Stereogum covered Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party, capturing the festival atmosphere with authentic Instagram photography and informative yet fresh hashtags. The festival featured acts like Vampire Weekend and Water from Your Eyes, who impressed with their music. The event’s connection to the punk rock film “Salt Lake City Punk” adds an intriguing historical dimension.
Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party Is The Real Deal https://www.stereogum.com/2263411/kilby-block-party-festival-recap/reviews/concert-review/
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When Salt Lake City in Utah again hosted the Kilby festival, now twenty-five years running, Stereogum was there to document it, especially on Instagram. They did a good job. Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party Is The Real Deal https://www.stereogum.com/2263411/kilby-block-party-festival-recap/reviews/concert-review/
Vampire Weekend was at Kilby; and so was Water from Your Eyes. Stereogum remarks that some of the older acts went with the vibe that they did it right in the first place and it’s never better.
Water from Your Eyes is Rachel Brown and Nate Amos. Thanks for Coming is likewise Brooklyn pop.
Tonight was the first time I looked at Stereogum on IG and I appreciated the realism in their festival photography and the discrete but authentic captions. The hashtagging was suitably informative but fresh-feeling. Remarkable.
Salt Lake City is the setting for the 1990s punk rock film Salt Lake City Punk. I am not sure about the two things, neither Kilby nor SLC Punk have any other connection except for the locale, but if Kilby is twenty-five years running that puts its start date at something like the first release date for Salt Lake City Punk. Interesting that there was an indie rock scene at Kilby starting and, according to the film, some kind of punk rock culture, too.
I had thought the film had mostly employed Salt Lake City to highlight the irony that punk rock had spread to the far-flung reaches of Utah, where a religious element has its sway, I understand. I am not sure that religion and punk rock would be exclusive in any way, but I don’t know that punk rock would lend itself to any kind of conservative element in any way (I’m sure it wouldn’t). I’ve heard it observed that the fashion element of SLC Punk is savvy and charming for viewers who enjoy that dynamic, not just a cult music dynamic like the film has.
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