Issues: Issue 70 - October 1994
Motocaster: October 1994
Motocaster’s Bo Taylor talked to me from a pay phone on the road from God knows where while I sat in the comfort of my home. Here are the results. … read more
Record Review: October 1994
Feeling a little depressed and filled with melancholy? If I Were A Carpenter is cheaper and there aren’t any embarrassing insurance forms to fill out. … read more
Releasing and Promoting Your Own Record: October 1994
It’s the best and easiest way to get press, do small tours, get more gigs and be noticed by record companies. … 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
Interview: Shudder To Think
Shudder To Think’s lead singer Craig Wedren, took some time out of a sound check on a balmy September afternoon in front of Playscool to answer a few questions. The traffic overhead was loud, the atmosphere casual and content; relaxed, much like Wedren’s demeanor. It was a great day. … read more
Interview: Consolidated
Consolidated’s latest album, Business Of Punishment, was released in September. They are three educated white boys rapping in a hip hop band. Consolidated has been compared to the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy many times. Their music is closely aligned with that of Hiphoprisy—heavy on the politics and the beats. … read more
Concert Reviews: October 1994
OK, straight up. This was one of the best live shows I’ve seen all year, no bullshit. … read more