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About the Cover: For our 30th Anniversary Edition, Robin Banks depicts people in our scene reading current and past SLUG magazines while listening to our local music. Death By Salt compilation series. Its punky color palette jibes with SLUG's continual endeavors to celebrate our community's cultural fringes. You can find more of Banks' work at robinbanks.bigcartel.com.

The Nels Cline 4

By Ali Shimkus [Posted February 14, 2019]

The Nels Cline 4 performance on February 11 was musical and rich, challenging you to become a better musician. … read more

Anu | DISCWOMAN 61 | DISCWOMAN

5 Experimental Releases That Push Old Styles In New Directions

By Connor Lockie [Posted February 14, 2019]

Out of the ever-expanding archive of great experimental music, here are 5 releases that take familiar sounds in unexpected directions, be it jazz, techno, ambient or pop. … read more

Photo: @clancycoop

SLUG Style: Lois Brady

By Tyson Call @clancycoop [Posted February 12, 2019]

Lois Brady is an editorial intern here at SLUG Magazine, where she also writes film reviews. … read more

Scary Uncle Steve are a band that exists on its own plane, not just in sound, but in personality. Photo Credit: John Barkiple

Episode #304 – Scary Uncle Steve

[Posted February 8, 2019]

Skunk of Scary Uncle Steve discusses the inception and transformation of the band as they continually treat audiences to upbeat, lighthearted punk and unexpected covers. … read more

Director of the Festival John Cooper introducing the Directors of IFC's Documentary Now!

Sundance Film Festival 2019 @ Park City UT 01.25-01.28

By Logan Sorenson [Posted February 8, 2019]

Thirty-four years of small-mountain-town, indie film, hustle and bustle continues in streets of Park City, UT during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Attendees arrive by the thousands from all over the globe to see the latest releases in independent film, the talent involved or perhaps  just visiting the beehive state for some shopping and fresh … read more

Talos | Far Out Dust | BMG

Review: Talos – Far Out Dust

By Paige Zuckerman [Posted February 8, 2019]

Talos = James Blake + Bon Iver … read more

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love | Nicholas Broomfield | Photo: Nicholas Broomfield

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

By Alexander Ortega [Posted February 1, 2019]

This documentary explores (some of) his love of Marianne Ihlen, with whom he was in an open relationship for many years and who is thought of as his muse. … read more

The Infiltrators | Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra | Photo: Lisa Rinzler

The Infiltrators

By Alexander Ortega [Posted January 31, 2019]

The Infiltrators is the stirring documentary cum dramatization about how members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) helped aid in halting various deportations from the U.S. … read more

Brother. | Volume II | Self-Released

Brother.

By Ali Shimkus [Posted January 31, 2019]

Brother. = Local Natives + Fleet Foxes … read more

Sonnets | Of Wrath and Sorrow | Self-Released

Sonnets

By Peter Fryer [Posted January 31, 2019]

Sonnets = Angel Hair + City of Caterpillar + Love Lost But Not Forgotten … read more

Sex Room | InSnaketicide | Fullblone Records

Sex Room

By Russ Holsten [Posted January 31, 2019]

Sex Room = Love And Rockets + Ramones + early Nirvana … read more

Young Yankee | THE DEFIANT | Self-Released

Young Yankee

By Taylor Hartman [Posted January 31, 2019]

Young Yankee = G-Eazy + J Cole + Mac Miller … read more

Heather Grey | A Long, Cold Walk Home | Self-Released

Heather Grey

By Connor Brady [Posted January 31, 2019]

Heather Grey = Uyama Hiroto + Fat Jon + Shing02 … read more

In a certain sense, Bill Frost is the longest-standing SLUG Magazine contributor of us all. Bill Frost

Contributor Limelight – Bill Frost

By SLUG Staff [Posted January 31, 2019]

In a certain sense, Bill Frost is the longest-standing SLUG Magazine contributor of us all. … read more

Randy Vannurden – Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. Photo: Jack Dawe

Randy Vannurden

By Jack Dawe [Posted January 31, 2019]

Randy Vannurden enjoying a solid mid-December snowpack up Big Cottonwood Canyon. … read more

Mike Brown thinks that Utah’s new .05 law blows … for the tourism industry. Illustration: garrick@deanillustration.com

.05 to Drive!

By Mike Brown [Posted January 31, 2019]

As of Dec. 30, 2018, the great and wholesome state in which we reside has updated its DUI policy, lowering the legal limit from .08 to .05. … read more

MC Who

By Connor Brady [Posted January 31, 2019]

MC Who is a Salt Lake City hip hop artist with a raw, old-school style that allows him to stand out in the current trap-heavy and producer-focused scene. … read more

Unlocking the treasure, the pour is effortless. It surges into a willi glass with a gurgle of micro–air bubbles. Gathering to a head of pure-white foam, a shallow barrier is formed between the lips and the reward. Photo: Chris Hollands

Beer of the Month: BrewSki Mountain Lager

By Chris and Sylvia Hollands [Posted January 31, 2019]

To get the setting right for this beer, we ensured that the 12-ounce, light-blue, snow-glazed aluminum was properly iced before cracking the top. … read more

Fat Candice

By Russ Holsten [Posted January 31, 2019]

They are masters at yanking at your music-memory strings and then shifting what’s familiar, turning it inside out, and making that sound their own. … read more