Month: August 2005
Localized: Carphax Files
Suggestion is a powerful force. Thinking about lemons makes you pucker, and seeing someone else yawn will nearly force you to yawn in response. It follows quite logically that given the season of heat and despotic, constant sunlight, one would want to experience something both chilly and dark. The music of Carphax Files, Redemption, and
Soccer Dad and the People in Your Neighborhood: True Tales...
Episode #6: The Fifth of July Roofers When I woke up around 1 p.m., it was already pushing 95 degrees. I was thus hiding out in my third-story apartment with my central air watching Azteca America (“Es tu casa”) with the sound off, listening to the Sonic Youth opus, Daydream Nation. There were 12 Latin
Off to See the Wizard: Ozzfest’s Bury Your Dead and...
After 10 years of avoiding Salt Lake City, Ozzfest finally brings its extravagant headbanging musical tour to Utah. The USANA Ampitheatre will turn into an all-out heavy metal circus Aug.16. One of the nation’s biggest touring festivals features mainstage bands that include Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, In Flames and Shadows Fall. There are 14 on
Va Va Va Voom: The Fluffgirls are Coming to Town
[Story by Jesus Harold–Ed.] When I get a hold of Cecilia Bravo, the founder of The Fluffgirl Burlesque Society, she’s putting the finishing touches on some outfits for their upcoming tour, which will include a stop at our own Burt’s Tiki Lounge on August 7. She sounds damn pleased to be working on costumes, too,
Miranda July: From Kill Rock Stars to Killing Hollywood with...
“The thing about walking, as compared to driving, is that when you’re walking, you really don’t know what’s going to happen to you: You could trip and fall, or you could get hit by a rock or a car, or a person could hit you, could yell at your ass … but while I am
Picking Up the Pieces with The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Picks Us Apart, the new album from The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, serves as a memoir for Paul Gonzenbach (lead singer/songwriter) and his summer 2003 bout with severe mental illness. The songs have cold, disturbing lyrics painted beautifully on the canvas of intelligent pop music. The messages of grief and despair are unpretentiously laid out before
Dear Dickheads – August 2005
The scene that purports itself to be so rough and tumble actually has sunk itself into the hands of the corporations it tends to want to rebel against. When talking to an anonymous psychobilly friend of mine he admitted to listening to Glenn Gould and Perry Como while buying hair gel! … read more
The Moroccan Revisited: Long, Slow Death and the End of...
Scenes thrive around a center, be it a band, label or venue. Salt Lake venues have long been the catalysts fueling the city’s fire. One of Salt Lake’s greatest, most influential and most unknown venues of the not-too-distant past was the Moroccan, and barely anyone under the age of 24 here knows about it. The
Contributor Limelight: Erik Lopez
Erik Lopez is a connoisseur of art, music, culture, geneology, geneaolgy, history, economics, botany, LDS Symposiums, basketweaving, diving, beekeeping and Pilates. … read more