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The Best Day of My Whole Life
THE KISS CONVENTION!!!! Twelve hours of KISS stuff, KISS music, KISS people, and the real KISS! … read more
Little Records: July 1995
The experience is like watching a porno video starring the casts of the Munsters, the Addams Family and the Batman television series doing it. … read more
Written in Blood: Hard Music for a Hard World
This, as with any good eulogy, will reflect on the greatness of a life. The life being one of the greatest bands that ever existed. … read more
The Psyclone Rangers: May 1995
When I asked Jean from World Domination about an interview with Jonathan Valania, she said “OK, but I should warn you that he’s nuts.” … read more
Band Interview: The Cult
The Cult finally, finally, finally played in Salt Lake on Monday, February 27; almost 10 years after the now legendary Love was released. … read more
Little Records: January 1995
These are all singles. Most play at 45 rpm and you need a turntable to hear them. Some are colored, some are not; some have big holes and some don’t. … read more
Movie Reviews: November 1994
It’s getting kinda weird out there in the world of dating. Maybe it’s always been so, but I get the feeling things are getting worse. … read more
Movie Reviews: October 1994
You know, in the last few issues I’ve been kinda slamming a filmmaker named Jean-Luc Godard, so it’s only fitting that the guy has got a new film and it’s coming to the Tower starting October 14. I guess I need to explain myself. … read more
Local Bands: October 1994
Seems like whenever you hear about eclectic art in SLC, it’s always some type of off-the-wall genre or the usual hype of ethnic or cultural society. Well, we also have something in our beloved city that is equally off-center and driven by a different source. Call it the underbelly of the music scene, or maybe even a holdout from years passed, but it survives and thrives in our fair city like a parasite. We call it heavy metal. … read more
Local Artist: Mic Radford
The tattoo parlor—A seedy place filled with unsavory characters, dirty needles and dirty people doing less-than-attractive things—or at least, this is what you are supposed to think if you were born in the fifties. Wake up kids, because that old stigmatism is gone, for the most part, that’s due to artists like Mic Radford. … read more