Bane, Strike Anywhere, A Global Threat, This is Hell

Bane, Strike Anywhere, A Global Threat, This is Hell

Going into this show, I didn’t know what kind of a crowd this package would draw. I anticipated A Global Threat would bring the punks in spades, while Bane and This is Hell were sure to bring out more than a handful of hardcore kids. But was there any crossover fan base between those bands and Strike Anywhere?  … read more

Slits Tradition: A Revolutionary Interview with Ari Up

Slits Tradition: A Revolutionary Interview with Ari Up

Ari Up grew up in 1970s London, and at the age of 14 formed the band that would eventually become The Slits, one of the most seminal and influential punk bands of all time. Their first tour was alongside The Clash in 1977 and their monumental album Cut was released two years later. The Slits

Modus Operandi – 4 Industrial Album Reviews

Modus Operandi – 4 Industrial Album Reviews
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As if the Halloween festivities are not enough, October 2005 will go down in history for having the most goth/industrial shows in a single month in the SLC. Wednesday, Oct. 12, Metropolis act Mindless Self Indulgence stops at the Lo-Fi Café on their You’ll Rebel to Anything Tour. SLUG’s Localized will showcase Die Monster Die

Dreamin’ the Blues: Bad Brad Wheeler and his Harmonica Army

Dreamin’ the Blues: Bad Brad Wheeler and his Harmonica Army
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“Everyone has a story about the harmonica,” says Bad Brad Wheeler of the Legendary Porch Pounders. Bad Brad’s story about his harmonica started when he was 18 years of age on a dare. He was at a keg party in Ogden, where he currently lives, when someone dared him to play the harmonica. Seventeen years

Flogging Molly 09.21.06 @ the University of Utah

Flogging Molly 09.21.06 @ the University of Utah

Flogging Molly 09.21.06 The U of U With Zox and The Bedouin Sound Clash Flogging Molly is a band that I wish I could have seen before they got huge. It would have been amazing to see them when they first formed and were playing shows at Molly Malone’s. I wish I could say they

The Casualties 09.19.06 @ the Avalon

The Casualties 09.19.06 @ the Avalon

The Casualties (courtesy of myspace.com/thecasualties) The Casualties 09.19.06 The Avalon With Skint, Wednesday Night Heroes, The Briefs I’ve seen The Casualties a lot of times. My guess would be somewhere around half a dozen in the last four years. That’s quite a few times to see a band, and punk fans are notorious for their

A Rocker Against Parkinson’s

A Rocker Against Parkinson’s
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Back in the late 70s, rockabilly was all but alive. That was until three young men, Brian Setzer, Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom slapped some grease in their hair, picked up their respective instruments and formed the Stray Cats. They would go on to remind the world of the greatness that this early form

The 801 Sons: a Hip-Hopagraphy

The 801 Sons: a Hip-Hopagraphy
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When you think of Ogden, Utah you probably don’t usually think of hip-hop, gangsters or any other such radical social configurations. But one of O-town’s best kept secrets is that gangsters, such as Al Capone, ran drug cartels, prostitution rings and bootlegging operations out of our sister city to the North. From these auspicious beginnings,

No Booze, No Freaking and No Fun At All:  Studio 600 the Scariest Club in Town

No Booze, No Freaking and No Fun At All: Studio...
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Dance clubs and bars are all the same, no matter what town you’re in. The same characters reside there; the loud drunk girl that just broke up with her boyfriend and is aching for a rebound; the regular patrons that sit at the bar for hours after they got off work and the just 21+