Music
Local Review: Subterranean Masquerade – Suspended Animation Dreams
Subterranean Masquerade’s much-anticipated first full-length album picks up where two-song EP Temporary Psychotic State left off, giving Pink Floyd psychedelia. … read more
Local Review: Swedish Music in Utah – Lucia Celebration
This CD is just sickeningly cute. It’s a bunch of Swedish young people singing trad Swedish music. It’s a recording of the Lucia Day Celebration. … read more
Local Review: Vile Blue Shades – Dark Wizard
Vile Blue Shades, who had a CD release at SLUG HQ during April Gallery Stroll, are in anti-heaven where The Swans float around with The Fall, Godspeed You! … read more
Review: Cyness – Loony Planet/Industreality CD
Cyness doesn’t do anything unexpected for the genre of grindcore, they just do it as solid as I’ve ever heard it. … read more
Review: Massgrav – Napalm Ofver Stureplan CD
Massgrav have a perfect punk-as-fuck vibe that comes natural to them but seems corny as hell coming from all those giant mohawk bands. … read more
Review: Misery – Production Thru Destruction
Misery know how to pour on the gloom and doom better than any heshers in Cannibal Corpse shirts because they’ve spent the last 15 years playing crust with enough metal to make a song interesting. … read more
Review: The Upwelling – Self-Titled
The songs on this 5 track EP are nice, they sore, they have a little rock in them and they have a mood that sometimes crosses Catherine Wheel with Elbow. … read more
Review: The Perishers – Let There Be Morning
The Perishers come sauntering in with a long list of hopefuls who would, if given the chance, knock that bloody crown off of Coldplay’s collective head. … read more
Review: Thee Heavenly Music Association – Shaping the Invisible
Caught somewhere between Curve and Garbage, the combination of Helen Storer and Dave Hillis produce a nice wall of distorted pop. … read more
Review: Great Lakes Myth Society – Self-Titled
These Great Lakes Myth Society are some strange hybrid of an American The Beautiful South, the bouncy happy sound that seems to roll out of Glasgow these days. … read more
Review: Random Hymns EP – GSL
Random Hymns drops you down the rabbit hole and dares you to climb out. It isn’t pretty. It isn’t supposed to be. … read more
Review: Mad E.P. – Eating Movies
Mad E.P. is completely uninhibited to experiment with hip-hop, piano keys, answering machine messages, flutes, cellos, street sounds, fist fights—you name it. … read more
