Saturday, April 14, come get your face electrocuted with wide-ranging, pumping punk from Stark Raving Mad and irreverent ’80s hardcore from Handicapitalist at Urban Lounge. Chainwhip will melt the skin off of your face as they open the show with their screechy hardcore crust. Five bucks, punk as fuck, 21-plus for blood n’ pus. … read more
The SLUG Games: Shred the Park After Dark
On Saturday, March 10, Park City Mountain Resort played host to Shred the Park After Dark, the second and final contest of the SLUG Games series. With the sun shining bright, deep into the late afternoon, the snow kids turned up in droves to compete for bragging rights. With nearly 50 competitors, the table was set for another installment of SLUG-style madness. … read more
Local Reviews: The Beginning At Last
The Beginning At Last are a quartet who combine the basic musical styles of metal and hip hop. The resulting sound on No Music No Life is pretty much what one would expect: scratching vinyl over trilling distortion and synth lead over bellowing shouts. … read more
National Music Reviews – March 2012
This month we have reviews of new and recent releases from A Place to Bury Strangers, Andre Williams, Anti-Flag, Cate le Bon, Classics of Love, Every Time I Die, Hunx, Lindstrom, Meshuggah, Nada Surf, Pontiak, Spielgusher and many, many more. … read more
RSD Comics: Randy’s Records
To celebrate the fifth annual Record Store Day, which takes place on April 21, 2012, we asked four Salt Lake record stores about the special relationships they’ve forged with some of their favorite customers. The employees at Randy’s chose to profile their favorite regular, Ringo Starr—yes, that’s really his name. … read more
RSD Comics: Graywhale
To celebrate the fifth annual Record Store Day, which takes place on April 21, 2012, we asked four Salt Lake record stores about the special relationships they’ve forged with some of their favorite customers. The U of U Graywhale’s store manager Kyle England profiled Clay Bloomquist. … read more
Movie Reviews – March 2012
This month we have reviews of Act of Valor, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Journey 2, Parade, and This Means War. … read more
RSD Comics: Raunch
To celebrate the fifth annual Record Store Day, which takes place on April 21, 2012, we asked four Salt Lake record stores about the special relationships they’ve forged with some of their favorite customers. Brad Collins of Raunch profiled his favorite customer, Neb. … read more
The Tin Angel Café
Now starting their fifth year, The Tin Angel began with the ambition of Kestrel Liedke and her best friend Robin Fairchild, who dreamed about the project for years. The dream became a reality when Kestrel married chef Jerry Liedtke. Jerry, having set up more than a few restaurants and having worked in fine kitchens in Europe and at resorts had a firm idea about what makes a kitchen succeed. Thus was born one of Salt Lake’s culinary no-brainers. … read more
Video Game Reviews – March 2012
This month we review Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Pushmo. … read more
Demigods: Alas, Behemoth is Upon Me
Calling it his “most precious child,” Behemoth’s guitarist and vocalist Nergal doesn’t feel like reducing his music to a simple catchphrase. “I just grab my guitar, and pour all my emotions into new riffs and new songs, and the last thing I care about is whether it’s in the ‘blackened death metal’ box,” he says. “Behemoth is Behemoth.” Though recent years have posed a slew of trials for the band—especially Nergal’s leukemia diagnosis in 2010— he emphasizes that Behemoth is a “tight, solid unit again.” … read more
More Than Just A Party: 128 Beats Per Minute
For photographer Shane McCauley, 128 Beats Per Minute is a book based on what he describes as his three-year vacation—a time where he toured across the world with DJ and music producer Diplo, and his only responsibility was doing what he loved: taking photos. “I wanted to make this book about dance culture. I didn’t just want it to be a book about Diplo; I wanted it be about this music culture and this music movement,” he says. … read more