Authors: James Orme
Local Review: Red Top Wolverine Show – Sloppy Jalopy
Red Top Wolverine Show Sloppy Jalopy Rev 313 Street:12.05 Red Top Wolverine Show = Rolling Stones + Dead Boys + Model T. Ford These hell stomping garage blues boys and a girl attack with their music, but they keep it bluesy enough to make it refreshing. Most “Garage Blues Bands” have more garage than blues,
Local Review: Life Has a Way – 13 Shots
There are simply not enough bands that approach punk rock the way Life Has A Way does, with humor from the gutter, intensity galore, and an overall “fuck you” attitude that most bands are either too soft or too serious to even approach. … read more
Local Review: Joshy Soul – Vintage Dreamin’
Joshy Soul = Otis Redding + Mayer Hawthorn + Andrea Day
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Local Review: Hot House West – Django in Orbit
Hot House West = Pokey Lafarge + Rhythm Future Quartet + The Fat Babies … read more
Local Review: Danny Wildcard – Delusions of Pander
Danny Wildcard = Scott H. Biram + Slim Cessna’s Auto Club + Ghostwriter
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Local Review: Dan Fletcher – F**k This Year
Dan Fletcher = Austin Lucas + Cory Branan + Lucero … read more
Local Review: Bullets & Belles – Be Glad
Bullets & Belles play contemporary folk-infused with some of the most resonant vocal harmonies I can recall. It’s incredible to me that this group could sing every tune of theirs a cappella and still be captivating. … read more
Local Review: Charles Ellsworth & Vincent Draper – Salt Lake...
These two like-minded folk singer/songwriters have been helping each other with music projects for a while now, so a split record seems quite in order. … read more
Local Review: Bronco – In Lights
Bronco = Gram Parsons + The Sadies + Cory Branan … read more
Local Review: Atomic 45 – Cauterized
Atomic 45 Cauterized Self-Released Street: 04.04 Atomic 45 = System of a Down + Suicidal Tendencies + Corrosion of Conformity I love a band that goes for it unapologetically in their approach, not that they should be apologizing for anything. What I’m getting from Cauterized is an element of exuberance that wasn’t as present on