The aromatic month of May is once again dedicated completely to our city’s most sustainable form of transportation: cycling. The Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is holding their fourth annual Bike Prom at Pierpont Place on May 10 at 8 p.m. after an open invitation ride around the city. I sat down with this year’s organizer, Jace Burbidge, and discussed the ins and outs of what this event is all about. … read more
Believe it or not, India pale ales (IPAs) are still a relatively new beer style. Yeah, technically they’ve been around since the 19th century, but the modern incarnation of America’s favorite craft beer style is only about 30 years old. In the old days, IPAs were a necessity, not a style. … read more
This month’s Localized, on April 18, will feature a mysterious hodgepodge of sincerity. Crook and the Bluff will start off the set with western-tinged psych-blues, after which blues crooning, working man rocking, badass motherfuckers Vincent Draper and the Dirty Thirty will sexy your face off. Following, mustachioed and chocolate-voiced singer-songwriter and strum-master Charles Ellsworth will finish things off. This delicious treat begins at 10 p.m. at Urban Lounge, $5 for those 21+. The night is hosted by Ischa B. and sponsored by Budweiser, Spilt Ink and KRCL 90.9FM. … read more
April 2014 National Music Reviews from Arum Rae, Document, Home, The Huney Trees, Kevin Seconds, Insomnium, Metatag, Modern Rivals, Phantogram, PUP, Reverend Horton Heat, Ringworm, The Shrine, Sleepy Sun, Sr. Vincent, Trust, TWeak Bird, The War On Drugs, White Suns and more! … read more
Discussing the moment the group was faced with an uncertain future for their past project, Gaza, Mason says, simply: “It can’t end like that.” So, from ashes, Cult Leader was born in Salt Lake City. Within less than a year, Mason, Hansen and Lucero faced the end of a successful band, the creation of a new one, and became part of the Deathwish Inc. record-label family: a redemptive myth in the music world, if ever there was one. … read more
Reviews for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Need For Speed, The Punk Singer and The Scene: An Exploration of Music in Toronto. … read more
April 2014 Local Music Reviews including Better Taste Bureau, Black Seas Of Infinity, Clint Lewis, Cory Mon, Excermentum Luciferi, False Witness, In The Making, For All The Girls, Foster Body, Her Luminaria, Taylor Fang, The Lazy Waves, MoneyPenny, Q1, Scalps and Silver Antlers. … read more
On Saturday, Feb. 15, folks flocked by the dozens to the wintry slopes of Brighton Resort for the 2014 SLUG Games Goes Postal Presented by Scion. Held at the base of the Milly lift, colorful sponsor tents flapped in the morning breeze as SLUG staffers and the Brighton Park Crew put the finishing touches on the course. Designed as an open jam session, contestants had the choice of hitting a massive tube, down box, donkey dick, close-out mailboxes to a dumpster, wall ride and a quarter-pipe with a mailbox. … read more
On March 4, a band called Nothing released Guilty of Everything on Relapse Records. In passing, mention of the label renders associations with brutal extreme metal, but by and large, Nothing are a shoegaze band whose sole sonic metal credentials are, arguably, the sludgy characteristics of some of their riffs on Guilty of Everything. Other than that, frontman Dominic “Nicky” Palermo’s soft, whispery vocals float like clouds over celestially intoned guitar chord progressions and even-keeled beats. “I don’t think it fits at all,” says Palermo. He maintains, however, that, “it doesn’t matter these days.” … read more
Reviews for This American Journey, Austenland, Dallas: The Complete Second Season, DEVO: The Complete Truth About De-Evolution, Fratello, Regular Show: Mordecai and Margaret Pack, Sherlock: Season Three and Treme: The Complete Series. … read more