Articles by Payton Davis

This being his final column, the Album Analyzer says goodbye but leaves you with a parting gift: the 10 best albums released during his time at Dixie.

Here’s part two of the list, counting down from 10 to one.

10: “XXX” by Danny Brown (2011)

Brown debuted with 22 ...

I’ve logged more than 150 articles and 80,000 words for Dixie Sun News in seven semesters; however, another stat is on my mind as my time at DSN ends: one — the number of times I gave up student journalism. 

Frustrated with how journalism's reality — scary interviews and ...

Students seeking advice on how to cope with a loved one’s death, how to advance far in Dixie Idol or how to make a mean salad should look no further than Red Rock Café.

BernNadette “MZBEE” Jefimoff, a faculty member who works in Dixie State University’s Red Rock ...

Early-semester procrastination will be more difficult for Dixie State University students starting in the 2015-16 academic year: The deadline to pay tuition to avoid being dropped from classes will now be one week before classes start.

Prior to the change, students had until the semester’s third week to make ...

Unless a serious “Dixie Bro,” a student’s college experience ceases at some point, but the killer albums that played the backdrop to those times shouldn’t.

The Album Analyzer graduates next month; thus, it’s time to look back at the best projects released during his time at Dixie ...

Dixie State University’s infrastructure and academics have advanced over time, but its aura keeps alumni coming back — particularly for spring semester’s D-Week.

Hal Hiatt, board of trustee member and Alumni Association president, said he can’t help but notice campus’ physical changes since his time as a ...

Lucifer told Michael to do God’s work Thursday night in the Black Box Theater in the Eccles Fine Arts building.

That, of course, preceded Lucifer’s banishment from Paradise — chronicled in the Dixie State University student-directed and written play “The Fall of Lucifer.” The Second Act New Works Festival ...

The music played was as much of a hodgepodge as the event itself.

Prior to Dixie Fest 2K15’s start, a hip-hop remix of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” blared through speakers out onto the Encampment Mall, this year’s concert location. Later, disc jockeys competing in the inaugural ...

Just one album in, this Aussie is like a rolling stone.

Courtney Barnett’s lyrical excellence came to fore after 2014’s sprawling, witty EP, “The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas.” “I notice you stopped talking to me; now you’re talking to me all the time / Do ...

The slew of campaign posters spread across campus just got a bit sparser as three candidates for Dixie State University Student Association executive council positions bowed out in primary elections.

Primaries, held from Monday to Tuesday night, narrowed the field of the three positions up for grabs — student body president ...

A single aspect remained constant during the DSU Theater Showcase’s musical renditions, a capella performance and numerous anecdotes: tears from former theater professor Varlo Davenport’s supporters and old students.

Davenport’s termination Feb. 25 sparked student protests, an online petition and questions about what safeguards tenured faculty members ...

The thing about technology’s firm grip on life is this: Today’s college students could end up working in an industry that doesn’t even exist yet.

That was the case for Jonathan Johnson, chairman of the board at Overstock.com. As an undergrad, Johnson majored in Japanese at ...

Bob Dylan, The Clash and Arcade Fire have played the soundtrack to my college career, but hip-hop made me the Album Analyzer.

I never thought of music as more than a filler for awkward silence, and country music composed my entire CD collection until I heard Kanye West’s “Gold ...

Sorry mom and dad, but soap in my mouth didn’t work; I’m still a cusser, and much of that is because swear words don’t harm anyone.

Spoken too often, dirty words lose their impact, like effective pickup lines on Tinder. Place one — or two, or five — of ...

Imagine Dragons is the type of band that makes you switch your Spotify activity settings to “private.”

Las Vegas’ own Imagine Dragons crossed from the alternative charts to top-40 with their 2012 debut, “Night Visions.” However, the group’s Nickelback-esque ability to bring guitar music to the top of the ...