POSTED // Jun 4,2008 - Ben Johnson Make it Bloom If Let’s Become Actors keeps spawning impressive solo releases, someone may have to start slapping them with antimonopoly suits. While Michael Gross’ Tales From a Country Home explored darker material, LBA bassist/guitarist/jack-of-all-trades...

POSTED // May 21,2008 - Local guitar god Gentry Densley has been a staple of the Salt Lake City indie/hardcore scene for nearly 20 years and has never ceased to amaze. Playing guitar for the likes of the legendary Iceburn, Form of Rocket and, more recently, Eagle Twin, he continues...

POSTED // Apr 30,2008 - Death By Salt Vol. 3 SLUG Magazine’s DBS compilations usually offer an authoritative glimpse of how diverse, eccentric and wonderful our local music scene is. After including 59 and 42 bands on Volumes 1 & 2, respectively, the monthly pub...

POSTED // Apr 16,2008 - Goggle Tan Bikini Lines Farmer Tan Sunburn Rope or Bullets Undisputed Rope or Bullets’ two-song, debut EP has more frantic energy than most full lengths ever fully realize. The title track rushes the album out of the gates by layering...

POSTED // Apr 9,2008 - Man Man Rabbit Habits Rabbit Habits could be the most annoying album you’ll hear all year. Or the most delightfully unique—it really depends on your stance regarding “Viking-vaudeville, manic Gypsy jazz” music. It wouldn’t...

POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom Just when you thought that the current reincarnation of dance-punk was going the way of the buffalo (or ska), along comes the New Young Pony Club to simultaneously save the genre and prove that it’s no boys’...

POSTED // Aug 15,2007 - Atherton Skyline Motel Skyline Motel is an apt title for such a sparse, dreamy, smooth and distinctly Western album. These spare songs of love and roaming clearly originated in the desert, not east of the Mississippi in the green avenues of Nashville...

POSTED // Aug 8,2007 - White Denim, Let’s Talk About It (Self-Released) One of the best bands to appear at this year’s South By Southwest music festival, White Denim proved you don’t need a badge to rock. The Austin, Texas-based drums-bass-guitar trio blew...

POSTED // Jun 22,2007 - ManicProject, Square One ***.5 ttLet’s get this out of the way: Phil Istomin does not use GarageBand, ProTools or any other software application to write, record, mix and engineer his music. The Moscow-born, Bountiful-based industrial artist created...

POSTED // Jun 18,2007 - X27 Antilove *** ttX27’s music is dirty in a way that only doing a line with a rolled-up Seventeen magazine page could possibly match. Part dance-rock, part noise, but mostly garage-punk, this Chicago threesome churns it out thick, whatever it is....