Products from Craft Lake City artisans Butcher’s Bunches, Chandeliquor, The Cotton Floozy, Hint of Vintage and Spotted Hippo Soap are reviewed this month. … read more
Local Music Reviews – August 2012
New and recent releases from American Hollow, Blackhole, Charles Ellsworth and the Dirty Thirty, DJ RoboRob, Draize Method, Dusk Raps, Gaza, Inland, Kirsten Nelson, Markham Sound, Mechanical Skies, Mr. Richter, The New Electric Sound, Pleasure Thieves, The Saintanne and Your Meteor are reviewed. … read more
National Music Reviews – August 2012
New and recent releases from Anywhere, Cinema Cinema, Deadly Remains, Diplo, Flaming Lips, Giant Giant Sand, Neneh Cherry & The Thing, Patti Smith, The Tallest Man on Earth, Tankard, Teenage Bottlerocket, YAWN, Whitechapel and many more are reviewed. … read more
Beer Reviews – August 2012
This is a group of limited-run beers that, with a little luck, may still be kicking around when this issue hits the streets. For those of you who are not aware: It is you, the consumer, who decides which beers stick around. If you manage to find a new, local micro beer that you drank enough to pass out, piss yourself, wake up the next morning and keep at it, then write your brewers and tell them that. So, enjoy this beer lineup, and please write in to these guys––otherwise, we’ll riot in the streets. … read more
Book Reviews – August 2012
Mike Watt: On and Off Bass and Neil Young FAQ:
Everything Left to Know About the Iconic and Mercurial Rocker are reviewed this month. … read more
Movie Reviews – August 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, GG Allin & The Murder Junkies: Blood, Shit and Fears, ParaNorman and the Queen of Versailles are reviewed. … read more
Video Game Reviews – August 2012
Gravity Rush and Waking Mars are reviewed this month. … read more
Local Reviews: Mr. Richter
I’m all about the classic heavy metal revival. Mr. Richter join the mêlée of Utah’s virtuosic-vocal NWOBHM with their debut, six-song EP, where they find a good portion of their heavy metal niche with elegiac songs including opener “Mr. Richter,” which pounds along at a heavy, steady pace set by drummer Tyler Russell, along with chuggy guitars that blast in and out of dual harmony from both guitarists. … read more
Local Reviews: The New Electric Sound
Whether it was serendipity or just savvy marketing, the debut album from Provo-based surf-rockers The New Electric Sound has arrived just in time for summer. Generally speaking, the words “surf-rockers” and “Provo” don’t jive with one another, but this album just might change that. It’s the type of music that screams to be blasted out of topless convertibles cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway as the sun lazily sets over the horizon. … read more
Severed Savior
There’s death metal and then there is brutal death metal. Enjoy a straight injection of sinister-flavored dopamine by way of spastic blast drumming, crunchy, grooved guitars and jazz-inspired homicidal tendencies when Severed Savior plays Salt Lake City’s Bar Deluxe on July 11. SLUG caught up with the band’s drummer, Troy Fullerton, to give all you brutal fans a window to the ear-bleeding, eye-watering event going down this summer. … read more
Intro: David Williams in a Dramatic Light
Salt Lake Americana songwriter David Williams will find himself in a different spotlight this month as the star of the dramatic film, Intro. The latest cinematic creation from director Brandon Cahoon will be one of the featured films heading into the 2012 Salt Lake City Film Festival. Cahoon had fallen in love with the idea of living with a musician and figuring out what makes them tick. Rather than do the traditional documentary style, he envisioned creating a dramatic film with Williams as the musical star. … read more
Euphoria in Motion: Teen Daze Releases All Of Us, Together
Although the music Teen Daze creates is easily classified as down-tempo chillwave, Teen Daze is anything but mellow in a live setting. When I caught his performance during New York’s CMJ, Teen Daze quietly informed the crowd that he’d be playing some new music and hoped the crowd would get friendly with one another, before diving into a half-hour set that saw him head banging over his MacBook and Ableton Live sequencer, thrashing about as if he was in the midst of a seizure. … read more
