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2011 Twilight Concert Series: Explosions in the Sky/No Age

Presented by Salt Lake City Arts Council at Pioneer Park

July 14, 2011

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EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

The early beginnings of Explosions in the Sky occurred in 1999, when three longtime friends from West Texas went to a pizza place in Austin, Texas, for a prearranged meeting with a young man from Illinois. The Illinoisan had just moved to Austin, and he put up a flyer that caught the interest of the others. They ate pizza and discussed movies and decided to meet the next day with their various instruments (two guitars, bass, and drums). Over the coming months they picked a band name, then picked a better band name, then wrote and recorded an album. That album, called How Strange, Innocence, was largely out of tune, but the band members didn't really notice at the time. They optimistically printed 300 copies, and gave most of them away. A friend of theirs sent a recording of one of their live shows to a record label in Baltimore, and that label offered to put out albums for the band. Three albums and hundreds of shows later, the band released their fifth album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, this past April.
 

NO AGE

No Age, the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall, is are on a constant journey to explore the furthest reaches of sound. They set out with one particular rule in mind: To write songs that we would be psyched to listen to. Emerging from the band Wives in 2005, No Age has become a worldwide talisman for the DIY art-punk scene in LA. Since the release of Weirdo Rippers, their 2007 debut album, through Nouns, the band’s 2008 follow-up, and beyond, No Age has earned enthusiastic notice from a wide array of sources, from Pitchfork to The New Yorker (“Let It Rip,” Nov. 19, 2007), and found themselves unlikely Grammy nominees for Best Recording Packaging in 2008. With their newest release, Everything in Between, No Age has risen from sweaty basement shows and art galleries to having their songs blast off the walls of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, to performing at unconventional spaces both close to home and abroad.