Guitar Wolf Eulogy (An e-mail from Billy Nord from Narnack Records) It’s with deep and saddest regret to announce this latest news. Last night (3/30) Billy, aka Bass Wolf, passed away of natural causes. He was 38. The band had just returned from their month-long US tour, and fortunately Billy did get to spend
It’s that time of year, the days are getting longer and the snow is melting…wait, it’s still puking snow when the rest of the country is shutting down production and pulling out golf clubs. There still might be more snow than in 20 years at this time, but resorts are still shutting down the party due to their lease agreement and people staying home to work on their summer tans. … read more
The Salt Lake Arts Center’s latest exhibit, The Daily News (on display until June 1) posed the question, “What kind of imprint has the printed world made on you?” In addition, they explore the question, what do you do with the news when it’s not new anymore? This show is so intelligent and imaginative you, too, may be inspired to look at the old news in a new way! … read more
Midnight Mirage doesn’t fit into a box of ideas on how belly dancing should be performed. We took our ideas, our experiences and our dreams and with the core technique of belly dancing, created what we wanted to do. Diversity is what makes life, art and dance interesting. … read more
Jeff Fogt is but wee sprite in terms of how long he’s worked for SLUG, but his poignant wit, no-shit insight and truly eclectic ears have earned him a subsequent, nearly-mortal workload of CD reviews, which he has handled with grit, grace and clock-like punctuality. … read more
924 GILMAN THE STORY SO FAR… COMPILED BY BRIAN EDGE Maximum Rock N Roll Street: 12.01.04 For me there are very few truly pure musical places in the world today. At the top of my list are Sun Studios in Memphis, CBGB’s in New York, and maybe the purest, 924 Gilman in Berkley. It was
PLEASE FEED ME: A PUNK VEGAN COOKBOOK NIALL MCGUIRK Soft Skull Press Street: 11.15.04 This cookbook is just as much a photographic and historical tour of punk in Dublin as it is a collection of delicious vegan recipes. Why punk? As author Niall McGuirk explains, “Together, we would change the world. We saw music as
THE TROUBLE WITH MUSIC MAT CALLAHAN AK Press Street: 02.01.05 Who better than a seasoned musician to give us a leftist critique of the corrupt corporate music industry? As a rallying cry to independent musicians and freethinkers everywhere, Mat Callahan, guitarist for world-beat combo The Looters, felt it due time for such a diatribe and
When Erasure set out to promote Other People’s Songs album, they hadn’t toured in four years; neither Vince Clark nor Andy Bell were sure if the fans would still be there. … read more
There once was a band called Jericho … actually, there were two bands called Jericho. One was an aging Christian rock group trying to groove their way into heaven; the other was a punk band in Boston. One will embark on a reunion tour of the Bible Belt this summer after their drummer recovers from
