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slugmag.com 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 25 • Issue #312 • December 2014 • slugmag.com

Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Marketing Coordinator: CONTRIBUTOR LIMELIGHT: Editor: Angela . Brown Robin Sessions Managing Editor: Alexander Ortega Marketing Team: Alex Topolewski, Carl Acheson, Courtney Blair Junior Editor: Christian Schultz Cassandra Loveless, Cassie Anderson, Claudia Cover Artist Office Coordinator:Gavin Sheehan Trochez, Ischa ., Janie Greenberg, Jono Martinez, Digital Content Coordinator: Henry Glasheen Kendal Gillett, Lindsay Clark, Rachel Roller, Raffi Fact Checker: Henry Glasheen Shahinian, Robin Sessions, Zac Freeman Copy Editing Team: Alex Cragun, Alexander Social Media Coordinator: Catie Weimer Ortega, Allison Shephard, Christian Schultz, Cody Distribution Manager: Eric Granato Kirkland, Henry Glasheen, John Ford, Jordan Distro: Andrea Silva, Daniel Alexander, Eric Deveraux, Julia Sachs, Laikwan Waigwa-Stone, Granato, John Ford, Jordan Deveraux, Julia Sachs, Maria Valenzuela, Mary . 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Bradford Gambles, Lenny Riccardi, Scott Farley, Sean Zimmerman-Wall, Shawn Mayer, Up from The Slits and Oliver Ackerman of A Maggie Zukowski, Manuel Aguilar, Natalie Edwards, Stakerized!, Thomas Winkley Place To Bury Strangers, and has concentrated Paul Frame, Phil Cannon, Robin Banks, Ryan Perkins, Monkeys with Computers: Adam Fratto, Alex on her work in design recently—some of which can Sean Hennefer, Steve Thueson, Timm Paxton Coulombe, Alex Cragun, Alex Gilvarry, Allison be seen at her site, courtney-blair.com. Blair has Photographers: Andy Wright, Ben Melini, Chad Shephard, Amanda Rock, Andrea Silva, Ashley designed festival posters, ads, banners and bags for Kirkland, Chris Gariety, Gilbert Cisneros, Gilbert Lippert, Ben Tilton, Blake Leszczynski, Carl Acheson, SLUG’ sister organization, Craft Lake City, in 2013 Garcia, Jake Vivori, John Barkiple, Johnny Cowan, CJ Morgan, Dan Vesper, Darcy Russell, Dylan Evans, and 2014 for the ’14 and ’15 DIY Festival, along with Logan Sorenson, Martín Rivero, Matt Brunk, Matthew Eric Norris, Gregory Gerulat, Jamie Stott, Julia the 2014 program. She’s also a voracious - Windsor, Megan Kennedy, Melissa Cohn, Michael Sachs, Kamryn Feigel, Kathy Zhou, Kendal Gillett, goer and enjoys the newest local restaurants. We’re Portanda, Mikey Baratta, Robin Sessions, Russel LeAundra Jeffs, Lizz Corrigan, Mame Wallace, lucky to work with such a talent in the community as Daniels, Scott Frederick, Talyn Sherer, Weston Colton Matt Brunk, Michael Sanchez, Mike Riedel, Nancy Videographers: Andrew Schummer, Brock Grossl, Perkins, Nate Abbott, Nate Housley, Nic Smith, Nick Courtney Blair! Candida Duran, Lexie Floor, Mitchell Richmond, Kuzmack, Nicole Stephenson, Randy Dankievitch, ABOUT THE COVER: SLUG lists our staff’s Top 5 Perry Layne Decker-Tate, Ryan Dearth, Slugger Rebecca Frost, Rheanna Sonnichsen, Samuel Hanson, each December, and designer/SLUG alum Community Development Executives/ Sara Bezdjian, Seeth McGavien, Some Cop Dude, Courtney Blair was the artist to bring our excitement Advertising Sales: Steve Goemaat, Steve Richardson, Taylor Hoffman, for this list to life on the cover. 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4 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 5 LOCALIZED Photo: Russel Daniels

(–) Devon Wooley (trombone, trumpet, keyboards), Bryan Hull (vocals, keyboards, ), Alex By Allison Shephard Gilvarry (bass, keyboards), Rob LeCheminant (vocals, banjo, guitar), Richard Gailey (drums) and [email protected] Morgan Broadway (violin, keyboards, vocals) play SLUG Localized on Dec. 12 as L’anarchiste. This month’s Localized features a super-sweet holiday treat! Showcasing an uncommon four-band lineup, we’ be kicking the night off with the twangy post- each other. This, combined with the fact that there simply aren’t enough band rock of The Awful Truth, then progressing to the ethereal world of Loud members or stage space to recreate the music, has presented some interesting Harp. After a short break, we’ll hear the quietly contemplative stylings of Book challenges for the group. Bassist Alex Gilvarry has taken it upon himself to on Tape Worm and finish out the evening with the pastoral musical experimen- handle the spatial and logistical restraints placed upon the group’s sound by tation of L’anarchiste. This melding of enchantingly delightful tunes will take place creatively reconfiguring songs to make them work in a live setting. “Our old on Dec. 12 at Urban Lounge at 8 p.., and is sponsored by Uinta Brewing song ‘Iron,’ that we still play a lot,” Gilvarry brings up as an example, “on the Co., KRCL 90.9 FM and Spilt Ink SLC. So, if you’re 21 or over, fish out your recording, it’s only vocals, which we can’t do live, so we had to expand what best $5 bills from the dryer and let’s make it a date. the song was to fit a live sound,” he says. Although this may seem daunting to some, the overall impression seems to be that they enjoy the challenge, and feel It isn’t very often that one who lives in a smaller city such as Salt Lake gets to that their live sessions can sometimes be better than the studio recordings. experience a band of this magnitude. L’anarchiste, led by Rob LeCheminant, aim to push music to its logical limit by offering their listeners a of every- Part of what makes L’anarchiste so intriguing—aside from their ultra-dreamy, thing, while never making the audience uncomfortable. Drawing comparisons to cinematic aesthetic—is the fact that the group’s instruments are constantly in rota- Sufjan Stevens, and Andrew Bird, these guys are intent on mixing tion, making continually learn and experience new ways of making electronic experimentation and vast instrumental variety with a mellow, indie vibe music. “A slight focus of the band is to really help the players be versatile, be- that everyone can appreciate. cause the parts aren’t always easy, and I use a lot of weird rhythms, and I don’t shy away from it because I figure these musicians will eventually learn their parts L’anarchiste had a humble beginning in vocalist/instrumentalist LeCheminant’s and it will only make them stronger as a musician,” says LeCheminant. Gilvarry basement. The concept of the group is merely to create music that is both engag- says, “Usually, when I pick up a new instrument, it inspires a new song, and I try ing and intriguing, without conforming to a specific sound for a specific audience, to do that as often as possible…Which is why we rotate instruments so much.” which their name—French for “The Anarchist”—suggests. “It was a way for me to base a project around the idea that I didn’t have to be genre-specific or any par- This dedication to musical diversity is aided by LeCheminant’s expressive lyr- ticular style,” LeCheminant says. “I was basically doing whatever right at the ics and musical composition. “A lot of times, it starts with a new instrument. I moment, so our sound is pretty varied.” Although they strive for a diverse sound, always save every single musical idea I have in my phone. I’ll listen to those LeCheminant makes a point to demonstrate the idea that “each song is pretty and build an idea in my mind of what it could be. It’s always music before lyr- distinct from the next,” he says, “but they still have a cohesiveness to them.” ics—in almost every instance,” he says. After the musical idea is created, then LeCheminant focuses on the lyrical content, making sure that it is personal, yet Beginning as LeCheminant’s vision of self-exploration and non-conformity, accessible. “I try to give something that people can latch onto but is still impor- L’anarchiste has moved out of the basement and into the spotlight. The process tant to me,” he says. “A lot of these songs are emotionally based for me, and hasn’t been smooth or easy—“I just started writing whatever came to me. I didn’t they have specific meanings to me, but I try to give something that they can also really hold back,” he says. “I mean, I did a little bit in some areas, but I was hold onto also, because what’s the good in writing music like this if other people getting used to the process of not holding back,” says LeCheminant. Critical self- can’t latch onto it as well?” realization and a need to connect emotionally with their audience led L’anarchiste to the point at which they felt it was crucial to take their multi-layered, instrumental Latch onto L’anarchiste’s curious ambiance on Dec. 12. Be sure to check out textures and heartfelt lyrics from the studio to the stage. their Bandcamp at lanarchiste.bandcamp.com and look out for a new in 2015. This transition has been a pleasant struggle for the band, due in part to the immense amount of instruments and unconventional sounds layered on top of

6 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 7 Catherine Papworth (piano, vocals), Scott Shephard (guitar, vocals), Ciera Black () and Gavin Ryan (percus- sion) play orchestral indie folk in the Provo-based group Book on Tape Worm. Photo: Russel Daniels

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addition to their clever name, Provo darlings Book on Tape Worm offer cord: You feel like either they’re singing what you’re thinking or singing something us a delightfully nostalgic journey fraught with intimate connections, vivid you felt but couldn’t say. So I think that’s how I approach things.” instrumentation and poetic lyrics. Combining sentimentally delicate lyrics Iwith fragile melodies and robust cello solos, the group provides its “I think I get a lot of influence from books and stories,” says Shepard. “I’m listeners with a subdued, unpretentious take on what I like to call “nighttime always trying to find a melody that’s suitable to the lyrics. That’s something I’m indie.” You know, the kind of indie composed of mellow, ethereal really big on, making sure the melody and the lyrics are compatible.” Shepard that you could fall asleep to, if only the lyrics would stop making you yearn finds inspiration in ordinary, everyday experiences, a feat that only complements for years past. The term “intimate” can embody everything they strive to do their dense, yet unobtrusively beautiful orchestration. “I like [that] the microcosm in music—they are interested in forging human connections, not only through is one thing making a bigger message. I think the day-to-day stuff is the most music, but through performances, lyrics and a genuine desire to open up a sort interesting because they happen the most,” he says. Musically, the group finds of emotional osmosis. They want to understand those who understand them. its inspiration in its unified approach in unconsciously creating music that flows through vastly different musical backgrounds. In their more recent work, one may “This kind of started as an accident,” vocalist/guitarist Scott Shepard says. hear hints of jazz, and minimalism paired with percussive experimentation “I used to play in a lot of rock bands. Then I started writing a bunch of sad sprinkled throughout. songs and didn’t really plan on playing them for anybody.” The group gained attention from local music venue Velour, and aquired cellist Ciera Black after There is an overwhelming amount of love and support in this group. Each an open-mic night. These beginnings quickly snowballed with the addition member is intent on complimenting one another, and as a group they aim to of percussive master Gavin Ryan and most recent addition Catherine meet each and every person interested in what they do. Their formula is simple: Papworth on piano and vocals. Black says, “I think that it was cool that Scott “Our goal is to keep things intimate and pretty, and to connect with our audi- knew what elements he would ideally like to have in a group when these songs ence,” says Shepard. “There are a lot bands that hide backstage, and maintain were brand new. It’s cool to see those ideas come to fruition.” this mystique. To me, it’s not worth it to try and put on a face. So I think that even though there’s narrative in our songs, there’s a lot of me in everything. It’s The group unanimously agrees that they strive to make their music and their not about mystique—it’s about connection and being a part of people’s lives,” live shows as close and intimate as possible. “There’s a really emotional qual- he says. ity to the music,” says Papworth. “Scott has a really great way of connecting with the audience. So I just think that no matter what the size of the room As far as plans go, Book on Tape Worm have ambitious goals in mind is, there’s this dynamic nature of the band. It’s able to pull you in and make for 2015. They’re planning to release an EP in the earlier part of the year and you feel like he’s singing to you.” This desire for intimacy doesn’t just extend a full-length later in the year. Expect a more cohesive sound, as they are being to their audience—it is something that the group actively strives for among incredibly selective about what makes the cut. “With the last record, it was ‘Here themselves. “Whenever we play live, I always feel like I’m playing in the living are these songs. We have them—let’s record them: They’re a record,” and this room of a friend,” says Black. “Even if it’s a crowd full of people I don’t know, time, we have the luxury of having quite a few options to choose from,” says it always feels intimate, and I like that a lot.” Shepard. All this mixed in with a Southwestern tour—these Provo babies have quite a year ahead of them, so see them while you can! While the group makes familiarity a priority, they don’t settle for anything with a generic feel. “[Our music is] universal, not in the sense of a generic appeal, Be sure to make an intimate connection with Book on Tape Worm on Dec. because I do sing about pretty specific things, but I try to write something that 12 and by checking out their album All the World’s a Stage and their Band- makes me feel something, and hopefully, it will help someone else feel something camp: bookontapeworm.bandcamp.com from that,” says Shepard. “I think one of the things I love about music most is when you really connect with someone at a show or even listening to their re- 8 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 9 10 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 11 Luna Blanca 3158 E. 6200 S. T. 801.944.5862 Taqueria Mon. – Sat. 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. Satisfying the Winter Taco Craving lunablancataco.com By Alex Springer • [email protected]

here’s one thing that you need to remember before For those looking for something to dig a flavors that were partying on the plate, it making the trek up the Cottonwood Canyons for a day knife and fork into, Luna Blanca’s burritos was immensely satisfying. T of skiing or snowboarding: Once you hit the slopes, no are excellent—and huge. They offer a one will bring you tacos. If this thought threatens to cheapen wide variety of fillings, including shrimp, If there’s room for something sweet after your skiing experience, just remember that Luna Blanca Taqueria braised pork and vegetables. Regardless the meal, the Churro Bites ($6) are a is open for business this winter. Seated right at the mouth of Big of the order, however, it is imperative that worthy choice. They come packaged in Cottonwood Canyon, skiers can stop in for some tasty riffs on you get that sucker smothered for an extra a brown paper bag, which the waiter traditional Mexican street tacos on their way up the canyon—or buck-50. A smothered burrito comes with shakes up and pours out into a large on their way back, if the taco craving happens to strike when Mexican cheeses and the option of red or bowl. The most unexpectedly delicious you’re halfway into a run down the mountain. green sauce, which can be a difficult aspects of this dessert were the lemon choice. The red is spicier, bringing the cream dipping sauce. Not only are they If Luna Blanca’s charming, Tex-Mex ambiance and accommodating smoky flavor of chipotle to the forefront— crispy and sugary on the outside, but service don’t lure you in to see what’s cooking, perhaps their ever- the green is all about the fresh, roasted the dough on the inside is warm and changing lineup of street tacos will. Not that their trusty taco stalwarts flavor of its blend of peppers. Luckily, pillowy—the whole thing melts in your can’t hold their own—with locally sourced meat and veggies, each Luna Blanca offers the option for diners mouth. one is a tasty little composition of fresh flavors. That being said, it’s to get half and half—which I highly hard to resist the urge to check their website on a daily basis to see recommend. My burrito of choice was During this year’s ski season, don’t what their Taco Del Dia is going to be. I decided to take the plunge the Braised Local Pork Burrito ($9). Along overlook the need for braised pork and with the daily special, an order of Tamarind Beef Tacos, which with a choice of black or pinto beans, fresh salsa as an important part of Utah’s comes with rice and beans ($9.99). As their menu allows diners to rice, lettuce, tomato and sour cream, the favorite pastime. Many a brave skier mix and match tacos within a single order, I decided to switch one chefs don’t skimp out on the meat. The or snowboarder has had a potentially with the Fish Taco, which is prepared differently, depending on what beautiful treatment of the pork made the perfect run down the mountain interrupted fish is currently on the market. Of the two, the Tamarind Beef was my natural sweetness of the meat stand out with the sudden realization that it’s been favorite—the slowly braised beef spiked with the distinctive sweet and, when it merged with all of the other far too long since they’ve had a taco. and sour of tamarind painted a vibrant culinary picture. The fish of the day during this visit was Hawaiian Ono, which came served as a taco-sized filet with a cabbage slaw. Ono’s not a very fatty fish, so it dries out quickly if it’s overcooked—which is what happened here. The slaw was a tasty complement, but the Ono filet lacked the flavor that I was expecting. A Luna Blanca staple is the Quinoa Taco Bowl, Though Luna Blanca is a taqueria, can always find a tasty vegetarian option! something satisfying within their roster of tacos, I would suggest wandering into the other areas of their menu. They’ve got an impressive variety of tequila, and they’ve always got a few daily cocktails to complement a meal. If you’re looking for an appetizer, the Roasted Mushroom Quesadilla ($8) is a great place to start. It’s a gooey, earthy dream for cheese-lovers and vegetarians. In addition to their blend of Mexican cheeses, the crispy tortilla is stuffed with roasted mushrooms and quinoa, which give this

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In addition to the quesadilla, Luna Blanca offers several options for : o the vegetarian taco fan. Their Taco Bowls ($8) start off with all of t o the veggies, rice and beans that are found in their tacos, and can h P be topped with a generous helping of quinoa for two bucks more. The hearty quinoa mixed with their fresh vegetables makes a filling option for those seeking a meatless meal. Luna Blanca’s Chopped Salad ($9) is another great vegetarian dish, as it throws grilled corn, tomatoes and cucumbers into the mix. The Taco Bowl and the Chopped Salad emphasized the freshness of their ingredients, but both of them could use just a little bit more seasoning—maybe a shot of citrus to bring the flavors together. 12 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 13 Headwear to Shredwear Discrete Clothing Wants your body By Tyson Call • [email protected] Photo: Matthew Windsor

From the slopes to the lodge, Julian Carr has got you covered this winter season with Discrete Clothing’s new outerwear line.

Julian Carr is not your traditional business owner. experiences. Glossy prints of action-sports photos If seen on the ski hill, at first, it might look like he got were laid out, waiting to be hung. Various ball caps there by thumbing it up the canyon and copping a day in Discrete’s new line of headwear—their raison d’etre— pass from a who drives a Sno-cat. He covers his were prominently displayed, both on the shelves and worn longish hair with a classic knit beanie, like the shark expert in by employees diligently working on large-screen iMacs. After Jaws, and wears a button-down flannel shirt like the other guys in only a few minutes, it was apparent that Carr will likely never be the ski lodge eating ramen that they brought from home. After a few seen carrying a mug bearing the words “World’s Greatest Boss” and moments, however, it becomes apparent that something is different. His likely doesn’t hound his employees about TPS reports. shirt is crisp and new-looking. The colors are a little divergent—the pattern more unique. The reason for this is that he designed his hat and shirt himself. Despite the stellar view of Salt Lake City, Carr humbly recounts the success Discrete has had and where he would like to see it go in the future. “Really, what Carr’s beanie-covered head, and the mind inside it, are responsible for Discrete we are aiming towards is for all the people who spend their time in really technical Clothing—formerly Discrete Headwear. SLUG had the chance to meet with him in his wear—we want Discrete to be the first thing they grab for their clothing,” he headquarters looking over Exchange Place in Salt Lake City to get the lowdown on says. “None of our stuff is that technical. It isn’t meant to be out battling the weather the new stuff. After a few years designing and making a variety of outdoor-oriented all day long—we want people to be rocking it for their base layers for when they hats, they are branching out into clothing. Don’t be mistaken: They aren’t simply go into the lodge to grab some beer and do some après. When they’re done, they screen-printing their logo onto T-shirts and calling it good. Their designs are dreamt are gonna look rad and be comfortable.” Carr wants Discrete to grow, of course, up by Carr and made a reality just for Discrete. Not content to join the legions of out- though not only for the obvious reasons. He says that he wants to be in greater con- door companies making brightly colored, waterproof whatever, their designs range trol of ensuring all their clothing is ethically sourced and made, and being a bigger from a sweater in the classic old-school jailhouse stripes to a puffy, quilted-denim company allows for more pull in that regard. He would also like Discrete to offer a jacket with a lining reminiscent of a Navajo . greater variety of clothing for their customers.

Discrete was officially started 10 years ago. “When I first started skiing profession- Flipping through their product catalog, it is clear that they are still making plenty of ally, some of my were getting a little older, and the whole industry was just headwear, though their current offering of clothing items is impressive. The line is dropping,” Carr says. “I was shocked because the Tony Hawks of our world were comprised of a variety of fabrics, styles and looks. Carr pointed out one particularly just getting brushed to the side. I couldn’t believe it. So I was like, ‘Note to self: Have clever design—a base-layer long-sleeve shirt, which features a cuff that starts mid something going on besides skiing.’” His first product was a simple beanie, and the forearm. The reason for this is Carr noticed after two or three layers, it gets a little only way to get one was to personally know him and be given one. This became uncomfortable to have many sleeves bunching up around the wrist, so he elongated an unintentionally brilliant marketing strategy. People started asking him where they the cuff. Again, quite different from a headwear company screen-printing some could get the product. After years of kicking around the idea, he did a trade show T-shirts. and finally started selling the headwear. “A couple weeks later, I was at Snowbird, and I see this dude walking to the tram with a Discrete beanie on. It was the coolest Is Discrete a ski brand? A winter sports brand? Many companies try to align them- affirmation that I was creating something bigger than myself,” he says. selves within a certain market to establish their roots firmly within a niche. When asked, Carr gave a simple explanation: “We respect high-level athletes,” he says. Things have come a long way since those humble times. In Carr’s office, high in “We don’t care what’s on your feet.” a tower just off State Street, glass and exposed brick complement each other in a space that Discrete shares with WELD—a marketing agency that focuses on digital Check out Discrete’s new clothing line at discreteclothing.com.

14 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 15 30 Years of Ripping An Interview with Benjamin “Benny” Pellegrino By Steve Goemaat • [email protected]

There is something sacred that lies within a local skate a sponsored skater and he skated, too, but didn’t know under John Lucero. We skated a warehouse that and snowboard shop. Benjamin Pellegrino is the co- much about it, so he asked if I could help get things go- you had to pretty much pass a test to be able to ride owner of Milosport, one of the best and longest-stand- ing. The shop was originally on 2000 East and 3300 in. I met Corey and Gavin O’ Brian there and got ing shops in Utah. Started by Dimitrije Milovich South and started as a windsurfing shop. The shop hooked up—that’s when Lucero asked me to ride for (founder of Winterstick and namesake of Milo) and carried skis, mountain bikes and sailboats and even Black Label. That was around 1987, and he flowed Duane Bush in 1984, Milosport has been serving catamarans at one time, so that’s where Milo “sport” me decks up until ’94 when I said I wasn’t moving the local skate and snowboard community along the comes from. Calvin Egbert took over the SLC shop back to . Wasatch Front for 30 years. With shops that have in 1995, and Todd Mitchell and myself purchased come and gone in Utah, Milo currently serves locations the Orem shop 1999. That’s when we found our niche SLUG: What was the skate scene like when you first in Orem (started in 1997) and Lafayette, Calif. (started and became totally invested in the skateboard and tried to push it? in 2000), along with the SLC shop. Having been in- snowboard industries. We had a ramp in the parking Pellegrino: It was backyard ramps and street skat- volved since 1994 as a knowledgeable participant in lot, which helped let people know we were into skate- ing. One of the original crews of kids was called The the up-and-coming skateboard scene, Benny found a boarding. Since then, I’ve done everything from being Dirty Hessians, and they were a big part of creating permanent home in Salt Lake at Milosport. SLUG sat an employee at the shop to now a co-owner, buyer, the scene around here. Guys like Mark White, Tom down, fittingly enough, on a waxed curb, to get the bookkeeper, seller and pretty much any other thing I Blosch, Shane Justus—they did the most pushing scoop on Benny, Milo and the history behind it all. can help out with. it. We held contests in [Milo’s] Salt Lake parking lot, when it was still good to skate on, with quarter pipes

SLUG: How did you first get involved in Milosport? SLUG: Whom were you hooked up with as a spon- and pyramids on wheels that we would push out. This Photo : Jake Vivori Pellegrino: I was living underneath George John- sored skater? was all before the skatepark era, so it was all pretty ston [current owner of Milosport in Lafayette, Calif.] up Pellegrino: I was with Black Label, Thunder and new and not mainstream. Now, with the parks and Benjamin “Benny” Pellegrino, co-owner of Milosport Orem since 1999, stands in front of Milosport’s at Snowbird, and I had just quit my job. He knew I was Spitfire. I was one of the original Black Label riders backyard ramps popping up again, skateboarding is flagship store on 3300 South in Salt Lake City with Chica Jones. as strong as ever. I’m stoked to see the older guys and the college kids longboarding, too. I’m just glad that people aren’t fucking rollerblading! Eventually, there is around the nation, supporting their yes to snowboarding, and it was the next generation of kids supporting skating and going to come a time when these people, as business local scene. Without these shops, the ’96-’97 season when they first snowboarding. owners or parents, are going to vote for putting a new there are no sponsorships and no allowed it. The scene was low-key skate park in or say yes to something skateboard-relat- teams. Companies like Backcoun- before that, with Wolf Mountain SLUG: If you were not a shop owner, what would you ed because they do it, too. I’m sick of people talking try.com do not support any local and Park West [previous incarna- be doing? shit ’cause, honestly, it’s rolling on four wheels, and that event, sponsor one athlete or put tions of Canyons Resort]. Utah was Pellegrino: Probably something similar within the in- is the essence of skateboarding. any money back into snowboard- known for just powder riding. There dustry. I would maybe be working in the mountains or ing. They do not do shit! They need were no terrain parks or half pipes doing more rep-type of stuff for a company. I’ve been SLUG: Milosport is currently rocking one of the heavi- to give back and that’s important. or anything. With the advent of ur- skating since I was 11 and snowboarding since I was est shop snowboard teams in the industry. How do the ban riding coming from The Farm- 16. At this point, I don’t know any different. shop and the products within the shop reflect your rid- SLUG: What is the hardest part about ington Crew, which was Brandon ers, and what influence do they have on the shop? keeping a local shop more relevant than the Bybee, Mitch Nelson, Jeremy Jones, JP SLUG: Whom would you like to thank? Pellegrino: They influence the shop hugely. Those online or more commercialized shops? Walker and Jason Murphy, those guys put jibbing Pellegrino: Duane Bush for starting Milosport, Todd guys are always super vocal about what they do and Pellegrino: The stores and the shops that don’t give on the map here. They not only showed people that Mitchell, Calvin Egbert, Josh Roberts and every gen- don’t like. We will always try to support the brands our back to the sport and the community is what hurts us you could do that here but opened people’s eyes in eration of the people I talked about, the new shop rats; riders are hyped on or companies that they get in with. the most. Online sales don’t necessarily hurt us because the sense that, “Hey, I have that in my backyard. I can Dennis Nazari and Tom Lee, who started Blindside, Stepchild was a company on our radar. We picked we do it, too, but you can’t just take and take. You need do that, too.” I think the snowboard world changed who has passed the torch to Todd Leaver; and all the them up when JP Walker started riding for them and, to give back, and that’s it. We try to be involved with with a lot with those guys. Before 2002, there was small, independent shops that still do it. subsequently, Brandon Hobush started riding for everything. For us, the most important thing is participa- not a lot of corporate sponsorship in snowboarding them. The team set the roots for the shop. Guys like tion and community. or a lot of big grand prix events or anything. Park Supporting the shops that support the sports you do Walker, Jeremy Jones, Jason Murphy, Jason City, after 2002, really stepped it up with their parks is a crucial part of creating a long-lasting scene for Brown, Dave Downing, Travis Parker—without SLUG: What was the snowboarding scene like around and that made all these other mountains step up their both snowboarding and skateboarding. Next time you them, we wouldn’t have the notoriety that we have. the 2002 Olympics, and how has it changed since then? terrain parks, too. need a new skateboard, snowboard, pair of shoes or Pellegrino: It was because of the fact that Park City to just shoot the shit about skating and snowboarding, SLUG: How do you like running a shop so close to the [Mountain Resort] pitched to have the Olympics that SLUG: How do you deal with shop rats? take a ride up 3300 South or drop by the Orem shop other big shops in the community? there is even snowboarding allowed up there. When Pellegrino: Love ’em! They’re great. They support and see what you can find. Until then, stay up to date

Photo Courtesy of Milosport Pellegrino: It’s great! It’s really important that it came down to it, The Canyons [now Canyons Resort] us and we support them. I was a shop rat, and the and check out Milo on (facebook.com/MiloS- we keep these local shops important and relevant. could not hold it at the time and Deer Valley could kids that are shop rats now will eventually be the ones portSnowAndSkate) and Instagram (@milosport). Dennis Nazari and I belong to a group called (L–R) Benjamin “Benny” Pellegrino and Calvin “Cal” Egbert have put in a lot of man- not do anything snowboard related, so Park City said working here. The shop rats are the next cycle and hours at Milosport, and now help keep it running for the next generation of shop rats. The Commission, which are 16 like-minded shops 16 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 17 PHOTO FEATUREPHOTO By Bob Plumb • [email protected]

Mikey LeBlanc bring us back to when we first had the It’sentertainment. moments like these that days were filled with nonstop laughs and Wright ’s Elite. Those three old Burton and cruised around Salt Lake on Andy I think Mikey was in town for three days at the Rail Gardens with Mikey LeBlanc. ing, nothing is more refreshing than a day In this day and age of stunt snowboard - Mikey LeBlanc – 5/0 – SLC, Utah

Mikey LeBlanc – Ollie – SLC, Utah JAN. 10, 2015 Next Contest FREE ENTRY SLASH BASH Registration 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 at Inside The Huntington Room in Earl’s Lodge Ski and Snowboarding Divisions days riding will turn into enjoyable ones. days riding will turn Keep this in perspective, and all your hard embrace how fun snowboarding can be. hang with your friends, share a laugh and est out there. It’s to about the opportunity not about the stunts and who’s the gnarli - mental reset on what snowboarding is. It’s joy of experiencing snowboarding—a Men & Women Open / 17 and Under

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By Weston Colton • westoncolton.com remember that he switch ollied the gap. I’d never seen someone skate something that big switch before. Mark White was filming for Random Lurkerz , and Isaiah showed up with some other guys. I seem to first saw him skate in person one night 2003. It was at the old Nissan gap downtown SLC. Isaiah has been around the Salt Lake skate scene for a long time. He won’t remember this, but I Isaiah Beh – Tailslide – SLC, Utah

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By Oliver Buchanan • [email protected]

22 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 23 Founders of Burden Photo: Diana Lee Zadlo

By Henry Glasheen (L–R) Brett Campbell (vocals, guitar), Mark Lierly (drums), Joseph D. Rowland (bass, vocals) and [email protected] Devin Holt (guitar) deliver with a gothic undercurrent as Pallbearer.

ver the last three months, Pallbearer Sorrow and Extinction,” says Rowland. “Personally, Even further, he expresses a personal interest in the have been on the road in I agree. I feel like we’re a lot more adventurous on “sacred music” of the Medieval and Renaissance pe- and North America, playing shows this one, and it’s really more of a showcase of what riod. That interest could account for the greater em- virtually nonstop. A tour schedule Pallbearer is all about.” Indeed, the new record phasis on major-chord progressions and the rambling as relentless as theirs might seem takes a hard left turn at the intersection of traditional guitar overtones of songs like “The Ghost I Used to exhausting, but bassist Joseph D. doom and sludge, heading into something a little Be.” Rowland reached the end of their European tour more melodic and musically diverse. with a renewed sense of enthusiasm. “It’s hard to When the band finally makes it back home, they believe that it’s over now—I kind of wish it was still Foundations of Burden also bears the hallmark of hope to get some time to work on solo projects and going on,” he says of their 35-show tour. “We were a different approach to the band’s songwriting. keep brewing up new Pallbearer material. “I know ready to do another 35 if we had to.” The songs on Sorrow and Extinction originated in Devin [Holt] has a lot of songs he’s been working whole-band jam sessions where everyone pitched in on. I have a little bit of material that I’ve been work- The offer to play such an extensive tour rarely falls to relatively equally. “This time around, Brett [Camp- ing on here and there,” says Rowland. “I imagine bands as new as Pallbearer, but Rowland says that bell] and I wrote the material separate from each that will end up surfacing at some point.” As far as the success of their debut album, Sorrow and Extinc- other,” says Rowland. “We each brought [ideas] to another official Pallbearer release, he says that work tion, earned them the support that they needed to the table, came up with the basic songs, brought has started, but at this stage, only a few ideas are make the trip. “Sorrow and Extinction developed a them to the band, and started working through the being tossed around. Instead of focusing on crank- following pretty quickly, and luckily, we had a lot of as a group.” While it’s certainly noth- ing out another album, the band hopes to get on the people in our corner to help push the new album,” ing revolutionary, their approach makes sense in the road again soon, touring through North America and he says. “It sort of came out of the gate pretty hot, light of an album that feels tighter all around than Europe once more. It’s unlikely that touring will inter- surprisingly. None of us really expected that at all.” the debut. However, Rowland does want to return fere with the writing process, as even with their rigor- Despite their sudden popularity, Pallbearer try to fo- to a more collaborative songwriting model for the ous touring schedule, Pallbearer have found ways to cus on their music, not on the publicity. “It’s basically next album. keep writing songs on the road. “We’re going to get like we do with everything—try to take everything in a few of the headphone amps that are available and stride, not have any expectations about what is com- Pallbearer seem to be shaking free of the expecta- be able to work on stuff through those,” says Row- ing next and just roll with it,” says Rowland. tions that come from writing music in a genre as land, who explains that they can record any sketches established as traditional doom. While they do ac- through an iPad to continue working on them after The beginning of their tour followed the release of knowledge their influences from early doom bands they get home. Foundations of Burden, Pallbearer's sophomore like Candlemass and Saint Vitus, Rowland finds release. He says that the fan response to the new inspiration in an altogether different corner of the Surrender yourself to the emanations of depression album has been a little more mixed this time around, music world. “Pink Floyd is an inspiration,” he and grief as Pallbearer take the stage on Dec. 13 but people seem to be catching on to their new says. “The more emotional and expressive end of at Kilby Court. Their sorrowful serenades will join sound. “We’ve heard people say that they feel like ’70s is a pretty big thing for us. with Sólstafir’s undulating waves of post rock and the songwriting has matured a lot, and the direction Bands like Robin Trower, Boston, Rainbow Mortals’ savage sludge attack. Tickets are $13 in that we’ve taken is way beyond anything we had on and Asia play pretty heavily in what we like to do.” advance and $15 . 24 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 25 Goldring has been playing music in Andrew Goldring Salt Lake City since he was 12 years Reindeer Name: old. Aside from being the frontman for Naughty-or-Nice Rating: Great Interstate, Goldring has also The Giving Tree played significant roles in other great Christmas local bands such as Golden Sun Wish List From theUnderground and Your Meteor. In the last three years, Goldring has also spent his time recording and producing music A Collection of Appeals for many other artists in the Salt Lake area and loves the community here. from Grown-Ass Adults For this holiday season, Goldring says By Nic Smith • [email protected] he would be content with a preamp and maybe one solid winter musical festival to combat the slowly approach- ing chill of these next few months. However, as cheesy as he thinks this sounds, Goldring says that he’s fulfilled emember when you were young and anxious, desperately propelling yourself up enough with the relationships he’s built from the tile floor of a shopping mall with your toes just to glimpse the red mess over the years with all the musicians Rof a man who, according to your sources, planned on hooking it up big time? he’s worked with in our community. We remember. That’s why SLUG recently sat down with a handful of members from Great Interstate has denied the making Utah’s underground music community and asked them some irresponsibly Christian- of a Christmas album per se, but they based questions about what they want for Christmas this year. Let’s all imagine that, are releasing an EP very soon. So, he you know, this man had actually been a magical version of grandpa, and not some hopes, maybe that counts as a gift. third-string King Lear who earns a little extra on the side by asking small children to surrender their earliest consumerist fantasies directly into his ear hole. Johnson has been a concert promoter Kaneischa and community activist in Provo since Bischoff is a musician, local promoter 2008 when she began working along- Jarom Bischoff for Exigent Records, and believer in Johnson side Corey Fox at Velour. As a proud Reindeer Name: Fluffy helping local artists ascend to the level Reindeer Name: Winky member of the scene, Johnson says Naughty-or-Nice Rating: of national visibility. As a founder of Naughty-or-Nice Rating: that if Provo needs anything this year Switzerland the annually celebrated CrucialFest, Mind Your Own Business for Christmas, it would simply be more Bischoff’s Christmas wish is to receive support for all of the talented and dedi- an airline sponsor for his festival so cated artists growing in her town. She’s that more artists can travel westward immensely thankful for all of the new and participate in the experience. Al- music that comes across her desk every ternatively, he bargains, a speed rail week—from new vinyl and demos to to and from San Francisco or Seattle would suffice. The most important musi- the chance of booking the city’s up-and- cal gift he’s ever received was a mix- comers. For her own Christmas wish, tape from a friend while he was in high Johnson says that she strives to assem- school. This tape, he says, expanded ble the perfect concert (or even festival) his musical tastes outside of his strictly which showcases the best Provo has to punk preferences, and led him toward offer. On a related note, Velour is host- many of the influences that he carries ing a Provo All-Star Christmas concert today. This year, he plans to give back on Dec. 20, and she invites everyone to by handing out free gear from Exigent come and participate. to local record shops.

When Copelin moved to Salt Lake City Even if your patronage to local music Chris Copelin four years ago, she landed her first David Williams is on the slim side, chances Reindeer Name: Fabulous Glitter job here with Randy’s Record Shop Reindeer Name: Roxanne are that you’ve seen musician and Naughty-or-Nice Rating: and has been hard at work ever since. Naughty-or-Nice Rating: David Williams onstage Let Democracy Decide Mother Theresa However, you might know her better as with one of the many distinct groups the killer bassist for local garage-goth of which he’s a part. In addition to be- band JAWWZZ. To date, the best gift ing a performance veteran of Salt Lake that Copelin has ever received was a City, Williams is also a teacher and childhood keyboard that springboard- musical instructor to several students in ed her interest in composing music. Al- the valley. To this day, he says, no one though, if Copelin could have anything has ever asked him to teach them any for Christmas, she says that she would of the myriad commercially available enjoy possessing a fraction, if not the holiday tunes. This surprises him, but, entirety, of Glenn Danzig’s esteemed then again, no it doesn’t. For Christmas 8-track collection, along with some this year, Williams proposes that Santa one-way streets in this widely planned use his skills in magic to virtually elimi- town. If she could give one gift to Salt nate all forms of suffering throughout Lake City, Copelin would neatly tuck the universe, which obviously includes Slayer’s Reign in Blood into the stock- the installation of a new legislature in ings of families all across the Wasatch Utah. After that, he says, a fresh tour- Front. ing van would be pretty sweet.

26 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 27 Allow this introductory list of five aspects of a vinyl record to help with all future purchases and best fit your vinyl-playing preferences. Vinyl Record Weight

Today, records come in all variations of weight, rang- ing from the standard 120–125 grams up to 200-plus grams. Often, you will see 180 grams advertised on the package of newer-pressed records. Advertised or not, many new records are pressed at 180 grams. Heavier records have increased durability, while sound quality stays relatively the same as the standard 120- gram record. Vinyl Disc Appearance By Joshua Joye • [email protected] • Colored discs, along with picture discs, are produced at a higher volume than back in the day, and make for a great novelty record that looks fantastic. “They still make records?” is the question heard • Picture discs are great if you want to display them on almost every time these analog music-storage Bargain Bin Vinyl: the wall; through the process of creating a “picture” on discs come up in conversation, as if people are Bargain bin vinyl records are great if you want the disc, sound quality, is compromised due to added trapped in a locked groove. Vinyl is “back,” al- to build a common-title collection quickly and on material in the grooves to make the image, resulting in though it never really went away—there’s been a a budget and don’t care much about the quality a poor, noisy sound. large resurgence in buying records from a gener- of sound. Depending on the place, you can also • Solid colors, clear and carbon black are all rela- ation who’s been raised acquiring music instantly find rare titles or records that are in good shape tively the same in sound quality and are most likely the over the . Artists and record companies as long as you know what to look for, and can best option (preferred over picture, marble and splat- have recognized this new demand spanning the spot common problems with used vinyl, such as ter discs). The best part about this type of vinyl: Most past five to 10 years, and have begun to press scratches. limited-edition pressings come in these colors. new records of older music. In addition, new • Marble or splatter vinyl is by far the most visually pleasing—they’re mostly made of reground vinyl trim- artists are getting in on . Nowadays, mings of first pressings. However, because of the con- records range in appearance by shape, weight, Regularly Priced Vinyl: struction of a reground, non-virgin vinyl puck used to color, smell and construction methods. As the When we say “regularly priced” vinyl, we are make marble/splatter disks, the sound quality can di- holiday season comes back around, records can talking about sealed new pressings, repressings minish and sound noisy. make a great gift for both the casual record buyer of popular titles and used records of near-mint to and the intense audiophile. mint condition. These records are great if you start New Records getting more into vinyl and want newer band titles A major aspect to remember when buying any of better quality than “bargain bin.” vinyl record is that, in order for it to have qual- Acquiring a newly pressed record is a great option for any enthusiast looking for older repressings and releas- ity sound, the music recording, mastering and from contemporary artists. Keep in mind that newer pressing must contain a high-fidelity amount of records that have been produced from a digital record- precision and must be created knowing that the Limited-Edition ing can sound lower in quality because of added steps audio will be pressed on vinyl. True to any craft, between recording in a digital format and converting and especially when making vinyl records with and Expensive Records: back to an analog format. Many new records run for quality sound, what you put in equals what you Limited edition and expensive records can be about $20 to $30 for a new, unopened pressing. The will get out. anything from small pressings that haven’t been upside to buying a newer record these days is that most repressed an rare used titles, to promo or special come with a digital download code. Buying vinyl can be fun at any level, from sift- discs, Record Store Day releases and pressings ac- ing through the bargain bin at a garage sale companied by unique artwork, among a slew of Artwork with friends to standing in line, waiting for a other classifications. These titles may cost you a limited-edition LP, such as ’ little more than average—or a pretty penny, de- Unlike with digital music, the artwork that comes on 2012 Record Store Day release, which contained pending on the record. Though these are great to the record jacket, liner notes, extra packet or elaborate contributing artists’ blood and went for $2,500. have in your collection, one thing to keep in mind packaging are all just as important as the vinyl itself Whether you’re searching for vinyl options for is that your money may not be going to the sound and should be considered when looking at buying new yourself or for friends, SLUG wanted to offer quality of the title but, rather, for the feel, look or and used vinyl. A few things to look for when buying some pointers for you to build that polyvinyl chlo- rarity of that high-priced record. One extra that used records are split seams, hole punches, saw marks, ride collection. Read further for record price-point accompanies a limited-edition or expensive record ringwear, water damage and bent corners—among informaiton and vinyl-quality specs. is always some kind of bragging story. many other defects that affect the quality of the record overall. Sizes / Speeds

Over the past decade, the two major sizes of records include, though are not limited to, 7” and 12” discs running at speeds of 45 RPM (revolutions per minute) and 33 1/3 RPM. Usually,­ 7”s run at 45 RPM and 12”s run at 33 1/3 RPM, although companies have been pressing 12” records to run at 45 RPM to increase sound performance. Faster record speeds amount to better sound quality. 28 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 29 SLUG MAGAZINE’S toptop fivefive

ALBUMS OF 2014 Dirty Provo Vol. 1 Self-Released Dirty Provo Vol. 1 = Death By Salt Vol. 1 + Weird You Out! It seems like Provo’s music scene has been constantly pregnant for the past decade—steadily giving birth to glistening, new indie-rock very December, SLUG Magazine sounds the rallying call and gathers the babes. Jacob Hall recognized this when he moved from Salt Lake staff’s lists of Top 5 albums from the year. In the next few pages, find a wide City to Provo last May (his cousins offered him a free place to stay). E range of genres, artists and records that were of note for 2014—with a few Hall had just emerged from a failed relationship and was taken other Top 5 beats like video games, comics and movies peppered throughout. As aback by the community’s support of Provo’s weird yet incredible always, we’ve included some extended reviews of some of our favorite albums from music scene. Hall befriended zinesters Lily Lovell and Brett this past year, such as locals Big Wild Wings, Ered Wethrin, Foster Body Richmond, who were working on Dirty Provo, a zine showcasing and the Dirty Provo Vol. 1 compilation, along with a slew of non-local bangers. the town’s artistic talent. Hall suggested that they collaborate and that he curate a music comp to accompany its release. Dirty Provo Vol. 1 was thus born. Dirty Provo Vol. 1 showcases a wide variety Alex Cragun – • Swans – To Be Kind of musical genres in 24 tracks. It starts out with six folky, prog rock Copy Editor / Writer • Grand Magus – Triumph and Power songs from Lydians, Salazar, For All The Girls, JP Haynie, • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here • Dinos Boys – Last Ones Devin Powell and Nick Ottely, who provide listeners with an • Swans – To Be Kind • – Hot easily digestible, steady glide into the comp. Track 11 is where • Jay William Henderson – the album takes its first musical shift, with Ben Nest’s “Fading.” Allison Shephard – Hymns To My Amnesia The next six tracks are pieces and some of my favor- • Code Orange Kids – I Am King Copy Editor / Writer ite works on the album. We hear incredible digital compositions • The Menzingers – Rented World • Yelle – Complètement Fou from The Angel Magic, Mooninite, High Counsel, Valerie • Big Freedia – Just Be Free Dore, DJ Rashad and DJ Manny. Many of the songs in this Alex Coulombe – Writer • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days block are instrumentals. Next up is RS2090, a sort of experimen- • Teitanblood – Death • St. Vincent – Self-Titled tal hip-hop track and an audible cue to the listener that the music • Behemoth – The Satanist • Jenny Lewis – The Voyager genre is shifting. Bright Whistles follows with an avant-garde • Girls’ Generation – Mr.Mr. jazz feel. The real meat of Dirty Provo Vol. 1 ensues with the beefy, • Necrophagia – Amanda Rock – Writer medium-rare flavor of Big Trub’s “Out of My Head/Gold Boulder WhiteWorm Cathedral • Interpol – El Pintor (live version).” The final nine tracks are just as tasty, landing in the • – • – camps of rock n’roll, psych, garage and cuddlecore. These are • Ryan Adams – Self-Titled gems from Bummerwolf, Extraplanet, Baby Ghosts, Re- gal Beast Temples Lake Island Homecomings Gils Alex Gilvarry – Writer • Jack White – Lazaretto , , , , and Salazar. Dirty Provo Vol. 1 makes a strong debut documenting a • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here • Morrissey – World Peace is None of small-town scene worth learning about. –Angela H. Brown • Jay William Henderson – Your Business Hymns To My Amnesia • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts Andrea Silva – • Great Interstate – Inversion Songs Distro / Writer • Fictionist – Self-Titled • Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband • Cherub – Year of the Caprese Alex Springer – • King Dude – Fear Senior Staff Writer • Phantogram – Voices • Broken Bells – After the Disco • Future Islands – Singles • EMA – The Future’s Void • The Afghan Whigs – Angela H. Brown – Editor Do to the Beast • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here • – It’s Album Time • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts • Mascis – Tied to a Star • Swans – To Be Kind • Various Artists – Dirty Provo Vol. 1 Alex Topolewski – • Pharmakon – Bestial Burden Marketing • Hozier – Self-Titled Ashley Lippert – • – Dream Your Life Away Video Game Reviewer • – Queen of the Clouds • Mario Kart 8 (Wii U) • Black Keys – Turn Blue • South Park: Stick of Truth (PS3) • alt-J – This Is All Yours • Child of Light (Wii U) • Super Smash Bros. (3DS) Alexander Ortega – • Bravely Default (3DS) Managing Editor • Pink Mountaintops – Get Back

30 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 31 Ben Melini – Photographer • – You’re Dead! Christian Schultz – • Linkin Park – The Hunting Party • Rancid – ...Honor Is All We Know • Vince Staples – Hell Can Wait Junior Editor Dylan Evans – Writer • – The Black Market • Interpol – El Pintor • The Circulars – Ornamental • Morrissey – World Peace is None of • Neon Trees – Pop Psychology • Tycho – Awake • Foster Body – Landscapes Your Business • The Used – Imaginary Enemy • – Chinese Fountain • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days • MxPx – Acoustic Collection • Fossil Arms – Only Ever Have Playland Cassie Anderson – Marketing When I’m Ill • Johnny Marr – • Iceage – Ben Trentelman – • Trampled By Turtles – Wild Animals • Braeyden Jae – Heaven House Senior Staff Writer • – Plowing Into of Love • – • – Ultraviolence CJ Morgan – Writer • The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar • Shovels & Rope – Swimmin’ Time • Jack White – Lazaretto • The Brian Jonestown Massacre – • alt-J – This Is All Yours Speaking In Cursive Tides of War • – Morning Phase Eric Granato – Revelation Northern Silence Self-Released • Blackbird Blackbird – Distribution Manager Cassandra Loveless – • Koala Temple – Blue Milk Street: 11.12 Street: 02.05 Tangerine Sky Marketing • Dilated Peoples – Directors of • Dustbloom – Big Wild Wings = Ben Folds Five + Ered Wethrin = Caladan Brood + Lord Agheros • Phantogram – Voices Photography Keeping the Black Dog at Bay • LeCrae – Anomaly Regina Spektor – piano-frontman syndrome + Dol Goldur–era Summoning • The New Pornographers – Brill • – • The Asteroid #4 – Self-Titled • alt-J – This Is All Yours Bruisers Just like the epic themes of fantasy and esoteric mysticism that • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here • – Blacc Hollywood It’s hard to find a good trio these days who can encapsulate Benjamin Tilton – Writer inspired Ered Wethrin’s lyrics, Tides of War takes its time unfold- Cody Kirkland – Copy • Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2 • YG – My Krazy Life the feeling of a full band without gimmicks, especially any- Get Hurt ing a vast and enchanting audial world. From the Glen Cook– Editor / Senior Staff Writer • Mike Mictlan – Hella Frreal • The Gaslight Anthem – • Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear thing where the band’s traditional lead guitarist has been • Kensington – Rivals inspired “Bloody Annals and Brooding Skies” to the Steven • Foster Body – Landscapes replaced by anything not resembling a guitar. These bands Eric Norris – Writer • Bassnectar – Noise vs. Beauty Catie Weimer – Erikson tribute in “Requiem for the Fallen,” Sven Smith’s solo • Isaiah Rashad – Cilvia Demo are often categorized as “disposable” because, while eye- • The Bare Minimum – Hit After Hit • George Ezra – Wanted on Voyage Social Media Coordinator recordings recall the stoic and battle-hardened tales of lesser- • Wye Oak – Shriek catching, they tend to dissolve quickly and feel compelled to known fantasy realms. He began recording material for Ered • DTA – The Five Degrees of Separation • – • Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire • Ty Segall – Manipulator incorporate other elements to gain a larger audience. But Big Wethrin many years before compiling his ideas into his debut • PUP – Self-Titled • Dinner – OUI! EP • Wu-Tang Clan – A Better Tomorrow Brad Barker – Ad Designer Wild Wings decided to buck the trends hard by combining a album, and his musical journey is strongly evidenced by the pro- • Cradle of Filth – • Emma Ruth Rundle – kickass drummer in Chris Soper with a master synth-player Total Fucking Darkness • Pixies – Indie Cindy Some Heavy Ocean gression of these seven songs. “Frozen Rivers” begins the album Courtney Blair – in Tyler Hummel, topping it off with the captivating Lyndsi with something that feels like a taste of Smith’s earliest material. • The Transmission NOW – • – Hang • Thou – Heathen Cover Artist Austin as their lead vocalist on bass. Within the last year, the Yet, as Tides of War continues, this Salt Lake City native finds White Night • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence • King Dude – Fear • Ex Hex – Rips trio have become the alt/indie band to see in SLC, capping his stride, crafting music that gradually grows more rich and • Interpol – El Pintor • Iamamwhoami– Blue Gavin Sheehan – Office everything off with their debut full-length album, Speaking In complex. While the rough mastering and occasional mistakes • Bob Mould – Beauty & Ruin Ceza Dzawala – • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days Coordinator / SLUG make it clear that this is Smith’s first solo album, he shows a Photographer Cursive, which came out in November. This album feels like • Future Islands– Singles Soundwaves Producer Bradford Gambles – a genuine sugary treat in a year surrounded by gristle-like great talent for weaving dense atmospheres with a unique pal- • Phantogram – Voices • Snowmine – Dialects • Great Interstate – Inversion Songs Illustrator metal and hardcore releases, meshing an ‘80s quality synth- ette of synths and solid tremolo riffs. The moods change subtly • – GIRL • Lindsay Heath – Holy Medicine • – pop sound with a ‘90s-empowered tone and lyrics to create a from song to song, giving the album a sense of exploration and Dan Vesper – Writer • – Recess • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts Céline une seule fois / Live 2013 downplayed kind of electro-rock. Austin’s vocals seal the deal, experimentation. “Into the Stars” delves into somber reflection, • Vince Staples – • Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband • Big Wild Wings – • – Partners followed by “Realm of the Tyrant” and its immediate, exotic mel- Shyne Coldchain Vol. 2 Mixtape • Röyskopp – Do It Again evoking emotion from the simplest of octaves that will cause Speaking in Cursive • & – odies. Some of the tracks run long, even by epic atmospheric • YG – My Krazy Life you to ponder past memories while swaying to the beat. Over • Dustbloom – Cheek to Cheek standards, but they build toward exquisite and tri- Chad Kirkland – the years, Utah’s alternative scene has periodically gone from • Young Thug – Rich Gang: Tha Tour Keeping the Black Dog at Bay • – Symphonica umphant climaxes that reward patient listeners for giving the Pt. 1 (/ ) Photographer dominant to nonexistent in a matter of months, and while 2014 • Yanni – Inspirato music time to develop. Ultimately, Tides of War serves as a great • Rome Fortune – • Little Dragon – Nabuma Rubberband held some pretty decent works from newcomers, Speaking In Gilbert Cisneros – • Sylvan Esso – Self-Titled example of how Salt Lake City’s heavy metal scene has grown Small VVorld Mixtapes Photographer Brinley Froelich – Cursive is by far the standout album of the genre, released just • Isaiah Rashad – Cilvia Demo prodigiously over the last decade. Smith is certainly a musician • DJ Mustard – 10 Summers • Neon Trees – Pop Psychology Senior Staff Writer as the year started coming to a close. –Gavin Sheehan • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days to watch in the coming years, and his debut as Ered Wethrin • Seve Vs Evan – • The War on Drugs – Henry Glasheen Darcy Russell – Writer • The War on Drugs – already shows incredible promise. – Everyone Says They Suck Live Lost in the Dream • Liars – Mess Lost in the Dream • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts • Kate Tempest – Everybody Down • JEFF the Brotherhood – • Masked Intruder – M.I. • Iamamiwhoami – BLUE Dig the Classics Chad Pinckney – • Foster Body – Landscapes • Aphex Twin – Syro Design Team • Allah-Las – Worship the Sun • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days • – Charmer • Spoon – They Want My Soul Greg Gerulat – Writer • Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden • Mr. Gnome – • Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants Bryer Wharton – Senior The Heart of a Dark Star • Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2 • Alvvays – Self-Tiltled Staff Writer • ††† – Self-Titled • The Death of Pop – • Deathblow – Prognosis Negative Dean O Hillis – • Chuck Inglish – Convertibles Senior Staff Writer Two Thousand and Thirteen • Mutilated Veterans – • Kishi Bashi – Lighght Necro Crust Warhead • Erasure – The Violet Flame Chris Gariety – Photographer • – Deep Fantasy • Morrissey – World Peace is None • Necrophagia – • Frankie Cosmos – Zentropy WhiteWorm Cathedral of Your Business • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days Heck Fork Grief – • Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Fire • Suzanne Vega – Tales From the Senior Staff Writer • Bat Manors – Literally Weird Realm of the Queen of Pentacles • Teitanblood – Death • Behemoth – The Satanist • Ty Segall – Manipulator • Tori Amos – Candida Duran – • The Oh Sees – Drop Unrepentant Geraldines • Bastions – Bedfellows: The Forgotten Daughter Videographer • Annie Lennox – Nostalgia Christian Broadbent – • Goatwhore – • OK Ikumi – Outside Ad Designer Devin Wakefield – Constricting Rage of the Merciless • alt-J – This Is All Yours • Broken Bells – After the Disco Ad Designer • Comeback Kid – Die Knowing • Nasimiyu – dirt. [EP] • – Hold My Home • Shakira – Self-Titled • Lagwagon – Hang • Ty Segall – Manipulator • Spoon – They Want My Soul • Bryce Vine – Lazy Fair • Kool A.D. – Word O.K. Henry Glasheen – Digital • First Aid Kit – Stay Gold • Beck – Morning Phase Content Coordinator • Kid Cudi – Satellite Flight: • The Glitch Mob – Carl Acheson – • Perturbator – Dangerous Days The Journey to Mother Moon Love Death Immortality Marketing / Writer • Electric Wizard – Time to Die

32 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 33 • Arkona – Yav John Ford – Community Kamryn Feigel – Writer • Black Label Society – • Ered Wethrin – Tides of War Development Executive • The War on Drugs – Catacombs of the Black Vatican • Grand Magus – / Distro / Copy Editor / Lost in the Dream Lexie Floor – Videographer Triumph and Power Senior Staff Writer • Tobacco – Ultima II Massage • Lykke Li – I Never Learn • Various Artists – Guardians of the • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days Ischa B. – Marketing / • Angel Olsen – Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 • Foxygen – ...And Star Power Senior Staff Writer Burn Your Fire for No Witness • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence • Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! • Beck – Morning Phase • Sia – 1000 Forms Of Fear • Merchant Royal – Self-Titled • alt-J – This Is All Yours • Perfume Genius – Too Bright • Big Freedia – Just Be Free Kate Colgan – • tUnE–yArDs – Nikki Nack • MiNX (featuring Selecta) – • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts Website Developer Together Forever • Cunninlynguists – Lizz Corrigan – Writer • Natalie Merchant – Self-Titled Jon Christiansen – Landscapes Piedmont Apocrypha Strange Journey Volume 3 • The Growlers – Chinese Fountain • Annie Lennox – Nostalgia Content Consultant Self-Released Three Lobed Recording • People Under the Stairs – • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days • Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams Street: 03.01 Street: 03.24 12 Step Program Jake Vivori – Photographer • Quilt – Held in Splendor • Oozing Wound – Earth Suck Foster Body = The Birthday Party^ Horseback = Earth + Boris + Locrian • PHOX – Self-Titled • Amity Affliction – • First Aid Kit – Stay Gold • Watter – This World • Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 Let the Ocean Take Me ^Scratch Acid^Devo Jenks Miller, the father behind Horseback’s latest album, • Allah-Las – Worship The Sun • Comet Control – Self-Titled • Slimkid3 & DJ Nu-Mark – • Rick Ross – Mastermind Foster Body’s debut album, Landscapes, which was released on Piedmont Apocrypha, has again created a twined nest of ex- Self-Titled • Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell – • Of Mice & Men – Restoring Force cassette and digitally in March, captures the Salt Lake City–based, perimental sound by combining a base of seething feedback Logan Sorenson – Check ‘Em Before You Wreck ‘Em • Phantogram – Voices noise-punk combo at a brilliant moment of process—merging and altering levels of oozing drone. The album as a whole Kelli Tompkins – Photographer • Animals As Leaders – Jonathan Martinez – strong aesthetic sentiment and live performance practice into a lifts up the listener in a cradle to help see Miller’s vision of Ad Designer • The Presidents of the The Joy of Motion Marketing compelling vision for contemporary noise-punk. The album, record- music as a single, fluid entity with this nongenre specific al- • – In Return of America – Kudos to You! ed by Michael Fuchs (Passive Tourist) and mastered by Matt bum. Piedmont Apocrypha is built of basic, sorrowful layers • Broken Bells – After the Disco • Better Taste Bureau – Outliers • FKA twigs – LP1 James Bennett – Mateus, is a swirling mass of avant-hardcore and shuddering art of experimental sounds to create a murky, complex organism • Band Of Skulls – Himalayan • Cherub – Year of the Caprese • TOKiMONSTA – Desiderium Senior Staff Writer punk that recalls the fury and odd excitements of early post-punk, out of finite notes. Upon listening through the album a few • Asgeir – In the Silence • Mideau – Way With Words • Angel Olsen – • – Teeth Dreams no wave and noise recording. With eight tracks lashing across times, the small amount of diverse sounds work in such a Burn Your Fire for No Witness • Augustines – Self-Titled • Wild Beasts – Present Tense the album’s 20-minute duration, Landscapes is a quick yet thrill- • Various Artists (Merge Records) way to create a denatured harmony of noises. The song after Our Love Language & Perspective • Caribou – – Or Thousands of Prizes: Merge • Bad Suns – ing listen. Beginning with an undulating “Intro,” which expands which the album was named gives the best examples of this Maggie Zukowski – 25th Anniversary and presses into the furious “Night Prowler,” the album introduces Ad Designer Jordan Deveraux – Distro / denatured harmony, allowing the rest of the album to quietly Kendal Gillett – • Various Artists – Guardians of the the project as one of ferocity with no spare room for nostalgia. follow. “Consecration ,” the fourth song off the album, Marketing / Writer • – Galaxy: Deluxe Vinyl Edition Copy Editor / Senior Staff The songs on Landscapes express the horizontal structure the band gives a hushed whisper of slow-moving, drawn-out tones, • – Crush Songs • Jason Derulo – Talk Dirty • Il Sogno Del Marinaio – Writer practices—the rhythm obsession of guitar/bass/drums is no less combined with soft jazz brushing on top. This song is a great • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence • Conor Oberst – Canto Secondo • The Men – Tomorrow’s Hits important than Robin Banks’ anxiety-fueled vocals. On “Fixed break for what develops in Track 5: “Chanting Out The Low • Swans – To Be Kind Upside Down Mountain • Jack White – Lazaretto • – Sunbathing Animal Utility,” Banks’ caustic delivery crisscrosses jagged guitar riffs and Shadow” slowly builds layer by layer, easing in the signature Creation • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence • King Tuff – Black Moon Spell crashing drums (played by Madison Donnelly, who’s since left • The Pierces – drone felt throughout the entire album. The same, repetitive Turn Blue • Atmosphere – Southsiders James Orme – • FREEMAN – Self-Titled the band and been succeeded by Chalk’s Jeremy Devine), • – guitar riff anchors all other instruments until an uncommon vo- Senior Staff Writer • Pink Mountaintops – Get Back bubbling and bursting in episodes building up to a refrain of the cal element is added to the song. Vocals consisting of poetic Kia McGinnis – Mame Wallace – Writer • Pat Capocci – Pantherburn Stomp track’s title. “Landscape” and “Neglected Variations” star Dyana lyrics act as a contrasting element to the song, and ultimately, Senior Staff Writer • Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour • Los Straitjackets – Deke Dickerson Joshua Joye – Lead Designer Durfee’s compelling bass plucking (also featured on The Circu- • Angel Olsen – • Pharell Wiliams – GIRL Sings The Instrumental Hits • Bastard Sapling – Instinct Is Forever lars’ 2014 release, Ornamental) and are streaked with Korey the album as a whole. The song leads into vocals of croak- ing, dissipated raspiness, followed by mellowed speaking Burn Your Fire for No Witness • Sia – 1000 Forms of Fear • Chuck Ragan – Till Midnight • Horseback – Piedmont Apocrypha Martin’s bouncy guitar syncopations. These tracks are something to behold when performed live, and the group shouldn’t be difficult over the music. The 17-minute song ends the 40-minute al- • Mac DeMarco – Salad Days • – Ghost Stories • Dex Romweber Duo – Images 13 • Godflesh – A World Lit Only By Fire to catch in the coming year—they’ve completed a West Coast tour bum, mirroring the way it began, giving out a small amount • FKA twigs – LP1 • Calvin Harris – 18 Months • JD McPherson – • Triptykon – Melana Chasmata and have been gigging non-stop since Landscapes’ release with no of tonal talking. Not only is this album sonically pleasing, • The Circulars – Ornamental The Warm Covers EP • Beck – Morning Phase signs of letting up. Landscapes isn’t just another album from another the cover artwork is visually enticing as well—it’s friendly • ODESZA – In Return Maria Valenzuela – Distro / Copy Editor Jamie Stott – Writer Julia Sachs – Distro / punk band—it’s the pivot that has launched Salt Lake music into a and childlike while running parallel with an eerie underlying more productive era. –Christian Schultz Lauren Ashley – • – Everyday Robots • Georgia Line – Copy Editor / Writer darkness found in the music to match. –Joshua Joye Senior Staff Writer • Childish Gambino – STN MTN/Kauai Anything Goes • Porter Robinson – Worlds • Iggy Azaela – The New Classic • Phantogram – Voices • Jason Aldean – • Beats Antique – Morning Phase • Atmosphere – Southsiders Old , New Dirt A Thousand Faces: Act II • Beck – • Lily Allen – Sheezus • Broken Bells – After the Disco • Trampled by Turtles – Wild Animals • The Glitch Mob – • Rebelution – Count Me In Love Death Immortality • The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream Mariah Mann Mellus – • Old Crow Medicine Show – • alt-J – This Is All Yours • and The Voidz Senior Staff Writer Remedy • SOPHIE – Lemonade/Hard – Tyranny • Lucius – Wildewoman Jimmy Martin – Film Critic / Justin Gallegos – • K Flay – Life As A Dog LeAundra Jeffs – Writer Senior Staff Writer Senior Staff Writer • Black Keys – Turn Blue • Hundred Waters – • Guardians of the Galaxy • – pom pom • Neil Diamond – The Moon Rang Like a Bell All-Time Greatest Hits • Gone Girl • Flying Lotus – You’re Dead! • tUnE–yArDs – Nikki Nack • Various Artists – Guardians of the • The LEGO Movie • Megafortress – Believer • Swans – To Be Kind Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 • Edge of Tomorrow • Sean Nicholas Savage – • Andrew Jackson Jihad – • Life Itself Bermuda Waterfall Christmas Island Mary E. Duncan – • Tomorrows Tulips – When John Barkiple – • Picastro – You Copy Editor Photographer Kahle Jackett – Ad Designer • Tove Lo – Queen of the Clouds Lenny Riccardi – • Trampled by Turtles – Wild Animals • Babymetal – Self-Titled • Giraffula – Smile & Wave Design Team • Shovels & Rope – Swimmin’ Time • Benjamin Booker – Self-Titled • Glass Animals – Zaba • Phantogram – Voices • Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour • Bombshell Academy – • Schoolboy – Oxymoron • The Black Keys – Turn Blue • James Vincent McMorrow – Skaholics Anonymous • Various Artists – • Beck – Morning Phase Post Tropical • Old Crow Medicine Show – 3 Years of Soulection Remedy • Wu-Tang Clan – • Stalley – Once Upon a Time in Shaolin • Yasmine Hamdan – Ya Nass

34 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 35 Mason Rodrickc – Senior Staff Writer Design Team • Teitanblood – Death • Young Fathers – Dead • Lust For Youth – International • Jason Feathers – De Oro • Dawnbringer – • – Built On Glass Night Of The Hammer • Wye Oak – Shriek • Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate • Adult Jazz – Gist Is • Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2

Matt Brunk – Mike Riedel – Beer Reviewer Photographer / Writer • Wasatch – Switch Sour Red Ale • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here • Uinta – 21st Birthday Suit Sour Saison • Visitors – Blueshift The Moon Rang Like a Bell • The Annex – Beliner Weisse • Grass – Naysayer Street: 05.27 • RedRock – Fröhlich Pils • Dustbloom – OWSLA Keeping the Black Dog at Bay • Epic – Element 29 Cu IPA Hundred Waters = iamamiwhoami + Björk + • Huldra – Black Tides Imogen Heap Mistress Nancy – Writer Matt Hoenes – • Blac Kolor – Wide Noise Following the subtly intricate formula of their first album, Hun- Content Consultant • Harm Joy – Silver Lining of the dred Waters’ new release continues with the same airy splen- Mushroom Cloud • Swans – To Be Kind dor, but with more refinement. Nicole Miglis’ vocals are • Cocksure – TVMALSV • Color Animal – Bubble Gum breathy and smooth, morphing so well with the instrumental • – Atoms & Emptiness side of the music that they become almost indiscernible. The • Damien Jurado – Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son • Bombardier – Nowhere album begins with the a cappella “Show Me Love,” a hopeful • The War On Drugs – and honest piece with the earnest vulnerability of opening up Natalie Edwards – Illustrator Lost in a Dream to another human. As the album’s conceit progresses, how- • alt-J – This Is All Yours • Tobacco – Ultima II Massage ever, the story becomes gloomier. Dreamy, starry melodies • Chad Vangaalen – Shrink Dust are prominent throughout, particularly on “Out Alee,” but Matthew Windsor – • Black Lips – Underneath the Rainbow unexpectedly, lyrical content is confused or self-deprecating. Photographer • Young Fathers – Dead The songs are focused on paranoia, doubt and despondency. • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence • MØ – No Mythologies to Follow This opposed dichotomy is a reward for those who commit to • Issues – Self-Titled multiple listens, creating a brilliant concept where one leaves Nate Abbott – Writer • Riff Raff – Neon Icon with something different on every listen. It isn’t often that I find Soused • – Trap House Four • Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – an album so equally focused on sound and poetic lyricism. • Pink Floyd – The Endless River • – The New Classic Clever, little details, such as left-to-right, walkie-talkie-like rep- • – The Unnatural etition of the word crosstalk over a verse on “Xtalk,” make The Megan Kennedy – World Moon Rang Like a Bell so significant. Hundred Waters renews Photographer / • Swans – To Be Kind experimental electronica and art-pop of the last 20 years with Senior Staff Writer • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here a bricolage of warped and loopy effects, crystalline synths and curious, tinkling piano. We come away with a mellifluous • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here Nate Housley – Writer • Huldra – Black Tides and uniquely modern style akin to Björk, but with enough deli- • Aphex Twin – Syro • First Aid Kit – Stay Gold cacy that to connect it directly to the Icelandic beauty would be • Makthaverskan – II • Unearth – Watchers of Rule oversimplifying. The musical foundation of this album perfectly • Cloud Nothings – Here and represents 2014, a year of revitalization and self-discovery, • Visitors – Blueshift Nowhere Else by sounding neither senescent nor ahead of its time, but flaw- Melissa Cohn – • The Men – Tomorrow’s Hits lessly fit into the fringes of current music. –LeAundra Jeffs Photographer • and – Piñata • ††† – Self-Titled Nic Smith – Writer • This Wild Life – Clouded • Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A • Chelsea Grin – Ashes To Ashes Sea of Split Peas • Manchester – Cope • Koala Temple – Blue Milk • Visitors – Blueshift • Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal • Temples – Sun Structures Michael Sanchez – • Generationals – Alix Distro / Writer • Little Dragon – Nabuma Nick Kuzmack – Writer Rubberband • Ex Hex – Rips Self-Titled • Antemasque – • Various Artists – Peru Bravo… Funk, • St. Vincent – Self-Titled Soul & Psych From Peru’s Radical • FKA twigs – LP1 Decade • Mastodon – Once More ’Round • The Black Lips – Underneath the The Sun Rainbow • The Franklys – Self-Titled EP Mikey Baratta – • Various Artists – Pop Yeh Yeh: Photographer from • Buckethead – Teeter Slaughter and Malaysia–1964–1970 • Pixies – Indie Cindy • Bayside – Cult Nicole Stephenson – • The Shrine – Bless Off Video Games Reviewer • Swans – To Be Kind • Little Big Planet 3 (PS3) • Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker Mike Brown – (Wii U)

36 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 37 • Ultimate NES Remix (3DS) Robin Banks – Illustrator • The Crew (Xbox One) • Beyoncé – Self-Titled (Reissue) • Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix • Pypy – Pagan Day (PS3) • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts • Literature – Chorus Paul Mason – Design Team • Ghost Gum – Demos 2014 • Koala Temple – Blue Milk • St. Vincent – Self-Titled Robin Sessions – • Spoon – They Want My Soul Marketing Coordinator • Shellac – Dude Incredible • Have A Nice Life – • Stardeath & White Dwarfs – The Unnatural World Wastoid • The Black Soft – The Slow Burn WhiteWorm Cathedral • King Dude – Fear Perry Layne Decker-Tate – • Swans – To Be Kind Street: 10.28 Videographer • Mr. Gnome – Necrophagia = Autopsy + Impetigo + Mortician • Beck – Morning Phase The Heart of a Dark Star • ODESZA – In Return The legacy of horror, terror and old-school that is Wellsville, Ohio’s Necrophagia keeps getting better and better. • Little Dragon – Ryan Dearth – Videographer Their seventh release, WhiteWorm Cathedral, is sure to open up Nabuma Rubberband • Bass Drum Of Death – Rip This the seven seals of Hell and unleash the apocalypse in the form • Thom Yorke – • The People’s Temple – of aural destruction and mental imagery assaults. Necrophagia Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Musical Garden incorporate an almost obsessive love for horror films which, in • The Roots – • Allah-Las – Worship The Sun ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin addition to the band’s own ideas and interpretations of those • The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation horrors, have always made for fun listening. I’ve never really Peter Fryer – been massively sold by one specific album from the band, as • Ty Segall – Manipulator Senior Staff Writer they’ve always had releases with great songs, but in a “one • Against Me! – Ryan Hall – release” sense—nothing ever stuck. WhiteWorm Cathedral Transgender Dysphoria Blues Senior Staff Writer changes all of that in so many ways. The songwriting here has • Code Orange – I Am King • Kyle Bobby Dunn – Kyle Bobby Dunn been tightened up to brutal execution for the band—and for • St. Vincent – Self-Titled and the Infinite Sadness death metal in general. It’s an extremely rare thing when I listen • Mantar – Death By Burning • Planning for Burial – Desideratum to a record and it resounds in my skull long after the songs have • Behemoth – The Satanist • Braeyden Jae – Heaven House stopped. The dynamics offered on this new offering are plentiful. • Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial It brings the horror of what the album wants you to live onto a Phil Cannon – Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We grandiose scale. Heavy and catchy riffs crunch with a grisly Distro / Illustrator Pour Light On Everything bottom end. The keyboards from Mirai Kawashima, who is • Mastodon – • Protomartyr – also one of the primary members of ’s Sigh, elevate the Once More ‘Round the Sun Under Color of Official Right already horrifying songs to an entirely more terrific, terrifying • Alestorm – Sunset on the Golden level. Everything I love about death metal and horror films Age Ryan Worwood – Distro is indulged in the 13 songs on record here. There’s a good • Blues Pills – Self-Titled • The Roots – ...And Then You Shoot deal of horror-themed death metal bands out there, but none Your Cousin • Red Fang – Teamrock.com Presents of them sound like this album. Even more exciting is the fact an Absolute Music Bunker Session • Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2 that Necrophagia may not even be remotely close to peaking— with Red Fang • Isaiah Toothtaker – Your Majesty they’ve gotten better with each new release, and with the near- • Orange Goblin – • Your Old Droog – Self-Titled Back From the Abyss perfect execution on WhiteWorm Cathedral, my excitement • WE – WE-E.T.’s 2 of what’s to come will be even more morbidly obsessive than before. –Bryer Wharton Rebecca Frost – Samuel Hanson – Writer Comic Book Reviewer • Alexander Ortega – Wallwalker • Pretty Deadly • Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal • Ms. Marvel • Iceage – • Edge of Spider-Verse Plowing Into the Field of Love • Serenity: Leaves on the Wind • Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial • Bitch Planet Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything Rheanna Sonnichsen – • Have A Nice Life – Writer The Unnatural World • Mastodon – Once More ‘Round the Sun Sara Bezdjian – Writer • Aphex Twin – Syro • Ingrid Michaelson – Lights Out • The – Hold It In • Iggy Azalea – The New Classic • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence • Blondie – Blondie 4(0) Ever • Ray LaMontagne – Supernova • Johnny Cash – Out Among the Stars • Maroon Five – Ricky Vigil – Senior Staff Writer Sean Hennefer – Illustrator • Freddie Gibbs and Madlib – • – Carry On The Grudge Piñata • Temples – Sun Structures • United Nations – • Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots The Next Four Years • Against Me! – • Thou – Heathen Transgender Dysphoria Blues • Run the Jewels – Run The Jewels 2 • Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – • Cult Leader – Nothing for Us Here Give the People What They Want

38 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 39 Sean Zimmerman-Wall – Taylor Hoffman – Senior Staff Writer Comic Book Reviewer • – • Pretty Deadly Volume 1: The Strike Iller than Most • Sex Criminals, Vol 1: One Weird Trick • Kid Cudi – Satellite Flight: The • Saga Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 Journey to Mother Moon • The Wicked + The Divine, Vol 1: The • Atomsphere – Southsiders Faust Act • The Black Keys – Turn Blue • Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal • alt-J – This Is All Yours Thomas Winkley – Seeth McGavien – Writer Senior Staff Writer / • KMFDM – Our Time Will Come Video Game Writer Get Back • Project – Blood • Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow 2 (PC) Jagjaguwar • The Glitch Mob – • Broken Age (PC) Street: 04.28 Love Death Immortality • The Walking Dead – Season 2 (PC) Pink Mountaintops = √Spiritualized√Bronco√The • Aphex Twin – Syro • Rogue Legacy (PS3) Boomtown Rats√Wire√The Clash • Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence • Ultra Street Fighter IV (PS3) Get Back received mixed reviews across the board—some reviewers Shawn Soward – lauded the album as a rock n’ roll tour de force (Mojo, PopMatters) Timo H. – Writer and others expressed wishy-washy reactions (Paste, Pitchfork). Most Copy Editor • Swans – To Be Kind seemed, to some extent, to decry the sixth track, “North Hollywood Voices • Phantogram – • Noveller – Microwaves” because Annie Hardy () raps about • St. Vincent – Self-Titled No Dreams (2014 Vinyl Edition) the joys of cum, declaring “I am a slut!” amid her blithe confessions • Pharrell Williams – GIRL • Jozef Van Wissem & SQÜRL – of bestiality with donkeys and bears (because men no longer satisfy • Ariana Grande – My Everything Only Lovers Left Alive her). The prank worked. Critics expecting Pink Mountaintops’ amo- • Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour • Death and Vanilla – rous psych folk were surely taken aback by this surrealist-feminist Vampyr (2014 Vinyl Edition) song in frontman Stephen McBean’s reconstruction of punk’s ur- Stakerized! – • Meridian Brothers – gency and repudiation of the rock lineage that Pink Mountaintops Senior Staff Writer Salvadora Robot iterated in previous (parent) albums. Surely, his screams in opener Beauty & Ruin “Ambulance City” of “Ambulance city/Station to station!” mimic • Bob Mould – Traci Grant – Copy Editor • Brother Earth – Positive Haywire this sonic transition to a more rompin’ Western musical spirit. Track • JYJ – Just Us • Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial 2, “The Second Summer of Love,” is Get Back’s best song, wherein • NU’EST – Re:BIRTH Orchestra – Fuck Off Get Free We McBean romanticizes 1987 as the track’s namesake while snare- Pour Light On Everything • Super Junior – Mamacita to-kick beats fire like skateboard-to-concrete ammunition. “Kids • Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate • – Supernova don’t follow all them golden rules/We’re all alright through the • Ty Segall – Manipulator • (x) – Red Light night we roam,” sings McBean. Some chastise McBean for attempt- ing to relive his youth as he harkens back to events from his past. Steve Goemaat – Writer Trevor Hale – Writer His reflection, however, loops back to his perspective as someone • Your Old Droog – Self-Titled • St. Vincent – Self-Titled remembering, which the Phrygian, Morrissey-esque “Wheels” • Modern Baseball – • Against Me! – demonstrates. There are some alt-country-influenced tunes in here You’re Gonna Miss It All Transgender Dysphoria Blues as well, like “Through All the Worry” and “Sell Your Soul,” which • Every Time I Die – • Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden posit his self-awareness of his age. “New Teenage Mutilation” func- From Parts Unknown • Mobb Deep – tions as a glam/power-pop number where he tearfully but catchily • Manchester Orchestra – Cope The Infamous Mobb Deep asserts himself as a compatriot of kids in the clutches of “computer- • Animals As Leaders – • Patton Oswalt – ized segregation” as the twinkle melodically. The musical- The Joy of Motion Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time narrative arc of Get Back ultimately brings this well-rounded record full circle—much in the way that McBean’s sticking to his guns from Steve Richardson – Writer Tyson Call – Writer adolescence does lyrically. –Alexander Ortega • Bat Manors – Literally Weird • Faded Paper Figures – Relics • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts • Phantogram – Voices • Iceage – Plowing Into the Field of • Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again Love • Broods – Evergreen • Parquet Courts – Sunbathing • Aphex Twin – Syro Animal • Koala Temple – Blue Milk Weston Colton – Photographer Steve Thueson – Illustrator • The Juan Maclean – In a Dream • Martha – Courting Strong • Wild Beasts – Present Tense • Baby Ghosts – Maybe Ghosts • Electric Youth – Innerworld • The Creeps – Eulogies • First Aid Kit – Stay Gold • The Front Bottoms – Rose • Future Islands – Singles • – Never Hungover Again Xkot Toxisk – Distro / Writer • The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Talyn Sherer – Revelation Photographer • Heliocentrics & • Trevor Hall – Chapter of the Forest – The Last Transmission • Nahko and Medicine For The • The KVB – Out of Body EP People – Dark As Night • The Faint – Doom Abuse • Atmosphere – Southsiders • My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – • SOJA – Amid the Noise and Haste Spooky Tricks • Tribal Seeds – Representing

40 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 41 The DI

By Mike Brown • Instagram: @fagatron

You can criticize the Mormons all you want. As far as organizations go, they are this myself, it’s pretty easy to turn a $10 candle holder into a $2 candle holder at easy to hate, but you can’t argue with some of the great things they do for the these places without getting in trouble. I, honest to god, saw a guy use counterfeit $1 community … and I’m not talking about free cheese. I’m talking about the Mormon- bills at a DI, and when the clerk busted him, he just played dumb. The manager came backed retail outlet that draws numerous consumers to its stores every day but out and explained to the man that he could get in a lot of trouble for using this illegal Sunday. No, not City Creek. I’m talking about the stores that shut down early on currency at another store and let the man buy his stuff anyway. Mondays for family home evening. I’m talking about everybody’s favorite place to buy infested used furniture and board games with missing pieces. Of course, I’m A small but astute “fuck you” to the federal government it was, but it left me with talking about Deseret Industries (the DI). a warmth in my stomach that makes me want to continue shopping at the DI for the rest of my life. The DI provides many positives for our community—whether it be a job for the dis- advantaged or a cheap suit for the down and out. Local hipsters have long seen the advantage of maximizing their trust funds with the abundance of ironic T-shirts that adorn the store by shopping at the DI. Nothing says thrifty like wearing a $2 pair of pants to a show at Urban Lounge where you end up dropping $80 on booze—but seriously, you can’t put a price on scene points, so don’t worry about that shit.

Needless to say, the DI embraces the spirit of charity unlike any other consumer-based retail outlet we have around here, so I thought it would be nice to encourage all you loyal SLUG readers to do your Christmas shopping there instead of anywhere else. This can save you time and money. Really, if anyone in your family starts bitching about the fact that their gift came from the DI, have them Wikipedia that shit and make them feel guilty as fuck for not liking something that helps so many people.

If anyone is shopping for me, all I really want this year are VHS tapes. I’ve been building my collection backup via the DI. Seeing how they don’t even make VCRs anymore, I’m hoarding VHS tapes like a squirrel on meth. They are the perfect form of entertainment for me—old, washed-up, grainy and indestructible. Once you sift through all the Disney and old Mormon shit, there’s actually some pretty awesome gems that you can take home to rewind and relax with, and a great gift idea for anyone all the while. A Star Wars box set that isn’t digitally remastered is pretty much a given at any DI. Give that shit to anyone as a gift and tell them that this is the only way that Star Wars was meant to be seen, because it’s true.

Christmas gifts are so much about where the item came from. Like, you can always make your parents a piece-of-shit anything, and they will have to like it because you made it. If you are like me and terrible at making anything, then the DI has plenty of shit that you can buy for a buck or two that looks like a blind kid made it in shop class. You can always buy something along these lines—say, a misshapen birdhouse—and tell your parents that you made it for them. No one has to know, it’s just a little white lie on a white Christmas to make everyone happy and keep you in the will. Not only did you save a ton of time and money on a gift, you lied to make someone happy, which is the true essence of the holiday. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t tell stupid kids that Santa is real.

For those of you afraid of getting on Santa’s naughty list and who would like to stay truthful, but still want to shop at the DI for Christmas and put some effort into it: Go to a DI that’s not in the Salt Lake Valley. This way, you can say that you went all over the state looking for the perfect gift all while turning your Christmas shopping into a mini road-trip adventure.

If you’ve never done this, put shopping at the Brigham City DI on your “Things to do in Utah before I die” checklist. You know how awesome a regular Salt Lake thrift store is—now just imagine one in a small, Utah meth town. The peoplewatching alone is worth the drive, even if you don’t buy anything. Inbred Mormons and crystal meth will always have an intriguing output of humanity. Photo: Martín Rivero

As far as actually saving even more money once you get in the store, here are some Mike Brown will inevitably tell his mother that he made tips. The price tag switcheroo is super easy to pull off at any DI. Although I never do these DI-found items for her this Christmas. 42 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 43 Mike Riedel [email protected] Apple-A-Day Apple Ale The holidays are coming, and there’s Brewery/Brand: going to be a lot of liquid cheer com- Wasatch Brewery ing your way, which is likely going ABV: 5.0% to be big and spicy like the season it Serving Style: 12 oz. can represents. It’s truly one of best times of the year for beer. However, we’re only human. Our palates were not designed by Viking gods that have been gifted with the constitutions of Thor. We mere mortals can only last for so long on big, spicy booze bombs—our tongues and psyches need the occasional respite between double gingerbread espresso stouts and Danish honey-fig barley wines. That’s why, for this month’s beer reviews, I have opted to open your eyes to some beers that can fill the gap be- tween übercheer and palate overload. The following beers are full of flavor This ale pours a brilliantly clear-golden and buzz, but will keep you in check color. The head is large and foamy at when you’re on the edge of a burnout. first, but quickly fades to sudsy cap. Be- It goes without saying that a good deal fore I could stick my nose down into the of respect and responsibility should be glass, I got the first whiffs of apples. As shown toward celebrating when your I got in closer, I started to get a big blast celebrations get flooded with so many of Jolly Rancher–type, green-apple aro- high-alcohol beers. Please be safe! mas. There is a slight hint of Vienna malt beneath as well. The taste starts with Element 29 toasty malts. Apple cider comes next, which is much more subdued than the American Pale Ale nose led me to believe. The are some Brewery/Brand: slight lemony flavors in the end. It has a Epic Brewing Company soda-pop type finish. ABV: 5.2% Overall: If you’re wanting a cider, Serving Style: 12 oz. can get a cider—this may not satisfy a big apple craving. This is a beer with apple flavors, and no, this is not gluten free.

Bonanza Dry Hopped Golden Ale Brewery/Brand: Payette Brewing Company ABV: 4.0% Serving Style: 12 oz. can This one pours a light-bronze hue with This pale ale pours a golden-copper a fair amount of sudsy foam on top. The color. The head is foamy and sturdy, nose has some muted floral notes and and sticks around to the bottom of the a smack of citrus-zest aromas. There glass. The tastes starts malty sweet with is some dry, malty sweetness as well. a bit of caramel and cookie-dough fla- The taste starts sweet with caramel and vors. Ripe peach notes come next and a crepe-like bready-ness. Biscuit notes work well with the malts. Hops take come next, adding a bit of dryness. A over toward the end, bringing big flo- hint of rose hips and grapefruit peel ral, tangerine and grapefruit-zest fla- come in next, providing a nice balance vors. The finish is moderately dry with in the end. The finish is crisp and clean a bit of lingering bitterness on the back with a bit of berry sweetness. of the tongue. Overall: The low ABV and its refresh- Overall: The amarillo hops used in this ing qualities make this a perfect ale beer make it appealing, adding great when the big alcohol bombs may not fruity notes while the relatively low ABV be an option. makes it highly drinkable. Cheers!

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Dear Cop, an identification six-pack photo lineup to a victim, and tapping I need an unbiased opinion on an of- your pen on photo Number Four. ficers conduct. That is, while I was re- That’s going to get the ID tossed reading a witness statement for the in court. umpteenth time, I noticed the detective – during what is presented as this wit- Regarding my nature to protect nesses initial statement – revieled he had the cop, I’m not going to say it’s had a prior discussion about this case, generally misconduct. I will say with this key witness: that, it’s a stupid, bush-league er- ror in judgment that rookie cops Detective states: “Yeah. Yeah. I think make. They don’t realize their when you and I talked before you men- error until the case is tossed and tioned something bout …. That he was guilty, bad people go free. Suc- gonna,” cessful investigators know that it’s not the huge-ego, arrogant- Witness responds: “Yeah …” and ad- asshole cop who puts together dresses what their last discussion was good cases. It’s the humble, soft- about – that isn’t raised at anytime prior spoken manipulator who impels in this interview. a conviction—the cop whom the bad guy never saw coming. Isnt this police misconduct – equating to witness tampering? He admits he pre- If there’s that the con- viously spoke to the states key witness versation happened, and some- – the state affirms there is no record one admits to it, then the miscon- of – and then cue’s the witness to talk duct would have occurred when about issues he’d forgotten to raise – as the prosecutor failed to disclose rehersed!? the conversation to defense counsel during discovery. Cops Your thoughts on this – and how some- and prosecutors are accused of one can hold a shysty cop accountable discovery-requirement lapses all for this conduct is appreciated. the time. If it’s intentional, then it is misconduct, but legit occur- Respectfully, rences are rare. Almost every Corey time I’ve seen it, perpetrated by either prosecution or defense, it’s Corey, my friend, an honest mistake and quickly corrected. However, motions by Unbiased? Well, I’m not the one defense related to your scenario to ask if you want 100-percent happen and, many times, it’s a unbiased. If you read my diatribe tactic to get a better deal for their with any regularity, you know clients. Also, scare tactics and that I try to be honest and fair, threats have been used to intimi- usually—but, I am human, and date some prosecutors. by nature I want to protect the cop. That’s not always possible, As I’ve written so many times, and that’s when my honesty and if your scenario is as described fairness kicks in. above, there is process, both ad- ministratively, through internal I don’t know the context of the affairs, and recorded in open “prior discussion” you refer to, court by motions, which deal but if it was regarding testimony, with and correct this “miscon- ex parte, during a hearing where duct.” If a cop is found to have the exclusionary rule is invoked, intentionally misled a witness that’s troubling and wrong. or manipulated facts, that cop is done as a cop, forever. If it’s outside a trial venue, and the dick is setting up or leading Have a question for the Cop? the witness to a conclusion, that’s Email him at equally troubling and wrong. [email protected] An example would be showing 46 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 47 Black Metal: Omnibvs it does not lack the power of inspiration Rick Spears, Chuck BB that Minowa’s music so often ignites. –Andrea Silva Oni Press Street: 10.01 Courage (The Lions of So many tributes to heavy metal have tried and failed to capture the essence of God Trilogy, Volume 1) metal. The Black Metal series of comics, Lloyd D. Frazier however, practically seethes with a true ApogeeInvent appreciation for the genre. Author Rick Street: 02.20 Spears writes the tale of 12-year-old twin The wonderful world of fantasy has a brothers Shawn and Sam Stronghand, brave new addition by first-time author social pariahs who discover their dark Lloyd D. Frazier. I say brave because destiny after listening to a black metal re- it pulls no punches and creates a very cord played backwards. Chuck BB com- real story, told through violent times. As plements the story with a cool, cartoon- a reader, I felt as if I was watching the ish art style that feels like it was peeled story the whole time while the narration off the notebook margins of a bored guided me through the beginning of high school student. Together, they tell what seems to be a long, hard-fought a tale that encompasses Heaven, Hell, tale. The balance between scene shap- Asgard and the nihilistic void. But, de- ing and plot is perfectly crafted and spite the subject matter, it never takes moving, though the book feels neither itself too seriously. Spears might not be repetitive nor boring. There are shock- up-to-date on the most kvlt underground ing scenes in the story, but the author bands, but he sure as hell did his home- has such love for the characters he’s cre- work when it came to the musical and ated that the reader gets pulled further mythological foundations of metal. Black into the story as opposed to cringing Metal ventures deep into the dark hero- and walking away. Few twists and turns ism and grandiosity of the heavy metal are left in the world of fiction, but Frazier mythos, serving as a reminder of what manages to sneak a few wrinkles into brings so many people together to bang a well-trodden genre. Online, Frazier their heads and seek out the truest of has been referred to as the best author the true. You need not be a denim-clad you’ve never heard of, and those merits metal veteran to appreciate this series, sit well with this book. The book even but it certainly helps. –Henry Glasheen features the mandatory fantasy map in its first few pages as a nod to the clas- Chasing the Light: The sics, though I wouldn’t expect any further Story redundancies of former fictions. All in Mark Allister all, this is an excellent book regardless of what genre you prefer. I encourage University of anyone with a bit of whimsy, a moment Press to spare and the desire to be taken away Street: 09.03 to endorse this fine addition to the world Chasing the Light: The Cloud Cult Story is of creative literature. –Benjamin Tilton a cleverly intimate reveal of the emotion- al struggle that birthed Cloud Cult’s rise Salsa! The Sauces of into the indie-rock scene. Mark Allister provides a perspective of the band—not South America only as a music critic and deejay, but (Kindle Edition) also as a friend and supporter. The re- Mick Huerta sult is a thorough collection of reviews Digital Services, Inc. of Cloud Cult’s 11 albums, as well as Street: 03.20 insight into the tragedy, ideology and The result of 20 years of travel and eat- philosophy of the band. Three sections ing, Salsa! The Sauces of South America of “Fans Write” break up the story with is a pleasure to read. This e-book is part testimonials of the personal impact that travel diary and part cookbook, sharing Cloud Cult has made in the lives of their simple recipes and the stories behind followers. These sections are perfectly them. Improve your kitchen game with placed, preventing the depth of Allistar’s homemade salsas ranging from a bright knowledge and heavy appreciation for and flavorful Chimichurri Sauce from ’s passion from becom- to an intriguing Mint Chimi ing overwhelming. The book provides Sauce from Chile. Dress up your favor- fans with and ite meals and impress your friends with connection to Minowa’s journey. While this compelling and tasty collection. the book neglects to fully divulge the dy- –Amanda Rock namics of bandmates and too excessive- ly reminds its reader of the resemblance between Cloud Cult and , 48 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 49 It’ll be in the scary library—just follow the hallway of stone faces.

The Evil Within Prepare to die many meaningless deaths before gracefully landing at Tango Game Works / the end of each level. Yet, tackling Bethesda Softworks these difficult challenges gives the Reviewed on: PS4 player a sense of accomplishment and Also On: PS3, PS4, Xbox satisfaction. Lance Montgomery’s calm, thoughtful score sets the mood 360, Xbox One, PC for a game that requires equal parts Street: 10.14 patience and precision, and an abstract The Evil Within drags you through Art Deco visual style gives Magnetic By pools of blood, terrifying trap mazes Nature a timeless feeling. While other and hordes of zombies for the twisted indie game developers seem to pine pleasure of a total psychopath. The for the coveted triple-A aesthetic, Team story and crisp controls make for an Tripleslash dare to embrace simplicity absolutely frightening and mostly with their debut title. –Henry Glasheen enthralling experience. The weapon selection is reminiscent of Resident Evil, Super Smash Bros. for but there are a few weapons (namely the Agony Crossbow) that add some Nintendo 3DS unique strategy. The outdoor levels seem Sora Ltd. / Bandai present only to add playtime versus Namco Games / telling a story, but still lend themselves to enjoyable zombie blasting. While Nintendo the rollercoaster between zombie Reviewed on: 3DS shooter and survival horror intensifies (exclusive) the terror when players realize that Street: 09.03 an enemy can’t be killed, it also takes some of the game’s identity away when Super Smash Bros. has been one of tight spaces and deadly demons are Nintendo’s best properties since it made replaced by shambling zombies and its first appearance on the Nintendo 64. rocky landscapes. –Thomas Winkley Every installment has just gotten better, though most professional Smash players go with Melee as the best over Brawl. Magnetic By Nature The 3DS version isn’t going to make it Team Tripleslash to the top, but only for a few simple Reviewed On: PC reasons—it’s too small of a screen, and Also On: OUYA when there are four players spread out, Street: 11.10 you can barely tell where you are. It’s caused quite a few accidental deaths Magnetic By Nature is a physics- in my matches. Other than that, it’s based puzzle platformer that takes definitely a greatSmash game to carry a relatively simple mechanic and around. For those of us who get bored uses it to create countless worlds and with just fighting, there are challenges challenges to explore. Instead of to complete to earn stages, tons of creating a high-concept plot and filling trophies and customization pieces. I it with meaningless fluff, Magnetic love that you can customize not only By Nature drops you into the action your Mii characters, but the actual after a brief cinematic. While many characters in the games—you can add games have worked with the basics speed, defense and edit their attacks of magnetism-as-platforming, Magnetic as well. The stadium modes are mostly By Nature takes a lot of the platforms the same. The new Smash Run mode out of the equation, instead forcing isn’t that great, and the classic mode is you to swing through the air with updated a bit with risk-reward choices. expertly timed changes in magnetic It’s going to fulfill your need for Smash. polarity. While the game is extremely –Ashley Lippert fun, it’s also surprisingly difficult. 50 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 51 Movie Reviews

ell, 2014 has been one hell of 2. Web Junkie Top 5 Worst Remakes/ 2. Wild a quick year. The fact that I’ve W 3. The Overnighters Sequels/Prequels/ 3. The Gambler been seeing my breath in the air blows 4. Happy Valley 4. Mr. Turner my mind! As a film lover and geek, it’s 5. Ivory Tower Reboots: 5. Top Five amazing to watch Marvel and DC/ 1. Transformers: Age of Extinction Warner Bros. duke it out with movies scheduled so far out that I’ll be 37 Top 5 Best Actors: 2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Top 5 Most Anticipated years old when I see Avengers: Infinity 1. Michael Keaton (Birdman) 3. Dolphin Tale 2 Films of 2015: 4. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 War – Part II. As many know, one of 2. Jake Gyllenhaal 1. Star Wars: Episode VII: The the greatest individuals and film critics Purge: Anarchy (Nightcrawler) 5. Force Awakens (12.18.15) of all-time, Jeff Michael Vice, passed 3. Eddie Redmayne 2. Avengers: Age of Ultron away this year. I miss sitting next to Top 5 Horror Films: him at screenings and talking about (The Theory of Everything) (05.01.15) the movie afterward, but I am sincerely 4. Ben Affleck (Gone Girl) 1. What We Do in the Shadows 3. Jurassic World (06.12.15) grateful to have known such an 5. Bill Murray (St. Vincent) 2. The Babadook 4. Mad Max: Fury Road amazing man. So, here’s to 2014 (thus 3. As Above, So Below (05.15.15) far) and to remembering those who’ve Top 5 Best Actresses: 4. Annabelle 5. -Man (07.17.15) brought joy and laughter to our lives. I 5. Tusk write this list knowing damn well Vice is 1. Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) 2. Kristen Wiig Top 5 Movie Quotes: hovering over my shoulder shaking his Top 5 Reasons to head with his “right” answers. Let the (The Skeleton Twins) 1. “We’re just like Kevin Bacon!” wackiness ensue! – Jimmy Martin 3. Marion Cotillard Never Have Kids: (Guardians of the Galaxy) (The Immigrant) 1. Maleficent 2. “Spaceship!” (The LEGO Movie) 4. Felicity Jones 2. Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3. “Fuck you, doves!” (22 Jump Street (Theory of Everything) 3. Dolphin Tale 2 ) 4. “People die at the fair.” (A Mil- 5. Helen Mirren 4. Rio 2 lion Ways to Die in the West) (The Hundred-Foot Journey) 5. The Nut Job 5. “Sixty is the new 30, mother Top 5 Worst Actors: Top 5 Reasons to Re- fucker.” (Birdman) 1. Mark Wahlberg verse the Vasectomy: Top 5 Pleasant (Transformers: Age of Extinction) 1. The LEGO Movie Surprises: 2. Paul Giamatti 2. The Boxtrolls 1. Neighbors (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) 3. Big Hero 6 3. Michael Douglas (And So 2. Godzilla 4. How to Train Your Dragon 2 3. Need for Speed It Goes) 5. Mr. Peabody and Sherman 4. Kellan Lutz (The Legend of 4. The Theory of Everything 5. Birdman Hercules) Top 5 Films Adapted 5. (Blended) From Literature: Top 5 Disappoint- Top 5 Worst Actresses: 1. Gone Girl ments: 2. Edge of Tomorrow 1. Cameron Diaz (The Other 1. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3. The Maze Runner Woman) 2. The Monuments Men 4. This Is Where I Leave You 2. Eva Green (300: Rise of an 3. Jersey Boys 5. The Hundred-Foot Journey Top 5 Best Films: Empire) 4. Rio 2 1. Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Olivia Cooke (Ouija) 5. Robocop 2. Interstellar 4. Megan Fox Top 5 Remaining 3. Edge of Tomorrow (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Popcorn Movies of Top 5 Worldwide 4. Gone Girl 5. Kate Upton 2014: Money Makers (as of 5. The LEGO Movie (The Other Woman) 1. The Hobbit: The Battle of 11.17.14): Five Armies Top 5 Worst Films: Top 5 Best Remakes/ 1. Transformers: Age of Extinction 2. Exodus: Gods and Kings ($1,087,404,499) 1. Transformers: Age of Extinction Sequels/Prequels/ 3. Into the Woods 2. Alexander and the Terrible, Hor- 2. Guardians of the Galaxy Reboots: 4. Night at the Museum: Secret of ($770,087,141) rible, No Good, Very Bad Day the Tomb 1. Captain America: The 3. Maleficent ($757,696,030) 3. Earth to Echo 5. Annie 4. The Best of Me Winter Soldier 4. X-Men: Days of Future Past 5. Tammy 2. X-Men: Days of Future Past ($746,045,700) 3. 22 Jump Street Top 5 Remaining 5. Captain America: The Winter Potential Award-Win- Top 5 Documentaries: 4. Godzilla Soldier ($714,083,572) ning Films of 2014: 1. Life Itself 5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 1. Inherent Vice 52 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 53 LocalMusic Reviews

Andy Vigilante Christopher Alvarado = All of Them Witches NCS Media Group Situation Comedy Enigma + Senking + Self-Released Street: 08.05 iVardensphere New City Skyline = Staind – Self-Released Street: 08.27 Godsmack + Fuel Street: 05.24 This is more down-tempo than the usual Grizzly Spectre = Andy Vigilante = we get from Christopher Arthur Russell + Loscil + is in good hands with New Bo Burnham + Astronautalis Alvarado. I couldn’t be more excited. Julianna Barwick City Skyline’s latest installment, Col- I recommend that every belly dancing lisions. Having garnered some initial Operating under the name Grizzly This album kicks off with “The Pilot,” tribe shake their hips to this one—it success from their first project, NCS Spectre for this album, Parker Yeats which is entirely samples of TV show lends itself easily to that style of dance. was more than ready to get back in has stripped the entire apparatus of theme songs from The Simpsons, I love the flamenco guitar style of “Fire the studios and hash out some sweet, his Grizzly Prospector project & Josh, The Office, etc. The majority of Above The Desert Mesa”—this is the catchy goodness. In no way is that a down to a series of movements. These the tracks that follow have a sound- first time I had heard a solid beat in slant. I compare the album to a trip movements come in the form of huge clip based infrastructure with a slower, his work. The track “Visions and Arcs to Las Vegas. Yes, it’s flashy, bright swells of voice floating up through the jazzy cadence and wise lyrics. “The (bonus track)” has an intense, dark, and easily appealing, but it can also floorboards, reverberating through Unusual Suspects” (feat. Kaptain tribal beat that made me want to be tragic and dark, leaving one hell apartments with high ceilings before jacK) manages to layer “Clair De prance around a fire like a witch doc- of a mark. Collisions starts off like a dissipating into the atmosphere. Other Lune” with clips from Seinfeld while tor casting a spell. It is the opposite of wake-up call with “Come Alive,” and movements are sheer mechanical ones: “Ate Oh Won” (feat. Chuck Noland, the track “Two Moons (bonus track),” then halfway through, thumps the best the ponderous downstroke on a guitar Burnell Washburn and NegroDa- which has a light synth style compiled of anthems with “In The End” before unleashing a massive wave of dron- mus) gives a shout-out to SLC: “This is with a dash of dirty ambience at the rounding out the album with a sweet, ing guitar maw. Michael Biggs’ the place / Peace to Brigham Young / end. This is a fantastic splicing of the little ballad called “Better Part of Me.” contributions take on an I’m gonna live and die in the Wasatch two sounds. The collaboration of down I recommend this album to anyone organic voicing, sounding like bowed Front.” Vigilante has a keen, energetic tempo and dirty ambient tracks on this needing the pick-me-up of solid tunes. buried beneath a winter night’s flow that cleverly connects the plethora release makes it my favorite of his so –Benjamin Tilton of samples together. In addition, his far. –Mistress Nancy worth of reverb. Grizzly Spectre are an affecting vehicle for Yeats’ powerful perception about the racial stigmas in- Various Artists volved with hip-hop are on point: “Re- The Cotton Ponies bellow. His voice sounds distant, as if gardless of my passion and talent, the reaching us from another plane. These Industry first thing that’s brought up is that I’m Fancy as Fuck are hymns sung by the living that guide Hel Audio the dead home. –Ryan Hall white.” –Kia McGinnis Self-Released Street: 08.30 Street: 09.13 Herban Empire Industry = West in Dust Christopher Alvarado The Cotton Ponies = compilation + Ghostly Fog Music 12 The Coathangers + Self-Titled EP International Records + Aural Films Hi-Standard x Joan Jett Self-Released Software Records Street: 04.19 Street: 09.01 Fancy As Fuck introduces The Cotton Hel Audio is one of the most exciting Christopher Alvarado = Ponies with the EP’s first song “I Wan- Herban Empire = things to emerge from Utah Valley in One Horse Town + na Fight,” which reveals their formula The Dirty Heads + Pepper + forever. This compilation is a strong White Origins + Carbon111 of simple chords and sped-up beats showing of Hel Audio’s growing stable then stuffed with processed-cheese lyr- of synth-based artists embracing and Christopher Alvarado is an amazing ics—so bad and so good. The change Herban Empire cured my hangover— no joke. Feeling a little rugged from a blending elements of ambient, , ambient artist, but I feel he should have of pace with “Jackass” shows The Cot- a skewered take on acid house and held on to this a bit longer. I think he ton Ponies playing with the idea of a night on the town, I popped this EP in for a spin, and by the end, my head kraut into a sound that, while em- could get out there and capture some slower tempo, which gives the heavy braced individually, gives Hel Audio more sounds of the environment to influences of The Runaways, Joan was full of sunshine instead of gloomy brain-clouds (individual results may a certain aesthetic that is instantly rec- add to this release. I feel that, in do- Jett and Bikini Kill a spot to shine ognizable. Artists in this compilation ing so, it would lend this release more through. With straightforward lyricism, vary). Their sound comes through crys- tal clear (the production and mastering range from the arpeggio-heavy bass stamina and creativity. He could have Abby Allen’s hisses and slurs are lines of the ambient-leaning Moonlets taken the listener on a longer journey made to make lovers blush. In “Math are top-notch—listen with headphones) and brings to mind other stars and Ben Best & Karl Jørgensen to establish why it was titled “Engulfed Geek,” the everyday struggles women to the submerged percussion of Kyle Landscape.” I picked it up on a dark, face with the accessibility of porn are like Tribal Seeds and Sublime, with a dash of funky distortion à la 311. Em- Luntz and Mooninite, to the clas- dreary-looking day. I envisioned walk- revealed: “Looking at naked men ev- sic techno revival spawned by UTA ing in the rain listening to wet footsteps ery now and then … I just want more/ pire set themselves apart with smooth, playful ear-monster melodies that you’ll Trax and Utah Acid Crew. This is and cars driving around in their soaked Too bad I’m just too poor”—the song an incredibly strong -section of surroundings, which I suppose could is my new mantra for visiting that dirty be singing in your . Top tracks on this EP are the bouncy, sun-soaked some of the most sonically adventurous be what he was referring to. Although little sex shop on the Utah/Wyoming coming out of Utah (or this release was calming and soothing, border. The repetitiveness of the al- “What’s Supposed to Be,” and the grit- tier “Soda Pop,” which channels some anywhere for that matter), flying under I couldn’t see where he was trying to bum and lack of instrumental creativity the Hel Audio flag. –Ryan Hall take this. I know he has more to give— show that the band has a way to go in hard rock grooves for head-nodding it just isn’t in this piece. –Mistress Nancy developing their sound. However, their goodness. Really, the whole damn thing is tasty, but EPs are too short. I’m anthems of sex, breakups and high- Are you in a local band? Christopher Alvarado energy attitudes make Fancy as Fuck gonna need a lot more to ward off fu- the album to throw on when rage-hate ture hangovers. –CJ Morgan Send us your album and Translucence breakup sex is pending. –Andrea Silva we’ll review it in print: weareallghosts New City Skyline [email protected] Street 01.27 Grizzly Spectre Collisions 54 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 55 Music Reviews

Archagathus Buzzcocks Creepers es—which has happened roughly three times in the last two months. Thing is, Dehumanizer The Way Lush Final Days has a lot to like for people Regurgitated Semen 1-2-3-4 GO! Records All Black who are really into this sort of music. Records Street: 11.18 Street: 10.28 It even has chimes. I know several Cult Street: 09.01 Buzzcocks = Pete Shelley + Creepers = Lush + of Youth fans who’ll enjoy this. If you’re Archagathus = Agathocles + Sex Pistols + + My Bloody Valentine into that group, put on your gloom Repulsion + Napalm Death Howard Devoto sweater and enjoy listening. –T.H. Creepers is a Deafheaven side As the saying goes, you learn some- When critics mention all of the people Drifting In Silence thing new every day—I hope that’s who listened to The Velvet Under- true. In the case of Archagathus, I ground and started bands because of Desire learned that one of the subgenres they it, the Buzzcocks is one of the least like- Labelle Records go by is called mincecore. Having ly you’d think of. But they played a key Street: 10.21 never heard the term, I looked it up. role in shaping the British punk scene Drifting In Silence = Essentially, it’s just grind with a social in the late ’70s, turning from the anger The Glitch Mob + and political theme. Also never having of the Sex Pistols—with whom they (Bassnectar – heavy bass) heard of Archagathus, I discovered gigged—to biting, sarcastic wit. The the band has more releases than I can sarcastic edge is still there, but there’s “Dear god, not another al- count with my fingers. The record ba- nothing here that’s musically as edgy as bum,” I thought to myself when I first sically fits into some stereo- “Orgasm Addict.” In fact, “Keep On Be- saw the album artwork for Desire. The types: lots of releases, and the main is lieving” is downright positive thinking! I cover depicts a graphic of the artist’s that the music is actually pretty enter- thought old punk bands were supposed name with some red, squiggly lines taining, but at the same time, once the to fade away or something. This is the and blotches faded together to look album has played through, you don’t Buzzcocks, all right, but it’s no advance- like a supernova (at least that’s my have any real memory of songs—you ment on their sound—why not just listen project, and features the black metal interpretation). Basically, it screamed just remember listening to loud, buzz- to their early greats? The Banksy-in- band’s toned-down, dreamier side. dubstep. Following a classic example saw-grinding guitars accompanied by spired cover art is nice. The UK release The lyrics are indiscernible on Lush, but of the ancient and wise Bo Diddley guttural and high-snarled screams. De- was on the PledgeMusic it’s because they soothingly blend into proverb, “You can’t judge a book by humanizer is a nasty release for sure, and is a direct-to-fan funding platform, each song’s melody in true shoegazer its cover,” the album was far from what but not one I’m going to pump the where 5-percent of proceeds after the fashion. Guitar pedals and synthesiz- I expected—in a good way. I’m going volume up for often—just because its band’s goal is reached to fund the ers are used to create a world equally to categorize this album into what ev- taste dissolves quickly after digestion. recording are being donated to the indebted to rock and psyche- ery reviewer describes as a post-EDM –Bryer Wharton Teenage Cancer Trust. This just might delic music. There’s an ominous tone electronic album—ambient, glitchy be the future of the . throughout Lush, which is more than a and rock-influenced. The heavy drum- Bell Gardens –Stakerized! tease. There are several moments on beats mesh well with the Slow Dawns for Lost the album where unexpected, tumultu- and hypnotizing robotic sounds. High- Co-Pilgrim ous drumming and ear-pounding gui- lights of the album are “Until,” “Lie” Conclusions tar riffs smothered in fuzz snapped me and “Consciousness.” Get the album if Plumes out of my dreamlike state of listening. you obsess over The Glitch Mob like I Battle Worldwide Street: 10.27 It’s similar to the feeling of watching do. –Julia Sachs Recordings Bell Gardens = M. Ward + a slasher film, and having your heart Street: 05.26 Iron and Wine stop when the frightening moment that Elisa Ambrogio Co-Pilgrim = Mist and Mast you’ve been expecting to happen, hap- The Immoralist With lead Kenneth James + M. Ward pens when you least expected it to. Ul- Gibson comes a voice that sings timately, Creepers’ debut LP is a creep Drag City Records deep at the bass level, creating a rock- Co-Pilgrim are back after a number of show because its most tender moments Street: 10.21 ing sensation for a sweet little babe years with album number three, Plumes. eventually become its most threatening Elisa Ambrogio = Mirah + about to fall asleep. Starting the al- This album is a solid and hauntingly ones as well. –Justin Gallegos Kimya Dawson bum with “Darker Side of Sunshine” beautiful 10-track, melodic pop album. You may have heard Ambrogio as brought me to a level of reverence and Together, Mike Gale, Joe Bennett, Cult of Youth the lead singer in the heavier band sincerity, and following it with “Silent Tom Wenzel, Andy Reaney and Magik Markers, but nowadays Prayer” only sealed that sensation, Claire Bennett play guitars, bass, Final Days she’s a solo artist with a heart-on-her- making this a humbling listen. To add vocals, keyboards, string instruments Sacred Bones sleeve attitude about songwriting. Her to that, “Avere,” an interlude before and percussion to amplify each song Street: 11.11 tracks have a sweet and soft pace, with the , evokes a spacious set- in a bittersweet manner—and by bit- Cult of Youth = electric undertones and subtle build of ting with echoing sounds. While tersweet, I mean that the lyrics are + Deer Tick + Der Fluch tension. She uses unpretentious lyri- I’m tempted to file this under “another perfectly written and harmonized to be There isn’t much I like about this record, cism about love and romance that will Americana folk band,” Bell Gardens both happy and sad at the same time. from “mean voice” baritone vocals and kick your heart in the ass. In “Mary add some really interesting textural Songs like, “Dancin’ Hoods” epitomize moody acoustic strums (“Of Amber”), Perfectly,” she sings, “Every fire in his- layers that make it dreamy and ambi- how Plumes is the soundtrack for star- it has all those goth-folk touchstones I tory burned hot and then burned out.” ent, which lends a refreshing spin to the ing at the stars while feeling everything complain about when the subject aris- “Stopped Clocks” has fast-paced bass genre. –Brinley Froelich deeply. –Lizz Corrigan 56 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 57 and a Karen O feel, while “Fever ing innocence with a touch, had me got a few gems worth one’s attention. Populous Sealed Yes Forever” is 1:46 of an al- intrigued. I also thought the chiptune –Nick Kuzmack most gospel-ly electro-organ solo. The style fragments on “Dependence” was Night Safari Immortalist will have you empathizing an interesting twist—I would have liked Marianne Faithfull Bad Panda Records Street: 09.29 hard because it’s relatable without be- to hear more of that style mixed in. The Give My Love To ing preachy. –Kia McGinnis Freakangel remix of “Anticomprimiz- Populous = + er” has the stomping, grinding-noise Naïve / Easy Sound Bonobo feel that makes you want to pound out Street: 11.11 Flying Lotus Populous’ newest album is a long- your aggression on the dance floor. I Marianne Faithfull = awaited release, and damn was it You’re Dead! really like the direction they took with + worth the wait. A blend of tribal, soul, Warp Records this release—it gives me hope for the Celebrating her sixth decade in the exoticism and experimentation, Night Street: 10.06 aggrotech style. –Mistress Nancy Flying Lotus = MF DOOM + industry, Faithfull—and her eclectic in- Safari is worth a listen—or 20. Its clean Duke Ellington + Holly & Plastic strument—returns with a blazing new production and variant instrumentation collection of songs and an equally im- Boards of Canada + all highlight Andrea Mangia’s world We Will Give This World pressive lineup of collaborators: Nick explorations, which took place during Felix Laband Away Cave, Roger Waters and Brian his six-year hiatus. The album is provoc- doubleplusgood records Eno to name but three. The rollicking ative and enticing and so very percus- Street: 11.04 title cut, written with Steve Earle, al- sion heavy. “Brasilia” and “Brighton Holly & Plastic = most sounds like a pirate ditty, while Pier” are two of the album’s highlights. Andrew Jackson Jihad + Cave wrote the haunting and torch Their calming ambience accented the Charles Ellsworth + song-esque “Late Victorian Holocaust” more electro-pop tracks such as “Wa- Bright Eyes specifically for her. They also com- ter Temple.” It’s a transformative but posed “Deep Water,” which features accessible album for the masses and Folk-influenced country twang is in- Warren Ellis of the Bad Seeds. elitists alike. –Kamryn Feigel fused subtly with punk and melded with Waters’ gift is the anthemic “Spar- millennial indie, with the heaviest dose rows Will Sing,” which is highlighted Porya Hatami on “Normal Nightmares.” Andrew by dueling keyboards. What is always Johnson portrays both ire and exqui- great about hearing Faithfull perform is Arrivals and Departures siteness by combining wistful acoustic that you believe what she’s singing; it Time Released Sound instrumentation with a recurrently tor- feels like she’s really lived it. Even her Street: 09.28 tured vocal tone. The fusion of genres covers—a delicious reading of Leon- Porya Hatami = Siavash creates a unique and undeniably relat- ard Cohen’s “Going Home,” a rous- Amini + Asfandyar Khan + The best part of a new Flying Lotus al- able album fit for any bizarre, mixed ing take of the Everly Brothers’ “The bum is that you know you can count mood you find yourself experiencing. Price Of Love” and classic “I Get Along If you haven’t been paying attention, on it being good, and with the release The combination of anger, melancholy Without You Very Well”—sound re- some of the best ambient-drone mu- of his fifth studio album, You’re Dead!, and hope pricks deep in the chest, es- markably like her own. –Dean O Hillis sic has come out of some of the most L.A.-based producer Steven Ellison pecially on “Chasing Ghosts.” Fall is obscure places in the past few years. continues to impress. Collaborating symbolized by a ritualistic cleansing Necrophagia Macedonia, , Indonesia, Paki- with artists like Stephen Bruner of of a past self, accompanied necessar- WhiteWorm Cathedral stan and Iran (where Porya Hatami Thundercat and West Coast OG ily by apprehension. “Junk Theories” Season Of Mist hails from) have consistently been —as well as soundtrack typifies the strange and conflicted set Street: 10.28 pumping out some of the most star- master/composer/conductor Ennio of emotions I feel when stomping on tlingly astute recordings that bridge the Morricone and his very own leaves, and We Will Give this World Necrophagia = Cannibal gap between evocative ambient music alternate ego, the infamous Captain Away, as a whole, represents that same Corpse + Autopsy and heady post-classical. Hatami’s Murphy—Ellison takes you on a per- enjoyment and melancholy associated Necrophagia returned with their fol- latest record, Arrivals and Departures, fectly planned, electronically-infused, with destruction of dispensable beauty. low-up to 2011’s masterpiece Deathtrip is full of calming, surging synthesizer acid jazz trip on the subject of death. –LeAundra Jeffs 69 just in time for Halloween, undoubt- tones that ebb and flow like the tide The album is dark and foreboding at edly the band’s favorite holiday. The coming in. Beneath all of this droning times, but before its release, Ellison Hookworms artwork is fucking silly (this coming beauty are fluttering keys, delicate gui- took to saying that it was meant to be The Hum from a guy who mostly reviews metal tar lines and unhurried ambience and a celebration of death, a soul-cathartic Weird World/ Domino albums, for Christ’s sake) but the fluidity—a perfect record for crisp fall purge of a look at the possibilities pre- Street: 10.14 tunes more than make up for this. Vir- days and cold nights. One of the few, sented to one in the afterlife. Grab your Hookworms = Rubella tuoso and longtime co-conspirator with great pleasures in life is discovering headphones and flip the lights off for Ballet + X-Ray Spex + Sigh, Mirai Kawashima layers something that holds so much beauty this one. –Carl Acheson Siouxsie and The Banshees eerie, B-movie keyboards over some coming from so far away. Do yourself of the most horror-drenched, wicked a favor and sink into this record as the Freaky Mind Switching this on, The Hum wastes death metal imaginable. Newcomer days get even shorter and beauty be- Surrogate little time with first track “The Impasse“ Abigail Lee Nero had no problems comes more fleeting. –Ryan Hall SkyQode in surrounding the unsuspecting lis- assimilating to the unmistakable style Street: 09.30 tener with a wall of an overwhelming, of the band and boy, can she shred. Primus fuzzed-out, psych garage / proto- The shrill vocals are what you’d expect Freaky Mind = Nitronoise + punk sound. It only gets better from from founding member and horror Primus & the Chocolate Surgyn + Grendel here—“On Leaving” drags one’s mind movie guru Killjoy, but that doesn’t Factory with the Fungi I was leery when Russia’s Freaky Mind through the depths of simulated mad- mean that they don’t kick ass. On the Ensemble ness that doesn’t stop until the needle contrary, I’d be disappointed if he had aggrotech came through my inbox. I ATO / Prawn Song Records comes across the more up-tempo, changed anything—it would be like started listening though, and enjoyed Street: 10.21 what I was hearing. It was not just the “Radio ” with a tune that says if re-released The Primus = Flaming Lips’ The redundant screaming and catchy back- ”Let’s kick shit over.” Mostly, though, Thing with imposing CGI creatures à la ing bass lines of what is coming out this album lives up to its name—pro- George Lucas. I’ll admit, I’m biased Flaming Lips and Stardeath now in the genre—I was ecstatic that it viding a constant, distorted hum-like on this one, because Necrophagia are and White Dwarfs and was something more impressive with a sound throughout all 38 minutes. This one of my favorite bands, but White- Henry Rollins and Peaches myriad of sounds and styles. The slower can be fun if you are on something that Worm Cathedral blasts far beyond me- Doing The Dark Side of the style of aggression and sexy samples gives the mind the ability to wander diocrity into a realm where it rains Hal- Moon + Disney’s Splash of “Touch (Crime),” and dominating the stretches of the universe and want loween candy and tits. –Alex Coulombe Mountain lyrics that suggested one was steal- something heavy with loads of distor- Who can take an overused tion to listen to. It’s not brilliant, but it’s 58 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 59 soundtrack, sprinkle it with slap bass Panda Bear guitar sound to poor recording as op- to get lost in their own head for a little and make it something awesome? The posed to distortion on a bass. Making while. –Nic Smith Claypool man can! In a most appro- I think that there are two ways to ex- this distinction helps with understand- priate and welcome tribute, the quint- pand art into new territory. The first is ing Trigger, but not necessarily enjoy- Witch Mountain essential Primus lineup—Claypool, to take previously established styles ing them. The first four or five songs Larry “Ler” LaLonde and Tim and push beyond convention in unique bleed into one another to create a Mobile of Angels “Herb” Alexander—reunite after ways. The second, and preferred meth- five-minute long blastbeat explosion, Profound Lore nearly 20 years, accompanied by the od on Geocidal, is to say, “Fuck it,” and which could be taxing even for the Street: 09.30 The Daily Calendar Fungi Ensemble, to nail musically what go wild. This record could probably be most ardent grind fan. Start Our Re- Witch Mountain = Tim Burton described as more of a sound collage Serpentcult + The Sleer – failed miserably at visu- venge’s 20 tracks are fast and tight, but Get your event listed for free in print, online and on our iPhone app! Sign up for a free SLUG Calendar account at slugmag.com/calendar. ally: to remake the paranoia-inducing than a collection of songs, which isn’t unfortunately become challenging for YOB necessarily a bad thing, but it doesn’t Willy Wonka. “Golden Ticket” pays the wrong reasons. Grind aficionados Friday, December 5 Tuesday, December 9 Coin In The Sea, Bat Manors, Rights - City Library Monday, December 22 Bands like Witch Mountain are a really make for a compelling listen may find something here, but dabblers Season Of The Witch - ABG’s Molotov - Complex Volcano Bay Ragdoll Factory DJ Che - Sushi Groove homage to Sailing the Seas of Cheese, Wednesday, December 17 either. Geocidal feels like it needs a dime a dozen nowadays. With lazy, Kepi Ghoulie, Mean Jeans, Suicidal Tendencies, Trash Talk - Muse Music producing the fiercest, frolicking will find more elsewhere. –Peter Fryer Candy’s River House - Deluxe half-hearted riffs plodding endlessly JAWWZZ!! - Diabolical - Depot Octappella Christmas - Rose Wagner Tuesday, December 23 visual component to be really success- Kevyn Dern - Hog Wallow Claypool bass line since “Jerry Was a JJ Flores - Downstairs Wing & Claw, The Free Range Lukas Nelson & P.O.T.R., Christmas - Bar Deluxe ful. As it stands, it’s interesting, but not toward unsatisfying conclusions, the Kingdom of Giants, Race Car Driver,” with funk elements Ultimate Painting Bad Feather - Garage Reveleers - Diabolical Jeff Crosby & The Refugees Christmas Cheers Film Fest - Brewvies one thing keeping Mobile of Angels Wounds of Valor, Away At Lakeside, something I really feel like I want to Scenic Byway - Hog Wallow The Birthday Massacre, - State Room Giraffula, Palace of Buddies, Birth- from early albums as well as the Black Throne, continue listening to after I finish writ- Self-Titled out of a Wal-Mart bargain bin is Uta Voodoo Glow Skulls - In The Venue New Years Day, Trent Call, Guido van der Werve quake, Coyote Vision Group - Urban stiffer, punk bass sound from Antipop. Dethrone the Sovereign - Metro Trouble In Mind Plotkin’s stellar vocal performance. The Echo Era, Mojave Natives, - Murray Theater - UMOCA ing this review. tētēma are off the deep Creativity in Focus - Beltracchi: The Wednesday, December 24 The newly repackaged “Oompa Au- Steele Born Buffalo - Kilby Jerry Joesph, Starmy - Urban SLUG Localized: L’anarchiste, end of art for the sake of art, but may- Street: 10.20 Yet, whenever Rob Wrong backs off Art of Forgery - UMFA Christmas Eve gustus” adds more playfulness while Worlds Collide, Riksha, L.H.A.W. 2014 Winter Battle Of The Bands: Book On Tape Worm, his self-conscious pretense of heavi- Blackalicious, Happy Birthday, Ben Trentle- be, in a few years, we’ll be heralding Ultimate Painting = - Liquid Joe’s Night 2 - Velour Loud Harp, The Awful Truth “I Want It Now” introduces a Middle Daniel Bambaata Marley, man! this record as paving the way for new ness, the album noticeably improves. Charlatan, Broken Silence, - Urban Eastern sound with the Fungi’s added + Scenic Byway, Better Taste Bureau Kurt Bestor - Egyptian Theatre kinds of innovation in popular music. “Your Corrupt Ways (Sour the Hymn)” Heavystone, Mathew Lanier, Wednesday, December 10 2014 Winter Battle Of The Bands: (Pavement / Pinback) - Urban percussion driving it on. –Darcy W. Nick Johnson - Metro Happy Birthday, Ryan Hall! Night 4 - Velour Thursday, December 25 –Alex Gilvarry and “The Shape Truth Takes” play to Happy Birthday, Thomas Intra-Venus & The Cosmonauts, Ledd Foot - Westerner Thursday, December 18 Christmas Day I wonder whether the reason I hear the band’s strengths, incorporating a Winkley! Magda-Vega - Muse Music Happy Birthday, Joshua Joye! Kurt Bestor - Egyptian Theatre The Shivas John Davis - Hog Wallow Saturday, December 13 The Transmission The Velvet Underground’s influence in sparser sound that lends Plotkin’s lilt- Dirty South - Park City Live The Chickens - Bar Deluxe Happy Birthday, Alex Cragun! Friday, December 26 so much modern rock is because they ing harmonies a sorrowful sincerity. - Saltair Courage My Love, You Know What to Do Sin City Soul - Brewskis Corey Christansen - Garage Kwanzaa NOW Old Port & The Religious Enforcers Save The World Get The Girl, still greatly influence it, or that I’m just Perhaps it’s a good thing that Plotkin Batcave Gothic Industrial Night Morgan Snow - Hog Wallow Bombshell Academy, K Records - Shred Shed Racecar Racecar - Kilby White Night obsessed and I hear what I want to has finally left the band—her poten- - Club X Bobby Meader - Metro New Born Slaves - ABG’s Street: 10.28 Desert Noises, Timmy The Teeth Utah Grizzlies Wild Wednesday Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Kathleen Frewin - Muse Music - Area 51 Setting Records hear. When it comes to Ultimate Paint- tial feels wasted here. In the wake of - Velour - Maverik Center The Shivas = Dr. Dog + Haujobb, Youth Code - Complex Cobol, Bello, Artemis - Urban Corey Mon - Garage Street: 10.21 ing’s self-titled debut LP, though, I know her departure, it’s not quite clear what Big Wild Wings, MiNX, Stanley & The Search, Version Two, Loss Of Existence, Mista Meat Marinade - Hog Wallow The Ventures + I’m not crazy—it sounds almost exactly the rest of the band will have to of- Shasta & The Second Strings Danny the Skeleton Horse, Friday, December 19 The Transmission NOW = Somewhere In The Attic, - Dawg Pound Happy Birthday, Traci Grant! The Stone Sage - Mestizo The Black Angels like the VU, specifically their 1969 fer, but they’re going to need to step - Woodshed The Replacements + FIDLAR Daniel Murtaugh - Metro DJ Scooter, DJ Juggy - Downstairs Magda-Vega, Johnny Slaughter, - Park City Live + Face To Face self-titled record. The title track’s gui- up significantly to make up for her Saturday, December 6 Chamber Music Series - UMFA Ross K, Teejay - Elevate The Bi-Polar Express - ABG’s PE: Phundamental Education, tar and twang is purely “Some absence. In the meantime, I will keep Pin Me Up By Ashley Marie’s 4th The Circulars, Chalk, Beachmen, Phil Friendly Trio - Garage Kurt Bestor - Abravanel Mark E. Quark - Urban Annual Rockin’ Christmas Charity JAWWZZ!! - Urban Bad Feather - Hog Wallow In a genre that everyone claims is dried Kinda Love,” and the chiming “Central an eye out for where Plotkin goes next. Razihel - Area 51 Saturday, December 27 Event - Bar Deluxe 2014 Winter Battle Of The Bands: Dillon Francis - In The Venue Girl On Fire, Raw Fabrics, The Breakfast Klub - Brewskis up (or, dare I say, dead), bands like The Park Blues” duplicates the sound of –Henry Glasheen Batcave Gothic Industrial Night Night 3 - Velour Pallbearer, Solstafir, Mortals - Kilby Zodiac Empire - Bar Deluxe Batcave Gothic Industrial Night Transmission NOW act as the musical “What Goes On,” but with preciously - Club X Blood On The Dance Floor, Miss Omega - Brewskis - Club X Vagablonde, The Henry Wade Band, Thursday, December 11 Whitney Peyton, Davey Suicide, defibrillator that gets punk rock’s heart disaffected lyrical verses in Courtney Yelle The Weekenders - Garage Robb’s Super Jam - Hog Wallow Wonderstone - Deer Hunter Pub Adelitas Way, Conflict Of Interest Sweet Ascent, Social Repose beating again. It’s no easy task, but Barnett style. “Riverside,” with its mel- Stonefed - Hog Wallow Nora Dates, No Sun - Kilby 6th Annual Toy Drive - Downstairs - Bar Deluxe - Murray Theater Complètement Fou Buttons - Loading Dock Utah Grizzlies Post-Game Skate The Transmission NOW have solidified ancholy synth and one-beat rhythm, Carrie Snow, Sandy Hackett Mark Chaney & The Garage Allstars Tha Connection, Non Stop Vibes Kemosabe Eidola, My Fair Fiend, With Team - Maverik Center their sound with three-part harmonies, strays from the VU sound, but “Ten - Egyptian Theatre - Garage - Muse Music Men With Matches - Muse Music Winter Farmer’s Market Street: 09.29 Brooke Evers, Supro - Elevate Jon O & Jasper Acoustic-fed BRILLZ, Snails - Park City Live distortion, even hints of Street” brings it right back. If it weren’t Royal Bliss, American Hitmen - Rio Grande David Williams, The Come Ups, - Hog Wallow Christmas Art Adoption thrown in as well. Their EP for the vocals, I’d think half of these Yelle = Uffie x La Roux + - The Royal Eagle Twin, Cult Leader, Stag Hare Cling Film - Garage The Word Alive, The Color Morale, - Photo Collective Studios Little Boots The Devil Whale, - Urban is split down the middle, with one half songs by the UK duo actually were The Mokie - Hog Wallow Our Last Night, Dead Rabbits, Winter Farmer’s Market - Miss Fortune - In The Venue Max Pain & The Groovies, called the White Side and the other Velvet Underground—and that’s why I The Moose, Red Yeti, Queenadilla Rio Grande Sunday, December 28 Let’s just get the obvious out of the way Breezeway - Kilby The North Valley, Starmy, called the Night Side. The White Side can’t stop listening to it. –Cody Kirkland - Kilby Guy Davis, Kate MacLeod Geek Show Movie Night - Brewvies now: Julie Budet is a boss bitch. The Porch - Storytelling - Muse Music Pleasure Thieves - Urban track, “White Night,” boasts its contra- I Capture Castle, Beneath Red Skies, - State Room Kaleb Austin - Westerner She and GrandMarni create booty- Entomb the Wicked, American Dance Spectacular; Cannabis Corpse, Monday, December 29 dictory title with chipper melodies op- Christmas with Misfits - Rose Wagner WISH bumpin’ Euro dance-pop with abso- Delusions of Godhood, Mammoth Grinder, Inanimate Saturday, December 20 Happy Birthday, Releasing their fourth LP, The Shivas are posed by ominous lyrics. Then, on the Arsenal of Destruction Horse Feathers, Sara Jackson- Existence Drunk As Shit, Deathblow The Coverdogs - Brewskis Catie Weimer! Self-Titled lutely no regard for language barriers. Holman - State Room Utah Grizzlies Maverik Monday back with an album that will surely get Night Side, “To the Sun” and “Dressed - Murray Theater - The Core Batcave Gothic Industrial Night Hand Drawn Dracula On their third album, we see how much The Secrets to Happiness - Maverik Center to Kill” go all out with dark, vivid lyr- Dungeons & Comedy - Muse Music Say Anything, Saves The Day, - Club X you shakin’. From beginning to end, they’ve grown up and into their signa- - The Leonardo Reggie & The Full Effect - The Grand EC Twins, Ross K - Elevate (Worldwide) Swing Hero, The Ditch & The Delta, Tuesday, December 30 You Know What To Do delivers at all ics of sexual encounters that could only Eminence Front - MusicGarage Lost, The Artist, Astroknots, Khensu, & , Cunninlynguists, Color Animal, The Circulars, Street 08.26 ture ’80s synth-pop sound. Produced by Elephant Revival, Taarka - State Room take place at night. It’s music like this The Original Wailers, The Earful Gentry Fox - Urban DJ Abilities, DJ Fresh, - Urban Strong Words - Garage tempos, pumping me up and then slow- Dr. Luke, Completèment Fou showcas- Dark Seas, Breakers, WISH = Sonic Youth + - Park City Live 2014 Winter Battle Of The Bands: 2014 Winter Battle Of The Bands: Tony Holiday & The Velvetones ing things down. With the surf vibe’s that not only hold up to the punk rock Season Of The Witch, Red Tele- es more polished beats and ridiculously Holiday Open House Night 4 - Velour Finals - Velour - Hog Wallow ethos, but enhance it by bringing in Foxygen + phone - Urban strong presence, the album’s opener catchy lyrics. The title track features - Red Butte Garden Craft Lake City & West Elm Ledd Foot - Westerner Love & Theft, Joel Crouse something new. –Eric U. Norris Broken Social Scene presents: Caramel Apples With and title track starts with a familiar riff funky electronic beats combined with Winter Farmer’s Market - In The Venue Wednesday, December 31 Alexis Waters of Sweet Janes Sunday, December 14 and quickly progresses into a groovy, - Rio Grande Oro Solido - Infinity Happy Birthday, Xkot Toxsik! WISH’s self-titled album is a collec- GrandMarni’s own brand of trance-pop - West Elm Happy Birthday, Swing Hero - Shred Shed Nick Thomas, My Body Sings Electric Mortigi Tempo, The Troubles, upbeat tune. The upbeat melody con- Trigger and Budet’s euphoric vocals. “Ba$$in,” Maria Valenzuela! tion of cerebral tunes, Jagertown, Mark Owens, - Loading Dock Temples - ABG’s tinues halfway through the album, until Friday, December 12 Marv Hamilton - Garage Start Our Revenge which seem to hearken back to the by far the most danceable and experi- Sam Vancrisco, Sober Down 3LAU - Park City Live Annual Masquerade Ball - Area 51 Phil Friendly, The Hurricane Kings NOVA Chamber Music Series Pres- “Beach Heads” comes on and gives mental track, combines repetitive lyrics, - The Madison Winter Solstice Celebration Atomic 45 - Bar Deluxe Everydayhate Records classic “indie” and “no wave” rock - ABG’s ents: Russian Greats and Moldovan your neck a break from nodding to Live Pro Wrestling - UCW-Zero Arena - Red Butte Garden Elephant Revival, Taarka - State Room from the ’90s. The band explores but keeps us interested with a myriad of Pierce Filton - Area 51 Musings - Libby Gardner Hall Street: 09.21 Holiday Market - UMFA Winter Farmer’s Market Max Pain & The Groovies, the beat. With the exception of this different beats and sounds underneath Seven Second Memory, Wretched, Darkblood, Trigger = Magrudergrind + the tension of distorted noise over Joshua James, Timmy The Teeth - Rio Grande Flash & Flare, Matty Mo - Urban track and maybe one other, the al- Backwoods Burning, Eyes of Damnation, Dezecration, strong drum lines and driving bass bouncy (and fairly explicit) lyrics. “Nuit - Urban Marry Christmas - Rose Wagner Man is the Bastard + Par For the Curse, In the Arms of Atrocity - Metro bum keeps quite the pace and a great de Baise Parts I &II” (translation: “Night Desert Noises, Lemon & Le Mule Seasons Beatings Pro Wrestling Thursday, January 1 riffs. At times, songs like “Slacker” Machine Gun Rerun, Christmas Art Adoption rhythm. The last track softly brings it to Napalm Death - Velour - UCW-Zero Arena New Year’s Day and “Frances In Space” made me of Fucking”) slows things down and of- In the Arms of Atrocity - Bar Deluxe - Photo Collective Studios an end, but left me wanting more of Third Saturday for Families: Make a Bass, drums, vocals—that’s it. This is feel like I should dance through my fers a rare male vocal track to get your Sunday, December 7 Tony Holiday & The Velvetones Friday, January 2 Monday, December 15 Clock - UMFA that Shivas sound. Bravo, I say, bravo. freak on with. However, if anything, Save Our Banksy - Egyptian Theatre - Brewskis Pick up the new issue of SLUG one of the most stripped-down forma- own insanity. A handful of songs Happy Birthday, CJ Morgan! Flash & Flare - Urban –Dylan Evans College, OK Ikumi - Kilby Season Of The Witch - Garage - Anyplace Cool! tions you can have for a band, and it from this record have their moments Yelle proves once again that it’s not Billy Idol, Bleachers, Priory - Complex All-Star Christmas Special - Velour Wasatch Front Winter Farmers Candy’s River House - Hog Wallow Happy Birthday, about what you say—it’s about how Wing & Claw - Copper Common Kaleb Austin - Westerner can work. Man is the Bastard, Death of confidence and clarity, but, for Market - Wheeler Farm Barn Maddie & Tae - Infinity Sumerset Bivens! tētēma From Above 1979 and even Spi- the most part, WISH create a feeling you say it. –Allison Shephard The Wild War, Beachmen, Smoke Season - Kilby Sunday, December 21 Broken Down Guitars - Brewskis Monday, December 8 Red Telephone, Grand Banks - Kilby Around The Rose - Rose Wagner Wall Of The Fallen, Controlled nal Tap made the absence of six of dreamy melancholia with a rapid Happy Birthday, Geocidal Spoon, A Giant Dog - Depot Vagablonde, Spencer Nielsen Band, Augustana, Scars On 45 - Urban Michael Sahchez! Demise, You’ll Die Knowing - Metro strings work for them. This information heartbeat. I recommend this album to Lemuria, Into It Over It, Chalk - Kilby Swinging Lights, Wonderstone Slumber Party 6: Book On Tape Ipecac Recordings Tuesday, December 16 Tommy Castro & The Painkillers is key to placing Trigger, as I didn’t those who still have the soundtrack Read more 2014 Winter Battle Of The Bands: - Liquid Joe’s Worm - Velour Street: 12.09 Hanukkah Begins - Egyptian Theatre Night 1 - Velour Tainted Halos, HiFi Murder, Bombshell Academy, MiNX, Show pick up on this until later spins of the to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World in their reviews Wolvhammer, King Parrot - Area 51 Corey Mon - Garage tētēma = ODDSAC-era Jail City Rockers, Version Two, Me Island - Woodshed album, attributing the thin distorted cars, and anyone else who’s looking Amnesty International Write For – at slugmag.com Braindead Constance - Mojos 60 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 61 62 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 63