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So, one week from today, Saturday October 16, is Fork Fest. (Fork Fest Link) Fork Fest is a free music festival in American Fork, and it is promoting the indie music scene of Utah County. I haven't ever listened to local music and I don't know any of these people, but that won't stop me from making Fork Fest the subject of this blog entry! Actually, I think I'm going to break the information up over several posts.
FIRST: SEVE VS. EVAN
Apparently this song is called Carnival Fun House. I created a CD with songs from Fork Fest artists. I downloaded the songs from Youtube, and this is one of the youtube videos that seemed to be something close to CD quality sound. Seve vs. Evan is apparently a band from Alpine, Utah. This was the first song I put on the CD and is also my favorite. Everything about this song is quirky, but everything serves the message of the song. I like the Sega Genesis style sound effects.
SECOND: THE VIBRANT SOUND
Surprisingly, this song was the only one on my CD that featured a rapper. This is the twenty-first century after all, I would expect most bands to have rappers by now. The song is called Plastic Beauty Queens. The songs concept isn't particularly original in my opinion, nor do I find it particularly relevant. What I do like is how well they pulled it off. Upbeat, smooth, fun, jazzy, gorgeous music. You can't go wrong with that. This band is evidently signed to Utah County's own North Platte Records.
THIRD: JOSHUA JAMES
Joshua James is a highly successful indie singer-songwriter based in Utah County, previously from Nebraska. This song is called Coal War. This track has a delightful build up. I'm honestly not really sure what it's about. Joshua James is successful enough that gazillions of his songs can be found on youtube, so check them out.
FOURTH: IMAGINE DRAGONS
Imagine Dragons is a band hailing from Las Vegas, but they play frequently in Provo. I think the Utah County connection runs a little deeper than that but I don't know the details. This song is called Curse. Of all the Fork Fest artists I've tried listening to so far, this guy has the best voice to fit in with the modern alternative rock radio sound (think Kings of Leon).
FIFTH: CODE HERO
Another song with a bit of that Sega Genesis vibe, this one is called So Far. I don't know what the lyrics are about, I just like the band's ensemble sound. Great guitar playing.
SIXTH: MUDBISON
This song reminds of the Casino Level from Sonic 3. You can't go wrong with game music. (OK that last sentence was a lie, but this song at least doesn't go wrong) The song is called Color TV and it has funny sounding lyrics. I suspect that the song doesn't mean anything in particular, it seems to consist of a lot of quirky wordplay strung together, but I could easily be mistaken about that. "You look your age but you act like you're still seventeen"
SEVENTH: CUBWORLD
This guy is Hawaiian and the music doesn't deviate at all from the Jack Johnson prototype. The song is called Lights Fade. The video is evidently a performance from a television program in Europe.
EIGHTH: RYAN INNES
I should probably mention at this point that the order I'm listing these songs in doesn't mean anything in particular, I'm just starting with the jams that were most memorable to me and working through them from there. This is a cover of a standard song, Georgia On My Mind. Yeah, this guy can sing, and then some.
NINTH: SHARK SPEED
Okay, this song wasn't particularly memorable to me, I just remember that it had good production values. The song is called I'm a Machine. The song is more guitar-heavy than anything else on this list so far, I would say it's even more guitar-heavy than the Fictionist song, and they have three guitarists. The youtube video labels them a progressive band, but I'm not really hearing it, they just sound like a fantastic pop/rock outfit to me.
TENTH: FICTIONIST
I mentioned Fictionist a second ago, so here's the song, it's called Fist. The singer here sounds like he subscribes to the U2/Coldplay school of aggressively boring rock. Luckily, a bunch of boisterous guitar solos pick this track up before the end. (starting around the 3-minute mark)
Okay, so I'll wrap this post up right about there, but there are many more artists playing at Fork Fest, so I will post again until I've covered them all!
So, one week from today, Saturday October 16, is Fork Fest. (Fork Fest Link) Fork Fest is a free music festival in American Fork, and it is promoting the indie music scene of Utah County. I haven't ever listened to local music and I don't know any of these people, but that won't stop me from making Fork Fest the subject of this blog entry! Actually, I think I'm going to break the information up over several posts.
FIRST: SEVE VS. EVAN
Apparently this song is called Carnival Fun House. I created a CD with songs from Fork Fest artists. I downloaded the songs from Youtube, and this is one of the youtube videos that seemed to be something close to CD quality sound. Seve vs. Evan is apparently a band from Alpine, Utah. This was the first song I put on the CD and is also my favorite. Everything about this song is quirky, but everything serves the message of the song. I like the Sega Genesis style sound effects.
SECOND: THE VIBRANT SOUND
Surprisingly, this song was the only one on my CD that featured a rapper. This is the twenty-first century after all, I would expect most bands to have rappers by now. The song is called Plastic Beauty Queens. The songs concept isn't particularly original in my opinion, nor do I find it particularly relevant. What I do like is how well they pulled it off. Upbeat, smooth, fun, jazzy, gorgeous music. You can't go wrong with that. This band is evidently signed to Utah County's own North Platte Records.
THIRD: JOSHUA JAMES
Joshua James is a highly successful indie singer-songwriter based in Utah County, previously from Nebraska. This song is called Coal War. This track has a delightful build up. I'm honestly not really sure what it's about. Joshua James is successful enough that gazillions of his songs can be found on youtube, so check them out.
FOURTH: IMAGINE DRAGONS
Imagine Dragons is a band hailing from Las Vegas, but they play frequently in Provo. I think the Utah County connection runs a little deeper than that but I don't know the details. This song is called Curse. Of all the Fork Fest artists I've tried listening to so far, this guy has the best voice to fit in with the modern alternative rock radio sound (think Kings of Leon).
FIFTH: CODE HERO
Another song with a bit of that Sega Genesis vibe, this one is called So Far. I don't know what the lyrics are about, I just like the band's ensemble sound. Great guitar playing.
SIXTH: MUDBISON
This song reminds of the Casino Level from Sonic 3. You can't go wrong with game music. (OK that last sentence was a lie, but this song at least doesn't go wrong) The song is called Color TV and it has funny sounding lyrics. I suspect that the song doesn't mean anything in particular, it seems to consist of a lot of quirky wordplay strung together, but I could easily be mistaken about that. "You look your age but you act like you're still seventeen"
SEVENTH: CUBWORLD
This guy is Hawaiian and the music doesn't deviate at all from the Jack Johnson prototype. The song is called Lights Fade. The video is evidently a performance from a television program in Europe.
EIGHTH: RYAN INNES
I should probably mention at this point that the order I'm listing these songs in doesn't mean anything in particular, I'm just starting with the jams that were most memorable to me and working through them from there. This is a cover of a standard song, Georgia On My Mind. Yeah, this guy can sing, and then some.
NINTH: SHARK SPEED
Okay, this song wasn't particularly memorable to me, I just remember that it had good production values. The song is called I'm a Machine. The song is more guitar-heavy than anything else on this list so far, I would say it's even more guitar-heavy than the Fictionist song, and they have three guitarists. The youtube video labels them a progressive band, but I'm not really hearing it, they just sound like a fantastic pop/rock outfit to me.
TENTH: FICTIONIST
I mentioned Fictionist a second ago, so here's the song, it's called Fist. The singer here sounds like he subscribes to the U2/Coldplay school of aggressively boring rock. Luckily, a bunch of boisterous guitar solos pick this track up before the end. (starting around the 3-minute mark)
Okay, so I'll wrap this post up right about there, but there are many more artists playing at Fork Fest, so I will post again until I've covered them all!
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