I have this theory that the less clothes you have to wear and the tanner you are, the happier you are. Unless you're Marilyn Manson, a leader of the occult, or a run-of-the-mill goth chick, sunshine looks good on everybody.

It’s lucky more lead singers don’t follow in Jared Leto’s footsteps* and go on to start cults because some of them would be really good at it. Backhand is just the latest band for me to come across that falls into this category. The lead singer had command of the crowd unlike any other. High school football coaches throughout the entire state need to hire this band before any given Friday night game because I was ready to jump through a wall after listening to these guys.

Charlie Smith is an alternative acoustic artist from Hampshire, UK, which—being the ignorant American that I am—I have no idea where it is. After looking it up, it looks like a delightful place.

Houston, we have lift off. Welcome to Utah space rock.

There are very few times in which a bride can have her something old and something new be the same thing. Most of the time this occurs is when a young bride is marrying a really old dude in which her something old—the dude—is her something new —her new husband.

I applaud those who don’t look like they have a disease when they cry. I personally either look godawful, or at the very least, blazed out of my mind.

My girlfriend calls Sky Olson my No. 2 fan (her being the No. 1), so I figured I should give him a full, non-one-sentence review.

I have been wanting to write about The Mellons for sometime now, and I finally did. They're awesome.