POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Last City Weekly spoke with Jesse Logan, he appeared to be neck-deep in the rock & roll dream. As guitarist in Josh Todd’s post-Buckcherry band, he was headed to Tokyo to play two gigs with the Josh Todd Band at Japan’s Rock Odyssey festival...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - I first saw Magstatic six years ago at the Zephyr Club. It was SLUG magazine’s 12th anniversary party (give or take a year). They’re the only band I remember from that night. Before they played, I met singer-guitarist Terrance D.H. near the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - “Jesus Christ!” says Danny Even, “I lived there eight years!” Even spent six of those Salt Lake years as a member of notorious local rockers Thunderfist. Although the band was and still is one of the most recognizable and reliably...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Catching up with Gigi Love, it’s the new extreme sport. The object? Just to keep up with her. On the phone from San Francisco, our much-beloved local singer-songwriter rattles off a laundry list of her current events as if she’s chugged a...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Alot of local-music folks say a lot of nice things about Will Sartain. The 20-year-old singer-songwriter’s various projects, from indie-pop band Redd Tape (now called The Tremula) through his solo work are regarded as some of the most noteworthy...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Warning: There is an electric fence around promotional copies of Goldfinger’s latest Maverick Records release, Disconnection Notice. It’s not a veritable electrified enclosure, but a booby trap nonetheless. The discs come in a black-and-yellow...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Maybe it was the cumulative good vibes of umpteen birthday wishes, the auspicious gravitas of the number seven or the full moon—whatever the reason, anyone who saw the Silent 7Sevens play a collective B-day bash last Friday at Egos left feeling...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Aside from downtown Salt Lake City, there’s probably not a cooler part of town than Sugar House. At different times in the city’s history, you could go to Anzio’s novelty shop and buy fake dog poop, be sandblasted with death metal at...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Dan Weldon and Bad Brad Wheeler can pound some porch. They’re only two guys but when they play, as the Ogden-based duo did at Jan. 15’s Showdown to South by Southwest Finals, the earth moves. Tall, lanky Wheeler blows his harp like Gabriel’s...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Sick of hearing the same ol’ contrived ’hood stories from rappers? Local duo Ply & Reaper have two genuinely compelling tales that dovetail into one and fuel some of the best hip-hop in town. Ply (real name: Turaj Zaim) was born in the...