DOUBLEWIDE - PRESS

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Utah City Search - Doublewide is one bad-ass band that rocks deep from their pent-up, aggressive trailer-trash roots
by:Jason Esplin

Utah City Search Review

Doublewide strips down, embraces trashiness
With swagger and sense of humor, band cuts itself a new 'good-times' edge on local music scene
-Standard Examiner - Ogden,Utah June 02, 2000

Don't Mess with Texas
Salt Lake City WeeklyScene & Heard
Despite hellacious setbacks and America West, Doublewide kicks it up in Austin for SXSW.
By Bill Frost
March 30,2000

Artist Summary - Listen.com
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT, US
Doublewide kick their cowboy boots straight up Rockabilly's crusty rump. Gleefully knocking the rust off the old genre, they assail it with punk velocity and volume. Imagine a Skate Punk band testifying in a snake-handling Pentecostal church, ministered by the one and only Reverend Horton Heat.
-Chad Driscoll
Similar Artists: Supersuckers, Jason and the Scorchers, Bronco Lubitch

Wide Pride
By William Athey - SL City Weekly
Doublewide Sprung Up Out of Nowhere and Landed Smack in the Middle of Trailer-Park-Chaotic Success.

DOUBLEWIDE RULES AT SHOWDOWN
Group Tops Other Fine Bands, Will Head to Austin.
By Dainon Moody - Deseret News Staff Writer
Published: Deseret News January 28th 2000

SXSW FINALS 2000
By Bill Frost - SL City Weekly
Trailer Park Terrors, Doublewide, Rock All, Then Shock All With Win

DOUBLEWIDE
Even glossy music publications, intent on bringing the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears to every home in the neighborhood, have noticed the rise of garage rock. The Streetwalkin?Cheetahs, the Hellacopters and others, receive profiles in the pages while Doublewide thrills local audiences with much more of the same. Trailer trash garage rock competes for attention, while waves of surf guitar crash on the foreheads of the audience. Doublewide is the hottest ticket in Salt Lake City, though the masses are just barely noticing. It's best to catch the band immediately, because in another year, they'll probably be huge in Sweden.
-- William Athey - Digital City January 2000

DOUBLEWIDE / Thirty Weight (Trailer Trash Tunes)
"Give me hot-blooded women and rock & roll." A lyric taken from the first song of Doublewide's debut disc sums the affair up perfectly. "Good to Go" is the tune and there's a fight going on. If Utah had blood-bucket bars then Doublewide would provide the soundtrack. Sadly there isn't one local bar with chicken wire strung in front of the stage. Substitute Thirty Weight in a Mopar. Fire up the biggest engine you can find, leaded gasoline is required, which means the jalopy must be pre-catalytic converter. Now hit the D.I. Find an 8-track tape recorder complete with a blank 8-track tape. Rig the deal to a CD player. Record Thirty Weight. Hop in the cruiser, plug in the tape, take a big jolt from the pint of Everclear stashed in the glove box. Now drive, sucker. The disc sounds like something recorded in a Swedish garage. Trash rock, surf and just a pinch of psycho with 'billy attached, or is that a billy club to the ear drums? Those with weak hearts should avoid Doublewide if life is worth living because these boys and their record are wilder than Utah deserves-straight rawk, no chaser.

William Athey - Digital City & The Salt Lake City Weekly--January 2000