POSTED // Feb 19,2009 - Passage, aka David Bryant, is at a physical, creative and personal crossroads. Waiting for a light rail car, he wonders how he might save his relationship, forge a real career, become financially comfortable, and find happiness all the while making music on his own and with his band, Restiform Bodies.

POSTED // Feb 9,2009 - Thats why, when Fugit comes up to the office for a stroll through his wellstocked iPhone, the stories about how Jason Schwartzman or Macaulay Culkin or Jena Malone or Cameron Crowe hipped him to whatever song shuffled up are mildly...

POSTED // Feb 9,2009 - Evil Pat Pardy and Tom Beaufoythe Brit DJ-duo/band Evil Ninehave just boarded a flight from Toronto to New York City. Pardy, breathless from a pell-mell run toward the plane and up the boarding stairs, tells a tale we thought wed never have to report in these pages.

POSTED // Feb 4,2009 - Nine years and nine films after Almost Famous, Patrick Fugit still enjoys some anonymity. Even here in Salt Lake City, where he continues to make his home, he can get around without too much movie-star fuss—or industry rigmarole, which is why he never moved to Los Angeles in the first place. Here, at least most of the time, he can blend in. Not even my neighbors, who’ve seen Almost Fam...

POSTED // Feb 4,2009 - Evil Pat Pardy and Tom Beaufoy—the Brit DJ-duo/band Evil Nine—have just boarded a flight from Toronto to New York City. Pardy, breathless from a pell-mell run toward the plane and up the boarding stairs, tells a tale we thought we’d never have to report in these pages. “I saw a man eat his own son,” he says. “It wasn’t in that erratic, primal way you norma...

POSTED // Jan 21,2009 - Every Red Iguana patron has seen the jaunty cholo script on the restaurant’s Wall of Fame that reads “Los Lobos.” Maybe you’re one such diner, and a fan of the band? If so, you might have zoned out over your food and imagined the band members, themselves high on the Iguana’s killer mole dishes (¡y cervezas, órale!), whipping out Sharpies and making their ...

POSTED // Dec 31,2008 - The late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson had—has—quite a reputation, because he made such an impression with his work that others fold him into their own. Most have seen Johnny Depp’s portrayal of Thompson’s (slightly exaggerated) alter-ego, Raoul Duke, in Alex Cox’s film adaptation of Thompson’s most famous book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Perhaps you’ve caug...

POSTED // Dec 24,2008 - Christmas on Mars, the long-awaited, much-speculated about film by fabulous Okie freak brothers The Flaming Lips is everything we hoped for and more, totally worth the wait—virtually orgasmic. But there’s a catch: To get into it, you must be a fan of the Lips’ far-out sounds or at least attuned to the world of cult cinema. nWhat’s that, chorus of geeks? The Lips and cult fl...

POSTED // Dec 10,2008 - As the story goes, Salt Lake City’s Top Dead Celebrity needed a merch guy, and frontguy Jeff Anderson asked local music gadabout Jeremy Cardenas if he’d like the job. Cardenas said OK, and the band went on the road, where the following events took place: Cardenas stepped in a pile of human waste large enough to suck off his shoe. He was also ripped off by an unsightly stripper. Then TD...

POSTED // Nov 26,2008 - Who knew Stephen Pearcy was multifaceted? Years ago, when the singer’s band Ratt infested MTV with its banging singles “Way Cool Jr.” and “I Want a Woman,” I spent a few hours with the metalhead who made Beavis and Butt-head look erudite. At the time, Pearcy had allowed his soggy perm to relax and dry out. But like most men who fronted 1980s commercial metal bands, Pe...