Utah Beer Festival 2011

CW fest shines light on craft brewers

POSTED // Aug 24,2011 - “Utah Beer Festival” just sounds fake. Fantastic, even. Paradoxical, too, because Utah is the last place one expects to find an event celebrating alcoholic beverages.

Utah Brewing Timeline

POSTED // Aug 24,2011 - Utah has a rich, 161-year history of brewing beer since 1850.

The 3.2 Myth

Just because it's 3.2 beer doesn't mean it's lightweight

POSTED // Aug 24,2011 - Locals and tourists carp about Utah wuss beer all the time, but we don’t really know the score.

Death Cab for Cutie

The concepts behind Codes & Keys

POSTED // Aug 18,2011 - In 2008, Death Cab filmed a dozen MTV spots and one music video where they played the hottest sport on the planet: WhirlyBall.

Black Veil Brides

The kids might be all right

POSTED // Aug 4,2011 - “My ribs are slowly healing,” says Andy Biersack aka Andy Six, frontguy of Black Veil Brides. It sounds like lame emo lyrics, but it’s actually the upshot of an arena-worthy stunt.

Meat Puppets

Genre-defying sound across 3 decades

POSTED // Jun 23,2011 - The Meat Puppets are doing some last-minute shopping, knocking the piss out of drum kits in Austin, before decamping on tour.

New York Dolls

Glam pioneers have a UT soft spot

POSTED // Jun 16,2011 - It’s touching that Sylvain wants to talk about his friend before plugging the new Dolls album or the band’s upcoming Utah appearance.

Zoroaster

Thus Spake Zoroaster: Once Atlanta’s loudest band, Zoroaster is now nasty, awesome and nuanced.

POSTED // Mar 3,2011 - In an interview with a different paper from another time, Zoroaster singer/guitarist Will Fiore described the Atlanta band’s music as sounding “nasty and awesome.”

SLC Strip Clubs

Two Live Boobs: Utah’s strip clubs are 99.8 percent on the top shelf.

Steve-O of Jackass

Friday Jan. 14-Saturday Jan. 15 @ Wiseguys West Valley City

POSTED // Jan 13,2011 - Steve-O. Jackass. ’Nuff said? Nope. When the notorious fecal frolicker, self-piercer and animal hassler rolls into Wiseguys this weekend...