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After returning from a two-week tour, local blues/funk band Marinade are tighter than ever, they didn’t sleep much, they got hips swinging on wooden dance floors and they smell a little funny: Some things don’t change.--- Marinade just wrapped up their first extended, multistate tour.
%uFFFD Sad news on the Salt Lake City music club front, as Club Vegas is closing its doors Wednesday after nearly a decade providing a fine spot for both local bands and touring acts.---
Performing to a nearly sold-out crowd, Katy Perry blasted through a two-hour set, brilliantly performing every song (and then some) that’s gotten her to where she is today.--- Her fans obviously knew ahead of time how flamboyant of a performer she is: twenty-something guys were decked head to toe in skin-tight sequin pants, too-tight-to-breathe shirts and faces full of glitter and eye liner, out-dressing the majority of the girls in the audience.
Friends, I don’t how many of you have experienced years of unbearable pain, but two things happen when you’re there: You have a tendency for nostalgia, and you cling tightly to those things that give you joy, like great music.--- My all-time-favorite radio station was Stereo X, which disappeared in the mid-'70s.
As Provo continues to rise as a force in the Utah music scene, many of the bands and musicians in the area are now turning to more regional resources for creating their albums and promotions. --- What once was a daily trek up north to put an album out over six months can now be accomplished in Utah County in six weeks (depending on how good you are), from recording to album artwork to even music videos.
A smattering of colorful genres will paint the city’s musical landscape tonight.--- Touring in support of their soon-to-be-released album Sympathy, Scattered Trees hits Kilby Court.
Tonight is the last chance for members of the public to put their fingers on the blueprint of their political maps for the coming decade.--- Redistricting doesn’t happen often, and the legislative committee is finally wrapping up its tour of the state tonight.
Local activists will be taking it to the streets outside of the federal courthouse, Tuesday, for a rally in anticipation of the sentencing of Tim DeChristopher, found guilty of disrupting oil and gas lease auctions in late 2008.--- The local activists of Peaceful Uprising will be waiting along with the rest of the world to see if a federal judge will throw the book at Tim DeChristopher for his 2008 interference in an oil and gas lease auction.
This week's releases boast one of the most anticipated releases of 2011, along with a few surprises.--- I think Little Dragon could make an Hanson tribute album (or similarly ungodly creation) and it would be highly anticipated and critically acclaimed.
Saturday night's controversial penalty by Real Salt Lake striker Alvaro Saborio against visitors San Jose Earthquakes yet again brings the spotlight to one of Real's most talented, and enigmatic, players.--- In a collision with a defender, Saborio fell before the goalmouth -- taking a dive, according to some pundits.
