April 2015 DVD Reviews

April 2015 DVD Reviews

DVD reviews for 1066: The Battle For Middle Earth, Doctor Who: Last Christmas, Dungeons & Dragons the Animated Series: Beginnings, Fireball XL5: The Complete Series, Horrible Bosses 2, James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden, Marvel Knights: Wolverine Versus Sabretooth: Reborn, A MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney, Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Volume XXXII, Regular Show: Mordecai Pack, Rye Coalition: The Story of the Hard Luck 5, The Best Of: Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego.

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Localized: Better Taste Bureau

Localized: Better Taste Bureau
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If hip-hop in Salt Lake is something you’ve never experienced, look no further than April’s Localized, sponsored by Uinta Brewing Co., KRCL 90.9 FM and Spilt Ink SLC. This month’s lineup is solid through and through, starting with Swell Merchants and the Dine Krew, who will lay some groovy tracks down to get you hyped for Better Taste Bureau. You might just find yourself jumping up and down to their fresh flow. As always, $5 gets you in, so load up the van and get down to Urban Lounge, Saturday, April 18 at 10 p.m.

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Sulphur Aeon Open the Gateway to the Antisphere

Sulphur Aeon Open the Gateway to the Antisphere
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Sulphur Aeon release their third full-length album, Gateway to the Antisphere, on April 3 with Imperium Productions.

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Just Another Man From The Cosmic Inferno: Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple

Just Another Man From The Cosmic Inferno: Kawabata Makoto of...
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Over 20 years, 72 full-length albums and countless tours throughout the world, Japanese music collective Acid Mothers Temple have produced some of the world’s most fascinatingly weird tunes. At the center of this ever-shifting kaleidoscope of musical collaborators, Kawabata Makoto acts as both originator and catalyst for a cosmic musical energy that stretches beyond the boundaries of the strange and into the realm of the sublime.

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April 2015 Video Game Reviews

April 2015 Video Game Reviews

Video game reviews for AERENA: Master’s Edition, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Cities XXL, Dead Or Alive 5: Last Round, Double Dragon Trilogy, Dragon Ball Z: Xenoverse, Dying Light, The Escapists, Evolve, Game of Thrones, Hand of Fate, #IDARB, iO, JUJU, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D, Monster Hunter 4, Pix the Cat, Tales of Hearts R, Tempo, Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries.

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A Ringing Sound: The Jesus and Mary Chain on Psychocandy

A Ringing Sound: The Jesus and Mary Chain on Psychocandy
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“We wanted to make a record that was going to be around for a while. At that time, we were listening to stuff from 20 to 30 years before us, and we kind of thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if, 27 years from now, there were bands in Texas that were making music because of Psychocandy?’"

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Miller Time: Wiley Miller

Miller Time: Wiley Miller
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While attending the University of Utah during the mid-2000s, I became acquainted with a young man who was pursuing the dream of becoming a professional skier. His name is Wiley Miller, and his calm demeanor and sense of adventure made him easy to get along with.

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Moths in the Moonlight

Moths in the Moonlight
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“Look at that moon!” says Eli Morrison, pointing up to the luminous body in the sky as I am about to enter the Man Vs. Music studio to interview him and his latest project, The Moths, about their impending release, titled Necromancy: Rock & Roll. It’s the smallest full moon of the year, yet seemingly immense in its implications, its portents, its power: evoking the elusive, mysteriously potent subjects of the sounds produced within these walls.

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Wienering The Record Industry: an Interview with Danny Gonzalez

Wienering The Record Industry: an Interview with Danny Gonzalez
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Wiener Records—a subsidiary of the garage rock label Burger Records—is making radical waves in the music industry. For as low as $250, any artist can purchase 100 tapes with full-color inserts and access to Wiener Records’ promotional and distribution machine. It almost sounds too good to be true, but Wiener Records Head Wiener Danny Gonzalez says that the purpose behind the label is to “make everything much more accessible.”

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April 2015 Local Music Reviews

April 2015 Local Music Reviews

Local album reviews from Fiendlord, J.P. Whipple, Littlee Sap Dungeon, The Love§trange, Lunar Twin, Monochist, PTO, The Rompstompers and Timmy The Teeth.

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