January’s Localized starts our new year off with the classic rock lineup of Merchant Royal and Big Wild Wings, two of our fair town’s lovely femme-fronted projects. The evening gets an extra dash of feminine mystique with Night Wings opening the night.
Local album reviews for Braeyden Jae, Clay, Deathblow, Dusk Raps, Hard Men, Yaktooth, Kaleb Hanly, Mideau, Oceanear, RuRu, stickfigures, Students Of Expression, Top Dead Celebrity, Triggers & Slips, Tupelo Moan, Twilight Transmissions and Westward.
Thor is bending steel bars in his teeth, still standing as a testament to the resilient spirit of rock n’ roll.
One day, you have a chance encounter thousands of miles away from home and you’re reminded that the world is full of threads that tie us together—being from Utah is a thread that links you to people all over the world. The Central Utah Art Center (CUAC) acknowledges and celebrates these threads in their annual Utah Ties show, opening March 20.
Local reviews for Cowboyboy, Deathead, Fossil Arms, I’m Designer, Max Pain & The Groovies, MiNX, Mooninite, The No-Nation Orchestra, Robyn Cage, Storms, Velerie Rose Sterrett, Visigoth and more.
Local music reviews from Active Strand, Bronco, Burn Atlas, Faces In Mountains, The Goldeneyes, The Hung Ups, Mars, P. K. Workman, The Statuettes, Tavaputs, Typer James Lewis, Void Of Realms, X&G and YZE.
National album reviews for Apex Twin, Benjamin Finger, The Black Witch, Faded Ranger, The Foreign Resort, Future Sounds, The Gary, KMFDM, Leonard Cohen, Mecca Normal, Morbosaidad, Niel Young, Pompeii, Stockholm Monsters, Todd Tobias, Usnea, Wilco, Young Ejecta and more.
Zine reviews for Burning Salts, Dithering Doodles and Love Poems.
Book review for The Auteur, City: The Mind in the Machine, Ciudad, The Collector, The Complete Far Side, 33 1/3, I’m The Man, list, The Observable Characteristics of Organisms: Stories, Porndance, Robocop Vol 3, Ruth’s Journey, The Sixth Gun: Book 7, Tag: Deluxe Edition Hardcover, Talent: Deluxe Edition, This Changes Everything and Wildfire
After more than 25 years of playing with the Fly-Rite Boys, he’s more than earned the term legend. Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys are set to perform in Salt Lake City at The Garage on Beck on May 6.
A reflective moment with Frosty The Snowman. … read more
You can criticize the Mormons all you want. As far as organizations go, they are easy to hate, but you can’t argue with some of the great things they do for the community … and I’m not talking about free cheese. I’m talking about the Mormon-backed retail outlet that draws numerous consumers to its stores every day but Sunday. No, not City Creek. … read more
