Bitchin' Brews

A Guide to Craft Breweries in Utah

POSTED // Aug 24,2011 - Squatters and Wasatch won the 2010 Great American Beer Festival Mid–Size Brewing Company of the Year and Mid–Size Brewing Company Brewer of the Year awards together as the Utah Brewers Cooperative.

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.