Music
SLUG Magazine’s collection of reviews covering the latest and greatest of Utah-based music, covering all varieties of genre, style and type.
Local Music Singles Roundup: July 2025
So why don’t you please, please, please listen to these incredible new local tracks. … read more
Local Music Singles Roundup: June 2025
Check out both a combination of the bands that keep Salt Lake City cool and the writers that keep SLUG Magazine running. … read more
Local Review: Melissa Chilinski – Melissa Chilinski
Listening to Melissa Chilinski is like a sitting around a campfire: warm and welcoming, with a little bit of a wild side as the night goes on. … read more
Local Review: MOCOSOS — RE DEMO
Mocosos via their ungodly release RE DEMO writhes with a pulse and ability to swallow a room, dragging it and all within deep into its acid rotted gut. … read more
Local Review: State Of The Nation – State Of The...
A convergence point of different sounds, State Of The Nation acts as a snapshot in time of punk, emo and grunge. … read more
Local Review: PERSONA 749 — JOCK ROCK
The result is that there’s something on Jock Rock for just about everybody who loves rock and/or roll. … read more
Local Review: Rachael Jenkins — The End
This is a middle finger! This is Punk Rock! And Rachael Jenkins delivers it with a quiet guitar and a quivering voice, but the anger lingers just the same. … read more
Local Music Singles Roundup: May 2025
The through line for all six of these tracks is dissent (except for the ones that aren’t about dissent). Now, just like the past, is a great time for dissent. … read more
Local Review: Henny — In Case of Fear
With an affinity for a well-placed sample of dialogue from an old sitcom or talk radio show, there is an element of effortless mastery in Henny’s sound. … read more
Local Review: Jacob T. Skeen — They Won’t Let Me
Skeen’s fuzzed-up guitar chugs away like a high-powered diesel engine, hitting fast and cutting deep. … read more
Local Review: Gracemaker — EP
It’s fast, it’s loud and it makes you mad that you’re subjected to live in a system not of your own design. … read more
Local Music Singles Roundup: April 2025
Sometimes I have to throw up my hands and say I got nothing — nothing but six excellent singles from six killer local bands. … read more
