Year: 2010
Volcom ‘9191’ Review
9191 focuses on my two favorite things about snowboarding: shredding powder and riding with the homies. 9191 takes a new approach to making a snowboarding film. In lieu of a traditional team video, Volcom created a movie based on the travels of Gigi Ruf. … read more
‘The Storming’ Review
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }Dear Standard Films: Thank you for being an equal opportunity employer. Thank you for not overlooking the ladies. Most of all, thank you for bringing me what I’ve wanted all year—a shred flick with girls who can actually hold their own. All my love, Katie Panzer.
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Who the FUCK is Circa Survive? A review of Dredg...
Dredg has been one of my favorite bands since a suitemate introduced me to them in college back in ’04. Their Live at the Filmore album proves they’re the kind of band that can reproduce intricate prog rock as fluently live as in the studio, which is more than can be said for the general gamut of post-TOOL prog rock groups. … read more
Small Black at Kilby Court 11/12
As a space heater warmed up the Kilby garage, crowd-pleasing local opener The Heavens and the Earth (aka producer Matt McMurray) came onstage behind an impressive array of electronics hooked together with a grippe of colorful cables. As he started playing a whooshing synth pad, I anticipated a set of Tangerine Dream worship. Then he hit the crowd with a beat and got everyone moving. … read more
Spoek Mathambo @ W Lounge
It took a lot to get Mr. Mathambo’s hype-heavy mash up of retro-futurist electronic music filtered through the cultural battlefield of post-apartheid Johannesburg to Salt Lake City. In fact, it took a superfecta of nightlife/fashion promoters to persuade Mathambo and Mshini Wam to make a pit-stop along I-80 to our dusty little spot on the map. … read more
Napalm Flesh – Re-Issue/Re-Master Chopping list
This week is all CD reviews, in particular CD re-issue and re-master reviews. Every year albums upon albums are re-issued and re-released, some are worth picking up and some aren’t. The reviews of the albums here are more themed around the quality of the re-issue than the quality of the album because if it’s getting released by another label or released again in some form the music doesn’t need to be judged, but is package does. … read more
The 2010 Chrismahanukwanzakah (Thanks Virgin Mobile) Gift Guide
Now that we’ve stuffed our faces full with the souls of bloated poultry (Tofurky if you’re a hippie, Wild Turkey if you’re a lush), it’s time to start thinking about the holidays and how you’re going to spend your hard earned cash on shit you probably don’t need, but certainly love to have in your possession. Let the consumerism begin! … read more
Napalm Flesh – Live Excursions, Best Of and Damned Good...
My review queue has a wealth of quality live DVDs, CDs and “Best of” albums, all of which are reviewed here for your reading pleasure. Live albums, concert/documentary DVDs and best of collections can be fun, but sometimes you get a stinkpot live production or a not so “best of” collection. Here’s my attempt to weed the good from the bad. Also included is a rundown of upcoming shows and some blog exclusive grind CD reviews! … read more
Napalm Flesh – Hammering the Hate Down: Label Spotlight
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }This week we have another mostly review based blog, with reviews from Finnish black metal record label, Hammer of Hate Records. Definitely all killer, no filler, no frills or fancy keyboard crap either. Hammer of Hate offers straight forward pure black metal atrocities. Also, is the usual rundown of a slew of local shows going down this week as well as a review of the Elitist, Cough, Subrosa show last week at Burts. Enjoy!
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Napalm Flesh: Local metal band spotlight: Reveeler
This week’s blog marks the start of a new journey showcasing local metal bands. I post every local metal show I know about on here every week, so why not get to know some of the local talent. Ogden, UT’s heavy metal crew, Reveeler, are the first of many local spotlights to come. Reveeler’s singer, Brad Losito, answered the questions on behalf of Reveeler. Also included are the usual blog exclusive CD reviews, featuring sluge/doom metal crew, Sons of Tonatiuh, death/grind super group Murder Construct’s debut EP, Kamelot and Mr. Death. … read more