Authors: Brian Kubarycz
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CLC Band: it foot, it ears
Emerging within a musical climate increasingly populated by power duos, it foot, it ears is a local duo with a difference. it foot consciously renounces the displays of might offered by local favorites Eagle Twin, a band they still greatly admire. To the contrary, it foot searches for ways to surrender power, to create music structured around states of syncope, stuttering and collapse. … read more
Review: Dylan Carlson – Conquistador
Dylan Carlson = Ennio Morricone + Bill Frissell + John Zorn + Ezra Pound … read more
Review: Wo Fat – The Conjuring
Wo Fat = Orange Goblin + Kung Pao … read more
Review: The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But...
The Body = Khanate + Bauhaus + Kate Bush … read more
Review: Pallbearer – Foundations of Burden
Pallbearer = Cathedral + Alice In Chains + Europe (“The Final Countdown”) … read more
Review: Insect Ark – Marrow Hymns
Insect Ark = Earth + Daniel Lanois + Pallbearer … read more
Local Review: Visitors – Blueshift
Visitors Blueshift Self-Released Street: 06.20 Visitors = Deftones + Rush Rarely does an EP sound so much like a full-fledged album. Musical offerings of such satisfying integrity do not hatch, fully formed, by sheer happenstance. Blueshift combines fist-sized chunks of aboriginal talent with months of coffee-addicted, all-night hunkering sessions, to yield prog metal that feels
Local Review: Towards Chaos – Swimming The Desert
Towards Chaos = Alice In Chains + C.O.C. + Kyuss
Local Review: Making Fuck – Self-Titled
Making Fuck, Salt Lake’s latest crusaders for atheism, want to make one thing perfectly clear: They will be heard. … read more
Review: Earthless – From The Ages
This is “Free Bird” entered through the outro. Imagine—a dozen layers deep in stoner blues—forgetting there was ever a verse or chorus, or ever any vocals at all, even air to breathe. Imagine tossing the whole structural fuckload and just soloing in brazen différance. To consider this is to glimpse the errance of From The Ages. … read more