season premieres; people repopulate the ancient and decrepit apartments around the two campuses [...]

The next time you’re walking the streets of Provo, look at the nearest lamppost or telephone pole. Chances are, it’ll have an event poster taped to it. In fact, if you happen to be on a corner or a busy street it’ll probably be plastered with layers and layers of posters plugging dozens of different [...]

Boston-based indie darlings Passion Pit will bring their helium-filled brand of electro-dance pop to Salt Lake City’s Urban Lounge tonight. Fresh off a summer full of big-time music festivals and an exhaustive touring schedule, Michael Angelakos and company will fill downtown SLC’s much more intimate venue with pulsing beats and soaring melodies off their critically [...]

Boy bands are like zombies – if you cut off their heads, they’ll simply grow another one and reform in 10 years, hellbent on world domination. It seems that as soon as one group of musically competent lads resigns their spot atop the global music charts, another has already been carefully groomed and prepared to [...]

Do you remember the summer your childhood innocence wilted away like so many leaves autumning into fall? So often, it seems, such moments are difficult, if not impossible, to understand as they happen and it is only in retrospect that we can look back with pining nostalgia. Among all art forms, music is perhaps best [...]

Monsters of Folk, “Whole Lotta Losin’” We’re back! After a week of hibernation, the Song of the Day feature returns to Rhombus on this very late Monday evening, but better late than never. I’ve recently been struggling internally with whether or not this is a worthwhile feature to continue here on Rhombus (after all, it [...]

Isaac Russell, “Why” We here at Rhombus haven’t been shy about our feelings for RuRu — or Isaac Russell, as he’s now known. (No matter what Columbia Records calls him, he’ll always be plain old RuRu to us.) Provo’s own musical prodigy has blessed us all with so many great live shows over the years [...]

Matt & Kim, “Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare” We featured this great minimalist Brooklyn dance-pop duo a couple months ago, but I couldn’t resist pulling this song up in light of this evening’s events. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, chances are you didn’t catch the pilot episode of NBC’s new comedy Community, [...]

Spoon, “The Underdog” If you’ve never listened to Austin, Texas’ favorite sons, you’ve been missing out. Spoon make minimalist pop for the indie set — and do it very well. Vocalist Britt Daniel’s lyrics often make little sense and are accompanied by rather basic instrumentation, but to great effect. The prominent horn section on “The [...]