Q&A With Quiet Company

What’s the meaning of your band name? There isn’t any real meaning, it’s just something I heard on a commercial in high school. Years later, when I found myself without a band again, I went back to it out of laziness. I probably should’ve put more effort into coming up with a new name.

Don’t Sleep on Sir Ari! Celebrate the release of this new album “Between the Spirit & the Flesh”

Highly accomplished, subculture celebrity and openly gay pop artist Sir Ari Gold has sung his way into the hearts and heads of critics far beyond the reach of the LGBT community. Sir Ari who just released his 4th studio album, Between the Spirit & the Flesh has already claimed a 3/4 stars from People Magazine. [...]

Q&A With Michael Stewart

Describe your nominated work: This album was a long time coming project that finally took form about a year ago. I wanted to have music that people of all ages and walks of life to enjoy and feel good about. I really feel I was able to accomplish that with Where I’m Going….

Q&A With Lindy LaFontaine

Describe your nominated work: It was actually an assignment for school. I attended The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (aka The Paul McCartney School) and was given an assignment to cover a song in my own style. The decision to cover “Low” was because a good friend of mine had always wanted to hear me [...]

Q&A With Kai

Describe your nominated work: It is a self-empowering song to anyone who has experienced an unhealthy relationship. It is about coming to the realization that you need to be selfish and love yourself before you can expect love in return the way you deserve.

Q&A With Jamila Ford

Describe your nominated work: Its Erykah Badu meets Tracy Chapman. It’s at once funky and cool yet earthy and relatable.

Q&A With Halie Loren

Describe your nominated work: “Thirsty”, nominated in the Jazz Song category, is a Latin-jazz song about the lonely aftermath of a breakup, and the subsequent longing to have that person back. Though I definitely relate to it more now than when I wrote it, the song was started years ago, back when I was 17 [...]

Q&A With Grand Vanity

What’s the meaning of your band name? It has been said that this world is all vanity and vexation of spirit. Our musical endeavors are a search for the grander side of a dim landscape, hence “Grand Vanity.” One other contender was “The Special Relationship,” on account of us being a married couple – one [...]

IMA Winners – Fictionist is one of the Final Four in Rolling Stone’s Choose the Cover Contest

Indie rock band Fictionist has come a long way from playing music in their basement and trying to pay attention in their jazz classes at BYU. The quintet from Provo has made it through the second round of Rolling Stone Magazine’s “Do You Wanna be a Rock & Roll Star” contest. Fictionist is now just [...]

Q&A With Evils That Never Came

What’s the meaning of your band name? Evils That Never Came is a bastardization of “the evils which never arrived” from a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem. There were no other contenders.

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