More vids from their show later that night at Urban Lounge can be found at Livingears.

Be there or be lame! Don’t forget their later show at Urban Lounge (9pm).

MP3: Girls :: “Laura”
MP3: Girls :: “Lust For Life”
Video: “Hellhole Ratrace”
Video: “Lust For Life”
Video: “Laura”
Video: “Morning Light”

After visiting Salt Lake City in November and playing to a pretty decent sized crowd at The State Room, Fanfarlo is set to return later in the month on the 27th at the Urban Lounge. If you happened to miss them the first time (shame on you!), I would highly recommend you make the trip the second time around, as I’m sure you’ll be entertained to no end with their warm, summery pop sounds of trumpets, violins and acoustic guitars.

But for those who may be a little cash-strapped, the folks at Atlantic Records have been kind of enough to provide a pair of tickets for me to giveaway for the upcoming show. To win these tickets, just email me at theyellowstereo.blog@gmail.com with “I want to see Fanfarlo!” in the subject line with your full name in the body.

I’ll probably run this until the end of next week (no concrete date, but possibly on February 19th at midnight).

MP3: Fanfarlo :: “Luna”
MP3: Fanfarlo :: “Finish Line”

Indiepop seems to be alive and well here in Salt Lake City* as Sleepover are one of hopefully a lot more bands of the same ilk that I’m anxious to discover here.  Matt Skatterbrain has the scoop on this trio, but I’m not completely out of the loop, as I had already been looking at these guys because I noticed earlier in the month that they were on the same bill with Athens, GA’s own Nana Grizol for the January 21st show at Kilby Court (which I highly recommend everyone attend).

The band’s self-titled debut currently available as a free download on Magic Goat, so you should just go ahead and grab it right now.  It’s full of simple do-it-yourself pop, which in the case of most indiepop is always from the heart.

*Or Twee Lake City as the band have coined it via their myspace.  How can you not love that!

MP3: Sleepover :: “Swim Swam Swum”

One facet of music blogs that I’ve always admired is the community aspect in regards to highlighting the best of what a city has to offer. It’s something that I always wanted to support and be a part of, but never truly experienced due to living in a much smaller town. Though, I was somewhat nearby the Atlanta area, I was still only on the fringes of that community.

Now, living here in Salt Lake City, albeit only a few months, I had an idea in early December to gather as many lists as possible from the many people involved with the music scene here — ranging from bands, venues, stores, radio, etc.

At first, it didn’t look like it would come to fruition due the fact that I knew absolutely no one here in SLC. No contacts, connections, zero, zilch. In fact, all of the heavy-lifting and thanks is due to the help of Anna Brozek, who is co-owner of the lovely record store Slowtrain. She took the time out to email some folks, and surprisingly enough, got a few replies back that didn’t involve “Who the fuck is this Yellow Stereo guy?” or anything of the sort.

The amount of lists is rather short, but for what it’s worth, it’s still a great starting point for something we can add to next year, or the year after. Thanks to everyone who submitted their lists and hopefully everyone who reads this realizes that Salt Lake City has great taste in music!

Who: Vanessa Wardy
What do you do: Slowtrain manager

1. Girls, Album [mp3]
2. Devendra Banhart, What Will We Be
3. The xx, XX [mp3]
4. St. Vincent, Actor [mp3]
5. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest [mp3]
6. Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
7. Various Artists, Dark Was The Night [mp3]
8. Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love
9. The Dutchess and The Duke, Sunrise/Sunset
10. Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Elvis Perkins in Dearland

Who: Chris Brozek
What do you do: Co-owner of Slowtrain

1. Davis Williams, Western Interior Seaway
2. Laura Gibson, Beasts of Seasons
3. Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Elvis Perkins in Dearland
4. Cotton Jones, Paranoid Cocoon
5. Cass McCombs, Catacombs
6. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest [mp3]
7. Girls, Album [mp3]
8. Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love
9. The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
10. Norfolk & Western, Dinero Servero

Who: Anna Brozek
What do you do: Co-Owner of Slowtrain

1. Cass McCombs, Catacombs
2. David Williams, Western Interior Seaway
3. Cotton Jones, Paranoid Cocoon
4. Laura Gibson, Beasts of Seasons
5. Here We Go Magic, Here We Go Magic
6. The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
7. Joshua James, Build Me This
8. Wye Oak, The Knot
9. Shelley Short, A Cave A Canoo
10. Alexis Gideon, Video Musics

Who: Grant Ruby
What do you do: Music Director/Marketing Director/Afternoon Jock at 101.9 The End [blog]

1. Florence + the Machine, Lungs [mp3]
2. Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures
3. Death Cab For Cutie, The Open Door EP
4. Silversun Pickups, Swoon
5. Passion Pit, Manners
6. NOFX, Coaster
7. White Rabbits, It’s Frightening
8. Cage the Elephant, Cage the Elephant
9. The Dead Weather, Horehound
10. Muse, The Resistance

Who: Joshua James
What do you do: Singer/songwriter, also runs North Platte Records

1. Phosphorescent, To Willie
2. Dan Auerbach, Keep It Hid
3. Bonnie Prince Billy, Beware
4. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest [mp3]
5. Miniature Tigers, Tell It To The Volcano
6. Various Artists, Dark Was The Night [mp3]
7. Vetiver, Tight Knit
8. Mountain Goats, The Life of the World To Come
9. Cass McCombs, Catacombs
10. Desert Noises, Desert Noises

Who: Jamie Gadette
What do you do: Music editor for Salt Lake City Weekly and weekday morning host at KRCL 90.9 FM

Lightning Dust, Infinite Light
Hopewell, Good Good Desperation
Alexis Gideon, Video Musics
Mayer Hawthorne, A Strange Arrangement
Leslie and the Badgers, Roomful of Smoke
Dan Auerbach, Keep It Hid
Devendra Banhart, What Will We Be
The xx, XX [mp3]
Sonic Youth, The Eternal
Pink Mountaintops, Outside Love

Here’s something for the local folks (it sounds so nice to actually say that now) as White Hinterland (chanteuse Casey Dienel from Portland, OR) will be making her way into town Saturday night; apparently, with a brand new batch of songs!

Things kick off at 8 pm over at Slowtrain; a free, all-ages show — meaning no excuses for not showing up!  Hoping to possibly meet some of our readers, so definitely try to make it out tomorrow night.  Should be a good time.

MP3: White Hinterland :: “Chant de Grillon”
MP3: White Hinterland :: “Dreaming of the Plum Trees”

Bonus:
Here’s another track from her new tour-exclusive EP, Fresh From the Garden. A cover of Justin Timberlake’s “My Love” [via GvB]

MP3: White Hinterland :: “My Love”

Just a heads up to anyone around the Auburn area (that counts you Atlanta and Athens readers), as Atlanta five-piece Deerhunter are set to perform here in town tomorrow night at 9pm at Ford Ct.  This is actually sort of a big deal as bands like this never come around to this neck of the woods; this fact I can certainly attest to.

It’ll be $10 at the door (I think) and as far as directions are concerned, I couldn’t really tell you as the venue’s (it’s actually a basement) myspace page is devoid of any useful information like that.  Just hit me up in an email or twitter, and I’ll try to get you some solid directions myself if you’re interested in attending.  Or if anyone from the Auburn area who reads this would like to help with this, please reply in the comments.

I’m sure after the recent success of their recent album Microcastle, that you’ll probably won’t be able to see them in such a small venue like this for quite some time.  For a little taste of what’s in store, here’s a video of the band performing live at this year’s Noise Pop Festival.  Do say hello if you’re gonna be there!

MP3: Deerhunter :: “Agoraphobia”
MP3: Deerhunter :: “Nothing Ever Happened”