Authors: Alton Barnhart
National Review: Jazmin Bean – Traumatic Livelihood
Traumatic Livelihood represents the blackened eye that time may heal physically, but the emotional wear-and-tear will always remain. … read more
Hankerings for the Hangover: Top 8 Local Cure-Alls
Your head is ten sizes too big, as you projectile-vomit multicolored regret. How will this ever go away? With the help of SLUG Magazine, of course! … read more
Local Review: Jacob T. Skeen – Telestial
Fresh off the electric high of SLUG Mag’s 35th Anniversary Party, Jacob T. Skeen fires off punk-experimental mortar rounds at every bystanding listener to mosh for cover in his new album Telestial. … read more
Local Music Singles Roundup: April 2024
The SLUG team is back to deliver the musical medicine that offers relief as you’re being edged by the broken promises of spring’s coming. … read more
Film Review: Lisa Frankenstein
Lisa Frankenstein is an entertaining slasher with hilarious kills and pretty artsy dialogue to pry out a chuckle. … read more
Local Review: ARCHAIC FUTURISTS – AN EXERCISE IN HUMAN ERROR
With resources they are provided—and only seeing the tip of its full potential—AN EXERCISE IN HUMAN ERROR feels like it’s been reduced to a 4-bit Game & Watch. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Invisible Nation
Invisible Nation’s 85-minute runtime does not linger on cliche storytelling, where it could easily drive the tone into make-believe propaganda. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Experimental Shorts Block
No matter how abstract or avant-garde the methods of madness are, no one does experimental filmmaking better than the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival. Witness, if you will, six deviant directors and writers dispatching a visual display of 100% free-wandering consciousness. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Restorage
The new, independent sci-fi series Restorage follows three siblings who inherit a seemingly-ordinary storage unit after their father’s passing. … read more
Top 5 Rock-Distorting Albums of 2023 to End The World...
Pop open a stolen Veuve Clicquot, sit on the steps of Capitol Hill and drone out the vaporizing mushroom clouds with five of the best rock albums from this year. … read more