Year: 2013
Local Reviews: La Farsa
La Farsa’s visual packaging, replete with feather boas, top hats, elbow-length gloves and evening gowns, when paired with their survey sample of twentieth-century musical styles that includes soul, blues, doo-wop and a strange type of Balkan-gypsy minstrel-show thing going on, speaks for a band born in the wrong century. … read more
![Local Review: Atilast – Atilast](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/f9446cc9f84502f6244a1a70d9f7b212_400x400-400x290-1.webp)
Local Review: Atilast – Atilast
Atilast = Paramore + The Material … read more
Local Reviews: Location Location
This is some contrived, pop-ass, middle-aged rock. Yet despite its lame genre and lame intentions, it is actually pretty good for what it is. The songwriting is well-crafted and incorporates interesting background percussion and effects. … read more
![Local Reviews: Big Black Sky](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/big-black-sky-400x400-1.jpg)
Local Reviews: Big Black Sky
Big Black Sky = Leftover Salmon + Son Volt + Flash Cabbage … read more
![Local Reviews: Parlor Hawk](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/parlor-hawk-hoarse-and-roaring.webp)
Local Reviews: Parlor Hawk
Hoarse & Roaring is an impeccable record, but whether that’s a good thing depends on the listener. On one hand, Joshua James did a great job producing (and apparently inspiring the band’s sound). The downside is that this album sounds like the equivalent of that guy at a party who looks like he spent a little too much time on his outfit—it makes me suspicious. … read more
![Local Reviews: Black Seas of Infinity](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-seas-385x400-1.webp)
Local Reviews: Black Seas of Infinity
Black Seas of Infinity = Raison D’etre + Nostalgia + Hexentanz … read more
Local Reviews: Reviver
Reviver is indisputably one of the hardest-working bands in Utah, and their dedication shows in this latest EP. Potential Wasteland is a hardcore tribute to doing exactly what it is that you want to do without letting the totalitarian structure and guilt of the surrounding system hold you down. … read more
![Local Reviews: The Castanettes](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/616IMWrqIIL._SX466_-400x400-1.webp)
Local Reviews: The Castanettes
The Castanettes = Sloan + Midlake + The Brobecks … read more
Local Reviews: Various Artists
Rock, pop, indie, ambient, hip hop, singer-songwriter, jazz, metal––it’s all here, and it’s all as local as the lake-effect, but way better. For 2010, The Rock Salt has given us a damn canorous cornucopia (thanks dictionary.com). … read more
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Local Reviews: Christian Asplund
Christian Asplund = The Bad Plus + John Zorn + John Mclaughlin … read more