HYPHAFEST

October 10th and 11th, 2025

a music festival but also something else

A highly curated time and place where guests can experience 23 local live music acts, local visual arts, local vendors, and community organizations in ways they haven't been able to before.

23 local musical groups and artists have been asked to include one daring or brave element into their performances

The Bands

5 out of 23 bands have been announced.

Next announcement date: July 15

It Foot, It Ears

Legendary masters of rhythm and mood as well as curators and facilitators of the fine arts in SLC.

Sounds like: if Faraquet had a masters in jazz composition and survived in the movie Whiplash + Architecture in Helsinki + Nico Muhly + The Books

Megaritual

Is the kinda person with the stories of someone who has seen it all, paired not with acoustic guitars but with doom riffs and a kick drum. He probably knows who Slavoj Žižek is outside of the two hotdog thing+Bill Callahan + Xasthur (depending on the day)

Jain Broom

Melodic harsh noise covered in red dirt.

Sounds like: the tape in a broken tape player you find in a post apocalyptic spaghetti western + Country western version of Set Fire to Flames

Hoofless

Cello led grandiose orchestral rock with a lot of fragility and nervous wobbles.

Sounds like: Silver Mr Zion + Julia Doiron. Prone to crying and to making people cry. Expect water works

Nicky VA & The Four Locos

Spaghetti psych and improv to keep things constantly interesting yet somehow hypnotic.
Sounds like: Orville Peck + Weedeater + the sound of a lap steel lulling you into a false sense of comfort and security before burying you under a mountain of heavy

Josaleigh Pollett

performs tender indie rock with their band - Ken Vallejos on drums and Julie Boswell on bass. For faDing Ding! Round two of artists for Hyphfest announcing right NOW! Slides in order of what you read below/ as above, so below.

For fans of Sharon Van Etten and Queen of Jeans.

hiss orchid

Experimental or electronic folk-rock. local SLC and is the solo project of teddy holly, often supported with the help of friends. been described like -- as depressive as it is heartfelt, which is to say very. or like Lit major crying music lol.

Affinity Artists: Mothers, Adrianne Lenker, Melaina Kol, Lomelda

LAST

Synthesizer driven sludge. The world's heaviest keyboard band.

Sounds like: Neurosis + Godflesh + Author & Punisher.

Molotov Dress

SLC’s finest authorized retailers of scum, debris, copper wire, and home goods.

Sounds like- how it feels to get a vasectomy with medical-grade nitrous. You might be uncomfortable. You may want to dance.

Sen Wisher

is a sentimental personal memoir rock band, which often includes howling pump organ and distorted grainy guitar, sometimDinges brass or bass and blurry booming drums, and always window pane cracking vocals, whose songs attempt to explore both the quiet-small and big-loud mysteries and moments of life.

Sounds like: listening to a tape recording of Mount Eerie + Sam Amidon + Björk trying to have a conversation together in a busy late night restaurant, so they have to all raise their voices a bit. And maybe even shout.

LL Baby Young

TRANSMUTES SWAG INTO GROOVE AND ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE INTO FLAVOR. RIGHT HAND PATH YO!

SOUNDS LIKE: R Stevie Moore, XTC, Women

WHERE DO I BUY TICKETS?

We're going to make you go shopping.

We will be rejecting the use of a ticketing service. In part because we don’t want to support business models that have proven to be predatory, but also because we want to support local business.

Tickets will only be available at select local businesses. You have to go in there and shop and remind yourselves and your friends and families that going into a shop owned by your neighbor is not only fun as shit, but helps keep our community strong and nourished.

Ticket locations will be announced >>>> TBD