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Local Review: Thunderfist – Too Fat for Love

Local Review: Thunderfist – Too Fat for Love
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Thunderfist Too Fat for Love ECG Street: 01.2007 Thunderfist = Lemmy + Spork + 1,000 cases of PBR Legendary scene vets Thunderfist know how to write hard-rockin’ anthems for the wild ones; tight as a snail’s ass and twice as raunchy. After nearly a decade of putting out albums that would give the Supersuckers a

Local Review: This Is My Airport – In D

Local Review: This Is My Airport – In D
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This Is My Airport In D A. Star Recordings Street: 12.05 TIMA = Space Needle + Bob Dylan + John Cage + winter Those kids at A. Star Recordings know what is going on. Just when you think blues is completely played out, along comes a recording such as In D. An obvious play on

Local Review: The Sons Of Guns – Self titled

Local Review: The Sons Of Guns – Self titled
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The Sons Of Guns Self titled None Street: 09.22 The Sons Of Guns = Beat!Beat!Beat! + Queens Of The Stone Age + The Black Crowes I can’t say I was very impressed by this record. The Sons Of Guns make their battle cry from a platform which has been used countless times by countless bands

Local Review: SEQ CHAPTER h r 1Venus Euphoric – The Other Nine Planets Are Next

Local Review: SEQ CHAPTER h r 1Venus Euphoric – The...
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SEQ CHAPTER h r 1Venus Euphoric The Other Nine Planets Are Next The Collective Intellegence/Chabrama Record Street: 2006 Venus Euphoric = AFI + any number of bands that sound like AFI What can be said about a band that isn’t fresh, creative or very interesting? Is it different if it is of a genre that

Local Review: MONSOON SEASON – THE LAST COMMUTE

Local Review: MONSOON SEASON – THE LAST COMMUTE
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MONSOON SEASON THE LAST COMMUTE Narrl Recording Co. Street: 01.01 Monsoon Season = Sting + Late night NPR Jazz + any shred of relevance Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a SLUG reviewer faster than when a band compares itself to someone as musically worthless as John Mayer. What’s even sadder is listening to the

Local Review: Her Candane – No Battle!

Local Review: Her Candane – No Battle!
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Her Candane No Battle!  Tribunal Records Street: 11.07 Her Candane = Himsa + Dillinger Escape Plan + Every Time I Die + noise Salt Lake City homeboys, Her Candane, come out screaming and ready to fight on their Tribunal Records debut, No Battle! Blending metal, hardcore, all the bloody screaming and layering of screaming you

Local Review: Glacial – Self-titled

Local Review: Glacial – Self-titled
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Glacial Self-titled Exigent Street: 2006 Glacial = Red Sparowes + Black Sabbath + Dixie Witch The unmistakable finesse of Drew Smith, Glacial’s late drummer, shines through the recordings on this album, bringing an intricate Pelican feel to Glacial’s material. Andy Patterson’s heavier-than-hell chunk-drumming, in recent live settings, points Glacial in an almost Goatsnake/Isis direction. Pick

Local Review: COSM – Microphone Boutique

Local Review: COSM – Microphone Boutique
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COSM Microphone Boutique Pseudo Recordings Street: 02.19 Recorded at Deep Red Records Studio by Alex Vazques Well, for starters … their website is broken. Maybe it’s just under construction while they remove all of the haplessly outdated pictures of Wendy (the former COSM frontwoman). The reason I brought it up is because I don’t think

All Nation Freight-Heads Show Their Flare

All Nation Freight-Heads Show Their Flare
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Since the early 80s graf zines like Clout, Life Sucks Die, Mass Appeal, Day in the Lyfe, Bigtime, Scribble, were created to document graffiti art. Many of these zines focus primarly on wall coverage, but Salt Lake City based, All Nation takes a slightly different path with its exclusive coverage of American freight train graffiti; haling itself as the only magazine dedicated to this niche.  … read more

Drawn OK: An Interview with Badly Drawn Boy

Drawn OK: An Interview with Badly Drawn Boy
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When Damon Gough and his alter ego Badly Drawn Boy rolled into Salt Lake City’s Zephyr Club in support of his debut album The Hour of the Bewilderbeast he had already taken the Mercury Music Prize (the UK’s Album of the Year) beating out Coldplay’s Parachutes and The Doves’ Lost Souls. When he left he had set up residency as one of the top ten bands I’d ever seen live.  … read more