Authors: JP
Through Broken Glass and Crushed Throats: The Derby Girls Go...
The first battle between the Derby Girls of Salt Lake (Salt City Shakers) and the Ogden’s Junction City Roller Dolls (Junction City Trainwrecks) went off with almost no hitches––if you exclude a deadly fishbowl and a near miss on a throat crushing. WTF? … read more
JP’s Blog: Sea Wolf & Ladyhawke
Weekends like this last one come along only once every September and they should be celebrated. Club Sound hosted Sea Wolf on Friday and Perez Hilton Presents on Saturday. … read more
Swollen Members @ Urban Lounge
Swollen Members coming to town is always a big event: big crowds, big bass, blunts and blow. Emcee Prevail’s birthday coincided with the day of the show, so plenty of people were showing their appreciation in fragrant ways. These Canadian rappers, several time over winners of the Juno award (Canadian Grammys) for best rap group, did it up right.
Swedes Attack: Liitle Dragon & Miike Snow
Mythically, Sweden makes two things exceptionally well: hot skirts and great pop/dance music (ABBA, The Knife, Jose Gonzalez, Miike Snow). Two of those exports, Little Dragon and Miike Snow, played at the Urban Lounge last week. … read more
What I Learned About the World: Coachella 2010
I learned that a large group of young, mostly American, people can congregate and enjoy life on a basal line for three-four days and forget about the world. … read more
Hooray For Earth @ Kilby Court
New York City’s Hooray For Earth popped into town last Thursday at Kilby Court and blew the spot up, as the hip hoppers would say. Hooray for Earth is a new brand of old ideas based on synth sounds from the 80s that incorporate modern song phrasings, lyrical styling and attitude. The result is an infectious beat machine combined with great vocal choruses and genuine joy-inducing structure. … read more
Lyrics Born @ The State Room
Though he’s venturing even further into the realms of power funk, Lyrics Born still remains important for conscious hip hop heads (yes, we still exist). After the show I approached him, told him what a great time I had and he was very cordial back. The venue was literally shaking during the performance from excitement and the bass funk his band was pumping out. … read more
Scrapper
Southern California’s Chocolate Mountains are home to practice ranges open to the military 365, 24/7 and they drop bombs, fire rounds, and blow shit up from above. Tanks, APVs, the ground—all targets of their clusterbombs and high-calibers. What to do with the scrap bomb parts, though… … read more
Drama
When a 90-minute movie feels like 180, when cocaine use gets comical and a lead actress suddenly kills herself for no reason (spoiler alert!), blame Chile. … read more
Shunka
Documentary film can be one of the most powerful of the cinematic genres. Its most useful tools being: story, advocacy, information, and realistic cinematography. “Shunka” seems to lack all but the latter. … read more