Year: 2005
Glitter Gutter Trash – July 2005
(A psychotic candyland full of glam glitz, trashy pop, new wave, post-everything, retrofuturisms and distorted beauty) Reviews of The Warlocks’s latest, Mice Parade, Vox Vermillion and more!! [The Warlocks]If you were lucky enough to arrive early and catch She Wants Revenge open up for the Bloc Party show you already know that they
Contributor Limelight: Mariah Mann-Mellus
SLUG’s favorite party girl, Mariah Mann-Mellus, is the delightful, ever-effervescent, resourceful personality and motivating force behind almost every one of SLUG’s world-changing skatebaording and snowboarding events. … read more
Gallery Stroll – August 2005
Gallery Stroll is a changing of the guards if you will—the time when the last month’s show becomes a thing of the past and the shinny new art. … read more
Whacktastic Skateboard Antics and The Morning News
I reminded her that she was skateboarding outside of her abilities and she ended the broadcast by saying, “That was whacktastic!” Whacktastic indeed. … read more
Suicide: A Crappy Troma Movie
If you are truly sick enough in the brain that you want to see people dying, skip this movie and rent Faces of Death or just log on to the good ol’ Internet. … read more
Skateboard Update List
The Salt Lake Tribune will be reporting on skateboarding and other action sports in the near future. May God have mercy on all of our souls. … read more
Soccer Dad and the People in Your Neighborhood: True Tales...
I was thus hiding out in my third-story apartment with my central air watching Azteca America (“Es tu casa”) with the sound off, listening to the Sonic Youth, “Daydream Nation.” … read more
Off to See the Wizard: Ozzfest’s Bury Your Dead and...
After 10 years of avoiding Salt Lake City, Ozzfest finally brings its extravagant headbanging musical tour to Utah. … read more
Va Va Va Voom: The Fluffgirls are Coming to Town
When I get a hold of the founder of The Fluffgirl Burlesque Society, she’s putting the finishing touches on some outfits for their upcoming tour, which will include a stop at our own Burt’s Tiki Lounge. … read more
Miranda July: From Kill Rock Stars to Killing Hollywood with...
Angela and I had our chance to interview Ms. July at Sundance but, like the flawed humans who populate her work, we kind of blew it. … read more
Picking Up the Pieces with The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Picks Us Apart, the new album from The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, serves as a memoir for Paul Gonzenbach and his summer 2003 about with severe mental illness. … read more
Dear Dickheads – August 2005
Stop wasting money on hair care products and fucking fat guys with an REO Speedwagon tattoo and spend the money where it really counts – back into the music. … read more