Valentine & The Regard = The Cure + The Smiths + DIIV … read more
Local Review: Valentine & The Regard – Misery Can Be Your Best Friend
Local Review: VCR5 – NARC
VCR5 = Laurel Halo + Darren Keen … read more
Local Review: Various Artists – Critical Beatdown Vol. 1
Critical Beatdown = Octo Octa + Demdike Stare + Flume … read more
Local Review: Visigoth – Conqueror’s Oath
Visigoth = Manilla Road + Iron Maiden + Atlantean Kodex … read more
Local Review: Various Artists – Utah Underground Compilation
Utah Underground Compilation = bands from Utah’s hardcore, metal & punk scenes … read more
Local Review: Vomit – Self-titled
Vomit Self-titled Vomit = Pantera + Eyehategod + Napalm Death I hate Pantera. Ogden’s Vomit are repeatedly compared to Pantera—but Vomit BLOW them AWAY no contest!!! The music is very crunchy and heavy, and tuned down much lower so they’re more on par with Napalm Death or Eyehategod. This band is also fucking brutal
Local Review: Victrola – 5-Song demo
Victrola 5-Song demo Victrola = Mission of Burma + Pinback SLUG got 5-Song Demo by Victrola for a Sabbathon demo in June but it’s so hot I took the liberty of reviewing it anyway. Down-home original indie rock like Dinosaur Jr. blends with a pinch of modern indie-rock jangle like Trail of the Dead, Pinback,
Local Review: Various Artists – Sound vs. Silence Vol. 1
Various Artists Sound vs. Silence Vol. 1 S vs. S = Her Candane + Still Breaking Hearts + Goodbye Blue Monday + Joel Pack + Clarity Process + Still Life Projector + The Hifi Massacre + Danny Vesper Even if Sound vs. Silence doesn’t showcase the best bands in SLC, they have no lack of talent
Local Review: Various Artists – If You Do Clean People’s Ears Out Vol. 3
Various Artists If You Do Clean People’s Ears Out Vol. 3 Eden’s Watchtower Records Eden’s has trimmed down its trad comp from two songs per artist to one, which means less Eden’s music, but makes it more accessible. DulceSky’s midnight-lush, 80s shoegazer “Media-Luna” opens up Vol. 3, followed by The Child Who Was a
Local Review: Violet Run – Trouver la Mort
Violet Run Trouver la Mort Violet Run = The Cure + The Shroud + Love Spirals Downward Violet Run skirts the fine line between sorrowful sincerity and fancy-pants whininess dangerously, but for the most part, are able to stick to the realm of the earnest. They’re a bit over the top, but it’s hard
Local Review: Vile Blue Shades – Dark Wizard
Vile Blue Shades, who had a CD release at SLUG HQ during April Gallery Stroll, are in anti-heaven where The Swans float around with The Fall, Godspeed You! … read more
Local Review: Vividend – Thirsty City
Vividend Thirsty City raincLOUD Records Streets: OUT Vividend = Sage Frances + Sole Jesus-tap-dancing-Christ! I want to be a hip-hop superstar. If only to be recognized under a pretentious barely literate, semi-biblical alias. I here by now proclaim myself Milengidnus Dikotemyor Mortakye. Get it right oh ye bitches. Vividend reminds me of my Grandpa learning
