SLUG Magazine

Local Music Reviews: April 2018

April reviews of local artists such as The Aces and Wey with more to come as the month goes on. … read more

Upcoming Brewery Updates: Grid City Beer Works

Grid Works philosophy is to keep it simple by offering well-balanced and refreshing beer, and to present it in a space that showcases how it's made and celebrates beer as a great way to celebrate life. … read more

Upcoming Brewery Updates: Maple Mountain Brewing Co.

Our vision for Maple Mountain Brewery has always been to provide beers with the best ingredients, making all of our ales delicious and full-bodied. … read more

Film Review: Tomb Raider

By Jimmy Martin

While there have already been two mediocre productions developed for the Tomb Raider series starring Angelina Jolie, this reboot, now starring Alicia Vikander, closely follows the revamped video games’ storyline created in 2014. Rather than being objectified with skimpy clothing and cartoonish body characteristics, the new Lara Croft is more about survival and becoming a strong, leading-woman hero. … read more

What’s New in Home Brew: Ogden City Brew Supply & Talisman Dada IPA

By Ali Shimkus

At many home-brew supply stores around the country, “clone recipes" are everywhere, However, the idea had never been applied to a Utah brew—until Ogden City Brew Supply and Talisman Brewing Company teamed up to sell the Dagda IPA recipe for home brewers to recreate back in August. … read more

Vocally Local: Using Utah in Beer

By Rio Connelly

I started a restaurant and brewery business five years ago, which now operates in three different locations and is looking into expansion. One of our central tenets since the inception of the company has been making buying local products a priority. … read more

From The Garage to Salt Flats Brewing: A Beer-Fueled Journey

By Ben Trentelman

With six of their beers canned for mass distribution, Salt Flats Brewing is ready to respond to whichever direction the market goes with beers that will satisfy every palate. What Salt Flats Brewing has to offer was nowhere near my normal Wednesday-afternoon cup of tea, and I was feeling thirsty. … read more

Cold Beer to Go

By Chris & Sylvia Hollands

Fresh, cold beer is nearby and you don’t have to visit a liquor store to find it. Venture out to explore our local breweries, and you’ll find some of the best beer around. Purchasing beer straight from the source eliminates possible hazards when picking it up somewhere else. … read more

Kiitos Brewing Crafts the Conscious and Delicious

By Paige Zuckerman

“Always look local,” says Clay Turnbow, the congenial home brewer–turned–Head Brewer at Kiitos Brewing. A minimalist, unpretentious yet ultra-cool oasis nestled amid a semi-dilapidated industrial park, Kiitos offers a cheerful gathering space for the love of the suds. … read more

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Front 242 @ Metro 04.21 with Contaminated Intelligence

By Ryan Michael Painter [Posted April 24, 2018]

Front 242’s studio recordings are primal, but their live performance lifts the material to a completely different level. … read more

Cigarettes After Sex @ Urban 04.21

By Paige Zuckerman [Posted April 23, 2018]

Cigarettes After Sex provide a beautiful soundtrack for a cultivated, classy yet ever-so-slightly racy date-night, as their Urban Lounge set proved. Whether imbibed in the background of private late-night moments or onstage with a sold-out crowd, Cigarettes make for a most luscious, velvety auditory torte. … read more

Brewstillery

[Posted April 5, 2018]

On May 12 at the Gallivan Center, SLUG Mag’s Brewstillery: A Local Beer and Spirits Festival will be SLUG’s second all-local beer festival and first-ever all-local spirits festival—all in one. … read more

Book of Love @ The State Room 04.20

By Ryan Michael Painter [Posted April 23, 2018]

On the night of their SLC show, Book of Love consist of only the two Ottaviano’s (not related or married, but I do like to imagine a completely fictional narrative of the duo meeting in an elementary school lunch line and bonding over a mutual love for chocolate milk and Kraftwerk). … read more

Nils Mindnich

By Jack Dawe [Posted April 5, 2018]

Nils Mindnich slashes in the Brighton backcountry while filming for #LTCVOTY. … read more

Rogue Wave Etc.

By Billy Swartzfager [Posted April 23, 2018]

Rogue Wave are playing Wednesday night, April 25, at Urban. If you love the band, or have ever loved them in the past, I wouldn’t miss it. If you aren’t familiar with Rogue Wave’s calm indie pop delicacies, the show might be just what you need to feel good on a bad day … read more

SLUG Style: Morgaine Fehlauer

By Tyson Call @clancycoop [Posted April 17, 2018]

Morgaine Fehlauer is a print maker, a sex educator and the owner of Grave Noise Press, the only privately owned stone lithography press in the western U.S. … read more

Judas Preist @ Vivint

By Bryer Wharton [Posted April 16, 2018]

It’s hard to beat an arena rock/metal, especially a Judas Priest concert on Friday the 13th. Price of admission for this tour is well worth it for fans, newcomers or jackass cynical folk like me. Priest is alive and well almost 50 years since they began. … read more

Grid Zine Fest

By John Barkiple [Posted April 16, 2018]

We formed Grid Zine Fest to create a zine and comix-centric space in Salt Lake, and for folks to come together and showcase their work,” says founder Juli Huddleston. … read more

Catching the Man: Patrick Codenys of Front 242

By Mistress Nancy [Posted April 16, 2018]

On Saturday, April 21, the legendary electronic body music pioneers and former Wax Trax! label artists Front 242 will return to Utah and perform at Metro Music Hall. … read more

Hands of the audience members making the alt-J keyboard symbol gesture with their hands as the music blasts. Photo: Lmsorenson.net

alt-J @ Saltair 04.10 with Twin Shadow

By Logan Sorenson / LmSorenson.net [Posted April 13, 2018]

The entire house is pumping with energy, and if someone’s hands are not occupied taking a cell phone video, they’re in the air waving with the beat throughout the night. … read more

Film Review: Foxtrot

By Kathy Rong Zhou [Posted April 11, 2018]

Foxtrot’s three acts are tonally distinct, each bringing their own lurching plot twists, each grim or violent or (bleakly) humorous in their own ways. But the final chapter becomes oppressive in its reality, and however Maoz employs the hypnagogic and the hyperreal, he asks his audience to ponder war and borders. … read more

All phones, cameras and recording devices are out and facing forward during OK Go's concert on the mountain. Photo: Lmsorenson.net

OK Go – Frontside Sessions @ Snowbird 04.06

By Logan Sorenson / LmSorenson.net [Posted April 9, 2018]

Have you ever wanted to attend a small show for just you and 50 or so other strangers, enjoy some music and, y’know, save the world at the same time? OK Go played at the Snowbird Mountain Resort inside of the ski tram for Frontside Sessions, presented by CLIF GreenNotes. … read more

Wax On: An Interview With Rapper Wax

By Keith L. McDonald [Posted April 9, 2018]

Wax’s set was creative, high-energy, sonically diverse (he even played the guitar) and skillful. He made a true connection with the audience well before his performance and didn’t disappoint, converging a myriad of different styles and themes in production and lyricism. … read more

Phoebe Bridgers made a guest appearance singing backing vocals for several of Harrison Whitford’s songs. Photo: Matthew Hunter

Phoebe Bridgers @ Kilby Court 04.06 with Harrison Whitford

By Matthew Hunter [Posted April 6, 2018]

Phoebe Bridgers transitioned back and forth between emotional anthems like “Demi Moore” and more upbeat, folk-influenced tunes like “Motion Sickness” seamlessly, even covering Tom Petty’s “It’ll All Work Out” in honor of his passing last year. “This is my favorite Tom Petty song,” she said, “because it’s the saddest.” … read more

Beer of the Month

By Chris and Sylvia Hollands [Posted April 6, 2018]

Throughout the years, Uinta firmly established itself as a larger brewery that is still willing to take chances, with some brews showcasing trendy yeast strain Brettanomyces, more often described as “Brett.” A Belgian-style dark ale, The Friesian, is one of the many styles they applied this interesting ingredient to. … read more

Built to Spill @ Urban Lounge 04.04

By Billy Swartzfager [Posted April 6, 2018]

Built to Spill are on a major label, not an independent one, and have been since the ’90s. What makes them indie, if you ask me, is the way they carry themselves, the way they make records, the way they perform live. … read more

Guitarist and vocalist Jake Bugg. Photo: Lmsorenson.net

Jake Bugg @ The State Room 04.03 with Nina Nesbitt

By Logan Sorenson / LmSorenson.net [Posted April 5, 2018]

It’s Tuesday evening in Salt Lake City with a cold breeze, and you’ve just left dinner Downtown … Where do you go? To The State Room, of course! Jake Edwin Charles Kennedy, aka Jake Bugg, the English singer/songwriter, returns to SLC to a sold-out event to play music with guest artist Nina Nesbitt. A first … read more

Episode #285 – Andrew Goldring