Huntsman 2012 – The Hip Choice?

This article on the nascent Huntsman campaign is the first one I’ve read that actually makes a credible case for how Huntsman could win a presidential race. After reading it, I’m still not sure he’s running this time around, and there seems to be some possibility he might wait until 2016, but his political strategy [...]

Foo Fighters – Wasting Light

We haven’t talked about Foo Fighters new album, Wasting Light, which was released a couple weeks ago, and which reunited Grohl with Butch Vig, the Nirvana producer. I was planning to do a post on it but then I saw them perform on Letterman and thought the videos of that performance were just awesome, so [...]

Fictionist in the Final Four

Fictionist is a great local band from here in Utah which has made it into the final four bands in a contest to be on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. You can check them out and listen to their music here and on that same site you can help them by giving them your [...]

New Music: Augustana

Augustana is a band that evolves with every album, and their new self-titled album, out now, is no exception. We’ve talked about Augustana before here and here, and as previously noted, the band started out as straight-up pop-rock balladeers, but with their last album switched gears a bit into a bluegrass-influenced folk/americana sound. This new [...]

The Atonement and The Book of Mormon Musical

I’m always astonished to hear that there is little or no coordination among the speakers at General Conference. We correlate and pre-approve everything in this Church, but apparently, to a great extent, conference has escaped this tendency. Yet somehow, despite this, there is always a broad span of subjects covered and rarely a lot of [...]

Justified: Debts and Accounts

The name of this episode is, once again, significant in more ways than one. Mags is despondent over Coover’s death and wants to “settle accounts.” She meets with Raylan’s aunt, who is apparently representing the Givens side of things. After some talk, Mags is apparently convinced not to go after Raylan for the killing. She [...]

Augustana – Steal Your Heart

Augustana’s new album is due April 26th. Here’s an acoustic version of the first single:

Idol: Rank ‘Em 1-11 Again

So we already know that Naima and Thia were the ones eliminated. I think that was the right decision, as much as I liked Naima’s originality. The problem with Thia, as I said before, is that she’s just not interesting. You can easily sleep through her performances. Naima has the opposite problem: she’s maybe too [...]

Justified: The Spoil

This was an amazing episode, but not if you happen to be a Deputy Marshall by the name of Raylan Givens. Let’s add it up: He gets confirmation that his boss knows he was up to something with Winona in the evidence locker (which means he’s probably going to get fired, maybe prosecuted); He is [...]