Music
Local Review: The happies – Meet the happies
THE HAPPIES MEET THE HAPPIES The Happies = Nick Drake + Brian Jonestown Massacre The questions you should ask yourself right now are: Why haven’t I heard of this band before, how has my life been incomplete without them, are they still around, and why did this stupid reviewer wait several months to write them up?
Local Review: When Cars Crash – All Kinds of Comfortable
WHEN CARS CRASH ALL KINDS OF COMFORTABLE (2002) Hibiscus Zombie When Cars Crash = Jade Tree Records + chutzpah One of the hardest things for me to do when helping out with Death by Salt was having to cut When Cars Crash’s track, “Shattered Smile”, from the comp after finding out it was previously released
Local Review: McFalls – Self-Tittled Demo
MCFALLS SELF-TITLED DEMO McFalls = Pearl Jam (Ten) + Soundgarden (Superunknown) + Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin) McFalls, or Rune, as they are currently known, combine classic rock/grunge-laden guitar riffs with Jim Morrisson-like vocals that can really wail. Added to that grunge base are three main additives: A bluesy, almost jazzy strut (best illustrated in “summerday”);
Questioning the Corporate Culture with Steve Albini
I’m not going to waste your time with some big introduction for Steve Albini. He is a producer and a musician. You have probably heard some of the albums he’s recorded. … read more
Funkadelic: An Interview with George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie...
George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars have flown in from Paris, France to play Woodstock ’99 in Rome, New York. … read more
Henry Rollins — The Interview: Part One
Something I’ve wanted to do for many years … sit down with that human steamroller, that rising-man incinerator, Mr. Henry Rollins on a one-on-one. … read more
Descendents
At 5:15 p.m. on Friday, April 18, I get a call informing me that the Descendents are on in a couple of hours at Club DV8 in downtown Salt Lake City. … read more
Concert Previews: September 1994
The September 1994 edition of Concert Previews. … read more
Concert Reviews: June 1992
Yes, the Bar & Grill has been hoppin’. Yes, a dark little bar with a dance floor and stage at the back. I would have never guessed shows could be so fun there, but they are. … read more
Record Reviews: May 1992
Innovative and inspiring, Spiritualized will undoubtedly convert you to their own religious experience. Check out of record review from May of ’92. … read more
Interview: Lydia Lunch
This was one of those horrid phone interviews, with Lydia Lunch calling from New Orleans to Provo (which she’s probably never heard of). … read more
Notes from the Industrial Underground: March 1992
Well kids, I’m back from hell with news from the frontline of the Industrial Revolution. Check out what this month’s underground has to say. … read more
