Month: September 2015
Review: Leon Bridges – Coming Home
Leon Bridges = Sam Cooke / Jackie Wilson … read more
Review: Jessica Lee Wilkes – Lone Wolf
Jessica Lee Wilkes = Jessica Hernandez and the Deltas + The Detroit Cobras … read more
Review: Jonny Manak & the Depressives – Cold Pizza &...
Jonny Manak & the Depressives = The Cramps + The Sonics + Dead Boys … read more
Review: Hibou – Self-Titled
Hibou = Craft Spells + Wavves + Beach Fossils … read more
Review: High-Functioning Flesh – Definite Structures
High Functioning Flesh = Nitzer Ebb + Cocksure + Portion Control … read more
Local Review: Valentine & The Regard – Werewolves
Valentine & The Regard Werewolves FeralCatRecords Street: 12.23.14 Valentine & The Regard = Bright Eyes + The Cure Werewolves is a nostalgic trip through a series of poignant songs written in a manner that brings to mind both Conor Oberst and Pedro the Lion. Each song sweeps through straightforward guitar harmonies with an authentic sense
Local Review: Tony Holiday and the Velvetones – No Need...
Tony Holiday and the Velvetones No Need To Rush It Midnight Records Productions Street: 05.19 Tony Holiday and the Velvetones = Cody Canada + Kenny Wayne Shepard + William Clarke Tony Holiday and the Velvetones have given us their first album, No Need To Rush It, and Holiday’s signature energy is all over it. It’s good
Local Review: Theta Naught – Something Scientific
Theta Naught Something Scientific Eden’s Watchtower Theta Naught put the mental back into instrumental. All instrumental all the time, their aptly titled Something Scientific bypasses the borders of known quantum mechanics, not through math metal, as may be expected by the album title, but via the vessel of abstract, mellow, Mazzy Star alterna-rock. They’re mathematical
Local Review: The Ditch And The Delta – We Rust
The Ditch And The Delta We Rust Gypsy Blood Records Street: 02.26 The Ditch And The Delta = Neurosis + Baroness We Rust merges Elliot Secrist, Charles Bogus and Kory Quist together like an angry Voltron of SLC musicians rising from the desert waste, bringing forth their dirty stoner-prog gospel. Both Secrist and Quist share
Local Review: Settle Down – If It Exists I Have...
Settle Down If It Exists I Have Seen It From My Throne Escapegoat Records Street: 06.16 Settle Down = Norma Jean + Touche Amore Settle Down remain one of my favorite acts in the valley. I can’t get enough of their emotionally layered groove with that sweet post-hardcore frosting. This is to say that I