(Salt Lake City, UT – November 18, 2025) S&S Presents is thrilled to share the lineup for Kilby Block Party 2026! Taking place Friday, May 15th through Sunday, May 17th at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City, UT, the seventh annual edition of Kilby Block Party will feature performances from 70 artists. The top end of the bill features Lorde, The xx, Turnstile, and Hayley Williams among others. Even with such an incredible lineup of world renowned performers, legendary fan favorites, and on the rise artists, Kilby Block Party remains one of the most affordable music festivals in the country. The festival’s dedication to the fan experience and the care and quality put into their lineups shines through every spring, with last year’s successful edition winning praise as “the ultimate indie musicscape of your dreams,” (Paper Magazine), “an indie fan’s dream fest,” (The Needle Drop), and “the best festival experience I’ve ever had,” (Paste Magazine).
3-Day Pass On-Sale begins Wednesday, November 19th at 10:00 am MST. Tickets & Travel Packages available at KilbyBlockParty.com
3-Day Passes start at $249 with payment plans beginning at just $49 down. All ticket prices are now listed as the ALL-IN Price, with no added fees or taxes at the end of the checkout process. This year, Early Bird Tickets for the festival sold out in record time, and tomorrow’s general on-sale will feature tickets at Tier 1 pricing only available until Wednesday, November 26th or while supplies last. Music fans should act fast to secure their passes while at the lowest available price.
Utah can sometimes feel like a strange stop on a national tour, especially from an outside perspective. It could be easy to assume Utah is just a quiet religious community that keeps things relatively tame, and that concert audiences would mirror that. But, as the real artists know, Salt Lake City is the complete opposite. Just under three years ago, an up-and-coming artist built a fan base from a small show in the city. So this last Friday, when King Princess rolled into The Depot, she knew what she was getting herself into. She was coming back to “some of the wildest fans” she had ever been around.
Leon Majcen supporting Margo Price • November 11, 2025 • The Commonwealth Room
Reviewed and Photographed by Josilyn Wakkuri Lybbert
Margo Price, joined by Leon Majcen, brought her Wild Heart Tour to the Commonwealth Room in Salt Lake City on November 11th. I wasn’t familiar with Margo prior to the show, but I have heard rave reviews, so I was excited to see what the show had in store!
When I arrived at the venue, I loved that the atmosphere felt laid back and calm! It was filled with people, mostly a bit older than I was, which may have contributed to that. Even though they were calm, their anticipation was palpable!
Last week, I had the pleasure of photographing BØRNS as they made their stop in Salt Lake City on their Decade of Dopamine tour! This album, surpassing 10 years, is crazy; it was such an integral part of my early teen years! They played in the heart of downtown at The Depot, one of my favorite venues in the city. It was a sold-out show. Packed with young and grown fans, most of whom have been listening to this band for 10 years!
Everyone was dressed their best, some even in Halloween costumes, as the show was just a few days before then! I was very excited to see him for the first time, and I was taken by surprise that it was the anniversary tour of Dopamine! I sat in front of the stage, eager, just like the rest of the room, to be taken back to a nostalgic and happy time!
Photography by Joan Marcus courtesy of Broadway at the Eccles
Reviewed by Kevin Rolfe
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus coutesty of Broadway at the Eccles
The touring production of SUFFS arrived at Eccles Theater in Downtown Salt Lake City with a burst of energy, conviction, and theatrical confidence that makes it one of the most engaging new musicals of this season of Broadway at the Eccles. The show, which dives into the final chapters of the American women’s suffrage movement, balances history with emotion in a way that feels both entertaining and unexpectedly urgent. What makes this touring version particularly striking is how it manages to retain the intimacy of the story while embracing a broader national audience.
Lucius will play The Depot in Salt Lake City on November 15.
Photo credit: Dana Trippe
Acclaimed indie-pop band Lucius have released a nostalgic coming-of-age track, “Thick as Thieves”. The track was recorded as part of the sessions for their new self-titled album, which Rolling Stone calls “the best album of their career”. Recently, the song debuted on the newest episode of Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson & Oliver Hudson where Lucius’ lead singers Jess Wolfe & Holly Laessig sat down with the Hudson siblings to discuss the new album & song, exchange stories about taking care of babies while touring (in Kate’s case, with her ex-husband Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes), and the evolution of the Lucius aesthetic. Stream “Thick as Thieves” HERE, and listen to the podcast episode HERE.
A couple of weeks ago, Salt Lake’s local gems, The Moss, kicked off Halloween with their headline show at The Complex! These boys have always put on incredibly fun and dynamic performances. Tyke James is a stellar frontman. They are so full of life and energy, playing groovy bangers to get everyone jumping! They love to put on a good Halloween celebration, and everyone dresses up! The crowd of young and older fans came ready to party!
We are excited to welcome Journey back to Delta Center on April 12, 2026. Tickets go on sale Friday November 14 at 10 am. Please find the official announcement from AEG below.
JOURNEY
ANNOUNCES EPIC FINAL FRONTIER TOUR
LEGENDARY ROCK BAND REVEALS FIRST 60 SHOWS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA
Tour Kicks Off February 28 in Hershey, PA
Tickets On Sale Friday, November 14 at 10 AM local time
On the evening of October 24, 2025, at The Depot in Salt Lake City, The Wombats headlined their “Oh! The Tour,” tour. They had two opening bands that followed them from across the pond. Red Rum Club and Only The Poets.
One of the biggest rock bands of the 90s, Garbage, took what could very possibly be their last time playing in Salt Lake City, to The Complex. They were joined by opening band Starcrawler on what was an emotional and memorable night.
Starcrawler had full-on rockstar energy, coming out onto the stage headbanging and kicking feet to the music. After playing their first song of the evening, “Goodtime Girl,” lead singer Arrow De Wilde shouted, “What’s up, Salt Lake City!!! Alright, c’mon take off your temple garments, let’s get into it!” which made the Salt Lake audience cheer. The Los Angeles-based glam punk band played some of their bigger hits while also playing songs only heard while on tour, like “It’s 3 AM”, an unreleased song but well-loved and well-known by their fans.
The whole stage had a pink setup for the band; every amplifier for the guitars was pink, the microphone cords, the guitars, and even the drum kit were all decked out in the color. The lighting throughout their set was all pink, and everyone’s outfits had at least a touch of pink as well.
Originally started in high school by Wilde, Starcrawler has been growing in size for years, having toured around the country and world with acts like Jack White, The Foo Fighters, and even My Chemical Romance.
Their energy was explosive, very chaotic, and shocking when performing, all in the best of ways. Starcrawler’s whole performance blew the roof off of the Complex and definitely created some new fans in the audience. They were the perfect way to start the night off with a bang.
The crowd had been excitedly awaiting Garbage’s entrance onto the stage, so when they came out, the crowd cheered wildly. Frontwoman and lead singer Sherley Manson came out onto stage and demanded the crowd’s attention with her commanding presence and stunning vocals.
This legendary Wisconsin-based band has been in the spotlight for almost 30 years and has toured around the globe, sharing positive vibes and impactful stories. At the Salt Lake show, Manson shared, “Well, Well, Well, Salt Lake City! We are really, really, psyched to be here, in this spectacular city. Thank you so much, thank you for coming out tonight. This has been a 30-year relationship, the longest relationship of my life, aside from my parents and my sister. And I don’t even know where to start, quite honestly, I should say thank you of course, to Starcrawler, that’s a very good place to start. (Lots of cheers)
Second of all, I went to Antelope Island yesterday, and again you’ve got to forgive me i’m gonna share too much, i lost my dad about 3 weeks ago, (ahhs from the crowd) you know as anyone who’s been any kind of devastating loss its such a weird thing, grief is such a weird process, one minute you’re fine, the next you’re a mess. It has been really quite a trip to lose my old man, and I went to Antelope Island yesterday. (Manson starts crying) Everything’s fine, everything’s fine. I went to Antelope Island yesterday and I saw bison. And it was an extraordinarily weird experience; it was everything about my life that is perfect.
I’ve been in love with America since I was a little girl, and to get to come here with my amazing band, and to get to come here for 30 years, is so weird and wonderful. Anyway, I was looking at this bison yesterday, and these big hairy beasts and their magical and mystical purr, and I felt something really shift in my body, and it was really amazing. My dad taught genetics at university, and he studied like animal husbandry and so I grew up knowing all about cows, weird kinds of cows, and bison.
And I don’t know, all this crazy sh*t that my dad kind of made us listen to, scoffing at it, and now I’m nearly 60 and I’m like holy sh*t, dad, I totally understand what you were going on about. I totally understand what you were so in love with, so my point just being, Thank you so much, Salt Lake, for healing something in me. And second of all I just want to dedicate this next song, to a fan we met earlier on at one of our VIP meet and greets, she told us that she had been in a really quite insufferable time, and this one is for Diana, its called “The Trick is to Keep Breathing”” This made the audience all tear up, grateful to help heal a bit of the lead singer’s grief.
The show was spectacular; however, in between songs, there were some slight technical issues with band members not being able to hear themselves. The issue was quickly and efficiently resolved, and the rest of the set went off smoothly.
One of the best qualities about Garbage is how much they love their fans. In regards to the former, Manson said, “I was going to play a song that go far and our fourth record is us to the title track to our 4th grade and this is a song and our discography that was just sort of grown and grown with our career and we never imagined that it would be something that you all loved and that you keep asking for every time we come and play a show.
This song is essentially about how we’re all so weird and different from one another. And I think we all feel as a band that we really don’t care how weird you are unless you’re hurting animals or children, in which case we want you to die. But this is a Garbage philosophy, which is we hate nobody. We don’t care what race you are, what color you are, what gender you are, what sexuality you are, we don’t care if you tuck to the right or to the left, we don’t give a flying shit about what kind of food you like to eat, what kind of sex you like to have, we really don’t care what god you worship. We really don’t care, we don’t care.
We want everybody, everybody to be treated with kindness, and we’re getting really sick and tired of all of the nonsense that’s going on right now, of the othering people, the picking on people, criticizing people, it’s so boring. So this is a song from Garbage to all of the other like-minded people in the audience tonight.” Garbage then played their hit song “Bleed Like Me”.
Fans of Garbage are picking older classics of the band and singing their hearts out to them, Manson stated, “This tour that we’re on right now, it’s been, you know, since the first of September. And for some inexplicable reason, the song that we’ve had in our discography for 30 years has suddenly become a song that everybody sings along to, which we find absolutely mind-blowing, because nobody has ever sung along to it before this tour. But all of a sudden, everybody is joining in, and it is the first time it happened. It felt so amazing to me. I can’t quite explain it.
Like, hearing you lot sing is so much nicer than hearing myself sing. I love hearing Nicole sing, but I don’t particularly enjoy hearing myself sing. But when you all sing, it’s like going to fucking church as a three-year-old or something. It’s so beautiful. So anyway, I say this because I really hope, Salt Lake City, that you will join in this song with your beautiful voices.” The crowd definitely joined in, and it was truly like a choir, singing along to the song “Queer”.
When the song “When I Grew Up” followed up that performance, the crowd was so ecstatic, instantly jumping around and screaming along to the lyrics.
Ending the night off was a bit emotional for the crowd and the band. Manson solemnly said, “I don’t know if anybody is aware or not, I’m sure some of you are and some of you probably aren’t, but we have come to the conclusion that this may very well be the last time we come to Salt Lake City. Which is a somewhat devastating confession, but just touring the way that we are accustomed to touring, and by that I mean, you know, we’re not in a transit van and we’re not holding down two jobs at home. We generally like to be on a tour bus and be safe and be staying in hotels where our security is not in question.
And thank you to the new record business, business being the operative word, the way that the record business is currently is just making it really, really difficult for bands. And I mention this not for ourselves because we’ve been incredibly fortunate and we’ve had a 30-year career and we’ve got nothing to complain about. We say this because we’re very, very concerned about the generations that are in our footsteps, and we’re very concerned about, most importantly, we’re concerned about banks. Because, of course, the new industry, new music business is in favour of solo artists. That’s why we see so many of them. It’s because they’re cheap to run. They’re cheap for record companies. You’ve only got one person, one hotel room, you know. Blah, blah, blah. You get the picture.
Anyway, the band, as we once knew it, is becoming a threatened species. And Garbage is kind of one of a few, I mean, we’re called, like, the last of our kind. We grew up in the 90s, you know, when it was the heyday of the robot. So anyway, I don’t know why I’m bringing this up. I guess because I want you all to know, on behalf of the whole band, how grateful we are to you for everything you have done for us. Thank you for sharing that with us. Just being here for us and allowing us this extraordinary life that we lead, where we get to travel the country. It’s a really beautiful way to live, and it’s all thanks to you.” This was the sweetest way to end the night.
