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Kilby Court, Utah’s weird-yet-welcoming all-ages music venue, turns 20 with a big block party

It’s unusual for an all-ages music venue to survive long enough to be older than the teens rocking out inside it — but Kilby Court has been unusual for a long time.

“Taking that drive down that eerie one-way street to play the somewhat unassuming garage in Salt Lake has been a necessary rite of passage for both local and touring bands in the area,” said Spencer Petersen, frontman for the Utah-via-L.A. indie-pop band Sego (which performs at Kilby on May 22). “Getting pictures of the band playing in front of that old backlit glowing corrugated green fiberglass was a must for your Myspace profile pic.