In 1823, Joseph Smith claimed to have discovered the word of God on some Golden Plates in New York. For better or worse, he started a movement that forever shaped our culture.​ In 2015, Golden Plates first took the stage at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City Utah, unleashing a sonic fury SLUG magazine described as a music project that spits in the face of pretentiousness and takes independent music back to its roots with grimy, gritty, guitar-lathered caveman rock.​ Since that fateful evening, Golden Plates, currently based in San Diego has released 2 full length albums, 2 EP's, and a weekly cover segment on Youtube and performed a number of venues and festivals across the southwest, including Sundance Festival, Keetley Music Festival, Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival and Nebo Music Festival in Utah, Mesa Music Festival in Arizona, and Soundwave in California, and has been featured in SLUG magazine, Last Festival Day Deaf, Faeton Music Blog and more. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Golden+Plates">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.