SaltLakeUnderGround 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 21• Issue # 263 •November 2010 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray [email protected] Editor: Angela H. Brown Mike Cundick Managing Editor: [email protected] Jeanette D. Moses Jemie Sprankle Editorial Assistant: Ricky Vigil [email protected] Action Sports Editor: Shauna Brennan Adam Dorobiala [email protected] Copy Editing Team: Jeanette D. Marketing: Ischa Buchanan, Jea- Moses, Rebecca Vernon, Ricky nette D. Moses, Jessica Davis, Billy Vigil, Esther Meroño, Liz Phillips, Katie Ditzig, Hailee Jacobson, Stephanie Panzer, Rio Connelly, Joe Maddock, Buschardt, Giselle Vickery, Veg Vollum, Alexander Ortega, Mary Enge, Kolbie Josh Dussere, Chrissy Hawkins, Emily Stonehocker, Cody Kirkland, Hannah Burkhart, Rachel Roller, Jeremy Riley. Christian. SLUG GAMES Coordinators: Mike Daily Calendar Coordinator: Brown, Jeanette D. Moses, Mike Reff, Jessica Davis Sean Zimmerman-Wall, Adam Doro- [email protected] biala, Jeremy Riley, Katie Panzer, Jake Social Networking Coordinator: Vivori, Brett Allen, Chris Proctor, Dave Katie Rubio Brewer, Billy Ditzig. Cover: Photograph by Nick Zinner, Distribution Manager: Eric Granato from the book Please Take Me Off the Distro: Eric Granato, Tommy Dolph, Guest List by Nick Zinner, Zachary Li- Tony Bassett, Joe Jewkes, Jesse pez & Stacy Wakefield. Reprinted with Hawlish, Nancy Burkhart, Adam Heath, permission of Akashic Books. Adam Okeefe, Manuel Aguilar, Chris Issue Design: Joshua Joye Proctor, David Frohlich, Mike Cundick. Design Interns: Adam Dorobiala, Office Interns: Jessica Davis, Jeremy Eric Sapp Riley, Chris Proctor. Ad Designers: Todd Powelson, Senior Staff Writers: Mike Brown, Kent Farrington, Sumerset Bivens, Mariah Mann-Mellus, James Orme, Jaleh Afshar, Lionel WIlliams, Christian Lance Saunders, Jeanette D. Moses, Broadbent, Kelli Tompkins, Maggie Bryer Wharton, Peter Fryer, James Poulton, Eric Sapp, Brad Barker, KJ, Bennett, Ricky Vigil, Adam Dorobiala, Lindsey Morris, Paden Bischoff. Gavin Hoffman, Conor Dow, Jon Website Design: Kate O’Connor Robertson, Rebecca Vernon, Ross Illustrators: Jared Smith, Manuel Solomon, Sam Milianta, Jimmy Martin, Aguilar, Ryan Perkins, Phil Cannon Ben Trentelman, JP, Jesse Hawlish, Photographers: Ruby Johnson, Katie Tyler Makmell, Princess Kennedy. Panzer, Dave Brewer, Sam Milianta, Monkeys with Computers: Adam Dorobiala, Weston Colton, Brian Kubarycz, Aaron Day, Shawn David DeAustin, David Newkirk, Bar- Mayer, Cody Hudson, Mike Reff, Eric rett Doran, Adam Heath, Bob Plumb, Hess, Esther Meroño, Sean Zimmer- Michelle Emerson, Bryan Mayrose, man Wall, Rio Connelly, Courtney Blair, Jeremy Riley, Peter Anderson, Jesse Tully Flynn, Kendall Johnson, Elliot Anderson, Mitch Allen, John Carlisle. Secrist, Dean O. Hillis, Jemie Sprankle, Filmers: Andrew Schummer, Brian Jessie Wood, Ryan Hall, Chris Proctor, Baade, Loren Tyrel, Mary Catrow, Bethany Fischer, Dr. Evil, Some Cop Slugger Dude, Nate Perkins, Andrew Roy, Ad Sales: SLUG HQ 801.487.9221 Alexander Ortega, Kyla Grant, Nate Angela Brown: Housely, Madelyn Boudreaux. [email protected] Derby Correspondents: Paige Mike Brown Snow, Diane Hartford, Emily Strobell. DISCLAIMER: SLUG Magazine does not necessarily maintain the same opinions as those found in our articles, interviews or advertisements. If you are easily offended, please do not blame us. We are a carrier for the voice of the people and it is not our fault if you don’t like people. Content is property of SLUG Magazine. Please do not use without permission or we will hunt you down and make you pay for your sins. Now, that’s a promise. Contributor Limelight Bob Plumb Writer/Photographer Bob Plumb is no stranger to the SLUG Mag world, and we here at the magazine are proud to announce his triumphant return to the SLUG crew. After climbing the charts among Transworld’s list of up-and-coming photogra- phers, touring extensively, and all-around progression with his photos, Mr. Plumb decided it was about time to get back to his roots and become locally involved one more time. This month, Bobby’s work features a long-awaited four-page spread covering James Atkin, and you can expect a shit ton of awesome content from him in the upcoming months chronicling travels, homies and more importantly, his photo- graphic skills. Welcome home, Bob. 4 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 5 know if you really are an asshole? If the first thing that pops into your mind after reading this goes something like “chill the fuck out you whiny liberal fag, it’s harmless,” then you’ve got your answer. —Biomedikal Gangsta

Dear Fuck Us Squared,

I would like to do something we at SLUG never do and apologize if you misread Dear Slug Mag, preferences. Well, I’m questioning Utah Pride Center. It’s about time somebody Tully Flynn’s “no homo” context and found questioned this problematic organization. What business do these sexual activ- it to be insensitive. In actuality, it was a I hope there are a few decent people reading your magazine; because the ists have messing with young kids? comedic attempt at urban lingo to explain well-being of young people has been on my mind a great deal. Earlier this year sexual preference towards his fellow I was enjoying a Saturday off concerning my book for LDS families, Chased by Queer Prom, a place to find new friends? Perhaps, but its main purposes are to boardsmen. What surprises me is, as a an Elephant , the gospel truth about today’s stampeding sexuality. My husband further the activist agenda by suggesting and gathering self-serving information gay man, you have forgotten what an overt Steve ran across the news that the annual “Queer Prom” was being held at the to fuel propaganda and support legislation, by throwing kids together with adult statement of sexual preference could actu- Library that night, sponsored by the Utah [Gay] Pride Center, which 14 to 20- gays, and by encouraging younger and younger kids to experiment, label them- ally mean. Little secret: Flynn is a super year-olds were invited to attend. Since when are there dances, gay or straight, selves something other than heterosexual, and become activists themselves. hot hottie! It is my hope that he is on the for both minors and adults? To make it worse, this was not a traditional prom. -Janice Graham verge of coming out and next spring I’ll be A traditional prom is based not on sexuality but on traditional gender roles. This able to take him to the Gay Prom, a SLUG Dear Stupid Lady, particular dance was being held solely based not on nature and tradition but on sponsored event. I hope that next year we the attendees’ anomalistic ideas about gender, sexuality, and sex. What the fuck are you talking about?! I cannot believe you called the will be able to ride on the front of SLUG’s gay pride float, lip-locked, as Mr. and Miss I called the Gay Pride Center. The only option I was given was to leave a mes- library to see if you could stop it. Laugh out loud! Maybe next time you Gay SLUG in our award-winning super-gay sage on a machine. Lily Rodriguez, the HIV Prevention Coordinator, who told could volunteer to head up next year’s book burnin’. Why do you think float. Most of all, I long to write poetry of me she was heavily involved with the youth and youth programs at Utah Pride you even get to have an opinion on this matter, let alone have the right my unrequited gay love to Tully in my hella Center, called me back. to meddle in the lives of teenagers you have no connection with? You’re obviously a delusional mother thinking you can control the kids of today. gay column that SLUG gave me because SLUG Copy Editor Cody Kirkland rocks his SLUG pride shirt in the office (and no... his hand is not down We don’t usually engage homosexual activists, but the thought of minor teens You do the best you can, but teens do what they want. Sex of any kind they saw the importance of having the the front of his pants—what do you think we are, perverts?) being exposed to perverse adult sexuality filled me with righteous indignation. I happens at every kind of prom, but at least at a gay prom you don’t get gayest voice that matched their already thought it was bizarre how she insisted the prom and their other youth programs dumpster babies. How can you compare your sons’ afternoon of taunt- amazingly diverse magazine. That was, reading SLUG. With all of the overly sensitive, slightly insane hatemail at the Center were not about sex or sexuality, but making friends. Her main argu- ing to being kicked and beaten every day, called “faggot,” looked down until I saw Flynn identifies female on her FB page. Now I have to throw a we’ve been getting lately, it’s nice to get a letter of praise. We’re so eu- ment in favor of the Queer Prom was that “gay” kids get teased at school. One upon, being called an abomination and told you need to change, EVERY beat down for muscling in on my SLUG tranny position. Anyway, Double phoric that we’ll even overlook the fact that your judgement was severely of my sons had thick glasses and got DAY?! Why is your husband trolling for gay teen activities anyway? I seri- Fuck, SLUG is the hot straight guy of the SLC publication world. The sexy impaired when you came to the conclusion that we’re awesome. Thanks punched regularly. ously question the motives of you and your husband spying on children kind of man meat we love is secure enough to come to our parties, bars, again! for over an hour. Is your obsession because you suspect him of pedo- protests and tell homophobe pussy-lovers to fuck off when they’re being I asked Ms. Rodriguez if 14-year-olds might be dancing with 20-year-olds at the philia? Is your next book called The Elephant in the Room? mean to us. So hot, in fact, that we let the occasional social faux pas Dear Dickheads, prom. She said they had never had any problems with minors being molested fly because there’s a chance at the end of the night when we’re playing or seduced or leaving the dance with adults which left me wondering how she The only agenda on gay people’s minds today is to silence people like spin-the-bottle that we might get to make out with him. I’ve been reading your magazine since 1989 and have never written a letter until could know that with any certainty at all. Anybody minding the rest rooms? you and Boyd K. Packer who preach the acrid, viral ignorance that you now. My intent in submitting this is to prevent a tragic situation that occurred call faith and testimony. Look, Dumb Dumb, these kids are not having Let’s make sure that in this dizzying time of growth and change we don’t here recently from repeating with other artists that visit Salt Lake City and con- Steve and I took a drive to the Salt Lake City Library. We sat a distance away on sex with 19 year olds in the bathroom at the prom—they wait until after over sensitize. We need to acknowledge the people on our side and save tribute to our local music scene. the amphitheater steps and observed for about an hour and a half. and do it in a hotel or car like normal teenagers. They are being asked to the fist-shaking for Stupid Lady and the numerous destructive assholes The Kollective is the local promoter that brought The Legendary Pink Dots to fill out forms about sex activity and school environment so we can figure like her that try to push us two steps back. town on October 18th. In my opinion, they did an absolutely underwhelming job The first thing we noticed was that outside the entrance kids were being asked out how to best nurture these brilliant kids of tomorrow and provide You’re forgiven. of promoting the show. Many people who would have made it a point to make it to fill out a lengthy survey. They were not asked their age, nor did they show them with some sort of comfort and normalcy. They are given a gay prom —Princess “Chick with a Dickhead” Kennedy to the concert didn’t even know it was going on due to poor promotion. I person- identification. The next thing we noticed was that there were many very young because you and your precious gender-specific proms are not fun and Dear Readers, ally found out about it through the band’s own email list. A chimpanzee with teens attending the dance. I asked a young girl what the survey was about and sometimes unsafe for LGBT kids. They need resources like the Pride she answered matter-of-factly, “It’s just asking about our schools and discrimi- internet access and typing skills could have put forth a stronger effort. Center and gay adults to turn to when meddling, nosy cunts like you I wish to apologize for my callous use of hurtful words. I did not realize I nation and stuff.” Steve and I realized that this dance was not just to provide “a poke in and make them feel like they want to kill themselves. safe place to make friends” as Ms. Rodriguez indicated. It was to gather sexuali- was giving into a catchy contemporary bigoted phrase. As a voice in the Instead of taking some responsibility for the relatively small number of tickets local culture, I realize the power I have and the last thing in the world I sold, The Kollective decided to let the band that had travelled from the Neth- ty-based data from trusting kids in order to support and further their agenda. Now a warning: I think your complete idiocy is dangerous and has want is to segregate. This is a black and white issue and if the words we erlands and driven all day from a previous gig in Seattle shoulder that burden. provoked the mama bear in me. I will be lying in wait for you and your use direct separation then, they are preaching hate. There is no place They were paid a paltry sum, $380 for playing nearly two hours. The promoter On the front page it explains that the survey is about finding out “how common husband at the next gay prom with a couple friends. May your Lord help for hate in this world, only love and creation. I am truly sorry to those I took 30% of the door proceeds and what was left minus The Kollective’s offensive and hate-based language” and “other types of harrassment” are at you if I see you approach any of my children! have offended. “claimed expenses” of $1,100 was given to the band. A decent human being their school. Ms. Rodrigez failed to mention this 15-page survey that asked un- Love you. I mean it. —Tully Flynn would have realized the situation was not fair and would have offered to take derage kids explicit questions about sexuality, leading them to label themselves —Princess Kennedy some alternative sexual orientation. They were to circle one of these seven (!) less of a split or reduce their claimed expenses. That didn’t happen and that Hey slug, choices: “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer, Questioning, Straight/Heterosexual, Dear Dickheads, is why I am now writing this letter. So, a few words to the wise- make sure you and Other.” have a guarantee and perhaps look into utilizing another promoter. To The Leg- I’ve been reading this wonderful colorful bundle of joy since I was 12, when I In Tully Flynn’s article “Rough Side of Da Tracks,” he uses the phrase “no homo” endary Pink Dots- I’m sorry you had to deal with this and hope you will choose was in Iraq the best times were the worst days (lemme explain) being out on The survey also asked explicit questions about the attendees’ a couple of times. The fact that the phrase even occurs to him as an acceptable to visit the Vatican of the West again. guard for 12 hours no time to eat in 120 pound flak jacket and gear staring off sexual behaviors: thing to put into print makes him appear to be a clueless asshole. Slug is an into burning trash with absolutely nothing to look forward to until we got back to alternative magazine in a terribly repressive state, and there are very few places Amy Wicks the cp, and our ssgt would hand out mail. The greatest feeling is to here your “In the past six months, have you had anal sex without a condom?” for young gay people to turn for media that doesn’t tacitly agree that they’re hell- Ogden, Utah name during mail call and getting a package opening it up and seeing SLUG in bound abominations. Being an alternative publication, I imagine that hundreds “In the past six months, have you had vaginal sex without a condom (or other giant red letters....im just writing this cuz I’ve been meaning to for along time... of gay teens read your magazine because it gives them just a tiny bit of hope safer sex barrier)?” “In the past six months, have you had oral sex without a that and im high as shit right now. Keep it real gangsters you make me proud of that they will not be shit on for their entire lives, and that maybe they don’t have Fax, snail mail or email us your letters! condom or dental dam?” this city!! to hate themselves or wallow in burning shame forever. I also imagine that it’s Love Rachelle Fax: 801.487.1359 •[email protected] (You may wonder if they ever tell kids that sex is actually only safe between a twice as painful when they see that even Slug has no problem casually printing Mailing Address: faithful married husband and wife. The answer is undoubtedly no.) fucked-up, disrespectful phrases if it makes a few dickheads giggle. Young Dear Rachelle, Dear Dickheads c/o SLUG Mag gay people have it incredibly rough already, as the recent highly publicized In my conversation with Lily Rodriguez she added that the Center also welcomes adolescent gay suicides show. I know your hearts are in the right place, but Ahhh, you just gave us a giant case of the warm fuzzies! We’re glad you 351 Pierpont Ave. Ste. 4B what they call “questioning” youth, those who are uncertain about their sexual don’t you see that this bullshit, even in jest, is not acceptable? Quick: Want to were able to find some sort of comfort (or at least entertainment) by SLC, UT 84101

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tar Dre cals n - Gui w Ging Bass/Vo Ischa - hahinia ell - Dr rown - Vocals Raffi S ums Ryan B Localized By Andrew Roy The members of Marinade are all multi-instrumentalists. Lauscher can play [email protected] just about anything with strings, as well as the didgeridoo, which he picked up during a month of unemployment and TV-watching. Kellogg plays basically Uncle Scam is a band with a lot to say—not just lyrically, but conversationally as This month’s Localized features the female-fronted, male-backed stylings concern about a society that they feel undervalues non-straight, non-Caucasian any woodwind instrument. Keys says, “He blows a lot of things.” The band well. Within just a few minutes they talked about cocaine, metal (both as an alloy non-Christians. Shahinian says the band isn’t aiming to become the next Rage of jammers Marinade, funky-rockers Uncle Scam and opening band The laughs again, proving that they are all good-natured and really enjoy each and a genre), Freddie Mercury, sex and Zoroastrianism. Raffi Shahinian, Drew Against the Machine, but is more interested in presenting the contradictions Vision. Come check it out on Friday Nov. 12 at Urban Lounge for only $5. other, which translates to their great musical chemistry. Pizza garners a lot Gingell, Ryan Brown and Ischa are random, diverse and articulate—much like that exist in our country. of respect for his percussive aptitude, but it’s in his wielding of dreadlocks their songs. Talia Keys - Vocals, Drums, Mandolin, Guitar where he really tries to shine. He says, “Turn up the dreadlock? It’s up to 11 You can see the band playing around town at some of their favorite venues, like James ‘The Minister of Meat’ Trevino - Bass, Vocals all the time.” Redneck Funeral, the band’s recent release, has elements of funk, rock and metal, Five Monkeys, Bar Deluxe and Club Vegas, as well as at good old-fashioned Jimmy ‘Rockstar’ Lauscher - Lead Guitar, Vocals but the band has a few ideas about how to describe their sound. Gingell says, house shows. Uncle Scam enjoys playing with a variety of other bands, such as Spencer Kellogg - Saxophone, Guitar It’s not all jokes and jamming for Marinade. This band works hard. You can “We’re definitely rock music, and a lot of our songs talk about sex or politics. I’d Funk Fu and 60 Watt, but also enjoys implementing non-traditional elements into Matt Pizza - Percussion, Dreadlocks regularly find the band playing around the state at places like Woody’s Tavern call us political-sex-rock.” Brown says they are funky-sex-rock. Shahinian digests the evening—like having belly dancers perform. Ischa says, “I would love for us to in Moab, the Park City Arts Festival and the Hog Wallow, as well as at nearby these ideas and says, “We’re sexy-funky-poli-rock.” Heads nod all around the have shows where we have a comedian who comes in and does a 20 minute set. Marinade wants to get you wet. As guitarist Jimmy ‘Rockstar’ Lauscher puts festivals like Desert Rocks, Powellapalooza and Boulder’s Big Hootenanny. All table. That works. We like the idea of mixing up the night a little bit, and if we can, we want to give it, Marinade will go “wherever we can go and marinate people ... soak ‘em, of this gigging has helped them accumulate over 10 hours of material, so they other people the opportunity to put their art out there.” make ‘em all wet and juicy.” After over 100 shows in 2010 alone, it’s safe to say can play a different set every night. Yet, their musical relationship is so strong Shahinian and Gingell began jamming guitar and drums together in 1994. They that many people reading this have already bathed in Marinade’s melodious that they really could play the same set differently every night. They say they started Uncle Scam and the Current Administration in 2005, but according to The band enjoys working with themes at their shows, like camouflage, matching musical mixture. just play whatever happens, and they make it work. Shahinian the real Uncle Scam didn’t come together until November 2009 when colors and glam, a concept that was spearheaded by Ischa when she joined the Ischa joined the band. Ischa says, “To be fair, back then it was called ‘Uncle Scam band. Brown feels like this gives something visually tantalizing for the audience About two years ago, Talia Keys, James Trevino and Matt Pizza got together Speaking of the local music scene, the band agrees that there are a lot of great and the Current Administration,’ but now it’s just called ‘Uncle Scam’ because to connect with. Shahinian says, “Let’s face it, we’re there to entertain people. to play a house party. They realized that they had a real rapport together after reggae, psych rock, jazz, blues and jam bands in Utah. Keys says, “I feel like you’ve found your PRESIDENT.” Before Ischa, they had members coming and It’s a show.” that first show, and decided to book a few more shows to see if what they had we add bits of each of those genres and just jam all of that out.” Marinade has going. But they realized that with Ischa they had a fresh start. was as good as it seemed. Lauscher, a graduate from the jazz program at the hopes to tour the northwest next year, but in the meantime, they are reinforcing In reference to the Salt Lake scene in general, Uncle Scam wants to network and U and an all-around heavy metal guy, loved Marinade’s bluesy-jammy vibe. Salt Lake by playing shows, as well as going to shows, which they feel is really Uncle Scam has influences across the spectrum, from Annie Lennox to Clutch He says, “They invited me to come sit in one night. I was thinking it would be important. connect with other bands in the valley, even if it’s just to set up a show in the park to Scars on Broadway. But when asked about what they are listening to, across for two or three songs, but three hours later I realized we had real chemistry or collaborate on some projects. The band just wants to play shows and fortify the the board the band says “Uncle Scam.” No, not because they are completely self- together.” Spencer Kellogg says, “I was just free,” to an eruption of laughter Some of their favorite acts to see and/or share the stage with are Stonefed, musical arena in which we live. The members of Uncle Scam are great examples from his bandmates. Wisebird, The Vision, Dead Horse Anonymous and the Desert Rocks absorbed, but because they record every one of their band practices in Cool Edit of not taking themselves too seriously while taking what they do very seriously, homegrown bands. The band released an EP in May, and has sold all but 12 of Pro, and then make sure each member leaves with a burned copy of that night’s and they are sure to have some fun in the process. Keep up with Uncle Scam on When Keys was nine years old, her mom bought her a drum kit from Sears. the 500 pressings. The band is currently working through their material to find rehearsal. This disciplined work ethic has led to an absolute wealth of material for Facebook, and at unclescamrocks.com, where you can purchase their album and She says, “I was hitting everything else, and my mom thought, ‘How about we the best songs for their upcoming full-length release. Keep up with Marinade on the band to draw from live, as well as a lot of opportunities to record. download some free music. get you something to hit that’s not going to break.’” At 16 she learned to play their Facebook where all of their shows and plans are continually announced. guitar, then at 21 she picked up the mandolin. There aren’t a lot of drummers Keys says, “I whore the shit out of our Facebook.” Realistically though, the band Earlier this year the band hooked up with Bruce Kirby at Boho Digitalia to record on lead vocals, but for Marinade it was a natural choice. For Keys, singing and works so hard and plays so often that you’d probably need to put effort into Redneck Funeral. Throughout the album, Ischa sings, speaks and squeals about Be at Urban Lounge on Nov 12th for Marinade, Uncle Scam and openers The drumming was just more natural than singing and playing guitar. She’s sort of missing Marinade these days, and that’d be wasted effort for sure. different societal issues that stick out to the band. Ischa says, “I think that we’re Vision. You can call it Girl Power Night, but you’d be smarter to simply call it Great a Phil Collins, except with hair and soul—Phyllis Collins, maybe. more of a commentary ... like we’re saying, ‘This is the way the world is, huh? What Music Night. As always, just $5. do you think about that?’” While they do appreciate living in America, they express

10 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 11 No Retreat, o Cow Garage No Surrender Tw By Ricky Vigil ricky@slugma g.com

“When bands like The Gaslight Anthem get more popular it ultimately brings more attention to us and kids are more open to listening to us.”

Schnabel: I kinda gravitated toward it when I was younger and got into the harder stuff from there, which I guess is the reverse from the way it usually happens. Looking at the routing of Two Cow Garage’s SLUG: On the new album you make references current tour reveals many gigs taking place at SLUG: There are a lot of bands currently playing a style and allusions to Marvin Gaye, Bruce bars, pubs, lounges, and even the odd brewery of music that combines punk with folk and country or Springsteen, The Catcher in the Rye and The or tavern. If there was any justice in the world, classic rock. Do you think there’s something about Great Gatsby, among other things. Where do you these Ohio natives would have broken out of these genres that makes so many people want to draw inspiration when writing lyrics? the bar scene and gained the same level of combine them? Schnabel: From everywhere. I read a lot, and popularity as like-minded bands like The Hold Schnabel: I think it’s all just honesty. There’s something sometimes there are lines that just pop out of Steady and The Gaslight Anthem. Injustice to take away from all of it. You get into folk songs for a page and I think, “Shit, I could write a song notwithstanding, one must admit that Two Cow the same reason you get into punk rock songs. They all about that!” Garage’s songs make a lot more sense after make sense because it’s all just true. a few beers. Vocalists Micah Schnabel and SLUG: Is Two Cow Garage doing anything Shane Sweeney write songs that are as poetic SLUG: Has the recent increase in roots-influenced differently or planning anything special for the as they are direct. Drawing influence from classic punk bands had any effect on the way you’ve been tour in support of Sweet Saint Me? rock, classic literature, folk, country, punk rock writing music? Schnabel: We’re five records deep now, so and everything in between, Two Cow Garage Schnabel: We’ve always kinda been our own thing. we’re trying to make it more of a show and less aptly mixes energetic, bar-burning tunes with We’ve been a band for ten years now, and I think we’ve of just a band playing at a bar. We’re playing slower, plaintive tales of heartbreak and days kinda progressed out of what we were, and it’s weird to about an hour and a half set and we’re trying to gone by. SLUG spoke with Schnabel just as Two see all of these bands popping up now. I think it’s really cover a lot of material. We’re just trying to make Cow Garage was beginning their tour in support good for us, because when bands like The Gaslight it a little more professional. of their newly released fifth album, Sweet Saint Anthem get more popular, it ultimately brings more Me. attention to us and kids are more open to listening to SLUG: What do you hope Sweet Saint Me will us. lead to? SLUG: How did you initially get into punk rock? Schnabel: The hope is always to just grow. I’m Micah Schnabel: We all grew up in small towns in SLUG: How does having two singers affect Two Cow really hoping this record reaches beyond our Ohio, so [punk] wasn’t very accessible. We found Garage’s songwriting process? normal fanbase and we see more people at it through the Fat Wreck Chords compilations Schnabel: For the most part, we just have whoever shows. We’d really like to get on some bigger and Cinema Beer Nuts and a lot of stuff like that. wrote the song sing it. For the first time on this new tours—that’s a big goal for this next year. We just That’s how we all got started because that’s record, we have a song where we go back and forth, want to get in front of more people and get the all that they had at Best Buy in the closest city. and I wrote those lyrics. We haven’t gotten to the point chance to be heard. We’d buy a lot of records based on the cover art, where we’re both writing lyrics on the same song, but or we’d find one band we liked and it would all that’s definitely not outside the realm of possibilities. Whether Two Cow Garage is performing songs trickle down from there and we would just keep That song [“Lucy and the Butcher Knife”] is actually about forbidden love, brotherhood or murder, searching. We never really fell out of it—I think it’s one of my favorite songs on the new album since it’s they’ll surely leave a few drops of sweat and still [in our music]. a brand new thing that we had never done before ... maybe even a teardrop in your beer when all is We just got about ten beers deep, got on the same said and done. Two Cow Garage will perform at SLUG: Did you grow up listening to folk and microphone and recorded it all in one take, just belting Burt’s Tiki Lounge on November 10 with Michael country, or did you gravitate towards it later? back and forth. Dean Damron. 12 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 13 Pretty Lights: Fuckin’ You Up Every Time That I Drop By Jessie Wood [email protected]

Derek Vincent Smith of Pretty Lights will melt faces with his music on Nov. 17 at The Complex.

Derek Vincent Smith, the mastermind behind Pretty Smith: I’m really psyched on this one, actually. With sections and then at the end is when I arrange it. Lights, has a vision: beautiful, emotional, hard-as- the second one, I was trying to have genre-bending Other times, I’ll write the progression and the melodies shit dance music. “Hot Like Dimes,” a song off his production, where the tracks switched from a really and the chords on the Fender Rhodes I have in my EP Spilling Over Every Side, samples a rapper saying sort of organic break, like hip hop things that are really apartment and then build it from there and add the “fuckin’ you up every time that I drop,” and no lyric hard, to almost dub-influenced sections. The tracks on vintage soulful kind of samples later. It kind of varies, has ever been written that more aptly describes his the last one were really long arrangements, with several but I usually approach it in one of those two ways. productions. His dedication to digging through old different parts in every track. With this one, I’m making vinyl for samples, constantly producing fresh, soulful, shorter, simpler arrangements, with slightly more SLUG: What’s next for you after the third EP and the banging beats and putting on live shows to melt your minimalistic layering and sound design. I was trying to end of the fall tour? face off has fueled a well-deserved rise to success in really focus on making the beats pretty and hard at the Smith: I want to make a record where I don’t use any the electronic music world. He’s amped by the music he same time, just sticking to the meat of it, the basics and vinyl samples, but I’m able to maintain the style and the is making—and it shows. On Oct. 20, he released his trying to really focus on making every element of it really sound that I’ve developed. I’m anticipating it being a third EP of 2010 and this fall he is embarking on a tour dope and fresh. Both of the [previous EPs] had six, very difficult and sort of involved process. The reason across the US—check him out in Salt Lake on Nov. 17 with this one I’m trying to have more songs, and have I go to old vinyl to get the sounds for my production at The Complex. shorter songs as well. It’s hype, and it’s beautiful, so is because I want that old school, warm sound that that’s really what I’m trying to do, is combine the two. could only be created with the technology at the time. SLUG: How did you get your start as a producer? Right now I’m building this studio where everything in Derek Smith: I really wanted to be a musician in middle SLUG: What’s your process for producing a track? it existed before the ‘70s. I’m investing in a lot of old school. I got a paper route and saved up and bought Smith: It varies. I do a lot of listening and digging school, vintage mics, reel to reels, tape machines, old my first bass guitar. I played in a bunch of bands, and through old vinyl to kind of get the timbres and the school instruments, pre-amps … The idea is that I’ll I got into the hip hop scene. That’s how I got my start sounds—at least one element of the sounds that I play a lot of the instruments but also work with a lot of as a producer, just wanting to make beats and make want in the music, because I try to have that vintage, musicians and record it and create it in a way where hip hop. It’s funny—a lot of the musicians in part of the old-school, warm feel to it. Then I start matching things it hopefully still has the sound and the timbre and the scene right now are people that were in bands that are together that I think will sound fresh, and I try to get warmth of the music created forty, fifty years ago. Right now trying to make electronic music, but I think that several different sounds to work together. That’s a big now I’m building the studio and getting the technology. I really started just trying to be a hip hop producer. I part of what I do, making sounds from different decades I have a grandiose vision of it all coming together and made tracks to rap on and for my friends and eventually and different genres and different keys and tempos happening, but I realize it’s going to be a massive was exposed to the dance electronic scene and went to work together like they were meant to be that way from undertaking. I’m definitely looking forward to it because a bunch of raves. That’s when I kind of started trying to the beginning. When I get a real foundation that I’m it’s going to be such a challenge. fuse the whole dance electronic thing with the hip hop happy with, something that’s emotionally powerful and beats. charged and at the same time fresh, I start building the Visit prettylightsmusic.com to download all of his music drumbeats and the synths and the bass lines. Then I for free (donations appreciated) and check out Pretty SLUG: How did recording the third EP go? How do you record the instruments that I play on top of that, and just Lights on Nov. 17 at The Complex. think it’s going to differ from the previous two? build it, build the layers, and then I start making different

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Words by: Mike Reff [email protected] Photo: Christian Pondella Rolling up to the event, it appeared that some the first Rampage was born and the mountain possible. Over the years the sport of mountain type of futuristic soldiers were hurling themselves biking community had yet to witness anything biking changed—people started going faster, down a mountain on two-wheeled gravity sleds. of its kind. Normally in a race or free-ride event, bigger and looked smoother doing it. The days Then I realized it was the Red Bull Rampage—the there would be a set course that all competitors of the ‘hate huck’ were gone and the community premier free-ride mountain bike event in the must follow, but not here. Riders would show up embraced the new breed of floaty, stylish moves world. Since 2003, Red Bull Rampage has to the venue a couple of days before the event like 360s and huge moto whips. As the sport been bringing riders from all over the planet so they could build their own lines, to their own progressed, the event evolved with it. The idea to the southern Utah desert to ride a remote personal satisfaction, and anything could be of allowing competitors to build their own lines area near Zion known was still a factor, but the as Virgin, Utah. The addition of pre-built features terrain in Virgin provides such as massive wooden a unique landscape for booters and some pre-carved riders to test their skills. jumps changed the face of the Red Bull athlete Darren rampage forever. Berrecloth told me, “[There is] no other place Most sporting events are in the world you can bring ideal for spectators, but the your mountain bike and Rampage is not like most send it like you can in the sporting events. It’s a four- desert of Utah.” Imagine a mile hike or bike-in through post-apocalyptic Alaskan the unrelenting Utah desert mountain range with just to get to the venue and big spines, steep faces, when you arrive, it’s as if Red huge cliffs and endless Bull has set up its own army opportunities for one to base. There are helicopters huck one’s meat. It’s big, flying overhead and crazy bad, and it’s right here in four-wheel Tomcars that look our own backyard. straight out of a Mad Max film roaming around, not to Although everything Red mention the big military style Bull does these days tents all over. After you get seems fresh and cutting past singing the M.A.S.H. edge, this particular event theme song in your head, you has some history. In 2001, M.A.S.H. RedBull style. Photo: Mike Reff realize that there is really no 18 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 19 good place to watch these guys send it down of the other bigger features: a massive canyon some of that good old desert heat, the practice Greg Watts can fly. Photo: Ian Hylands the ridiculous dirt face in front of you. You have gap. The gap spanned a solid 60 feet and had day was a wrap to let everyone rest up for the to start the hike up the venue, and up you go. a run in that was far from ideal: a super-gnarly final showdown on the following day. It’s steep, loose, and you’re constantly looking to double drop into a semi-smooth landing before Sunday morning was the day that everyone had make sure you are been waiting for. The not stepping on the Darren Berrecloth, wallride. Photo: Ian Hylands sun was shining and lip of a jump or in everyone had their the landing zone of A-game ready to go. someone’s insane LifeFlight helicopters line. You almost get were on standby, the feeling that you spectators were are extreme by just applying their extra watching the event, coat of sunblock and but then reality sets the riders were saying back in as you look their final prayers—it at one of the sixty- was about to go off. As foot gaps across a each rider dropped, a ravine of doom. This flock of photographers is some serious shit! and spectators would shift to the rider’s line The Rampage in hopes of catching draws a very elite a glimpse of his group of riders next move over that from across the edge. After a day of globe to compete practice on the Oakley for the title. What Icon Sender feature, is unique about Cameron Zink stepped the talent in this it up and went for a 360 competition are their out of it. With about a backgrounds. Some forty-five degree over riders, such as Gee rotation, Zink slammed Atherton, come so hard he cracked his from the World Cup helmet, leaving the rest Downhill Racing of his day uncertain. Circuit, while other After a bit, the medics riders like Andreu actually cleared him Lacondeguy are for a second run strictly slope-style where he went right competitors. The back up there and variety of talent stomped the shit out and terrain sets the of possibly the biggest stage for anyone to three in mountain bike take home the win. history, which ended up securing him the The first day of first place spot. Gee competition, after Atherton landed a the qualifying round, massive hip step down is a practice day for with that clean racer the big show. Riders style he is known for get the opportunity to land him in second. to test their lines, “The Claw,” Darren check their speed, Berrecloth, came in and ‘guinea pig’ third with his ‘au natural’ that new feature run of wall rides, drops they have been and a perfect 360 off eyeing up. The of a 20-foot cliff at newest, most-hyped the bottom of the run. feature of this year’s Berrecloth was the only course was known rider in the top three to as the Oakley Icon use only features that Sender. It looked he built himself on the like something mountain by avoiding out of Pirates of all of the pre-built stuff. the Caribbean: a It was an amazing day massive wooden with insane riding and roller down a cliff face to a forty-foot drop out of you had to come in at mach speed to cross a spectacular crashes. Fortunately, the only real a wooden tower onto a steep dirt landing. This Knievel-sized canyon. A few guys were feeling carnage was damaged bike parts. Everyone was a big move and it took some easing into for out the run into the gap, sizing it up and, as the walked away from their runs, which is an the riders to straight air off of it, but a straight Canadians always say, “Give ‘er.” It is a highly incredible accomplishment at this level. air was not going to cut it. Many of the riders impressive sight to see a mountain biker take The Red Bull Rampage was another day that will were staying away from the Oakley Icon Sender flight on something that should be hit with a go down in the history books of mountain biking. feature on the practice day and focusing on one motor between your legs. With blue skies and I wonder what the next chapter will bring ... 20 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 21 City Dogs Food Cart Corner of 300 South and 200 East 11-3 Monday through Friday. No, honey, it’s Closed from December First through March First. By Heck Fork Grief good for you. [email protected]

City Dogs is Salt Lake’s premier vegetarian/vegan hot dog cart. Could there be anything niftier than a bike ride downtown on a sunny afternoon made complete with some delicious and healthy lunch eaten while sitting on some grass? Why eat a veggie dog or vegan taco? Well, as my veggie girlfriend says, “We already have the bun, we might as well use it.”

First, allow me to digress into veggie dog culture. Why would you eat a soybean hot dog or a wheat meat pork-rib slathered in delicious barbecue sauce? Because they are freaking delicious, satisfying, healthy and good in a way that the high saturated fat, high cholesterol, highly resource wasting real things simply are not. I am not a vegetarian, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe that meat is a luxury and that it is promiscuously underpriced in the American market: The costly inputs, dehumanizing effect on farm workers and the world-destroying, cancer-like destructiveness of big agribusiness are simply not accounted for in the cheap price of beef, chicken or pork. We in America eat too much food in any case

and too much meat by a large margin. Even Photo: Barrett Doran the cheerleaders of big business, the federal government, think so. Take a minute next time you are online and look at mypyramid.gov and see what they suggest for a healthy diet.

Owned by Jeremiah Smith, the handsome thirty- four-year-old lead singer of local goth favorites Redemption, City Dogs is a successful balancing Why would you eat a soybean hot dog or a wheat meat pork-rib act of street food slinging that is a savory, slathered in delicious barbeque sauce? They are freaking delicious, tasty, healthy vegetarian convenience for the satisfying, healthy and good in a way that the high saturated fat, high people. Presented without pretense and without cholesterol, highly resource wasting real things simply are not. apology, City Dogs serves a few humble varieties of traditional take-away food in the style of big- city hot dog carts. Using the newest generation of alternative meats from the same vendors that supply Whole Foods, one can get a hot, delicious Dog ($3.50) which is what you would expect of unexpected. Two soft flour tacos served with a and filling meal in minutes. vegan chili on a delicious little vegan frank with soy dash of salsa and, if you wish, sour cream. They or dairy cheese, depending on your preference. The go down like the guilty tacos of my childhood— Smith took the reins of this unique street food cart Dee Dog ($3.50) is a mild east-coast cream- rich, satisfying and altogether unhealthily in September of 2009. Since then, he has seen his cheese-slathered variation on the Chili Cheese delicious. Except, overall, these bad boys are business grow into a happy success, and his fan Dog. Maybe best among the hot dogs is the City relatively good for you. One of my favorite picks base has grown with the sensibilities of working Dog ($3.50), which has jalapeños, tomatoes and on the small-but-tasty menu is the barbecue men and women, and the increasingly savvy kids pickled asparagus. The Italian Sausage Dog ($4.50) Rib Sandwich ($5.50). I don’t know what it’s that call downtown Salt Lake home. If there is a is rockin’ good, too. It’s delicately flavored with made of, but it’s vegetarian. Memorable is what happy barometer for downtown, I think it might be sundried tomato and basil, but still spicy, and this I call it. I love barbecue and this little darling the continual group of people milling around the sausage is laid out on one of the nicer sausage hits all the essential notes of a good barbecue City Dog cart at lunchtime. buns around. It, like all the items here, is sold à la sandwich. The only thing missing is a scoop of carte. Drinks ($1.00) and chips ($.75) are available coleslaw for that down-south crunch. City law says that food cart businesses must separately, as are sides of delicious vegan potato close at 11 p.m., which is too bad because a cart salad ($2.00) and vegan chili ($2.00). The cart, like City Dogs Food Cart is a good time for all, and running some delicious food and non-alcoholic taco carts, has a condiment library at the heel of an indispensible resource for the food conscious beverages would be a big hit with consumers the chassis. Included are normalish condiments: among us. It is open between 11 a.m. and 3 when the bars close. ketchup, mustard, relish, onions, but hot peppers p.m. Monday through Friday. It’s friendly, cheap and hot sauces are also included. and easy. It closes on Dec. 1, and reopens on City Dogs has a delicious selection of veggie March 1, so be sure and get your fill while the hot dogs, my favorites being the Chili Cheese The tacos are unexpectedly good, if not outright getting is good.

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Brownies ... Cupcakes ... Eclairs ... Cream-filled cream-filled sponge cakes you may be aware of With nothing short of world-domination on the sponge-cake delicacies dubbed ‘Dillos’… Gazing and anything else previously thought lost forever agenda, Green aims to get her Dillos in stores into the glass display case reveals the things when one ventures into the vegan lifestyle. nationwide and into the happy hands of conscien- dreams are made of, but I bet you wouldn’t guess tious consumers everywhere. She is currently in that you are in a vegan and specialty bakery. The hobby went live in 2007 when her special- the process of figuring out her packaging and That is, you wouldn’t if owner and mastermind needs dog, rescued from the hard life on the marketing plan. Considering that she’s accom- Kelly Green didn’t already go through every streets of downtown, presented her with some plished all this in three short years while raising effort to make sure you know exactly what you extra costs in medical expenses. She decided to her son as a single mother, training as a triathlete are looking at when you peruse the handmade sell her homemade vegan treats to her friends and championing against animal cruelty, I think treats at Cakewalk. Each item has a checklist on a for extra cash, and when the demand grew, there Salt Lake is lucky to have her. small card next to it, neatly clarifying which items was really only one thing to do. contain what, including common allergens like You will enjoy Cakewalk’s freshly handmade des- soy and gluten. Green opened up a shop in Woods Cross first, serts even if you aren’t a picky eater—they defi- but when the demand grew stronger still, the nitely rival the selection you’ll find getting stale on “Having been vegan since I was 12, I had to learn call to Salt Lake was too much to ignore. Earlier your grocer’s shelves, whether you are vegan or how to cook and bake so that I could still eat the this year, the second Cakewalk location opened not. Now you can pick them up at two Cakewalk things that I love,” Green says. “And raising my downtown. “So many of my customers live [in locations, 566 W. 1350 S. in Woods Cross and son vegan, I never want him to feel like he is miss- Salt Lake]—it only made sense to expand into the Downtown at 434 S. 900 E., as well as at several ing out on anything.” This desire led to Green’s valley,” Green says. other delightful local establishments, including creation of the vegan eclair, one of her personal fa- Sugarhouse Coffee, Rising Sun and Nobrow. vorites, the Dillos, which replace other, non-vegan

“So many of my customers live [in Salt Lake]—it only made sense to expand into

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24 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 25 However, we do adopt animals out.” This is, of which included an art and fashion show eat a lot, even though they enjoy their family’s course, only after their high standards and criteria sponsored by the Patrick Moore Gallery at Area company. Vegan Thanksgiving gives everyone a are met, which include a written application and 51 back in September, a 5k/10k Run/Walk in chance to have a full-blown holiday … It feels like a home visit. All of the animals are spayed or Memory Grove, as well as a weekly Sunday an old fashioned Thanksgiving, but vegan.” neutered, whether they are entering or exiting the brunch at the River House sponsored by SLC sanctuary. This practice assures that no more Vegan Drinks. The money raised will go to fixing All sarcasm aside, you can’t ignore the fact that it animals are produced to be killed or mistreated, and fortifying fences, making the farm’s exits and would be difficult, if not impossible, for someone as well as to help balance the sanctuary’s entrances more accessible and trailer-friendly to consume a beloved friend, which is what these expenses and labor management, which are and organizing a more detailed evacuation plan. animals have come to be for those involved with based completely on private donations and Any additional money raised will go towards the Ching Farm, and even those who just visit. volunteer work. feeding the animals, which costs about $4,000 a The farm offers tours every two weeks, which you month, not including the $200-500 vet bill and the can sign up for on their website, and welcomes It’s in their continuous efforts to raise money and mortgage. And you thought your cable was a little visitors and volunteers of every diet and lifestyle. assemble volunteers that you may have heard pricey this month? “A lot of our volunteers are meat eaters, we don’t of the Ching Farm (the only animal sanctuary in discriminate,” says Ching. “Veganism to me is Utah, I might add), and more so on account of Moving forward a tradition of kindness, respect showing compassion to every living thing. A lot of the Herriman fire that recently threatened the farm and equality among all living things, the Ching people that have never thought of stopping eating and forced its evacuation. According to the Salt Farm started Vegan Thanksgiving as a means meat have come here saying, ‘I’d never consider Lake Tribune, on September 19, machine-gun to fund their enlightened endeavor. Celebrating vegetarianism,’ then stop eating meat once they sparks from Camp Williams started a fire that its twelfth year, the feast features all of the food start volunteering here for a while.” blazed towards Herriman, getting as close as you long to stuff your face with on Turkey Day, 400 yards from the sanctuary. Faith Ching started minus the blood, flesh, torture and environmental The Ching Farm is filled to capacity at the giving out masks to her volunteers that afternoon desecration, aka vegan-style. For those of you moment, so you can help them feed and shelter due to the smoky conditions, but soon realized who may have been raised by elephants (in which their friendly inhabitants by attending one of their the farm was in danger. Phone calls were made case you’re probably vegan, you just didn’t know many fundraising events, donating your time or and the word spread though texts and Facebook it), veganism means a lot of different things for money by visiting their website (chingsanctuary. calling for help. Over 200 people showed up in a a lot of different people, but the basics consist org) and taking their monthly vegan cooking

Photos: Bryan Mayrose six-to-eight hour period, many with no experience of abstaining from eating and buying meat and class at Sunflower Market, 6284 S. State. Vegan whatsoever, but ready to help in any way they animal byproducts, which include dairy and Thanksgiving is on Saturday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. could. The Silver Spurs All Ladies Riding Club eggs. What the fuck, right? No lard-covered to 9 p.m. at Columbus Community Center, 2531 and the Jordan Applied Technology Center Vet turkey and honey-glazed pig carcass with a side S. 400 E., and will feature a delicious holiday Techs supplied over 20 horse trailers, and with of scrambled chicken turds on Thanksgiving?! dinner along with a guest speaker and silent everyone’s help, about 150 animals were moved Oh don’t you worry, Sage’s Café provides the auction. The event is $20 for adults, $15 for to safety. “It restored my faith in humanity … faux turkey and gravy guaranteed to put your children 12 and under and a $1 discount will be Being on this end, where we’re rescuing, you Puritan ancestors to shame. Whole Foods also offered to anyone who donates a blanket for the become cynical,” says Ching. “There were people contributes to the buffet-style, all-inclusive family pigs. All proceeds from Vegan Thanksgiving go here that I didn’t even know.” Thanks to the feast, prepared exclusively by the loving hands to pay for winter hay for the horses, cattle, sheep, firefighting efforts of local law enforcement and of smiling volunteers. I don’t know about your goats and llamas. Also, keep a look out for more the National Guard, the farm was left untouched moms and grandmothers, but mine are not to information on their seven-course, gourmet Vegan by the flames. Though the help came free of be crossed after four hours of turkey basting. Valentine’s dinner happening in February for a charge by the generous volunteers, the stress Yet another reason for many vegans to attend com-passionately romantic night. and noise of the sudden crowd and firefighting this guilt-free gluttony is the chance to celebrate helicopters flying 20 feet above their heads made a holiday with like-minded peeps, rather than “Look in his eyes and see him next time you’re the animals nervous, which caused damage to picking at a plate of rice and beans in the case eating a hamburger, think about him,” says Ching some of the fences and brought Ching to the their family gathering is not as animal-friendly. of Norman the cow. “We know we can’t save all realization that the farm needed to be better “It’s amazing, we get a huge turnout. It’s a real the animals, but we’ll always have ambassadors prepared and better equipped for emergencies. tradition for a lot of people now,” says Ching. “A here that will teach everyone about them. The This led to an increase in fundraising efforts, lot of families find themselves not being able to animals do the real life teaching.”

Vegan Thanksgiving happens Saturday, Nov. 12 at 2531 S. 400 E.

Thanksgiving: A holiday celebrated by Americans about giving back, about the faces behind the you were to raise a lamb, or sheep, or goat and in memory of that glorious, seventeenth-century feast, about a group of people who reclaimed treat them like a companion animal, that’s how Photos: Bryan Mayrose day on Plymouth Rock when our freedom- Thanksgiving, cut out the hypocrisy and made it they [would] act.” The food game changes a bit seeking, albeit delusional, ancestors sat down a holiday worthy of celebration. This is the story when it’s puppy burgers and kitty nuggets, huh? with their friendly neighborhood Noble Savages of Ching Farm Rescue & Sanctuary and its 12th From horses, pigs and sheep, to ostriches, emus, to feast and thank the almighty Lord for allowing annual Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner. chickens and more, the Ching Farm is home to them to survive so that they might pillage and over 200 rescued animals, most of whom spend rape this new land and its unworthy inhabitants. In 1998, Faith and Mike Ching bought five their entire lives at the sanctuary. The animals are Well, that’s the story I put together between acres in Herriman, Utah to provide a safe haven obtained from feedlots, auctions, research labs, preschool craft time and a college diversity for animals headed to the slaughterhouse and, overburdened shelters and anywhere else help course. Whether the “pilgrims and injuns” really eventually, your dinner plate. What’s so special is needed. “The ones we rescue are the ones no did stuff themselves until they had to unwrap about chickens and cows, you might wonder? one else wants, and they hopefully will die of old their loincloths and unclasp their garters isn’t Executive Director Faith Ching explains, “We try to age here,” Ching says. “Farm animals are harder important to this story. Neither is football, Black educate people on how farm animals have exactly to give away than cats and dogs ‘cause people Friday or giant parading balloons. This is a story the same emotional needs as cats and dogs. If want to eat them. We focus on the sanctuary. 26 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 27 28 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 29 – POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS – POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS – POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS –

By Princess Kennedy Facebook.com/ princess.kennedy Photos: Michelle Emerson

Princess Kennedy (center) and her cohorts, Bill Watts (left) and Gorgeous Jared Gomez (right), make a classy cameo in their own version of Busted Magazine.

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I often find myself wondering if any of my neighbors or new life in the system. Hope it goes well for you. Jason said he got the cover on dumb luck and friends are convicted felons, rapists, druggies and/or I searched out actual Busted catalog models and have a persistence. Apparently he’s tried multiple times and with thieves—actually, I already know the druggies. If only few stories to share with you. I think you’ll find the scenes hard work comes success. “I peed a little,” the model there was some publication that could tell me that I hadn’t behind the pages even more fascinating. tells me when he spotted the issue at the Maverik. When heard from Dick or Jane because they were arrested for he just happened to see his mug gracing the cover, he public intox … If I had children, I would want to know if Mr. My friend Steven Bell came over to my house with a squealed, “This is me!” Doe, their teacher, was arrested for aggravated sexual Busted proclaiming, “Holy shit! I know this girl. I went to abuse of a child. My God, it’s our lucky day, because high school with her sister!” I had to know, so I made him He tells me the whole shoot was a total blur, “The other there is such a magazine and you can find it for only a call her to spill the beans on her kin. I was not surprised to models were very competitive and a little aggro, so I’ll buck at over 200 locations from Provo to Ogden! find out the lovely model who looked to weigh about 200 admit I was a little afraid of them,” Bassett says. “The pounds was the head make-up counter girl at Fashion whole procedure was so formal and impersonal I felt Busted Magazine is what I like to think of as the obituaries Place Mall’s Clinique counter, which would explain why I sick.” I think it was due to the fact that he drank his of our generation. “Look Henry, Shawn’s been arrested thought she was a Juggalette. dinner, like a pro. “They dressed me in the most beautiful for dealing harmful materials to a minor. Such a shame, tangerine jumpsuit with matching shoes—I’ll never forget he was so young.” Busted was started two years ago It seems our heavily made-up fatty was busted altering the way they brought out my green eyes.” Bassett says by Ryan Chief in his home state of Florida as a result her time card on camera. Of course, she was let go that his eyes are his best feature. of morbid fascination and a way to help the community, immediately. Our beauty with no brains decided to ‘show although this tranny fails to see how it does that. All I them’ and took a purse from the break room, emptied “After a quick trip to have my fingertips painted black, I care about is getting it every week to see who I know it in her car, brought it back and repeated the crime was off to the shoot with the most grumpy photographer, and what fucked up things people do. Chief says he gets three times before the brilliant make-up queen realized but what an artist with a definite vision,” Bassett says. threats all the time and people are upset that they are that she was being filmed again. DOH! I hate it when I’m Bassett wanted to say that without his agent, Jack being exposed. He retorts, “Don’t do stupid shit and get that stupid. She didn’t return the last purse, went on the Daniels, none of this would be possible. He also arrested—it’s all public record.” lam and added evading arrest to her glamorous robbery promises that while he’s working his path of being a charge. Ugly, fat and stupid—how sad. I hate thieves! cover model, he will stay true to himself and his fans, Distributed in about 12 cities across America, I was just as Justin Timberlake did when he left the Mickey disappointed to find that it is not available in LA, NY or LV. I was also able to actually track down a Busted Magazine Mouse Club. With that kind of grace and wit, I have no Therefore, there is no collectors’ edition due to the latest cover model and find out what it was like to grace the doubts we’ll soon see him smeyesing his way onto Hollywood douchebaggery. Oh Paris, you keep it zipped cover of such a prestigious publication. I wanted to get America’s Next Top Most Wanted. in the inner pocket of the purse you stupid cunt. It is also the skinny on the shoot, discover what the other models a good way to find out how fucked up our legal system is. were like and find out what kind of opportunities it has In this season of giving thanks, I’d like to say that I’m glad There are mug shots of bright-eyed 18-year-olds arrested opened up since he graced the cover. SLC, meet Jason the only mug shot of mine is fake—fingers crossed—and for paraphernalia next to a guy that sodomized a chicken, Bassett. the only mag you’ll find it in is SLUG. Thanks for an and they are probably in the same cell. Welcome to your amazing two years, guys. 30 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 31 Stalking my Ex Girlfriend By Mike Brown [email protected]

Ah, the one that got away. The one you thought would last forever and ever and ever, keeping your stomach full of delightful butterflies. The one that first ripped your heart out Indiana Jones-style and introduces you to the cruel ways of love. The one who got hooked on crystal meth and made you realize you had to break up with her via a collect call from the county jail.

This was my first serious girlfriend. I sure was stupid when I was 20. I don’t feel bad about it. Most 20-year- olds are stupid. I think being stupid is just part of being 20. I’m not so sure at what age people get smart, but it sure as fuck isn’t 20. Especially when it comes to love—stupid, stupid love.

I think my first mistake when pursuing this girl was the Photo courtesy of Mike Brown fact that we went to the same drug rehab. That should have been a red flag. Since this relationship, having CAM 1 Rec CAM 2 Rec been through a serious treatment program has become a serious deal breaker for me. And I wouldn’t blame a girl if she felt the same about me. A little couch time with a therapist is acceptable, but a full-on one-year program to kick whatever gets your rocks off is too much for my fragile heart to take.

On to the story. The day I realized that my love was no match for the demon yellow glass-pipe cat piss was a sad one for me indeed. The girl I went out with before this one had also picked meth over Mike. My friends at the time started calling me a gateway drug. This girl, though? The meth got her bad.

She became the textbook drug addict—either being on the drug, in jail or in rehab. Luckily she was a bishop’s daughter at the time and had resources for adequate treatment and bail money. After that last phone call from jail asking me to bail her out, I heard from her CAM 3 Rec CAM 4 Rec once more about nine months later. She called me from a treatment center to supposedly make amends. I Mike Brown pussing out at the craft store believe it’s the eighth step in the 12-step process. stalkings, nothing came up. Then somehow Grace got thing with Grace, totally ignoring me. Grace then asks Her brain was clearly fucked from sucking a yellow a hot tip from her dad, who had seen her working in a if she remembers me, and she’s like, “No, oh WAIT YES glass dick for so long. She was using small words and craft store by his house. Let the stalking begin! I DO!” scattered sentences and was a far cry from the girl that stole my heart. Then she asked me if I had made out Grace and I came up with a plan. We’d go to the craft She proceeded to tell us without us bringing it up how with her best friend, and I really knew why she called. store when she was working, pretending to buy some long she’s been clean, which is what every drug addict shit for our newly adopted Haitian child. As far as jobs says to people they haven’t seen in a while. Four Her best friend, Grace, and I bonded through the go, I took the George Costanza route and would be an years in case you’re wondering. She also said that her process and became friends ourselves. Keep in mind architect and Grace would be a sex therapist. That was husband looks like Kid Rock, which made it hard for this was over 10 years ago. I would get updates from her choice, not mine. me to believe she’s off drugs. But oh well. To each her Grace here and there about if she was in rehab or jail or own. how she was doing, but it was always the same. Then We drove down to the craft store and got slightly Grace moved to Vegas and I didn’t see her for about 10 hammered. It was go time. We walked in and quickly I couldn’t follow through with the fake architect married years either. went to the beads section. We had a good view of the to the sex therapist getting stuff for our adopted Haitian checkout counters from there but remained somewhat child story. I don’t think I was drunk enough. I just Recently, Grace moved back and we started hanging concealed. And then I spotted her! My first thought? stood there in awe thinking about where my life would out again, both of us wondering what had happened to Boy—she really let herself go, which is a compliment be if somehow things worked out with this girl. this girl. For all we knew she ended up dead in an alley for a formerly rail-thin meth head. somewhere. So we came up with a plan to find her and I took it a little personally that the girl who took my see what happened to the one that got away. We get in the checkout line and this is where I blew it. V-card couldn’t remember it or me, but after seeing My feet got cold and I realized that I’m a terrible stalker. her at a checkout stand at a craft store, maybe her After a couple Google searches and Facebook At first she pretended not to recognize Grace and me. dumping me for meth is the best thing that ever Then she does the whole, “Oh my god it’s you!” girl happened to my life. 32 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 33 Board To Lose: Tattooist, Skateboarder Art Concept by C.J. Starkey Flaco Productions 2010. Street: 02.12

has influenced not only the way you drink coffee, but the books and music you buy? Or how Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land Is Your Land” as an angry response to Irvin Berlin’s “God Bless America?” Heroes and Villains is composed of several different essays in which Hajdu shares his unique point of view. As a music writer for The New Republic, many of the essays focus on I like tattoos, skateboarding and lowbrow the music industry by looking at different art—this book has all of those things. artists, songs, and even music contro- This book is basically a collection of versy and theory such as the good and tattoos on skateboards instead of skin. the bad of open-source remixing. Hajdu There’s a lot of art in here that is really navigates other subjects with precision great, but there’s also a lot of stuff that like Will Eisner’s influence on the comic looks like it would go better on a t-shirt book industry. Through Hajdu’s own than a skateboard. There are a lot of exploration, I found myself thinking more skulls and stuff like that, which I’m not critically about my own ideas and being totally into, but maybe you are. There’s enlightened by ideas that I had never some cool luchador art and you also even considered. –Ben Trentelman get to see cool shit from Jud Fergu- son (who I’m pretty sure is the same Jud Ferguson who rode for Zero in the Remembering Salt Lake ‘90s) and Eric Dressen (who, if you Jeff Burbank know skate history, is OG as shit). There Trad Paper Press are some cool local guys in here too, like Dean Bodily, Nate Drew, Aaron Street: 06.14 Reeber and Anthony Anderson from The idea that Salt Lake is seen as con- Lost Art Tattoo as well as Patrick Delvar servative is now completely contradicted from Good Times. Put together by Salt by this amazing photo journal. The Lake Local C.J. Starkey, this book is images contained in Remembering Salt awesome enough that you should at Lake are gorgeous representations of least give it a look, even if you decide how we became known as the beehive it’s not a must-have for your collection. state. With trolley cars all throughout –Giuseppe Ventrella the downtown area and people out on the streets everywhere, it reminds me of an esoteric San Francisco—it’s just a Heroes And Villains: Essays shame it has not been preserved. New on Music, Movies, Comics, buildings are great for looking modern and Culture and all, but really, can’t beauty be seen in what is? Another fantastic thing about David Hajdu Remembering Salt Lake is looking at the Da Capo Press growth of the trees on the few remaining Street: 10.06 original buildings. Saplings are now As Americans, we truly live in a melting behemoths at the Salt Lake City and pot of many different cultures and ideas. County building, and it has only been There is so much going into how we live a little over a century. Another thing that is derived from media, multi-ethnic that hurts my hollow bones is the few influences, music, television, literature, images of people new to the state who pop-icons and more. The trouble is mustered up all they could to make it tracking a specific idea or behavior down in a new city with their business ideals, to its original roots or even taking the and even now that the buildings have time to think about why we do what we been sold and bought and sold again, do. Hajdu takes on explaining and ex- it’s still really quite sad that the family ploring many unexpected paths though businesses eventually went under. My our heritage as Americans. How much condolences to the radicals out there. have you thought about how Starbucks –Adam Dorobiala 34 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 35 friends. In 2003, they decided to do it again, Wakefield picked Lipez’s poems to go with the theme of drug memoir, which he sees as following a few different publishing their second collaboration, Slept the photographs, silkscreened the poems onto fabric, templates—either a Bukowski style romanticization, or the in Beds. This project followed some of the included a piece of a sheet in the back of every book contemporary drug narrative, which focus on how terrible Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ first big tours and the and hand-bound every single one. “It was very much an drugs made the author’s life and how their recovery has initial idea started with a photo series where artists’ book. It was very satisfying. I made them all by made them a better person. “It’s a lie. People are the Zinner took a photograph of the different hand by myself,” Wakefield says. Zinner says, “It was just same shitty people they were to begin with. Or the same beds that he slept in each night. The photos a beautiful art object. It felt very special. It wasn’t quite a fine people they were to begin with,” Lipez says. “And you were printed on shiny magazine paper and book of photos or a book of poetry—but very much its own can’t be funny … You can’t make drug jokes unless you unique object.” acknowledge that [drugs are] the worst possible thing you could ever do. And that’s boring … and it’s not true.” In 2005, I Hope You Are All Happy Now was published after Saint Martin’s Griffin approached Zinner to work on Wakefield, who edits all of Lipez’s work, thinks that he has a project consisting of his travel photos with the Yeah achieved his goal of treating drug use in a morally neutral Yeah Yeahs. The book consisted of 500-600 of Zinner’s way with the stories. “A lifestyle choice doesn’t have to images that Wakefield then divided into different themes. be elitist, it doesn’t have to be moral. You don’t have to “I think that was the angle that was interesting to Saint rationalize—what I’m doing is better than what everyone Martin’s. For them it was a music book,” says Wakefield. else is doing, or worse. It’s just this self aware, coming to Although Lipez was not the primary writer for this project, terms with where one is,” she says. he did contribute an essay to what Zinner calls a “visual juggernaut.” Zinner’s photographs reflect the same sort of small moments captured in Lipez’s writing—something that This past October, the trio released their fourth comes from his style of shooting. “I’m into the ‘shoot first, collaboration, Please Take Me off the Guest List, through ask questions later,’ school of thought. It’s usually just Akashic Books. “We hadn’t released a book together for a instinctual—whether it’s ‘wow that’s beautiful’ or ‘I don’t want few years, so we said, ‘let’s get together and do a book,’” to forget this—and I know I will.’ It’s a combination of all of Lipez says regarding their most recent collaboration. those things,” says Zinner. Although the photos aren’t meant to be illustrative of the writing, they complement the style. The result is a delightful back-pocket sized book that “[It’s] like a companion to the tone of the story,” Zinner says. is ideal for an intimate reading experience. Zinner’s “I really think that’s where a lot of Stacy’s brilliance comes in, photographs (all shot with color film mostly using a Contax playmaking those two elements equally and [making them] point and shoot) are given a gallery-style treatment—very supportive of each other.” Lipez agrees that Wakefield does clean and framed with enough white space to force a lot of the “heavy lifting” with her designs to make all of the viewers to really pieces seamlessly come together. Photograph by Nick Zinner, focus on them. Lipez’s writings The initial design of Please Take me off the Guest List was from the book Please Take are presented more complex than the final result. The ideas of printing Me Off the Guest List by Nick as five different on long scrolls of paper and tiny scraps of plastic bag Zinner, Zachary Lipez & mini-zines within were disgarded for the mini zine within the book—partially the larger book— because Lipez didn’t feel that the format made the stories Stacy Wakefield. Reprinted respectively accessible, but also a decision that was made once Johnny with permission of titled: “Boring Temple, publisher of Akashic Books, contacted Zinner about Akashic Books. Coke Stories,” releasing some sort of project. “What he wanted was a book “Strep Throat that would sell pretty cheaply, because he was picturing the Lover,” “My audience of the book being pretty young people, probably Letter of Resignation,” “I Like My Metal Like I Like My not being an audience of people who want to spend $50 on Women … False” and “You Can Always Do Better.” some coffee table book,” says Wakefield.

“I truly despise using the word mature—but unfortunately Although initially complex design ideas were scrapped for it is somewhat applicable in this situation, maybe just simplicity, the decision wasn’t one made in vain. “I’m very because the attitude is looking back on events that have partial to pocket sized paper backs. I feel like they are the happened in an ‘I should have known better’ way,” says most fun to read,” Wakefield says. “I feel like for a photo Zinner regarding the theme of the newest project. “The book too, you’re just so much more likely to spend more title is supposed to be funny, but we also wanted it to be time with it and really pay attention to it than some big somewhat tragic. I think with this book, it’s really up to the special book that you only get out on special occasions.” reader to decide what the theme is. It’s open ended.” One of the keys to making the stories, photographs and Although many of the darkly design all work together is the book’s simplicity. “It’s not Over a decade ago, Nick Zinner, Zachary Lipez was Brooklyn was a very different place,” Lipez According to Lipez, the first book that they humorous short essays the kind of book that anyone would look at and think that and Stacy Wakefield were just three people living says. This burgeoning Brooklyn music scene is published, No Seats on the Party Car, came read like memoir, according it even was designed,” Wakefield says. “I just wanted to in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, playing in bands. “Not how the three initially met, and how over time, they together as a result of “blind dumb luck.” Wakefield to Lipez, not everything he make sure if you were spending time with the book you many white kids in bands lived there, there weren’t would eventually collaborate on four different books claims that the process was more “clear-cut.” At the writes is autobiographical. were just focused on the photos and the story and not many places to go. There was basically one bar together—No Seats on the Party Car, Slept in Beds, time, Lipez had been writing a lot of poetry that he “It’s not my diary. Some distracted by anything else. I really wanted the story to be called Sweetwater,” says Wakefield. “There were I Hope You Are All Happy Now and, most recently, wanted to get into the world. Zinner had many black stuff happened. I’d like to their separate books so you are really in there reading from the beginnings of a music scene, but everyone Please Take Me off the Guest List. and white photos taken in the late ‘90s and early think that I’m not that much beginning to end and not be distracted. I wanted you to be tended to play at loft parties because there weren’t 2000s. The two had the idea to publish something, of a prick all of the time,” able to be absorbed in that experience.” knew that Wakefield made books and approached says Lipez. her to see if she would be interested in participating Ultimately it’s this simplistic design that allows Please Take in the project. “Within a week, she had a dummy The book opens with Boring Me off the Guest List to work as an art object. Regardless copy of an entire book,” Lipez says. No Seats Coke Stories—which is of where the process begins, it always ends with one on the Party Car was published in 2001 through exactly what it sounds complete collaborative project. “It’s something where venues in Brooklyn at the time.” Wakefield was in Although music brought them together, each had Wakefield’s publishing company Evil Twin Books. like—a collection of [the photos, stories and design] work together to make an all-girl band called the Turn Offs, Lipez in a interests outside of playing in their respective bands. “[No Seats on the Party Car] was somewhere vignettes, brief memories something else,” Zinner says. band called The Candy Darlings and Nick Zinner, Lipez was a writer. Wakefield studied book design at between a zine and an art book. The first one was if you will, of all of the now of the infamous Yeah Yeah Yeahs, played the Rhode Island School of Design before graduating pretty rough,” says Zinner. truly unglamorous times Please Take Me off the Guest List can be purchased from with a band called Challenge of the Future. “We in 1994 from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. spent snorting drugs. akashicbooks.com for $15.95. were playing in bands together, so we saw each Zinner studied photography at Bard College. Making the first book was a fun experience and, The stories arose from other, and not to indulge in nostalgia, but the reality according to Wakefield, it made them better Lipez’s hatred of the typical

36 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 37 Jeremy Seegmiller Words and Photos: Katie Panzer too hot to [email protected] Last May, a small but dedicated group of messed up because I couldn’t walk for a while Seegmiller: Skating the indoor park at Windells, friends and fellow shredders, including Jeremy after my burns. It was definitely different than just like a private sesh, with all the Technine Seegmiller and I, made the trek up to Mt. Hood. right before I got hurt. homies and MFM killin’ it hard as shit. Or hiking The plan was simple: shred, camp and rage, all up to the rope swings and eating mushrooms. while being as dirtball as possible. About two SLUG: What was the coolest thing you did while That was fun. weeks into the adventure, things went terribly you were up there? awry. A thirty-bomb of Milwaukee’s Beast, a can of white gas, and an unruly campfire later, Seegmiller was in the Portland burn center with second-degree burns covering most of his legs. The doctors said he was down for the count and wouldn’t be riding for at least six months. Less than two months later, Seegmiller was back in Mt. Hood shredding again. When it comes to the question of shredding, Seegmiller’s answer is always yes—second-degree burns be damned. One Sunday evening in September, Seegmiller made bomb chicken tacos and we sat down and talked about the accident, his recovery and how hard he plans on killing it this season.

SLUG: So, we both know what happened in Mt. Hood, but can you tell our readers what went down? Seegmiller: I went through hell, straight up. It probably feels like that in hell—I was that hot. Everyone was trying to go to sleep. I just wanted to keep drinking and I caught on fire.

SLUG: How long were you in the hospital? Seegmiller: Two days—till I found out how much it cost per night to stay, so I had to get out.

SLUG: What did you learn from the incident? Seegmiller: Stop, drop and roll works. It works really good and I learned to not play with fire, unless you’re smokin’ with it.

SLUG: Did getting burned while you were supposed to be snowboarding have any affect on your passion for snowboarding? Seegmiller: I think it made me stronger. I guarantee it made me stronger ‘cause I don’t think anything I do on a snowboard could hurt as much as that did.

SLUG: Have you picked up any hot ladies with your sweet scars? Seegmiller: Nah, the only person that’s said anything about it is some kid at the skate park. He just asked me what happened. But while I was hurt, there were definitely some ladies afoot.

SLUG: Was it hard to get laid when there were bandages all over your legs? Seegmiller: Oh, that wasn’t happening.

SLUG: How did Mt. Hood round two go when you went with the Technine crew? Seegmiller: It went good. Got to stay at Windells—that was the shit. Got to shred Windells, that was cool. My muscles were all 38 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 39 SLUG: Alright, how the fuck did you guys steal a You only get to see them for so many months out Seegmiller: Casey Nelson, Deadlung, MFM. dumpster for the Technine Dream Feature? of the year. That’s who I thought was the sick shit back then. Seegmiller: Well, that’s funny you ask. We drove up in a rental car that looked like a cop SLUG: If you could kill one thing about the SLUG: What about now? car and a truck with a big-ass trailer with like snowboarding industry, what would it be? Seegmiller: Dylan [Thompson], [Brandon] six dudes in it. Maybe you shouldn’t put all their Seegmiller: The war between tight and baggy Hobush, Keegan [Valaika], the Technine names—just like the Technine Crew. And we pants needs to go. That shit’s whack. Either that Crew—I definitely look up to those dudes. all hopped out of the car and just lifted up this or hurt knees. Hurt knees has definitely got to go. Johnnie Paxson, for sure. Yeah, Johnnie dumpster and just put it on the trailer. Dylan Paxson is the fucking shit. I look up to Andrew [Thompson] and Jonah [Owen] got scared so SLUG: What’s your favorite part about Reynolds. Fucking Andrew Reynolds ... they hopped in the trunk when we drove home. snowboarding? Jonah got claustrophobic and got out. Dylan Seegmiller: Sessioning something with your SLUG: Where do you want snowboarding to take ended up staying in the trunk for like two hours homies, like a tube or something. Blazin’ it with you in life? or something like that ‘cause we took some back your homies while you’re sessioning something Seegmiller: I just want to have a fun hobby roads ‘cause we didn’t want anyone to see the in the woods, all hidden away from everyone. forever. I don’t even care, I just want to be able to dumpster. Another thing I like about snowboarding a lot is snowboard forever, until my legs can’t handle it. frontboard to regs. Just regular frontboards. Love I just want to shred. I don’t plan on getting paid SLUG: I know you didn’t get to ride as much this ‘em. No, seriously, I fucking love frontboards. or anything. past summer as you wanted to. What do you They’re so cool, they’ll always be cool to me. hope to accomplish this season? SLUG: Alright, homie shout out—who do you like Seegmiller: I wanna do a lot of traveling, SLUG: Is there a trick you think people should to shred with? hopefully hit up Bear [Mountain] again, Mt. really stop doing? Seegmiller: The whole [Brighton] Maintenance High. Definitely shred Brighton a lot. I’m actually Seegmiller: People should stop doing double Crew, for sure. I like shredding with the planning on working up at Brighton this winter, corks ‘cuz none of us are trying to do that shit. Maintenance Crew. Dan [McGeehan]. Dan is hopefully, and just shredding there a ton. cool to shred with. Lucas [Magoon]. He’s a fun SLUG: What about triple corks? How do we feel one to shred with. I shred alone a lot. I just keep SLUG: So you’re going to live at Brighton? about those? my flow goin’, you know what I mean? Seegmiller: Pretty much. Seegmiller: Yeah, no. They need to stop that. SLUG: Who’s hooking it up with gear these SLUG: How would you say being a snowboarder SLUG: What do you want to see more of? days? affects your life outside of being on hill? Seegmiller: I want to see more little kids Seegmiller: Technine, Landing Headwear and Seegmiller: It’s definitely all I can think about. shredding. BoroSyndicate. You get seasonal friends every year. I guess it would be nice to hang out with everyone year SLUG: Who did you look up to the most when round, but that’s what makes it cool, you know? you were the little kid first starting to shred?

Front board. 40 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 41 DR. EVIL’S NAUGHTY BITS Beer Reviews By Tyler Makmell [email protected]

With Halloween just passed and that neo-fascist holiday of Thanksgiving coming up, I figured why not review some of that crazy spiced, chocolate, pumpkin shit that everyone raves about. I love to see those crazy styles hitting the Utah craft scene, and with other breweries like Dogfish Head, New Belgium and Stone busting out all that funky shit, I HUNG LIKE A HORSE in use then. If you really want to say it’s time for Utah breweries to By Dr. Evil, Ph.D learn more about condom history, put our state on the map—throw I have a friend who is as big as a visit the Museum of Sex in NYC whatever the hell you can into the tree and is hung like a horse. He’s a (museumofsex.com) near Times bunch. On to the beer. big burly Jersey Shore kind of guy, Square. I saw the exhibit “RUB- an ex-Army grunt and a happily BERS: The Life, History & Struggle Brainless on Peaches married man. He and his wife just of the Condom” this summer and Brewery/Brand: had their third baby. 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RP a couple weeks later WOrds and Photos: Bob Plumb Atkin: It was rad growing up in St. George and and told him I wanted to [email protected] being able to go to Salt Lake all the time. I was move out there. I asked different from the kids my age in St. George him if I could move out Everything you think you know about professional skateboarding is wrong. That is, unless you know because of being able to travel and skate all there and live with him for James Atkin. James has been quietly ripping for a long time now. James has style and consistency the time. Going to Salt Lake on my own before a bit until I found a place. that have never gotten the justice they deserve from footage and photos. But if you see James skate in I could drive gave me that experience of going He let me move in for person, it’s a whole other story. He has every trick you can think of on lock, can land all his “bangers” in lines and even Utah’s most famous pro (Reptilian Overlord) once told me he was envious of James’ places on my own. Sometimes my parents had two months, then I ended flip tricks. An interview with Atkin is long overdue in his home state of Utah, and even though there are no idea I went to Salt Lake. I would tell them I up getting a place with some awesome photos in this thing, you really have to see him skate in person was staying at a friend’s place down here and fly Tully, Jared Smith and to understand how good he is. As my friend Chris Raymond said, “I thought up there. Jon Allie. I knew how pro skateboarders skated on a day-to-day basis, until I moved back to St. George and saw how good Atkin is.” I’m a little biased because SLUG: So you were flying up to Salt Lake all the SLUG: Was that the Hell- James has been my friend for almost as long as I’ve been skateboarding time and skating a bunch. How did you end up rose house? (pushing 15 years now buddy!). But, truthfully, James kills it at life getting sponsored? Atkin: No, that was in and skateboarding. It’s about time people recognize, as a famous Atkin: I was on rep flow and was riding for this Carlsbad. I moved out television ad puts it, a “Utah Original.” company Eternal. They were supposed to pay there for about two years – Sam Milianta for me to go to Tampa Am, but they went out of and got on Hollywood business, so I just paid my own way out there. by going on a trip with I flew standby out there and was 104th on the Hurley to Japan. That’s waiting list. I remember just waiting in the Las when I met Nuge and Vegas airport the whole day to get on the plane. those guys by skating on I only had money for a hotel room for one night, Hollywood. Then we all but I just figured I’d meet someone that would let moved into that Hellrose

Photo: Randy Deluchi me stay with them. The only person I knew going Apartment and lived out there was Ragdoll and he was just on Zero together. flow, I couldn’t stay with him. That’s when I met RP Bess. He totally hooked me up and let me SLUG: Was that when stay with him. He even bought me some food I you guys started Hellrose think. Skateboards? Atkin: We were all on SLUG: Was that when RP was the Duff shoes Hollywood working on up going to Syndrome. So that was a a way big- team manager? a video that was supposed to come out, but ger opportunity at the time for Syndrome, even Atkin: Yeah, he was the team manager and never did. They were kind of fucking around with SLUG: What are you up to these days? SLUG: Is the farm organic? and at the time I flew for free because my par- though it probably ended making them lose a hooked it up. At the time, I wasn’t riding for it, telling us different things than what they were Atkin: Just going to school and farming­—haha. Atkin: Yes, organic farming. You pretty much just ents worked for an airline. I knew who some of bunch of money because of how much they pay Duff’s, but he took care of me. I ended up break- doing. We were getting fed through the ears. Working at the Atkin Family Farm, taking care of need to make sure the chickens have water and the older Salt Lake guys were, like Andy Pitts their riders. So they wanted to put all their money ing my foot, and he took me to the airport and They were calling it getting ‘swanked’ because chickens and gardens, and skating. Right now clean their water every couple days because it and Mark White. So when I was 14, I would fly to towards that and it put us out of business. We of Todd Swank. He was I’ve got a bruised heel. But I’ve also been skating gets disgusting. Give them food and clean out Salt Lake for a day. The first time I flew up there were all partying hard and just wanted to skate just saying a bunch of a bunch down here, and filming at random spots. their coops, then water the garden. It’s about two I didn’t really know anyone except Wingert. So and not deal with that shit. We kind of just gave shit. Everyone was like, hours of work every day. I took the bus from the airport to Liberty Park. It up on it and went our separate ways. SLUG: How did you bruise your heel? was weird because I was this young kid but I just “Get out of there while you can.” Syndrome Atkin: I tried to switch frontside flip that four- SLUG: So what’s a typical day like for you? wanted to skate some new shit, so I was like, SLUG: How long was Hellrose around? Distribution approached block in downtown St. George. I was wearing Atkin: I go to school Tuesdays and Thursdays. “Fuck it, I’m going to Salt Lake.” That day I met Atkin: Well, the company was around for a year us and said they wanted these thin-ass Emericas. I landed it but didn’t That’s what I do all day on those days. Mondays, Mark White and DJ Chavez. I always thought DJ but the crew is still around. It wasn’t separate to do Hellrose out of ride away. So I tried it again and my foot slipped Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays I go to the was way older than me because he had a tattoo. ways homie-wise, just sponsor-wise. A lot of the there. They talked us off and I felt the fat in my foot get pushed up by farm and handle what needs to be done. Then I Ha. The second time I ever went there, I was try- people still ride together, just for different spon- up and ended up just my ankle. try to go skate as much as possible. Down here ing switch backtails on the ledge there and this sors. Like Baker and Deathwish have a bunch of fucking us over. In the it’s so hot, you have to wait till 6 to go skate. guy Mark Wynn was there trying switch backlip. the guys. SLUG: Has your skating injury taken away from Sundays I skate all day. Wynn was the big sponsored guy at the time, so end, I wish we would have done Hellrose out your farming? he thought I was trying to one up him so he tried SLUG: After Hellrose was done, was that when to fight me. So funny. We’re good friends now of Tum Yeto. The com- Atkin: A little bit. The first week I couldn’t walk. SLUG: You live in St. George right now. Is that you moved back to St. George? pany probably would It’s hard to clean chicken coops and bale hay ... where you were born? Atkin: After Hellrose, a month later, I got kicked Atkin: Born and raised. SLUG: What was next? still be in business. They hahaha. off Duff’s. Angela (James’ wife) and I were kind Atkin: I started coming to Salt Lake for contests. said we could put out a of over living in LA at the time, just because ev- SLUG: Is the farm you work on a pretty legit SLUG: How did you start skating? That’s when I met Nate Bozung. It was hilarious, video and the video was erything is so expensive. Angela wanted to go farm? Atkin: Kind of random. I lived next to Bloomsdale ‘cause that’s when we were both little Mormon done, but it just never back to school, and my mom had some health Atkin: No, not that legit, it’s a chicken farm. We Elementary. It was one of the best spots growing kids. We were skating together and hadn’t in- came out. Then the Plan issues at the time, so we wanted to move be- have seven chicken coops that hold over 45 up. There would always be a bunch of skaters troduced ourselves to each other yet. We just B dudes came around, cause I wasn’t making anything and I kind of just chickens. that were older hanging out there. They were the looked at each other and are like “Hey are you I think because of the got bummed on the whole industry thing. I never older brothers of some of my friends. Right after LDS?” Haha. So funny. We instantly became way we were doing Hell- quit skateboarding. People probably think that, SLUG: Is 45 chickens a lot of chickens? Halloween, I went to the school with a huge pil- best friends. rose. We actually leased but I’ve never stopped for more than a day or two Atkin: It’s a lot for us. We get tons of eggs every lowcase of candy. I would trade them a handful Hellrose to Syndrome, unless I’m hurt. We were going to Albuquerque day. They poop everywhere so you have to clean of candy for time on their boards. So for like one SLUG: Did you stay in contact with the Salt Lake which, at the time, was or St. George, and I have family in St. George, it up. We don’t have them in a field. We have handful of candy I would get 10 minutes on one crew? something that had nev- so we thought it would be nice to be around them at our house in the backyard. of their boards. I did that for a couple weeks, Atkin: Well in the spring a lot of the guys would er been done before. I them and help my mom out. St. George is only then my parents got me a board for my birthday come down to St. George because it was warm, think Plan B heard about six hours away from LA. I could still go there and SLUG: What do you do with the eggs? so we would meet up and go skate. that because they don’t skate and it is close to Albuquerque where An- Atkin: We sell them and give them to families. SLUG: How did you meet everyone in Salt Lake? want to give ownership gela’s family is. It’s a lot cheaper to live here and We have a greenhouse and a bunch of gardens. Atkin: My friend Ryan Wingert moved up there SLUG: You became the St. George tour guide, to anyone so they ended 44 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 45 go to school so we decided on St. George. Atkin: Ha. No. Well, SLUG: How did the opportunity to skate for maybe. Not a farm Crimson come about? where I chill all day. Atkin: It was probably four months after we How ‘bout a farm moved back to St. George and got married. Kris with a garden and (Markovich) called me and said he was starting two chickens? I don’t a company, and I needed boards and wanted even know if I would to ride for someone. So I was like, “Cool, I’m on ever want chickens board.” Right at that time, I was still kinda on flow after dealing with for Hurley, and then I got put on their pro team. them. I just want to be self-reliant. SLUG: Once you got on pro status, did you get to travel? SLUG: Any shout- Atkin: Yeah, it was good for a while there. We outs? were getting paid enough to not have to work, Atkin: Thanks to get to skate and travel a bunch ‘cause we were Given Skateboards, filming a video. Crimson was coming up really Duff Shoes, Bones good. Then shit went bad with that because of Wheels, Lip Trix one of the guys who owned it. He fucked it up Skate Shop in St. pretty bad. Two years after Crimson started, we had to get out and start Given Skateboards. The guy owed people money and wasn’t paying any of us royalties. He was buying himself new cars and motorcycles. It wasn’t Kris, it was this guy Sam. It sucks ‘cause Kris was in Georgia and this guy was running the company.

SLUG: It was just some random guy that invest- ed in the company that ruined it? Atkin: With Crimson, it was hard because it was just one guy that ruined the company. So that’s why we had to start all over again and do Given. It was hard because everyone was getting used to Crimson, then it’s Given. It’s just hard to start a new company when they are similar to each other.

SLUG: Was Given started right when the econo- my went bad? Atkin: Yeah. Given is still going, we actually just got picked up by a distributor so it’s actually still alive and growing. Having a distributor helps a lot. For awhile there, it was pretty scary. I wasn’t sure we were going to make it, but it’s good now and growing.

SLUG: What are plans for the future now that you George and when skate for Given? I’m in Salt Lake, Milo Atkin: I’m always skating, so now I just want to Sport. Shout out to get more footage out there to be seen. Get some my family, the Plumb photos in the mag, you know, be “sponsed.” family, the photogra- Haha. I’ve always had a bunch of footage, it’s phers, Hellrose crew, just never come out. I want to have a part in a Mark White, the old movie. I just want my footage to actually come Salt Lake Crew be- out. I’m working on a video right now with Josh cause they were who Martinez and Garrett Taylor with a couple skat- I looked up to, and all ers. Levi Faust will have a part, then a bunch of the homies. pros like Corey Duffel, Leo and Cairo will have parts too.

SLUG: Damn, you’re going to actually get a chance. Atkin: Hopefully. My mag minute for The Skate- board Mag is coming out in a week. I have a bunch of old footage that I just need to get out on the internet to try and build up the hype again. I had the hype a while ago, but I kinda lost it from moving away and being out of the scene. So I want to get out there, get a video part, some interviews. Just get big, get to travel again and skate a lot. The last little bit skating has been slow. I can’t just sit around so I went back to school. Just keep living and skating.

SLUG: No plans to open up your own farm? Frontside Flip. 46 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 47 Ace Skateboard Truck MFG. is what you will find with most shoes that were got—“Bruiser” (black and “lake blue”). They offer Ace 33 designed to skate really well for a good week or some innovations from the old days that certain Acetruckmfg.com so. So, if you are looking for an inexpensive shoe newer shoes, made just for “skate fashion,” to get you through lack, like a well padded tongue and rubber ollie one skateboard pads. Note: I never wore a pair of Airwalks until trip, then this is now, always opting for Vans, Globes or Adio it. They will make back in my regular skating days, but these guys you look good use quality materials and manufacture at good and skate well, factories, so I can tell they’re going to last for a and when you while. –JP get home, you won’t feel bad just Smith Optics throwing them The Scientist away. Smithoptics.com –Cordially Yours

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The claim is a 90-day guarantee Straight from the Bay Area comes a product so against breakage, which, when you are talking raw, Spice One would bow down to the “steel” about skateboards, sounds a little farfetched. of these trucks. Ace Trucks are pretty much the Needless to say, I was skeptical. The board most simple, sleek and functional truck design has some super-science top layer that is most to hit streets since the first design of a pivot likely composed of a carbon fiber, water-based cup truck was invented. I am pretty sure these synthetic alloy or something awesome like that. suckers are made of diamond dust, because After skating the board for a period of time that they shine and grind unlike any other truck I would have left an average board just a vague have ever skated. Just look at the baseplate if memory, it had still not broken, even though it you don’t believe me. More props are in order to was soggy and chipped beyond recognition. Ace MFG. for keeping it basic and not offering That is just the natural order of things, just ask any bullshit merchandise to make more profits, anybody who skateboards. All in all, the board but choosing to just provide the highest quality held up to its claim, and I felt it necessary to There are a lot of retro trends rolling around in and grindability around. Capitalism be damned! stomp it until it submitted to the awesome power the sunglass world right now, and it seems like On the real though, partner: If you doubt they of gravity and broke. There are a lot of gimmicks most of the retro designs aren’t really built to last. are better than your Indys, go get a pair (if you out there, and most of the time, they are just that, The scientists from Smith are quite another story can find them, only the smart shops know about but I was happy to know that someone could altogether. As a part of their new ‘Style Series,’ the radness), skate an obstacle, and watch the hold up their end of the bargain. –Johnny Tight you can tell they are definitely gonna have peo- power of the rock let you grind yourself to outer Lips ple asking you some questions as to where you space. Serious. –Adam Dorobiala acquired such a clean-looking pair of glasses. Airwalk Quality is a key factor on these glasses, with Circa Footwear Prototype 600 Degrees “techlite” polarized glass lenses and an overall Circa MIA Airwalk.com awesome style, not to mention the fact that they Circafootwear.com come with a lifetime warranty. It would appear The Airwalk Prototype 600 Degrees was a classic that these things can handle anything you can It is most difficult to find a pair of shoes that last model the company released way back in 1990. dish out. How many other sunglass companies long, skate well and look good. On my never- It’s now been re-released and, judging by the out there offer such a high-quality product while ending quest to find the perfect pair of shoes, I weight and look of the thing, is unchanged still maintaining an MSRP that won’t break your came across the Circa MIA model. For the first from the original. Unless you like a really light bank? I would look into getting some Smiths week, they were great—they broke in quickly and shoe to wear about, these retro hi-tops are this year. The classic style is something that will skated well, but by the end of week two, they had your joint. I enjoy the colors they come in, too: never go away with fads or trends and will keep almost completely deteriorated. I suppose that white and grey, red and black, and the model I you cruising for life. –Adam Dorobiala

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BY: Adam Dorobiala [email protected] With style so important in skateboard- ing nowadays, it’s great to see people out there still treating it like it’s supposed to be—fun. Before the fancy corporate sponsorships and all the jive that may come as we progress in this art, there was a simple reason (mentioned above) that we picked up this wonderful time-waster known as a skateboard. Keaton McDonald is one person out there who embodies this mentality. At the tender and golden age of 24, McDonald has been around the block enough to make sense of his enjoyment in the glorified wood/metal/urethane utensil and it’s about time this guy got some damn love from the ‘media.’ His style is closer to the Jason Lee in A Visual Sound mixed with a little bit of Earl than present expectations of skateboarding. Basically, he shreds— and the fact of the matter is that if you don’t shred with that pure heart and style, you better get the fuck out. An avid member of the Rock Church, Blindside team rider, part time student and recently married (congrats by the way), McDonald still finds time for his love of riding a skateboard. McDonald is always smiling and ready for more when he is out and about, gallivanting around town with his wooden toy, rather than stressing about the trick itself. Keep an eye out for this young lad in the streets and expect to witness greatness. Keep up the pure skating, Keaton. The world could use more people like you. 50 SaltLakeUnderGround Keaton with a solid front board. Swainston photo. SaltLakeUnderGround 51 PHOTO F E A T

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E Andy Wright Darrell Mathes Ogden, Utah By February it seems like riders start to get really creative from running out of tricks to do. Or maybe their minds just start see more possibilities having been immersed in snowboarding for so many months as this point the season. Either one of these could have been the case in this session, which had Mathes using natural up-ramp of this loading dock to jump its distance. The construction barrel was added for bonking after a few makes and concluded with late backside 180 after tail tapping the barrel. – 52 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 53 trigger twice, or in an automatic, you’d have to rack the slide. If you can pull the trigger and the gun fires, then it was loaded. Ob- viously, you can’t be a restricted person like a felon or convicted of domestic violence.

Tom, honestly think about the people that carry a firearm in the open just cruising around the mall. How do you picture them? In my mind they’re usually fat, white and have a big grease stain on their bellies. I even know a lot of cops like this, including A COP the grease stain and home ad- dress in the trailer park. There’s a current group in the SL Valley who wear guns in the open to provoke a response from regular citizens and cops. They have a little helper in the background somewhere with a camcorder Dear Law Enforcement Official/Fel- just waiting to post how the big, low Gun Enthusiast, bad Utah cops infringed on their right to bear arms. But, they still I would like to inquire about the have the grease stain, and they Eh, realism’s overrated. I can’t believe you shot me in the ass! current gun laws in the fine state of could give a shit about how their Utah. I recently found an amaz- honking “machinery” scared you ing pistol that I was pondering and your family in the mall as Dead Rising 2 nerds don’t have friends in RL, but come on, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: purchasing and would like to know they made sure all of you could Blue Castle Games/Capcom do you have to base entire game structures The Game everything I have to know so I will not see it. I think they’re Reviewed on: Xbox 360 around the assumption? –Jesse Hawlish Ubisoft be bothered by the authorities while compensating. Also on: PC, Playstation 3 Reviewed on: Xbox Live Arcade Street: 09.28 “packin’ heat.” I’ve been told (by Halo: Reach Also on: Playstation Network I’ll be honest: The undead apocalypse just colleagues) that in Utah, we are able True professionals who carry a Bungie Software/Microsoft Street: 08.25 to purchase and carry said piece of gun for a living, or carry it for gives me a big stiffie. Naturally, I don’t like to Reviewed On: Xbox 360 (Exclusive) As a fairly accurate reflection of all of the Street: 09.14 machinery without a permit, as long whatever protection they need, read into it all that much. There’s just some- stupid little things that can happen in those This latest and greatest installment of the as it is visible in a holster and no carry it concealed, and no one thing about a fantasy wherein it might actually awkward post-high-school-pre-adult years rounds are loaded in the chamber. ever knows it’s there (unless be necessary for your very survival that you Halo series takes gamers to the beginning of (but with more robots, ninjas and video game I really hope this is true, and if it is, they’re using it, God forbid). stick a shotgun in the mouth of what was the franchise’s dramatic saga and traces the references), the Scott Pilgrim universe is well once your hated high school math teacher battles and missions of six Spartan super- suited to an old-school beat ‘em up video please do explain in as much detail In regards to carrying from as possible in order to clear up any and say something like “School’s out” before soldiers known as the Noble Team. Players game adaptation. Taking cues from the likes state to state, most state laws making an instant Jackson Pollock painting are first introduced to the war-torn planet of of River City Ransom and Double Dragon, misinterpretations of the laws from differ. Utah basically gave away within the grapevine circuit. Now the out of the wall behind him. Glorious. Now, Reach as fire engulfs its rocky surface but are Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a so many concealed firearm Resident Evil 5 is probably still my favorite then transported to a time before Covenant fairly faithful re-telling of the comics, but with last question I have is about how our permits without any firearms zombie videogame, but what Dead Rising 2 forces spread destruction and chaos across much more fighting of nameless bad guys. protocol in Utah transfers over while training or qualifications that a lacks in dramatic tension, it makes up for with its skies. As Noble 6, players must endure Up to four players can battle the never-ending traveling into other states. If carrying lot of states (such as Nevada) a playful sense of humor and approximately alien encounters in both surface and aerial a visibly holstered weapon is legal no longer honor them. Your waves of slightly differing enemies (but not (a first for the title) warfare and recover an in Utah, wouldn’t the same rules be question is very “current event” one quintillion ways to rain re-death upon the online), unlocking new special moves as ancient artifact buried beneath the planet’s grandfathered in wherever you may related. There are several cities zombie hordes. If you played the first Dead they gain experience and level up. You can travel to, and, if not, could you not that have enacted gun-ban laws, Rising, then you know exactly what you’re surface before it’s too late. Bungie has de- also visit various shops and buy their wares, just claim indifference if detained in such as Washington D.C. and getting here, almost to a fault. The psychos veloped a storyline that will resonate well with but there really isn’t anything too useful. The another state for doing so? I could Chicago, and right now, those are crazy and overly-challenging, the zombies loyal followers of the series, but newcomers game mostly works because it is such a great go on and on, but I will hope they ordinances are being challenged are easy and numerous, and outside of boss will certainly become lost in the lengthy lingo. homage to the long-gone beat ‘em up genre give you enough room to mention or on appeal. We’ll all have to battles, the only way the game becomes Does it matter? Not at all. Where the company and because it is so ingrained in the Scott Pil- all the loopholes and intricacies wait and see as those Second challenging is through the time-limit-based slightly slip up in plot structure, they smash all grim universe. If you haven’t read the books, of owning and brandishing such a Amendment issues work their mission structure. But who am I trying to other competitors in gameplay and envi- you might not understand what’s going on wonderful right. way through the courts. fool—this game doesn’t exist to be challeng- ronmental design. The breathtaking visuals and you won’t recognize a lot of the back- ing. It exists so I can cut a zombie into fourths incorporated within Reach’s vast landscapes ground characters, but the game is still fun Sincerely, Tom E. Gunzundstein But in Utah, right now, if you’re a with a broadsword. It exists so I can duct and deserted building structures envelope to play with friends. Also notable: This game fat white guy with a grease stain Dear Tom, tape two chainsaws to a kayak paddle and players in a mystical and foreign world that’s is hard as fuck. It can be pretty frustrating if on your wife beater, you’re quali- run screaming through the courtyard of a mall as eerie as it is mesmerizing. As for multi- you’re playing alone, but at least the awesome It seems you already know the fied to openly carry an unloaded like a goddamn lunatic. For these reasons player gaming, Bungie has been listening to soundtrack (by chiptune greats Anamanagu- basics of the Utah open carry firearm. Enjoy the attention! and many, many more like them, DR2 is a the demands of their customers, as they have chi) will keep you entertained while your ass is law. You can carry in the open You’ll be really cool, like the 12- resounding success, but, if it isn’t already integrated a plethora of modifiable options being handed to you. –Ricky Vigil with very few restrictions, one year-old smoking his screamingly obvious, you have to really love and settings allowing gamers to customize being “deemed loaded.” Utah first cigarette. killing zombies to get any enjoyment out their online experience with endless possibili- defines a loaded firearm as one of this title. Also, for whatever backwards ties, guaranteeing their return to the title well Want More Video Game Reviews? where a single action will cause Email Your Questions To: reason, Capcom decided to include two- after the completion of the campaign. –Jimmy the weapon to fire. Using a [email protected] player co-op online, but declined to provide a Martin Check Out SLUGMAG.com revolver, you’d have to pull the local split-screen option. Okay, I realize most 54 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 55 Buried form of creativity or authentic no- car accident and yearns to establish 127 Hours tions of fear within the frames of the a spiritual connection with his lost Fox Searchlight Pictures Lionsgate screen. Director Christian Alvart sibling. In Paris, author/news anchor In Theaters: 11.12 In Theaters: 10.08 utilizes one cheap horror gag after Marie LeLay (Cécile De France) It’s amazing what the human body As hard as it is for a filmmaker to another to produce screams, but questions where we go after we die create an epic with vast landscapes instead receives bellowing laughter. following a near-death experience and multiple settings, it can be even If it’s not someone needlessly slap- during a catastrophic tsunami. Either harder for a director to develop a ping a window, it’s a dog jumping Eastwood is uncertain of the type project that remains in a single envi- out of the darkness to induce terror. of film he wanted to make or he be- ronment for the majority of the film. The technique requires no thought came too greedy with genres. At one Quentin Tarantino did it with his process. Zellweger is disturbingly moment it’s a religious melodrama Reservoir Dogs, Joel Schumacher awful as she continues to confirm her then suddenly it’s a romantic com- kept Colin Farrell in a phone booth declining star power, while Ferland’s edy. It’s unstable, aggravating and and now Rodrigo Cortés traps amateurish portrayal of the demon fundamentally insipid. Damon offers Ryan Reynolds in an underground child reiterates my hatred for child a subdued yet entertaining role, but coffin in Iraq. Reynolds stars as Paul actors since the majority of them are is pushed aside and disrupted by Conroy, a contracted truck driver more irritating than terrifying. –Jimmy the unemotional performances of the who is kidnapped and buried alive Martin McLaren brothers. The most riveting while delivering relief aid to the war moments come with the astonish- torn country’s shattered communi- ing disaster sequence complete ties. Supplied with only a Zippo, a Hereafter with incredible visuals, but since it’s cell phone and a few other miscel- Warner Bros. the film’s opening, it’s a long and laneous items, Conroy attempts to In Theaters: 10.22 tiresome road to the end credits. remedy the situation by contacting Three loosely connected medio- –Jimmy Martin friends, family, government agencies Photo: Cat Palmer and anyone else who will listen, including the enraged captors who Jackass 3D Gallery Stroll: Does Hair = A the subjects as feminine women, but demand millions for his release. As Woman? also add a new element for Palmer, can endure when someone’s life is Paramount terrifying as the situation is, Cortés By Mariah Mann Mellus taking her out of her comfort zone at stake. Whenever these incredible In Theaters: 10.15 [email protected] of blacks and whites and into a new true stories arise, we read about needlessly doubts his film’s tone and It’s been over a decade since the world of color. them or hear the facts on the evening adds more fuel to the fire with cheap Images set trends, trends inspire news, but we usually never have the and unnecessary tactics that only fashion, fashion shapes beauty An abundance of women volun- opportunity to visually experience the diminish the level of practicality. In an teered for the project—14 by the day and beauty is all about perception. incident first-hand. To change this effort to allow audiences a moment Change your perception during of the shoot. Paula J. Dahlberg, an to breathe outside of the confined November’s Gallery Stroll with a award-winning hair stylist, who, for notion, Danny Boyle has unleashed a powerful testament to the human space, cinematographer Eduard new exhibit at the Hive Gallery in obvious reasons, would benefit from Grau provides beautiful exaggerated having a full stylish do, agreed to spirit by recreating the unbelievable Trolley Square by photographer Cat imagery that breaks the fourth wall Palmer. have her head shaved as long as her events endured by outdoors enthusi- good friend Steven Robertson got ast Aron Ralston (James Franco) and amplifies the sense of isolation Cat Palmer, winner of a 2007 & 2008 to do the shaving. The stories vary— who was trapped in southern Utah and hopelessness. The images are City Weekly Artys award as well as some shaved their heads for Locks of for five days when a boulder crushed striking but do obstruct the film’s Best In Show 2009 at the Utah Arts Love or donated to Matter of Trust, an his arm against a canyon wall. As overall flow. Above all the mishaps, Festival, is accustomed to capturing organization that will take any length his water supply dwindles and the Reynolds is terrific as he successfully beauty in all its forms, and she knows of hair to fill nylons, which capture oil transitions to a more dramatic role that when inspiration walks by, you spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. Some hope for rescue deteriorates, Ralston records his own fragile state of mind yet still adds his own improvisational have to chase it down and maybe of the women just needed to be free comedic signature. –Jimmy Martin even yell, “I’ve been thinking about from the time-consuming daily regi- with his video camera and begins you!” One day while sitting at the men and others shaved their heads to examine his life’s choices and Utah Arts Festival watching the sea as if shedding life’s baggage and envisions an alternate reality beyond Case 39 cre short stories do not make one of people, Palmer noticed a young starting anew. Whatever the reason, his current predicament. Never giving coherent feature-length film. It’s a woman who embodied grace, self- each woman had a real conviction up, Ralston attempts every feasible Paramount Vantage cheap tactic to disguise the fact that confidence and femininity all without for shaving her head and a great raw solution at his disposal, but soon In Theaters 10.01 none of the available narratives were a lock of hair on her head. Through- energy. “I ask each of my models to discovers the only way out will truly It’s no shock this dreadful attempt at worthy of their own solo project, and fill out a few questions, a little home- out the summer, Palmer would find challenge his will to survive. Franco, filmmaking sat on a shelf for years as you would think veteran actor/film- skateboarding/prankster video herself running into this woman— work,” Palmer explains. “This group’s in complete isolation for the majority its producers remained dumbfound- maker Clint Eastwood would be hybrid, Landspeed: CKY, made its obviously the universe was trying to answers have kept me up reading all ed on how to release the atrocity on night—they are all so profound and of the film, finally reveals his true above such tasteless schemes. The way into teenage boys’ bedrooms connect the two. Palmer, who is not their hands. Squinty-eyed Renée the stalker type, explains, “I became each has approached this project capabilities as an actor by projecting film examines three individuals who across the country, eventually plant- obsessed with women who had with a rare and raw honesty.” an array of emotional outbursts that Zellweger stars as Emily Jenkins, a have experienced a close encounter ing the idea in MTV’s brain that a shaved heads and it turns out when touch upon charming and comedic social worker, who adopts a seem- with death and have an affinity for the series should be created based on you’re looking for them, you can Palmer was so inspired by the sea of to gut-wrenching and desperate. ingly innocent girl (Jodelle Fer- afterlife. In San Francisco, George the juvenile antics. Three television find them everywhere.” The project shaved heads that she too shaved His performance is nothing short of land) after her parents are caught Lonegan (Matt Damon) is a former seasons, two feature films and a seemed pretty straightforward: Find her head the day of the shoot. In my phenomenal. Boyle does become attempting to murder the child by celebrity psychic who abandoned his video game later, the battered and 10 women who already had shaved opinion, she’s just as beautiful as too infatuated with music video cooking her in the oven. Yup, you ever and taking that leap is amaz- fame for the desire to live a normal bruised bunch of Jackass return for heads or would be willing to shave techniques involving multiple screen just read that. However, when Emily’s their heads and be photographed in ingly brave! life and attempts to find it in a cook- a third round of explicit mid-life crisis panels and an unnecessarily boom- co-workers and friends start to die ing class where he meets the charm- fun that includes scenarios involving bright flowing sundresses. It turns out in mysteriously freakish accidents, the flowery dresses were almost a Meet these inspiring women and ing soundtrack, but makes up for this ing Melanie (Bryce Dallas Howard). an obstacle course with high-voltage deal breaker for a few of the women. celebrate the diverse ways a woman minor fault with vibrant and sharp the caretaker begins to suspect that In London, Marcus loses his twin tasers, antagonized buffalo herds The dresses are an important part in 2010 can express her femininity. cinematography that exhibits the the teenager is more sinister than brother, Jason (both roles played by and a port-o-potty slingshot. Need- of the concept, though. They serve Opening reception is November 19 mystifying beauty of an unforgiving she appears to be. Nothing from this Frankie & George McLaren), in a less to say, things get quite messy. a staging and styling purpose, during the monthly Gallery Stroll from region. –Jimmy Martin mindless production expresses any encouraging the viewer to really see 6-9 p.m. 56 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 57 Upping the ante this time around is finds solace in the presence of an continue to drop and large teachers’ the group’s decision to jump on the odd girl (Chloe Moretz) who moves unions have made it nearly impos- technology bandwagon in the pro- into the neighboring apartment. As sible to fire bad teachers. Waiting for duction department. First off, viewers their friendship grows, he discovers Superman delivers a probing and are presented with a plethora of the grisly truth of her thirst for blood informative look into the American offensive objects and fecal matter in to survive. Reeves does personalize public school system and why it the third dimension. Ever pondered the film with original distinctive twists continues to fail, despite all of our what a rubber dildo would look like and offers a stunning tale of courage reform efforts. To give the statistics being shot out of a high-powered and love between two outcasts. The a face, director Davis Guggenheim cannon directly at your face? Me highlight of the project comes from documents the lives of five school neither, but now I can cross it off my the outstanding, mature performanc- children, the struggles their families bucket list. Oddly enough, the use es conveyed by both adolescent ac- have faced in the “drop out factories” of the gimmick actually works. Male tors, who not only play off each other and “academic sinkholes” they cur- viewers are forced to protect their well, but add an incredible sense of rently attend and their immense hope own family jewels as tee-ball bats creepiness to the already gloomy that they can be one of the lucky hurl out of the screen only to retract, atmosphere. The only bit of criticism few to make it into a charter school. hitting another cast member directly comes from the unnecessary use These touching interviews with the in the crotch. Next, the production of CGI to communicate animalistic families are enhanced by a plethora team’s use of Phantom cameras movements for the tiny vampire. of jaw-dropping facts and interviews allows the capability to capture the The images come across more with education reformers. Ultimately, action in super slow-motion (1,000 cartoonish than frightening, ultimately Guggenheim’s message isn’t one diminishing the demonic presence. frames per second compared to the about the origins of the revolution- of doom and gloom, though. Good –Jimmy Martin normal 24 frames per second). It’s izing web site, Facebook, my eyes teachers create good schools, and unsettling to witness the human body instantly rolled into the back of my according to Guggenheim, if we can endure a rippling shock wave of pain My Soul to Take head. However, after hearing David cut through all the red tape created upon the impact of a blunt object to Fincher, the same man behind Fight by teachers’ unions, there may be the skull. When all is said and done, Universal Club and Seven, would be directing a light at the end of the tunnel for the stakes aren’t raised much higher In Theaters: 10.08 a script written by Aaron Sorkin, the America’s schoolchildren. –Jeanette than their previous endeavors, but The first thirty minutes of Wes same man behind The West Wing D. Moses the task of grossing out audiences is Craven’s newest slasher film are so and Sports Night, my pessimism certainly achieved. –Jimmy Martin disjointed, unbalanced and confus- instantly became optimism and my You Will Meet a Tall ing, some viewers may question eyes reverted to their original posi- Let Me In the projectionist’s ability to set the tions. Fincher leads this historical Dark Stranger reels in the correct order. There’s a account of how Harvard undergrad Overture Films serial killer on the loose in a small Sony Pictures Classics Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) In Theaters: 10.22 In Theaters: 10.01 community who’s only identifiable along with his friend/classmate, by his engraved knife. Soon after Woody Allen continues his romantic Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) escapades in Europe with this the police reports make the evening changed the way in which the world news, an everyday Joe finds the entangled web of love, deceit and operates with the creation of the so- insensible ambition being car- bloody blade in his home. Cue the cial networking site. As the two reach accusatory voices in his head, and ried forth by two unhappy married unimaginable results, they soon couples. When health-conscience we immediately have a case of split realize the path to financial glory has personality on our hands. At the mo- Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) divorces many legal bumps along the way, is his wife Helena (Gemma Jones) ment our bewildered killer meets his inhabited by countless enemies, and questionable demise, seven babies for a much younger, spunkier escort their friendship will be tested on mul- (Lucy Punch), it drives the divorcee are prematurely born at the local tiple levels. It’s astonishing to witness hospital. Fast forward 16 years, and to seek counseling from a fraudulent a company that was spawned in a fortune teller. While these senior the same seven babies have grown dingy dorm room blossom in only six up into seven superstitious teenagers citizen shenanigans are occurring, years into a conglomerate with 500 the older couple’s daughter Sally who feel the need to perform an million followers and a worth of $25 annual ritual to ward off the killer’s (Naomi Watts) has her own marital billion. Eisenberg is phenomenal as issues when she finds herself falling spirit from possessing their bodies. the snarky, socially inept genius as Obviously they fail as much as Cra- for her charismatic boss (Antonio he fires off the witty banter embed- Banderas), as her aspiring author ven does with this slapped-together ded within Sorkin’s sophisticated monstrosity, the greatest moments husband, Roy (Josh Brolin), finds screenplay. Fincher’s unique visual more than inspiration from the pro- of which are stolen directly from the style comes across beautifully with director’s earlier and better projects. vocative next-door neighbor (Freida eerie fluorescent lighting illuminating Pinto). It’s disappointing to see Allen A scene involving an indoor pool’s the corrupt world of intellectual theft I understand why American produc- maintenance room tastelessly mim- reduce himself to cheap Viagra jokes and its legal ramifications. A surpris- while an unenthusiastic Hopkins tion companies have the desire to ics A Nightmare on Elm Street’s boiler ingly skillful performance is achieved remake foreign films. A story has room set, which only makes me makes the half-hearted delivery. by Justin Timberlake, who portrays The characters and their lives don’t already been created and a follow- want to leave and watch that classic Napster king and Facebook’s first ing has been established, lowering instead. Not one actor is believable become appealing until well after president, Sean Parker. Fincher has the halfway mark. However, once their costs and the risk of failure. I or memorable as they spew out lines a gifted capability of extracting solid still can’t help but become annoyed from Craven’s tortuous screenplay. Allen finally engages the audience performances from both new and with the jovial situational comedy as the original filmmakers fall into If audiences are forced to wait five veteran actors. –Jimmy Martin the shadows when their creations years for the once-master of horror to that has been taking shape for quite are represented by someone else. deliver this type of mediocrity, Craven some time, he abruptly ends the film Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 Swed- should cease and desist all future Waiting for Superman with no resolution whatsoever. Some ish thriller Let the Right One In was filmmaking endeavors before his may see Allen’s choice as a small legacy is completely overshadowed Paramount Vantage voyeuristic glimpse into the daily lives a modern-day masterpiece, so it In Theaters: 10.15 with negativity and anger. –Jimmy of these individuals, but, if that’s the wasn’t shocking to hear of Hol- America’s schools are failing. Martin case, he should have delayed the lywood’s intentions to replicate his Despite all the presidents who have work. Taken from Alfredson and start time of our spy session by an committed themselves to education hour. –Jimmy Martin placed in the head of Matt Reeves, The Social Network reform and the millions who have the supernatural story follows a been poured into America’s public friendless and socially awkward Columbia Pictures schools, there has been little im- Check Out More Reviews At: boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who’s In Theaters: 10.01 provement for nearly 40 years. Ameri- SLUGMAG.com constantly picked on at school, but Upon hearing a film was being made can students’ reading and math skills 58 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 59 enough to come across. SelfHigh- bands like Righteous Audio Werks prowess displayed on the harmonica, Five is a testament to the talent in (RAW) are happy to do it. Featur- the slide guitar and other common the area—the production is tight, the ing the great bass lines of local roots instrumentation. With everything beats hit your ears crisp and clear, bassman Cache Tollman and Josh here, I’ve got to wonder what the live and the dude’s lyrics are sharp. The Dickson on trumpet, this clear 7” show is all about. –James Orme intro song “Up High” starts you up pressing is the best local reggae I’ve nicely, but it isn’t until “Every Today” ever heard. Most groups seem to Victims Willing with Ebay Jamil that you get to be in it for the lifestyle while all these Old Bones and New Cadav- putting one in the air. My one and tracks prove these cats are in it for ers truly only concern with this album is the music. A good recording should Dr. Cyclops Apache, The lose. I mean, this is supposed to bottle would deserve a better review. that the sound sometimes doesn’t blend seamlessly into and out of Street: 08.09 be an EP, but it has nine songs and Here are the ways that a Tampico fit the beat. Your voice is hard, each track in this style of music and Victims Willing = Nerve Agents + Apache, The homie—you sound so angry. On the One does just that. Almost imper- Self-Released clocks in at over 35 minutes. A well- bottle would out-do Glow: It can be All Systems Fail + Union 13 Street: 10.31 established act would spend two used to create danceable beats by topic of voices, “Alright” with Lauren ceptibly so, which makes it either I couldn’t be more impressed with Apache, The = Titus Andronicus years making this and call it a whole tapping it on things and squeez- Hoyt and Bad Brad Wheeler is a great or not so. I enjoy just putting it a band I hadn’t heard a thing about Street Date: 07.22 + Meat Puppets + Two Gallants album, but I have a feeling this kid’s ing it for a crinkle sound. It can be wu-banger of a track. Lauren Hoyt on letting it spin through the whole until I had the CD in my hands. This is more interested in just producing recycled, so that I feel like I’m doing Harbor Royale = cheap vodka + sounds like an angel. There is a lot thing, enjoying it the whole time. My hardcore punk rock with just as much tenacity + Hot Topic vomit what he can when he can. The stuff something to make the world a more to this album, so I suggest you only issue is that it is not longer than vibrancy and attention to melody as It pains me to be a Debbie Downer is chill, understated and jazzy, but better place. Also, I could fly to Loui- go out and buy it. That’s good busi- four songs. –JP brutality, and it has as much viscosity about music, but when the first 35 while Burnell’s affected, raspy raps siana, fill it with oily water to do my ness. –Jemie Sprankle as anyone can handle. Before I heard seconds of the album make me are complex and on time, there are part in the gulf clean up, then pour Soft BleR a note, I noticed it was a Dr. Cyclops want to scratch my ears off my head, some hooks lacking in his choruses. it all over this copy of Glow to make Red Pete ElekHztro release, which usually means horror up I find it necessary. On one hand, The real cream here is the beats that sure that no one else has to hear it. Broken Love Machine Self-Released the ass. Though the record does tackle Aspirations would sell at Hot Topic to are variously reminiscent of the Typi- –Andrew Roy Self-Released Street: 04.06 dark themes, the horror aspects are girls with too much eyeliner, without cal Cats, Blockhead or Lovage-era Street: 07.30 Soft Bler = Cluster + Nolens understated. The guitars seamlessly question. Said girls would eat up Dan the Automator. That’s to Bur- Red Pete = Foo Fighters + Volens + Manuel Gottsching blend metal, rock and punk sounds. Lady Arsenic and well-written Ghosts of Cinema the almost-poetic lyrics, drenched nell’s benefit too because he does Interpol ElekHztro, from Orem’s Soft BleR, “Striking matches just to watch them heavy-to-melodic, lead-driven guitar- Regarding Time, Color and in angst, like Hello Kitty fruit snacks. them all himself, layering acoustic is an album that doesn’t show burn, from cinders and ash there is no work. Without question, having two Objection to Both If Harbor Royale is making music guitar over tight snare claps and its true colors until most listeners return,” is just a sample of the intricate guitarists (lead and rhythm) solidifies Self-Released solely for getting rich and dying sampled piano. So far, my favorites have pushed skip on their iPods. weave of lyrics throughout this record. and thickens the sound that Arsenic Street: 08.09 young (career-wise), they’ve got it are “Apartment 22,” “Welcome to Electronic wizard Sam Davis places Not to get on my soapbox, but this is Addiction are looking to create. Ghosts of Cinema = Her Space made. They’ve shared the stage the Canopy” which features another a formidable road block with the first one of the best local releases I’ve ever An Undertaker’s Lament is much Holiday + Statistics + The with some pretty big bands, such as local, Malevolent MC, and “Let Us half of the album that could alienate heard. –James Orme more concept-based than their EP Notwist Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine Go” with its lush strings. Keep it listeners without the patience to Apache, The, is not Drew was—listening to the full package as and Escape The Fate. This may up dude, the music is good. –Rio wade through the headache-induc- Wings of Normandy Danburry. Seriously. Stop opposed to just spinning a random be impressive to some, but they still Connelly ing minimal chord progressions and Bitterroot calling them that. Although song welcomes the preferred result. lack real talent. On the other hand, Danburry may be on vocals It is mournfully violent metal that has pummeling house beat. The harsh Narwhal Records Harbor Royale might one day realize tones of album opener “Lozenge” Street Date: 06.10 here and his characteristically the chameleon-like ability to interest Exer Ovu they are making terribly unoriginal verbose songwriting is all over this fans of different genres. Among the Circular Blood Stains on My and the mind-numbing fist-pump Wings of Normandy = Rural music and go in any other direction of “Wiggly Willy” sound much more Alberta Advantage + Caleb Fraid introductory eight song EP, this is a plethora of female-fronted modern Family Crest than where they’re headed, and that hairy beast of a record that is hardly metal bands these days, Arsenic Ad- appropriate as a live transition in a Self-Released would be great! They know their DJ mix than a seven-minute album the positivist, restrained acoustic diction can hold their own. Arsenic Street: 02.01.09 instruments and have the drive to track. With that said, the bulk of music Danburry is known for playing. may be a stronger and heavier metal Exer Ovu = Tantric + Ryan make it happen for themselves. It To wit: The buzzsaw, Greg Ginn- dosage than a good hunk of the Cabrera Red Pete hits the nail on the head ElekHztro sounds like an apology would just be better for them in the in the first song “Best Defense” for any discomfort caused by said influenced non-solo solo on album popular female-fronted acts, but it’s Circular Blood Stains on My Family long run to realize that they sound opener “Ed Templeton or Rodney well worth the uncomfortable poison Crest has to have been recorded when singer/bassist Keith Callister tracks. The laser focused motorik like every other band circa early sings, “You tripped a landmine in my beat of “Under Control” and the Mullen (1993),” lap-steel virtuoso it delivers. –Bryer Wharton outside of Kilby Court by the camp- 2000s, looking for teenaged poon shredding, hand clap syncopation fire. If that’s not the case, then it was head.” I couldn’t have said or sung loose, pastoral Kosmische-inspired and eternal fame. I’ve heard this it better myself there, Keith—a land- “Far Too Long” sound like Davis with and rubbernecking dual guitar- Burnell Washburn most likely recorded in my dad’s band a million times before, on other monies make a case for Apache, bathroom while he was in there How does one reject both time and mine has definitely been tripped in full control over his synths and Korg The White Dove EP stages and in other states, and it’s my head by your sweet, jiving jams. DS-10 instead of buried under an The being taken completely on its Self-Released doing his business. Exer Ovu are color? Some sort of laser? In trying time for retirement. We’re not entirely own merits. Although they have delivering the goods just like my dad to avoid the pitfall of lyrical content The action doesn’t stop there as the avalanche of glitched-out, 8-bit tech Street: 3.29 mad at the ‘70s for disco, and I think band alternates from oldies-inspired malfunctions. –Ryan Hall roots in a Utah County institution, Burnell Washburn = Typical Cats in the bathroom. This release is five focused solely on relationship in a few decades this may be a good Apache, The strike off into territory + Common Market + Grieves songs of one dude smacking on drama, the young Ghosts of Cinema rock to art-fueled dance punk thing to look back and laugh at as throughout this seven song EP but Timothy Hay unencumbered by musical past, acoustic and electric guitars while reach for some pretty ambitious, yet well. –Kyla G. picking up on the rage and yelping it up all Linda Perry-from-4 ridiculously obtuse subject matter on never forgets to include a big, soar- Wreckerd snottiness of early SST bands, the Non Blondes-style. Maybe if Exer their debut album. Production wise, ing inspirational chorus that makes Wild Hare Hailing from good ol’ Salt Lake City, country-fried stoned psychedelia Ovu sends her this EP, she’ll be kind Time, Color is pretty top-notch and, Mark Dago me jump up and down. Listening to Street: 12.01.09 Wings of Normandy have been busy of The Meat Puppets, the populist enough to contribute some guest vo- in fact, wildly impressive without a SelfHighFive Red Pete makes me feel like I’m in Timothy Hay = John Hartford + with a brand new album, Bitterroot, Earth Burn Records punk-folk leanings of bands like cals on a few tracks for them. I think record label. Endlessly layered and junior high and I’m down in some Dusty 45s released on their own label, Narwhal Street: 10.05 Stiff Little Fingers and the sweaty she could at least help these guys compositionally fierce, Ghosts of basement listening to the neighbor- This Wreckerd is all over the place Records. They’ve been making a dent Mark Dago = Salvador Santana hood band practice while Keith belts as far as genre, bouncing back in the alt-folk scene, sharing the stage communalism of ‘00s acoustic-punk develop their sound. –Jon Robertson Cinema don’t sound like two kids + Jack Splash + Vinnie Paz stalwarts. –Ryan Hall with Reason software and a click- out his creative writing lyrics. But the and forth from blues to folk and last year with Rural Alberta Advan- Arsenic Addiction The Furies track. As polished as their visual most astonishing aspect is guitarist everything in between. However, tage, a Saddle Creek staple, as well An Undertaker’s Lament Glow packaging is (Four music videos? Mark Middlemas’ (a.k.a The Wiz- this roots cavalcade hits all the as a slew of other local talent including Sheesh), Ghosts of Cinema play ard) guitar lines and effects—truly right spots to make an interesting Ferocious Oaks, which also features Self-Released Self-Released mind blowing. Broken Love Machine record. With over a dozen players Street: 05.22 straight near the bone to late-era Her a member of Wings of Normandy. Bit- Street: 09.04 is like a landmine in my head for The Furies = Better Than Ezra + Space Holiday indietronica minus featured, the record becomes epic in terroot takes its toe-tapping, feel-good Arsenic Addiction = Crisis + sure. –Jon Robertson scope. My favorite track, blues tune cues from the likes of Fleet Foxes Lacuna Coil + Otep Beck + whisper screaming the Galaxie 500 influence. In its “I Ain’t Seen My Baby,” is simple in and Band of Horses, while songs Salt Lake’s Arsenic Addiction have Glow’s opener, “Death of Man,” stead is a steady digestion of 4AD structure, but the clacking of spoons like “Lonely Love” and the title track returned from their well-received It’s good to hear quality hip hop could be an okay rock track if prop- dream-pop and mid-00s pop-punk Righteous Audio Werks and the army singing back-up in take it down a notch, sounding heavily debut EP Requiem of the Fallen produced right here in SLC. Burnell erly recorded. But, you know that that pull melodic pop hooks under One 7” perfect cadence is very entertaining. influenced by Rocky Votolato. There to offer a follow-up of a more ex- Washburn is young and his inex- whisper-scream people do when an ethereal gauze of looped elec- The Issue Records The folk songs don’t hold my interest are good things to come in Wings of pansive, more lavishly produced perience is evident, but that’s not quoting a scream from a song/mov- tronics and buried power chords. Street: 09.07 RAW = (Future Pigeon + as well as the bluesier songs, and to Normandy’s future—their instruments and finer tuned full-length with An a bad thing. I’m tired of too many ie? Well, the Furies recorded that for So, it’s probably some kind of laser, Cabrians) - vox be honest, they get pretty inane, but are solid, while the lyrics are thoughtful Undertaker’s Lament. The new of- veterans touring on the strength of some reason. Many tracks are just right guys? –Ryan Hall Vocal-free reggae is amazing. It some of the spot-on vocal harmo- and fun enough to sing along to. I’ve fering is a sordid vision of brilliantly some radio hit from 1994. Burn. noises—a door closing, a repeating elevates the standard genre above nies deserve a mention. That being got high hopes for these guys and am baroque gothic keyboard/piano The point is, these younger guys guitar pattern, random drums and Harbor Royale just something to get stoned to and said, the vocals could have been anxiously awaiting their next endeavor. work combined with vocal crooning/ are hungry—they put effort in every arbitrary, incoherent 12-inch-whisper Aspirations Plain and simple, this is one of the takes it to a level similar to jazz. That more polished in other parts. I was –KB screeching/growling from singer rap and usually have nothing to vocals. I feel like an empty Tampico Self-Released better local CDs I have been lucky may be a bold statement, but bold most impressed with the musical 60 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 61 Atheist impresario, and I could spend all day guitar and cacophonic percussion. I may have produced his best album Jupiter listing the names of other great punk keep thinking my interest in this kind yet, full of cascading, rich synth and Season of Mist bands this lineup has been a part of. of music is waning, but then an al- expert drum fills, often combined with Street: 11.09 With all that to stand on, they keep bum like this comes along and pulls the most melodious of talk-boxing. Atheist = Death + Cynic + pushing forward with great record af- me back in with some fuzzed guitar He accomplishes these feats with an Pestilence + Morbid Angel ter great record. The Dissent of Man and primal wails. –JP array of keyboards often sporting a is no exception to that rule. Brett sexy pair of illuminated mannequin Gurewitz and Greg Graffin have Brent Amaker and the legs. The beats thump while the outdone themselves once again with Rodeo digital organ and bass goes nuts. the songwriting. With the folk touches Please Stand By Meanwhile, Dave 1’s smooth and on “I Won’t Say Anything” and the Spark and Shine judicious guitar use exudes finesse very rock n’ roll-sounding ”The Devil Street: 10.19 and suavity, while his vocal crooning in Stitches,” the album shows more Brent Amaker and the Rodeo = could melt any ice queen. His lyrics diversity than its most recent prede- Johnny Cash + The Raveonettes are one of my favorite parts, almost cessor, the darker and harder-hitting + Deadbolt exclusively about relationships and New Maps of Hell. After I heard this Brent Amaker and the Rodeo have their various minor catastrophes. record, I was left with one question— been churning honest and ominous They are Quebecois, which is kind of how does a 30-year-old punk band country tunes that sound as eerie as like French, and as the saying goes, keep getting better? I look forward to they are catchy for the last five years, “Je cherche toujours les femmes.” their upcoming show and the future making them an interesting presence Every good-looking girl I know can’t records that are sure to come. (In the in alternative country music. A slow get enough of Business Casual, Venue: 11.13) –James Orme and steady, freight train-like rhythm is which is a really good sign. May this After breaking up in 1994, Atheist at the base of each song on Please record come on next time you want returned in 2006, played some live Black Mountain Stand By, mixed with Tex-Mex-influ- to dance. –Rio Connelly shows and released a live album. Wilderness Heart enced songs like “Saddle Up” and Time was abundant from the reunion Jagjaguwar standard honky-tonkers like “Break The Creepshow of Atheist for Jupiter to be produced Street: 09.14 My Broken Heart,” all sitting under- They All Fall Down and unleashed. Don’t think of this Black Mountain = Sleepy Sun + neath Amaker’s deep, heavy sing/ Hellcat as a reunion or comeback album, Darker My Love talk vocals that have become the Street: 10.05 though­­—think of it as the next step in calling card of the Rodeo and their The Creepshow = Miss Derringer the evolution of Atheist. I keep listen- leader. Think country music decon- + Tiger Army + Zombina and the ing to Jupiter, and it keeps flinging structed and put back together in a Skeletones my brain straight to the ceiling. Its very simple and candid form. These guitar rhythms initially feel chaotic cowboys from Seattle have garnered in a cacophony of crazed tempos a fairly large cult-like following for enveloped in the intricacies of the being around for such a short time, guitars. The maddening and rolling, and have been featured in the indie improvised feel of the drumming, slasher flick Punch and Showtime’s as well as the multifaceted vocal TV hit Californication. Known for deliveries are mind-altering and awe- riotous, whiskey-fueled live shows, somely, gratuitously gratifying. It’s The Rodeo tour constantly, and it will in the same ballpark as what Atheist only be a matter of time before this did best in the early 90s, pushing traveling cowboy spectacle makes its the boundaries of what death/tech/ way to Salt Lake to try to burn down extreme metal can actually be. When Black Mountain proves that Canadi- the town. –James Orme the album opener, “Second to Sun,” ans can cash in on the psych thing lays claim to your auditory sensory that’s going around lately, too. They Chromeo organs, you are immediately chal- may be responsible for some of the Business Casual As a fan of the psychobilly, I love The lenged to go beyond the confines resurgence in the genre as well, hav- Atlantic Creepshow, because every naysayer Street: 09.13 of standard metal song structures. ing been around since 2004. Their of the genre can’t use any of their Chromeo = Kajagoogoo + Ratatat It leaves listeners peeling back the latest album is another stellar addi- excuses to discredit them. They are tion to their other two releases. The + Duran Duran original to say the least, they are col- layers of sound and investigating I could talk about how this band all the sonic technical glories and LP starts out pleasantly enough with orful and vivacious, and even though “The Hair Song,” quickly descends would’ve ruled the 80s like hell-ass there are plenty of dark elements on attention-demanding lyrics that Jupi- sexy kings, as everyone else has ter provides. –Bryer Wharton into the blues-infused music only this record, they don’t dwell on them malcontents can make, like “Buried done. Instead, I’ll proclaim that this and they certainly don’t use them Bad Religion by the Blues,” but pulls up and out duo and future hits like album opener in any clichéd way. They’re fronted with tracks like “Radiant Heart”— “Hot Mess” and “Night by Night” are by Sarah Sin Blackwood, who is The Dissent of Man going to dominate dance parties all Epitaph all in all, a pleasant mix of sublime not meek in the least, as she puts Street: 09.28 and sad. Like contemporary Sleepy over the world a lot longer than any the vocal cherry on the top of an Bad Religion = Bad Religion Sun’s 2010 release, Fever, this group Huey Lewis and the News song assortment of instrumentation that Bad Religion has got be the most makes great use of their female could ever hope to (sorry, Huey). is neither lackluster nor self-serving, talented and accomplished band vocalist’s range in Amber Webber’s This stuff is like a natural evolution of but rather maintains energy and is in all of rock music. Between the Janis Joplin howlings. The album retromania and dance fever (lame), appealing to listen to the whole way six members of this band, there are also makes excellent use of blues- but really goes beyond gimmick to through. The mesmerizing doo-wop numerous degrees, a record label rock staples like harmonica, driving have its own personality. P-Thugg back-up vocals on “Sleep Tight” 62 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 63 make for some really fun sounds. ated NWOBHM), a title bestowed to Sinéad O’Connor, lead track Street: 09.21 letting all of the songs meander detour for a couple minutes to de- films seem like gumdrops. Necrite Reverend McGinty’s organ fits on many influential and excellent “Apply” showcases a tribal beat remi- Hostage Calm = Dag Nasty + and making them entirely satisfying. velop a Middle Eastern immediacy, combine the bleakest of drone and right in with the breakneck speed bands from—duh—Britain that niscent of Björk’s “Earth Intruders,” Madness + Crime in Stereo As a debut, it’s probably the most before heading back to the main ambient tones with a maddening on the more aggressive “Get What’s arrived on (and helped create) the but as though sung by Enya. Rings significant of the year and most likely road to finish the song in the same sensory assault of dissonant guitars, Coming” and adds a melodic com- metal scene in the late 70s and early has been described as a song cycle/ a prelude to more brilliant things. pulsing vein in which it began. Kylesa grizzled, fast, almost narcotic-fueled ponent not often heard in psycho- 80s, know this—to you, my likening concept album wherein the group of –Nate Housley has always been a pretty rhythmic speed to violently oppose the billy. To anyone quick to dismiss of Dawnbringer to those acts (and the songs together is meant to be band, and Spiral Shadow only downtempo movements of this piece psycho as a tedious type of music, that era) will mean nothing. That stronger than they are by them- Junip reinforces their decision to play with of disenchanting vibrations. Add I ask: what do you say when a band said, Dawnbringer does their best selves. That’s too bad for the listener Fields two drummers. Stereo drumming is venomously blood-curdling shrieks like the Creepshow blows away every NWOBHM impersonation, and they then, as too many cutesy “noise” Mute always going to sound good and I’m and growls that are far from anything complaint you’ve got? –James Orme do it well. Combining equal parts elements mar the potential for some Street: 09.14 glad it’s not catching on, since this is resembling human. Masochistic as Maiden and Motörhead, Nucleus of this material to be great, like the Junip = José González - Nick just one more way that Kylesa stands it may be, we learn from and gain Dag Nasty combines guitar-lead worship otherwise gorgeous “Tremel.” Some Drake + Iron & Wine out from a handful of bands in an strength from pain—this is an album Dag With Shawn with up-tempo arena rocking, but songs sound cut off too soon, and Junip has been around since the late over-saturated genre––a genre filled that will be talked about long after its Dischord unless you’re a student (or fan) of business. His last EP, St. Sebastian some of Mesirow’s vocalizing is an- with bands that will continue living in release. –Bryer Wharton Street: 10.18 NWOBHM, it may seem nonsensi- of the Short Stage, had so many high noying to the point of being cloying, Kylesa’s spiral shadow. –Andrew Roy Dag Nasty = Minor Threat + cal and boring, which I almost feel points that it was hard to believe it plus there is a new age-y banality to Night Birds Gorilla Biscuits + 7 Seconds horrible for saying. Worth a listen, but was only four songs long. That is the music that threatens to sink the Legendary Pink Dots Midnight Movies 7” I was expecting more punch and less what makes the overall mediocrity whole thing. One exception is “Trea- Hostage Calm is hands down one of Seconds Late for the No Way guitar-noodling. –Gavin Hoffman of this disc so surprising. The music sure of We,” which is playful and the most intelligent and interesting Brighton Line Street: 10.29 is well composed and perfectly per- lithe, and Mesirow sounds like she’s bands floating around in the punk ROIR Night Birds = Agent Orange Dimmu Borgir formed. His core, four-piece band is having fun for the first time, which and hardcore scenes right now. Street: 10.05 + Screeching Weasel + Descendents Abrahadabra paired beautifully with a string quartet sadly seems to be missing from the Their debut album, Lens, was solid Legendary Pink Dots = Psychic TV Largely leaving their brand of Nuclear Blast that somehow manages to capture rest of her album. –Dean O Hillis all the way through and pointed to + Pink Floyd + Swans Street: 10.12 the sound of an over-produced a musical itch that fell outside of the The long and storied career of Ed- Dimmu Borgir = Cradle of Filth + Nashville orchestra without sounding Gold Panda traditional realms of hardcore and ward Ka-Spel and his Legendary Troll + Vesania + Old Man’s Child over-produced. The problem isn’t Lucky Shiner punk. Their latest release shows how Pink Dots continues—unblemished— The much-anticipated Dimmu in the record’s execution—it’s in the Ghostly Inernational far outside that itch was. The Dag with Seconds Late for the Brighton Borgir album is here. The band’s last overall concept. With Luck and Cour- Street: 10.12 Nasty influence is still there, but a Line. As always, the Pink Dots are couple albums went in one ear and age, Nicolay attempts a sort of indie- Gold Panda = Baths + Prins heavy dose of ‘80s British pop sensi- 90s, but due to other priorities, they quintessential acid trip music—multi- out the other for me. Fortunately, rock opera, in 10 songs that recount Thomas + Apparat bility crept into their sound in the past have postponed the making of an instrumental and masterfully crafted, Abrahadabra runs into some catchy the story of a tragedy-struck couple. few years. The result is an album album until now. Fields is well worth with some of the most wonderfully territory. If you’ve been a fan of the The songs are heavy on lyrics, but more akin to indie rock than hardcore the wait. Fronted by solo artist José bizarre lyrics and musical arrange- Apart from inspiring an unsightly tat- band since their commercial break- light on listenability. They usually lack or punk, and is not dissimilar to the González and with help from two ments ever put to tape. Equal parts too upon the chest of Travis Barker, through, 2001’s Puritanical, you’re choruses and seem to take forever metamorphosis bands like Saves other members, Tobias Winterkorn depressing and uplifting, this release Dag Nasty’s 1986 debut album, Can going to love the new album. I’ll give to start. The subject matter includes the Day and Crime in Stereo went on keyboard and Elias Araya on the must be thoroughly dissected to I Say, largely shaped the sound of credit to Dimmu Borgir—they take references to death and the Bible, through. Lyrically, Hostage Calm is drums, Junip has definite González be enjoyed properly. It would be punk rock for the next decade. Faster every recording quite seriously and which really just makes this a poor top-notch, covering topics like Prop songs, but in its entirety is perfect easy to simply put this record on as than their peers in the burgeoning always come out with an effort that reimagination of The Hold Steady’s 8 and divorce in a poetic manner. background music for just about any- “background music” and dismiss it thrashy, poppy surf punk at the “emocore” scene, smarter than is a grandiose, almost gratuitously Separation Sunday. It’s not bad, but Chris Martin’s vocal delivery is thing going on when there are people as nothing more, but if it’s given the beach, this 7” transports Night Birds most bands in the fledgling hardcore over-the-top production. With this I wish it were better. And Nicolay’s a laid-back singing approach that around. Fields starts out strong with appropriate listening atmosphere to yet another venue suitable for the scene and more serious than most album, the band enlisted the use ridiculously dramatic voice does little melds well with the music, which the bongo-laden “In Every Direc- (and listened to through head- creation of snotty and humorous punk bands of the day, Dag Nasty of a real orchestra and choir, and it to help. –James Bennett includes piano, handclaps and all tion,” an intriguing introduction to phones, especially), it becomes an combined speed, melody and emo- shows massively. In fact, at times other manner of auxiliary percussion. the culturally diverse album, but the entirely different experience. Hit the punk rock: a dark and dirty movie tion unlike any other band. To put the orchestra/choir trumps the vox/ Glasser There is no sophomore slump for excitement wavers in the next few CoinStar and pick this release up. theatre. The title track does channel it simply, Can I Say is a very good, guitar/drums as the key point of the Rings these guys—it will be exciting to see songs. González resorts to the usual –Gavin Hoffman Agent Orange a bit, but if you’re very important album. Nearly 25 music. The core music at the heart True Panther Sounds After listening to the 2009 single where they go from here. –Peter Fryer repetitive blahs in “Rope & Summit,” seriously thinking about Night Birds’ years later, Dischord is releasing of Dimmu Borgir, now a three-piece Street: 09.28 “Quitters Raga” an embarrassing but the music is magical enough to Necrite motivations/influences/message, the band’s first recordings, featuring band, is fairly straightforward, with Glasser = Enya + Acid amount of times, the debut album How to Dress Well forget that you’ve heard the same Sic Transit Gloria Mundi you’re missing the enitre point of this original vocalist Shawn Brown sing- their hefty trademark machine-gun by England-via-Japan’s Gold Panda Love Remains line a few too many times in a row. The Flenser band. Throughout these four songs, ing the bulk of songs that would be double-bass/guitar attacks along is something of a revelation. Lucky Lefse Records The muted guitar and smooth vocals Street: 11.02 Night Birds express their desires to featured on Can I Say. Brown’s vocal with just some fairly catchy riffing Shiner irons out some of wrinkles Street: 09.21 of “Howl” don’t exactly make me Necrite = Blut Aus Nord + be trapped inside monster-infested delivery is much more akin to the and a welcome drum performance of last years 7”s and EPs. Those How to Dress Well = the xx + Bon want to do so, but it is one of the Leviathan + Sunn O))) + Weakling movie worlds and witness unimagi- angry, one-volume, one-pitch style of from vocalist Shagrath. Abrahadabra releases often came across as either Iver strongest songs on the album. It’s I don’t care how masochistic you are, nable gore on the big screen. Their Henry Rollins than later Dag Nasty trumps the last few Dimmu albums too post-rave beat-driven or too IDM Imagine if Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon obvious González is in form and I like Necrite’s debut full-length is about dreams seem to come true on the vocalists, giving the songs a bit more and is without question going to be a glitchy without much middle ground. retreated to his fabled Wisconsin the direction they’re going in, but the as painfully harsh as music comes. final two tracks, “Bad Biology” and of an edge. “I’ve Heard,” “Justifica- success for the band, but if you dare Lucky Shiner, however, seems to cabin with a sampler and an iPod full repetition does get a little trying at Ponies, puppies, sunshine, rainbows, “Triple Feature,” full of the dark (but tion” and “One to Two” are a bit to lurk further into the underground, have perfected the formula. Gold of R. Kelly, and you’ve got an idea times. I expected more from Fields, unicorns, love, happiness—if all still undeniably fun) antisocial imag- harder than the versions that most you will find bands that make Dimmu Panda’s jet-setting sound palate of what Love Remains sounds like. but am not disappointed in the end those were one entity, Sic Transit ery that can only exist inside of the people are used to, but the music Borgir sound like silly fluff. –Bryer samples freely from traditional orien- And it’s as awesome as that sounds. result, either. –Kyla G. Gloria Mundi just busted out a blunt, cheesiest of cheesy B-movies. Even isn’t notably different. Even though Wharton tal instruments and melodies while What’s astonishing is that Tom Krell rusty, blood-stained pick axe and though Midnight Movies lacks the Dag With Shawn is pretty much Can under the commanding presence manages to warp a genre known for Kylesa laid havoc to it. The initial blow by surfy novelty of previous Night Birds I Say with a different vocalist, this Franz Nicolay of an expansive bottom end whose sleek production to fit his home- Spiral Shadow way of “A Mass for the Harvest of releases, it’s still highly entertaining. is definitely a cool relic for fans of Luck and Courage huge bass hits have been toned grown approach. He establishes a Season of Mist Death,” is the pick axe scraping the –Ricky Vigil memorable sound that is entirely his skin off everything that is joy and Dischord, Dag Nasty and punk rock Team Science Glasser is Cameron Mesirow. Cam- down since 2009 songs like “Police” Street: 10.26 own (no easy feat in this day and happiness, raw and bloodied. While in general. –Ricky Vigil Street: 10.12 eron Mesirow is Glasser. Described or “Long Vacation.” Lucky Shiner Kylesa = Akimbo + Red Fang Owen Pallett age) and also crafts songs that get wallowing in its initial agony, “Bereft Franz Nicolay = a gypsy troubador as a literal “one woman orchestra,” is near perfect in its production— How Kylesa continues to release A Swedish Love Story EP + a midget + a men’s store stuck in a place deeper than your of Hope,” just provides a potent but Dawnbringer Mesirow began creating music hard-panning bass hits make up the fresh, interesting, dynamic metal Domino manager head. Part of his M.O. is to flout pop not death-inducing acid bath for the Nucleus with Garageband on her laptop, backbone while exotic samples and baffles me. “Cheating Synergy” has Street: 09.28 It’s not that Nicolay isn’t talented. A music conventions, such as master- raw wounds of glee and washes Owen Pallett = Final Fantasy + Profound Lore Records overdubbing her quite amazing voice fuzzed-out drones are rhythmically the classic, propelling guitar work multi-instrumentalist who has woven ing songs so hot they resonate away any hope that said wounds Parenthetical Girls + Andrew Bird Street: 09.21 to her heart’s content and backing it folded in layer by layer. Easily one of that Kylesa has come to be known himself through the fabric of such with digital distortion (fingernails were going to come out unscathed This first release since Pallett’s new- Dawnbringer = Iron Maiden + with loops and samples of her own the year’s best. –Ryan Hall for, along with electronic/guitar triplet Saviours + Motörhead notable bands as The Hold Steady, on a chalkboard to a professional or unscarred. The continuing audio est album got everyone all excited choosing. That is what is initially cool patterns that 90 percent of metal For those of you unfamiliar with what World/Inferno Friendship Society producer). This doesn’t always pan onslaught, including the almost earlier this year. A Swedish Love Story and the most intriguing thing about Hostage Calm bands couldn’t pull off. The album is reverently referred to as the New and Against Me!, the guy can play, out so well in practice—though great 30-minute-long title track, make the is much more He Poos Clouds and her project. Possessing an amazing Self-Titled is also an exploration into the art of Wave of British Heavy Metal (abbrevi- compose and arrange like no one’s in theory, Krell hasn’t quite perfected imagery of the worst torture/horror much less Heartland. Pallett doesn’t voice that sounds similar in tone Run for Cover interludes. “Crowded Road” takes a 64 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 65 rely too heavily on his Korg, going reforming, because this new Swans The Big Bopper back to his violin and loop pedal is none of that. This new Swans is Legendary Rockin’ R&B is the first instead to create lush orchestrations. made up of Gira veterans and mem- in a promising new series exposing Only the opening and closing tracks bers from the Young God crowd, forgotten R&B gems of the ‘50s and (“A Man With No Ankles” and “Don’t including Devendra Banhart and ‘60s, compiled by Scottish DJ Keb Stop,” respectively) have the upbeat Shearwater’s Thor Harris. MFWG- Darge, who is known for special- synth and drumlines that Heartland MUARTTS doesn’t feel like a lame izing in Northern soul and his BBE got us accustomed to. The middle attempt to recapture old glory, be- deep funk collections. Darge takes portion of the EP is catchy, well writ- cause what does Gira have to come us on a journey back to the glory ten, and heavily orchestrated, like the back from? Angels of Light’s releases days of old-time radio with a batch old Final Fantasy records I know and were solid and this newly minted of swinging roots rock tunes. Harold love. Like most of his early records, Swans project strikes off on legs of Jackson kicks everything off with the A Swedish Love Story plays through its own, incorporating the apocalyptic Civil Rights-themed, twisting Latin like a dramatic Victorian production. folk musings and the terrifying sense groove “The Freedom Riders.” You As always, Owen is a one-man string lock-step bass work beneath a sea of dread from earlier Swans releases. will be singing along in no time to quartet. “Honour the Dead, or Else” of vocal loops and a newly minted, Gira laces his unholy din with mo- Little Ike’s “She Can Rock,” show- is definitely the slowest point on the shimmering mid-tone range. Ryan ments of aching beauty, which are ing hints of Little Richard’s “Good four-track EP, but other than that, this Heyner’s voice often steals the seven times more insidious because Golly, Miss Molly.” Bill Johnson’s release is fairly exuberant and fun. ­ show. While oozing that disaffected they no longer hold the listener at high-energy vocals on the piano and –Cody Hudson coolness so associated with lo-fi pop arm’s length with their abrasiveness, sax-driven track, “You Better Dig It,” bands of the past few years, Heyner but settle in and burrow straight into will get you rockin’ and shakin’ on Sisters sounds completely invested into his your subconscious with their acces- the dance floor. The most unique Ghosts Fits songs. His unnoticed vocal lilts turn sibility. –Ryan Hall track is “Zimba Lulu” by The Rays, Narnack catchy choruses into totally unforget- sporting a Tarzan yelp throughout Street: 09.28 table moments. (Kilby: 11.12) –Ryan Three Mile Pilot the haunted lyrics. Every track on Sisters = Sonic Youth + Pavement Hall The Inevitable Past is the Legendary Rockin’ R&B is a true + No Age Future Forgotten highlight. –Courtney Blair Aaron Pfannebecker and Matt Stimulators Temporary Residence Conboy make up this Brooklyn Loud Fast Rules! Street: 09.28 Wolf People drums-and-guitar duo, Sisters. As ROIR Three Mile Pilot = Pinback + The Steeple soon as you listen to their debut Street: 10.05 Black Heart Procession Jagjaguwar album, Ghosts Fits, it’s clear the Stimulators = Richard Hell + Cro- Street: 10.12 duo picked their name up from Mags + B-52s Wolf People = Dinosaur Jr. + Neil Sonic Youth’s fourth album. “The One historical footnote to the early Young Curse” kicks off with skuzzy guitar 1980s NYC punk scene was Reach and youthful drum patter. Ahh shit Out International Records. Abbrevi- … I love a sharp-dressed band ated ROIR (and pronounced “roar”), who wears their influences well. The the label released music exclusively forceful, up-tempo Pavement-esque on cassette tape. Recently, much of “Glue” is the catchiest offering, the legendary back catalog has been propelled by a head-bobbing hook reissued on compact disc, with this and dense cacophony. The distortion Stimulators record being the latest crashes in on “Synesthesia” and in the ROIR rereleases. Originally the duo briefly shows a quiet side released in 1982, the 14-song CD/ with the stripped-down “Highway LP has a raw, analog punk feel to it. Scratch.” “Here It Comes” hits and The songs were recorded live at a I am blown away by the dizzying show in Raleigh, NC, in front of an After splitting up and becoming fairly technical proficiency, so much noise enthusiastic southern crowd. This is successful in the bands mentioned coming from just two people. Ghosts the only full-length recording of the above, Three Mile Pilot have decided Fits is a debut full of honest-to- Stimulators—a four-piece art-punk to reunite and give it another go at I think that some big wig at a record goodness blistering guitar pop-rock, band that featured Denise Mer- being super-influential and important. label should be put to task on gather- proving the ‘90s continue to live on. cedes on guitar and an 11-year-old I respect these dudes for going back ing up all the people in bands that –Courtney Blair Harley Flanagan on drums. By the to their roots, and judging by the have either bear, wolf, horse or shark time these songs were recorded, tunes on their first album in 13 years, in their band name. Once they’re Small Black Flanagan was closer to 15 and the the return was a good decision. It’s all gathered up, they should all be New Chain band had fallen into a seriously hard not to compare 3MP’s music to shoved in a room with as many in- Jagjaguwar energetic groove. The songs are their other projects, so I won’t even struments as possible and I guaran- Street: 10.26 so trenchant, catchy and cool that try. The music is basically a perfect tee that after two weeks of jamming Small Black = Washed Out + Dom it’s easy to forgive the occasional concoction of Pinback and The Black their bear-wolf-horse-shark souls + Orchestral Manoeuvres in the misplayed note or the inclusion of a Heart Procession, but somehow out, they will have created the most Dark KISS cover. It isn’t that memorable, more heartfelt and with fancy key- glorious music of all time. One of the Small Black’s earlier work suggests and it’s not even remotely sophisti- boards over the top of everything. bands that should be included in this a band who played under the pall of cated, but sometimes that’s exactly Plus, there is no denying Armistead cacophony of glory is Wolf People. lo-fidelity out of necessity, and not what you need. –James Bennett Burwell Smith IV’s magical backing This foursome has created nine solid because their songs weren’t structur- vocals. Three Mile Pilot is like a super jams of great psychedelic-tinged, ally sound enough to exist outside Swans group that wasn’t a super group yet fuzzy stoner rock on Steeple. These of ample heaps of analog tape My Father Will Guide Me somehow now is. Confusing. –Jon dudes are like the new version of hiss. Much like that EP, every track Up A Rope To The Sky Robertson The Byrds circa Fifth Dimension, but on New Chain is punctuated with Young God better. Check them out before they more than its fair share of incred- Street: 09.21 Various Artists get sucked into the bear-wolf-horse- ible pop hooks. While the duo has Swans = Nick Cave + Angels of Keb Darge and Little shark super group. –Jon Robertson been rounded out to a quartet and Light + Jesus Lizard Edith’s Legendary the band had a sizable budget to Michael Gira returns with a newly Rockin’ R&B record this, Small Black still work with imagined reincarnation of his seminal BBE submerged tones, choosing to bury misanthropic noise rock act. I am Street: 09.28 Check Out More Reviews: their synth-pad electronic beats and avoiding using the word reunion, or Legendary Rockin’ R&B = Elvis + SLUGMAG.com 66 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 67 Hellcaminos – Green Pig Who Likes Short Shorts Film Festival – Post Theater Scotty Haze – Pat’s Barbecue Send us your dates by the 25th of the previous month: [email protected] Friday, November 19 Gallery Stroll – Downtown SLC Nosaj Thing, Toro y Moi, Friday, November 5 West Temple Taildraggers – Green Pig Saturday, November 13 Jogger – Urban The Sleeping, Tides of Man, PMtoday, Just Like Vinyl, Young Prisms, The Spins, Palace of Buddies – Kilby Ghostland Observatory Iron Birds – Kilby Tuesday, November 9 Bad Religion, Bouncing Souls, Off With Their Heads – In – Depot Pray For Snow Party—A Bar Named Sue Community Art Gathering – Sugarhouse Coffee The Venue Collie Buddz, The New Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Gordon Voidwell Reel Big Fish, The Aquabats, Suburban Legends, Koo Hey Monday, Cartel, The Ready Set, This Century, We Kingston Band – Bay – Urban Koo Kanga Roo – In The Venue Are The In Crowd – Avalon Spoek Mathambo – W Kate Nash, Peggy Sue – In The Venue The Heavy, Wallpaper – Club Sound Kap Bros – Brewkis Lounge Bryce Avary, He Is We – Club Sound Aloe Blacc, The Grand Scheme, Maya Jupiter, Chase Sofia and Little Teeth, Stephanie & Keaton, A Some- Tanglewood – Brewkis Mae, Terrible Things, Windsor Drive – Avalon One Two – Urban times Army – Whysound Double or Nothing, Trac- Portland Cello Project – Peery’s Egyptian Theater Free Film: The Oath – City Library Marduk, Toxic Holocaust – Complex ing Yesterday, Mermaid Robbie Hazen & the Riot, Wonderlust – Brewkis Biz Markie DJ Set – Hotel Oh Nancy The Hideout – GARFO Art Center Baby – Whysound Mindy Gledhill, Clay Summers – Whysound Turdus Musicus, Never Say Never, Dionyx, Rendan Ter- John Whipple, La Decolatage, Whitney Blayne – Wood- Bruce Larrabee, Hai Yo’ Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band – State Room ror – Salt Lake Recording shed Gilber, Patricia Street, Black Taxi – ABG’s Koffin Kats, The Slappin Echos – Burt’s Dubwise – Urban Amber Debirk, Harold La Farsa, Aloud, Bronco – Woodshed Envy a Go-Go – Basement Wallace, Kaye Wankier, Past’s 10’s, The Black Arrows, Herban Empire, The Wednesday, November 10 Ghost Towne – Deerhunter Marian McDevitt, Julie Terks – Liquid Joe’s Donavon Frankenreiter – Depot Urban Blue – Green Pig Shipman, Stephanie Drainage X, A Different Element, The Krypled, Robin The Ghost Inside, Deez Nutz, Hundreth – Complex Born Through Vengence, Game-On, Interphaze – Dawg Swift, Sandra Seifert – Mary, The Delphic – Vegas Death on Two Wheels, Elevator Anonymous, Echopho- Pound GalleryUAF Victoria, Moonshine, Drums & Colors, Follow The Earth bia – Kilby Nate Robinson Trio – Hog Wallow God’s Revolver – ABG’s – Muse Black Hounds, Dirty Blonde, Boboshand – Urban Joe & the Dead Dogs – Fifth David Dondero, The Sleep Radio, WeDropLikeBombs, Cedars – Basement Nadio Pero, Pariah, Hello Transparency, Monkey Rum Andrew Goldring – Pat’s Barbecue Moaners, Tony Lake Thunderfist, Los Rojos, Someone’s Mom – Burt’s – Liquid Joe’s – Kilby Flash Point – Deerhunter Matt Hopper – Velour Sunday, November 14 Pleasantville Killerz, Bad Incidious, A Balance of a Power – Dawg Pound Scion Party ­– W Lounge Yard Dogs Road Show – State Room Apples, Young Sim, Jody Lee Petty, Corey Hunt, Katherine Alford, Mason Eisley, Ives The Band, Christie DuPree – In The Venue Different = Amazing – Jeanne Wagner Theatre Yze, Konsickwence Lovette Band, Ross Coppley – Green Street Two Cow Garage, Michael Dean Damron, Triggers & Ten Acoustic Performers – Urban – Woodshed Sofa Sly – Hog Wallow Slips – Burt’s Parlor Hawk, Night Night, Roby Kap, The Sister Wives – Pat’s Barbecue Zach Parrish & Snakey Jake – Hog Wallow Monday, November 15 rd Jay William Henderson, Tuesday, November 23 Swagger – Piper Down 3 annual SLC School District Secondary Education Art Lifehouse, Kris Allen, Alyssa Bernal – In The Venue Norther – Velour Community Art Gathering – Sugarhouse Coffee Boomsticks – Pat’s Barbecue Teachers Exhibit – UAA Gallery Thursday, November 11 March Forth – State Room Swindler – Muse Bear Hands – Kilby DJ C-Minus Fantastik 4, Lexicon – Hotel Colour Revolt – Kilby Rhetoric, Rheteric Ramirez, DJ Bran B, Dopethought, Merry Go Grunt, Kalima, Threshold, To Ashes – Base- DJ Shadow – Depot Sunday, November 28 Funk and Gonzo – Green Pig The Hold Steady, Company of Thieves, Junior Giant – In WeirdSense & Yze (6:00pm)– Kilby ment Dead Walkers – Urban Scarlet O’Hara, A City Serene, A Faylene Sky, Coven- Matt Bashaw and the Hope – Fifth The Venue Rhetoric, Learical Mindset, Young Mindz, The Smash Urban Bleu – Deerhunter Free Film: Two Spirits – City Library detta – Kilby Nadia Pero – Whysound Brothas – Urban Five Gallon Groove, The Deluge, The Badderlocks, Saturday, November 6 Annual Holladay Art Show – Holladay City Hall Candye Kane – Pat’s Barbecue Stickers for Cigarettes – Green Street Wednesday, November 24 Monday, November 29 Doomtree, P.O.S., Dessa, SIMS, Cecil Otter, Mike Mondo Drag, Max Pain & The Groovies, The Trappers Casual, Smash Brothas, Dusk, Strangerz, DJ Sayo Marinade – Hog Wallow Ariel Pink – Urban A Better Hope Foundation – Basement Mictian, Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger (7:00) – Kilby – Urban – Hotel Roby Kap, Swamp Boogie – Pat’s Barbecue Sole, Egadz, Burnell Washburn, Dope Thought – Kilby West Temple Taildraggers ­– Green Pig Doomtree, P.O.S., Dessa, SIMS, Cecil Otter, Mike Mic- Watain, Goatwhore, Black Anvil, Iconoclast, Contra, West Temple Taildraggers ­– Green Pig Hillstomp, McDougal – Piper Down Kottonmouth Kings, Big B, Slaine – In The Venue tian, Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger (10:00) – Urban Dead Vessel – Vegas Sugar Show – Sugar Space GWAR, The Casualties, Infernaeon, Mobile – Saltair Tuesday, November 30 Lazy Billy and the Pillows, The Poorwills, Flow – Wood- Joy & Eric – Hog Wallow Tuesday, November 16 Raindogs – Green Pig Swollen Members, Saigon – Star Bar Community Art Gathering – Sugarhouse Coffee shed Scotty Haze – Pat’s Barbecue Community Art Gathering – Sugarhouse Coffee Royal Bliss – Depot No Age, Lucky Dragons – Kilby Twiztid, Blaze – In The Venue The Blackberry Bushes Stringband – Piper Down Swollen Members, Saigon, Sick Sense & Skinwalker, Saturday, November 20 Ulysses – Brewkis Free Film: Sweetgrass – Utah Pride Center BT – Depot Scally’s Hope Landen – Green Pig Killiona – Urban Spiro Agnew, Red Bennies, Taylor Brown – Woodshed Aubrey & Alex – Velour Inspektah Deck & Masta Killa, Mike Skilz, Sicksense & Stephen Jerzak, The Scene Aesthetic, Action Item – Death on Two Wheels – Gogo 37 Black Label Society, Children Of Bodom, Clutch, 2Cents Ghostowne – Brewkis Talia Keys, Gemini Mind – Hog Wallow Skinwalker, Pat Maine, Pig Pen – Elevate Complex Plump DJs,Tinkfu, Loki – Complex (Vertigo) – Saltair Street Def – Whysound R.A.T.S. – Green Pig 2 Weeks Notice – Brewkis Free Film: The Lottery – City Library Salt City Derby Girls Try-outs – Classic Skating Wednesday, December 1 Fictionist, Libbie Linton, Till We Have Faces – Whysound Friday, November 12 Dawes – State Room Samba Fogo, Sea Monster, Lindsey Heath Orchestra Thursday, November 25 Landon Balk, The Maybethans, Silt Panels, Gypsy Lucy Free Film: Kid Flix Mix – Sorenson Unity Small Black, Class Actress, The Heavens & The Earth Filter – Complex (Vertigo) – Urban Scotty Haze – Pat’s Barbecue – Kilby Junction City Roller Dolls Season End: Railway Banditas – Kilby The Subtle Way – Complex (Grand) Toxic Dose, Riksha, Pariah, Blessed of Sin, Backwoods Jake Lucian – Green Pig Mike Brown Skate Night – Urban vs. Hilltop Aces – Davis Conference Center Tupelo Moan, The Rubes, Satin Peaches, Chickens Grey Fiction, The Love Warriors, Sandapile, Heroes of Burning – Vegas Jackson Cash and the Tennessee Free, Misty Quist Hip Hop – Muse MicLordz & Sauce Funky – Club Sound – Woodshed Fiction(6:30) – Kilby Shark Speed, Cory Mon & T.S.G, Sunflow, Ferocious – Piper Down Leo Randeau – Hog Wallow Tara Mcpherson – Blonde Grizzly Circa Survive, Dredg, Codeseven, Animals as Leaders Oaks – Velour Evidence, Prime Element – Hotel Blindfold 801 – Vegas – In The Venue Wednesday, November 17 The Terks, Ghost In A Jar, Schroeder – Muse Friday, November 26 Green Like July, Ryan Kelly, Mock White, Good Manor Greg Laswell, The Rescues, Harper Blynn – Avalon Sara Bareilles, Cary Brothers, Holly Conlan – In The Cherish The King, Faith For The Fallen, Cities of Desola- Blonde Redhead – Depot Thursday, December 2 – Muse Kingtree – Brewkis Venue tion, Sonic Prophecy – Basement The Legendary Porch Pounders – Brewki’s Yawn, Puddle Mountain Ramblers, Dead Horse Anony- Buddha Pie, Mel & Ty – Fifth Daniel G Harmann & The Trouble Starts, White Ivory, Attack Attack!, Pierce the Veil, Of Mice and Men, In Fear Fire Hawk – Deerhunter Tupelo Moan – ABG’s mous – Urban Killbot, Speitre, Desolate – Burt’s Mckay Harris – Whysound and Faith – In The Venue Orion’s Wrath – Dawg Pound Spectra, Deicidal Carnage, My Final Estate, Dead Gates Ulysses – Hog Wallow American Hitmen – Deerhunter Free Film: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child The Summer Set, Stereo Skyline, Mod Sun, The Down- My Hero Is Me, Knives Exchanging Hands, A Kiss For – Basement Scotty Haze – Pat’s Barbecue Chopstick Sidekick Tuesday, Wanna! Gotta! Gimme! – Salt Lake Art Center town Fiction, Austin Gibbs(6pm) – Kilby Jersey, Wrath and Rapture, Vanisher, Get Rude – Green Slim Chance – Deerhunter Whiskey Fish – Piper Down – Dawg Pound Mike Gordon – State Room Brandon Flowers, Fran Healy – Depot Street The Velvetones – Hog Wallow Carlos Cornia – Hog Wallow Show Closing: Chris Madsen, Ai Mitton, Jacquelyn Muir Pretty Lights, Gramatik – Complex Chalula – Green Pig Roby Kap, The Polaroyds – Pat’s Friday, December 3 Blues on First – Green Pig – GalleryUAF Free Film: Out In The Silence – Vieve Gore Tanglewood – Hog Wallow Tragic Black, Incidious, A Balance of Power – Wood- Pick up the new SLUG—Anyplace Cool! Harry Lee Back Alley Band – Pat’s Barbecue The Brothers Chunky – ABG’s Po’ Girl – State Room Korene Greenwood – Pat’s Barbecue shed Larusso, The Blackhounds, The Trademark, Adam Rock Daddy – Deerhunter Mr. Gnome – Burt’s JB Beverly and the Wayward Drifters, Thomas Murphy’s Turkey – Kilby Sunday, November 7 SLUG Localized: Uncle Scam, Marinade, The Vision Velvetones, Ulysses – Urban One Man Band – Piper Down Saturday, November 27 SNDTRKR, David Williams – Woodshed Someone Still Loves You Boris Yelstin, The Lonely For- – Urban Naarah Black, Greg Downs, Melody & Tyler – Velour Sugar Show – Sugar Space Freelance Whales, Miniature Tigers – Kilby Dubwise – Urban est, The Apache – Kilby Funk Fu, Lyrical Asylum, Beginning At Last, My Stage Decoration Ghost, Hammer No More The Fingers, Carolyn’s RocknRoll Rampage – Fifth Dreamland 5, Second Son, Jes – Salt Palace Tony Holiday Band – Brewkis Spindrift, Plastic Furs, Night Sweats – Urban Exit – Liquid Joe’s Future Ghosts – Green Street Paid In Full – Brewkis Fictionist – Velour Runner Runner, 2AM Club, Runaway City, Kitchen Sink The Better Life Band, The Last Look, Super So Far, Kevyn Dern – Hog Wallow Sunday, November 21 Corpus Christi – Complex Mad Max & The Wild Ones, The Slappin Echoes – Muse Fiasco – Green Street Heartbreak Hangover, Wareye – Vegas Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s, Jookabox, Burnt George T Gregroy – Woodshed Monarch – Deerhunter Datsik – Green Street Thursday, November 18 Ones – Urban Caroline’s Spine – Vegas The Urban Sophisticates, J. Timber, The Phive Mics Monday, November 8 BroadSyde – Fifth Mac Lethal, F. Strokes, Burnell Washburn, Dopethought Lovers, Sea Monster, S.L.F.M, It Foot It Ears – Kilby Till We Have Faces – Muse – Green Street Ghostface Killah, Sheek Louch, Frank Dukes, DJ Juggy, R.A.T.S. – Green Pig (7:00) – Kilby One Second Till Forever, Mauler, Love Like Shattered Soggybone – Hog Wallow The Strangerz, Learical Mindset – Urban Soggybone – Hog Wallow Mac Lethal, F. Strokes, Feel Good Patrol, Dean Risko Monday, November 22 Glass, Beyond All Worlds, Love Your Betrayer – Base- Roby Kap – Pat’s Barbecue Free Film: Hannah Free – Tower Roby Kap, Filnner & Dern – Pat’s Barbecue (9:00) – Urban Norma Jean, Reckoner, Fire In The Skies, Breaux ment The Secret Handshake, Cursive Memory, The Narrative, Lionheart – Complex J-Rocc – Hotel Trans-Siberian Orchestra – EnergySolutions – Basement Silver Tongue Devils – Deerhunter Speak ­– Complex (Grand) Pomegranates, Oh No! 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