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Show B6 Life Monday • April 20, 2009 A Dying Need for good music Utah Symphony ifiEGWILCQXl Lffe writer ussell Lee, founder j and lead ^f man for the band This Dying Need, wants to mix things up a little bit in the music scene. "Everyone is on a Jack Johnson and Jason Mraz kick. Still. It's getting out of control," Lee says, clearly exasperated. This Dying Need manages to set itself apart from the monotonous music scene in various ways. For one the dark, industrial, and primal blend of their music takes the listener into the utter most regions of the mind—many of which may not be pleasant. Gone are the superficial beach guitar strums that tend to be saturated with hidden motives; this music just gives it to you straight. "Sometimes it reminds people of something they don't want to think about. It touches some part of them that they've tried to bury their whole life," Lee said. "If you have these emotions you haven't come to terms 1 presents Bravo Broadway with and you bring them out, and music helps you do that, that's a journey, conquering a challenge.' Citing the influence of bands such as Massive Attack, Skinny Puppy, Radiohead, and Portishead, it is easy to see why This Dying Need's music tends to trek to the dark side. For this reason. Lee admits that This Dying Need's music may not be accessible to everyone. Nonetheless, M ^ I ^ M M Evening ofshowtunes this May •ROBERT M.JONES Ufe writer those who either find the music immediately compelling or allow it to convey its mesCourtesy of Total Focus Photography sage will -Russell Lee Russell Lee expresses his own Dying Needs. glean insight and musical satisfaction. Though Lee is not a fan voicing and intellectual lyr"I try to make my music of categorizing his band, I ics, dark, poetic, hypnotizthoughtful and conceptual, pressed him to give me an ing, electronic, organic, hardand it's often not very digest- answer. "I usually tell people edged music with a danceable ible to the masses. Maybe 3% it's a cross between Slayer beat. . . . I want the listeners of the people that come to this and Janet Jackson, some- to hear something new every school might like jt; my fig- where in the middle of those time they listen to the album." ures might be way off. I don't two extremes," Lee says. A To check out This Dying know if that's good to print, description on This Dying Need's uniquely divergent but maybe it is good to print, Need's Web site says the fol- music and times and locations because maybe it's better to lowing: "This Dying Need for their shows, check out say things harshly and not is music you can really sink their website at http://www. sugar coat," Lee said. your teeth into: complex myspace.com/thisdyingneed "Everyone is on a Jack Johnson and Jason Mraz kick. Still. It's getting out of control," The Utah Symphony will present an evening of Broadway tunes featuring songs from Wicked, Chicago, Jersey Boys, Phantom Of The Opera, and Beauty And The Beast; as well as a variety of other musical favorites. The symphony and guest vocalists will be lead by Maestro Jerry Striechen, future Principal Pops Conductor of the symphony. The guest vocalists will be Lisa Vroman, Rachel York, and Doug LaBrecue. 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