Issues: Issue 280 - April 2012
Book Reviews – April 2012
This month, we have reviews of Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip-Hop by Simon Reynolds, Derek hess: Black Line White, Lie, Gig Posters Volume 2, Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery and more. … read more
Movie Reviews – April 2012
21 Jump Street, Chico & Rita, The Hunger Games, Project X and The Raid: Redemption are reviewed. … read more
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Music Reviews
New releases from Black Breath, Busdriver, Craig Finn, Damien Jurado, Dirty Three, Graf Orlock, Lee Fields, Mark Stewart, Miike Snow, Poor Moon, Spectral Tombs and many more are reviewed this month. … read more
RSD Comics: Heavy Metal Shop
To celebrate the fifth annual Record Store Day, which takes place on April 21, 2012, we asked four Salt Lake record stores about the special relationships they’ve forged with some of their favorite customers. Kevin Kirk profiled his longtime regular Scott Zwick. … read more
Contributor Limelight: Robin Banks
If you never saw Robin Banks playing drums with The Mooks or Bombs & Beating Hearts, you’ve definitely seen Banks’ artwork taped up in the window of your favorite record store or coffee shop. … read more
Local Reviews: Lady Murasaki
Had I not seen this band in person, I never would have guessed these soulful vocals came from a 6’ Japanese woman commanding the mic with a classic Gretch in hand. But this poppy five-piece rock group really isn’t anything they appear to be, and that’s a really good thing. … read more
Local Reviews: The Mooks
Before hearing it, I thought that the title track of this latest Mooks release might be a Spice Girls cover—these are SLC’s foremost purveyors of all things pop-punk and cuteness, after all—but that is not the case (though that probably would’ve been pretty cool, too). … read more
Local Reviews: Pat Briggs and the T-Birds
This album reminds me of the best band you heard at a college party in the late ’90s and could never remember the name of—but I mean that in the best way. The instrumentation is softer rock, all shining guitars and thoughtful and adept rhythm-section backups. … read more