Editor’s Note: With spring just around the corner, it’s time to see what’s new at Positively 4th St. Music, courtesy of Wendy Christensen. The store is located in the street level of the Stoneground Restaurant Building on 400 South, just across the street from the City Library.

Look out for new local products and poster designs that will be featured this spring at the store.

Reviews and Highlights:

Jose Gonzalez’s In Our Nature — **Coming here in concert March 22. Buy your tickets at the store.** Much like his first album Veneer, Gonzalez has an intimate, tender sound featuring just his voice and a skillfully played acoustic guitar on his new release. There is more of the same quiet, stark, but also beautiful songs and performances with more political lyrics, more passionate vocals, some more forceful guitar playing, and a general sense of urgency and unease bubbling underneath the prettiness, but one could choose to let the moody songs and melancholy atmosphere relax and soothe the mind. WENDY’S PICK: Don’t miss the amazing cover of Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” on this disc. It’s astounding!

Dengue Fever’s Escape From — **Coming here in concert March 25. Buy your tickets at the store.** For its sophomore album, Dengue Fever switches away from a nearly all-covers repertoire to try something bolder: writing originals while still developing its signature rock-music-into-Cambodian-pop-and-back-again approach. The music appeals outside of the genre definitions. Simply, it’s fun, upbeat, introspective, and beautiful.

New Release:

Great Northern’s Sleepy Eepee – **Get a free tote bag with purchase of a Great Northern CD.** This dreamy sounding release is aptly named, with melodic beats and heavy, full sounding drums combined with the vocal harmonies of Rachel Stolte and Solon Bixler mingling in breathy masculinity with feminine soothsaying. I would be lulled to sleep if it weren’t so engaging to listen to this album. Come in and listen to this release from Great Northern that I was unable to resist myself.

UPCOMING SHOWS: (Tickets available at the store.) ** our favorite shows on the list

March 19 – DANDI WIND @ Urban Lounge
March 20 – JONATHAN RICHMAN @ Kilby Court
**March 21 – BEACH HOUSE @ Kilby Court
March 21 – THE MOTHER HIPS (1st night) @ Urban Lounge
March 22 – THE MOTHER HIPS (2nd night) @ Urban Lounge
March 22 – TOKYO POLICE CLUB @ Kilby Court
**March 22 – JOSE GONZALEZ @ U of U Ballroom
**March 24 – EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY @ In the Venue
March 24 – ALOHA @ Urban Lounge
March 24 – FELICE BROTHERS @ Kilby Court
**March 25 – DENGUE FEVER @ Urban Lounge
March 26 – HEADLIGHTS / EVANGELICALS @ Kilby Court
**March 27 – THE WAILERS @ The Paladium

Recommended Shows:

March 20 – SWEATSHOP UNION @ Kilby Court
March 21 – SILVERSTEIN @ Avalon Theatre
March 26 – LOUIS XIV @ In the Venue