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Sundance Film Review: Carnage Park

Sundance Film Review: Carnage Park
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Writer/director Mickey Keating has tried his hand at many different horror subgenres, including sci-fi body horror with Pod and slow descents into madness with Darling. Carnage Park demonstrates his knack for imagining uniquely terrifying scenarios and then inflicting them upon his characters. … read more

Review: Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Pond Scum

Review: Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Pond Scum
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Shine the evangelists, the organized religion, the righteous cry for morality: Listen to Bonnie “Prince” Billy and be renewed. The American singer-songwriter resurrects the infamous John Peel Sessions with Pond Scum, a 12-track curation of archived Peel demos that renders a concordanced and thought-provoking listen. … read more

Startup Santa Book Drive Gives Kids a Head Start on Reading In 2016

Startup Santa Book Drive Gives Kids a Head Start on...
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Already, United Way volunteers have collected 4,500 books—which is enough for every first grader in all Title 1 schools in Utah County to each receive a book. … read more

Looking Around at Beat Happening

Looking Around at Beat Happening
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Think DIY, and one thinks homey, living-room production, a sort of playing around—though not always playfulness—and a raw sort of determination. This perception comes from a long line of DIY artists that have passed through our ears and venues over the years, but few have both endured as long and so purely embodied that feeling


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SLUG Holiday Party 2015: SLUG Staff Slays St. Nick in Style

SLUG Holiday Party 2015: SLUG Staff Slays St. Nick in...
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It is a remarkable thing to witness people from a myriad of backgrounds, talents, and passions serve a common goal: to enrich the community around them. The SLUG holiday party is a time for the humans at the front line of community engagement come together and celebrate the impact they are creating. … read more

KRCL’s 2015 Polar Jubilee

KRCL’s 2015 Polar Jubilee
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KRCL is 36 years old and still going strong. Hundreds of fans, donors, sustainers, volunteers and KRCL staff bundled up and swarmed the Gallivan Center for an evening of music, food and conversation. … read more

Review: Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The Stories Behind the Classic Songs

Review: Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The...
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Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side: The Stories Behind the Classic Songs Chris Roberts Carlton Books Ltd Street: 10.01.04 This is the quintessential rocker coffee table book. It’s basically unbearable to read from cover to cover, but is delightful in snippets. Walk on the Wild Side is a play-by-play interpretation of literally everything

Review: Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal and Grindcore

Review: Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal and...
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CHOOSING DEATH: THE IMPROBABLE HISTORY OF DEATH METAL AND GRINDCORE ALBERT MUDRIAN AND JOHN PEEL Feral House Books  Street: 10.01.03 This book reaches deep into the earth and pulls out the roots of grindcore and death metal from Day One. Picking up from about the time that the thrash and crossover movements died off, the

Review: The Larry Fessenden Collection

Review: The Larry Fessenden Collection

In this beautifully packaged BluRay box set, the minds of the Shout Factory release a collection of four of filmmaker Larry Fessenden’s gruesomest horrors: No Telling, Habit, Wendigo and The Last Winter, spanning nearly two decades of his impressive career. Fessenden has established himself as a multi-talented visionary in the indie filmmaking scene. As director,