Music
Localized is a monthly showcase of local music founded by SLUG Magazine in 2001 as a way to spotlight local artists and musicians. Localized genres vary from metal to bluegrass to hip-hop and everything in between, even featuring comedy and drag performances. The event is sponsored by Riso-Geist and typically takes place at Kilby Court. Read SLUG Mag’s interviews with past and present Localized performers below!
Localized: Burn Your World
Join SLUG at Urban Lounge on Oct. 26 for our Localized show—which will feature Burn Your World alongside Villain. Burn Your World is a peculiar entity which has thrived for six years using grinding guitar tones over simplistic riffs, but their sound is padded with depths of hardcore. Check them out this October! … read more
Localized: Villain
On Oct. 26, SLUG will showcase local band, Villain, at Urban Lounge. Each member has years of band experience under his belt, creating a talented group of hardcore veterans. … read more
Localized: Forest Feathers
Forest Feathers, a dynamic group that incorporates the dreamy space of prog-rock into the technical elements of math rock, initially started as a solo project by Camron Sackett in 2013. Sackett had no idea that the project would eventually evolve into the atmospheric sounds, sampling and shredding that currently represent the local trio. … read more
Localized: Your Meteor
Incorporating a wide range of influences including Joni Mitchell to ’70s rock, Your Meteor dynamically presents a non-linear indie-rock style that combines elements of jazz, math-rock and character-based storytelling. The result is a singularly unique sound, albeit not without its deviations. … read more
Localized: Khensu
Khensu’s beats are down-tempo and enticing, luring the listener in with deep bass lines, unrelenting hi-hats and snare drums. Drawing influence from a wide variety of sources, Khensu has created a sound that is unlike other producers’ in both the electronic music scene and the hip-hop world. … read more
Localized: Dumb Luck
For artists like Dumb Luck, making music is a multifaceted expression of life and experience. There are no set rules for style, no stipulations nor boundaries that an artist has to fit into. Instead, music is a mirror, a vehicle for expressing one’s own life experience, a way to tell a story. … read more
Localized: Goatsifter
It’s evident that Goatsifter are a band who’s not in it for any exposure or any type of income whatsoever—they make it clear that it’s strictly for them and their love of playing music. … read more
Localized: Zombiecock
Zombiecock will slake your lust for B-movie spatter with their use of ghoulish face paint and a liberal dosage of fake blood for a thorough and, if you will, zombifying performance. … read more
Localized: Soft Limbs
Local trio Soft Limbs doesn’t want to be known for a Salt Lake sound—on the contrary, the psych-rock punk group aims to redefine their place in the local scene. Soft Limbs fuse together instrumentation lifted from garage rock groups of the late ’90s with dynamic, unpredictable psych melodies and art-punk catchiness—but that’s just scratching the surface. … read more
Localized: Magic Mint
Magic Mint, the solo-project brainchild of local musician Andrew Shaw, might seem like an axiomatic extension of Shaw’s four-piece band, Color Animal, but it’s not. Self-described as “the marriage of looping and pop music,” Magic Mint presents a psych-pop sound with a few intentional nuances that give Magic Mint its euphorically retroactive sound. … read more
Localized: The Nods
The Nods’ sound invokes the raw sensibilities heard on a Back From The Grave compilation that is mixed with a touch of psychedelia and topped with the raw power of ’70s Detroit punk. … read more
Localized: Jail City Rockers
The sincerity of Jail City Rockers stands out because they are approachable and always humble—traits one should expect from true punk rock n’ rollers. Jail City Rockers are the brothers Andrew and Gabe Bonilla, Aron Mikkelsen and the newly joined Gabey Spent, formerly of Duane Peters Gunfight. … read more
