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Looking Around at Beat Happening
Think DIY, and one thinks homey, living-room production, a sort of playing around—though not always playfulness—and a raw sort of determination. This perception comes from a long line of DIY artists that have passed through our ears and venues over the years, but few have both endured as long and so purely embodied that feeling
SLUG Holiday Party 2015: SLUG Staff Slays St. Nick in...
It is a remarkable thing to witness people from a myriad of backgrounds, talents, and passions serve a common goal: to enrich the community around them. The SLUG holiday party is a time for the humans at the front line of community engagement come together and celebrate the impact they are creating. … read more
KRCL’s 2015 Polar Jubilee
KRCL is 36 years old and still going strong. Hundreds of fans, donors, sustainers, volunteers and KRCL staff bundled up and swarmed the Gallivan Center for an evening of music, food and conversation. … read more
Review: Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The...
Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The Stories Behind the Classic Songs Chris Roberts Carlton Books Ltd Street: 10.01.04 This is the quintessential rocker coffee table book. It’s basically unbearable to read from cover to cover, but is delightful in snippets. Walk on the Wild Side is a play-by-play interpretation of literally everything
Review: Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal and...
CHOOSING DEATH: THE IMPROBABLE HISTORY OF DEATH METAL AND GRINDCORE ALBERT MUDRIAN AND JOHN PEEL Feral House Books Street: 10.01.03 This book reaches deep into the earth and pulls out the roots of grindcore and death metal from Day One. Picking up from about the time that the thrash and crossover movements died off, the
Review: The Larry Fessenden Collection
In this beautifully packaged BluRay box set, the minds of the Shout Factory release a collection of four of filmmaker Larry Fessenden’s gruesomest horrors: No Telling, Habit, Wendigo and The Last Winter, spanning nearly two decades of his impressive career. Fessenden has established himself as a multi-talented visionary in the indie filmmaking scene. As director,
Tour de Halloween 2015
There was a Halloween party for every personality in Salt Lake, whether it was a private gathering of friends or a costume contest in a packed bar. … read more
The Color of Noise
The Color Of Noise does an incredibly thorough job of laying out the origins and life span of Tom Hazelmyer and Amphetamine Reptile Records. … read more
Review: S – Puking & Crying
S PUKING & CRYING Suicide Squeeze S are the reversed reflection or negative print of Postal Service with the duo of Josh Wackerly and Jenn Ghetto steering the runaway rollercoaster of songs crafted with female vocals, guitar-driven structures and electronic touches with results that are both intimate and brooding, while only sacrificing the oversaturated pop