HUGE GCA UPDATE! THE MIX TAPE COMETH AND MORE...

The first GCA Mix Tape will be up this coming Monday, December 7th at Noon! That's 11 unreleased tracks from Utah's finest. FREE!

1. Tamerlane - Dreams

2. One Clean Life - Hey World

3. Dogwelder - Smells Like Mean Spirit

4. To A Close - Up & Black

5. Reviver - New Lows

6. Collapse - Quicksand

7. Right On Track - You Were There

8. Dead As Lions - W.A.R.

9. Reach - Before It's Lost

10. City to City - 9th & Broadway

11. Glacial - Behind Your Beard

In other GCA news, Monday will also see the launch of 3 regular columns here on the site. First, the Salt Lake Hardcore 101 section will receive a major jump start. Every Monday you'll find a new article on a classic Salt Lake City band, label, shop, zine, or venue! Look out for Deadfall 101 Monday morning!

Second, we're launching the Salt Lake Hardcore Music Archive. Updated every Wednesday, this section will host a constantly expanding database of downloadable Salt Lake Hardcore classics... past to present. Tune in next Wednesday for the chance to acquire one of Salt Lake's most-overlooked/important/excellent records, the Better Way Demo!

And finally, every single Friday you'll find a new article by the name of One Voice. It will feature a 5 question mini-interview with those who've helped shape Salt Lake Hardcore Punk. Our first voice will be from Troy Trujillo (11th Street Electric Gallery, Opened Up).

REACH'S LAST SHOW UPDATE

November 16 - The Basment, Ogden:

REACH SPLITS UP

The band will be playing its last show at New Song Underground on November 16th.

More info coming soon.

QUICK! NEW REACH SONG POSTED FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY

"Before It's Lost"

Literally.

NEW MUSIC: REACH

"Damn Vegans"

Post the lyrics dudes!

REACH RETURNS

Salt Lake/Ogden melodic hardcore act, Reach, will end a brief hiatus to help a punk band you've never heard of raise money to play Berlin.... The important thing is that Reach is playing another show. Attend.

MORNING AFTER: ONE CLEAN LIFE E.P. RELEASE

Friday's show opened with the first live appearance of new band Dismantled. Featuring ex-members of Idaho's Silas and Salt Lake's Aftermath of a Trainwreck, heavy riffage was expected but the band surprised many with its doomy melodies and dark vocals sung by Blake of Skeiff d'Bargg/Cool Your Jets fame. The band just finished recording its demo. You can check it out here.

Idaho's Outlet made its first Salt Lake appearance next, impressing many with a crushing mix of Disembodied dissonance and Sleeping Giant optimism. This band needs to take more road trips.

Next up was Rhode Island hardcore rock'n'roll band, She Rides. Yep.

The evening was rounded out by two of Ogden's finest: Reach and One Clean Life.

Reach's light-speed guitar harmonies and epic song structures get tighter with each set. If you're a fan of mid-2000s melodic hardcore in the vein of Love is Red or With Honor, don't sleep on this band.

Rounding out the evening, One Clean Life celebrated the release of their Something New E.P. Living up to their hardcore party vibe, the band put on an energetic performance which included an especially energetic cover of the Beastie Boy's "Fight for Your Right to Party." If you didn't get your hands on a copy of the E.P., Skinned Elbow Records is the place to find it.

Dismantled from Grudge City Activities on Vimeo.


One Clean Life - 3 from Grudge City Activities on Vimeo.


Reach from Grudge City Activities on Vimeo.

SHOWS, NO SERIOUSLY

VICTIMS

THIS TIME TOMORROW

COLLAPSE

ONE CLEAN LIFE

REFLECT
RESTRAINED
THE SEPARATION
REACH

TAMERLANE

RHINOCEROS

COOL YOUR JETS

REFLECT

TERROR
THE WARRIORS
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR
CDC
TRAPPED UNDER ICE

SHOWS

VICTIMS

THIS TIME TOMORROW

COLLAPSE

ONE CLEAN LIFE

REFLECT
RESTRAINED
THE SEPARATION
REACH

TAMERLANE

RHINOCEROS

COOL YOUR JETS

REFLECT

UPCOMING SHOWS

VICTIMS

THIS TIME TOMORROW

COLLAPSE

ONE CLEAN LIFE

REFLECT
RESTRAINED
THE SEPARATION
REACH

TAMERLANE

RHINOCEROS

COOL YOUR JETS

REFLECT

PICS FROM ARTOPIA 07/07

Murdock and Reach have posted pictures from the Verse/Have Heart show at Artopia on their respective MySpace pages.

REACH POSTS NEW SONGS

Ogden's Reach has posted new songs on their MySpace page. The band tore it up opening for Have Heart & Verse. Check 'em out!

THE MORNING AFTER: HAVE HEART & VERSE

July 7, 2008 @ Artopia

The evening opened with Reach, a new melodic hardcore band from Ogden that's got a great deal of potential. Keep an ear out. Then came Murdock (New band from Marshall of Cool Your Jets) and Reviver (New band from Sam, Matt & Chase of Cool Your Jets). Good bands with promise of good things to come. Then came Verse. Then Have Heart. Then a temper tantrum about microphones and the film Hancock. That's really all there is to know about the actual show.

In more important news:
SIOUS BROKE A RIB
Sious Broke a Rib from GrudgeCity Activities on Vimeo.

AND BROOK HAD A BIG DATE

Brook's Big Date from GrudgeCity Activities on Vimeo.

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT

"I feel kinda weird. It's the same feeling I had when I first started going to shows. Only I'm not afraid of anybody." - Jake Miller (Tamerlane, Eleventh Street Tattoo)