Music
Review: Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded
Melody’s Echo Chamber is the musical project of French musician Melody Prochet. Her latest album Unclouded is a shock to the senses. … read more
Local Review: Hangxiety — Super
Super by Hangxiety is the sonic equivalent of blacksmithing: dirty and rhythmic, but it will burn your skin off if you don’t respect it. … read more
Top Five Albums of 2025 for Mesmerizing Busy Minds
Either way, I spent a lot of time in 2025 looking for music that would move me to move on, scratch my brain just so and trigger an emotional unclogging. … read more
Localized: The Apathetics
Kick off the night with Hangxiety, laugh your ass off with Punks & Punchlines and top it all off moshing to The Apathetics! Catch SLUG Localized at Kilby Court. … read more
Interviews | Localized | Music
Localized: Punks & Punchlines
When you think of punk rock, the first thing you think of probably isn’t stand-up comedy. Unless you’re Antonio Iacobellis, the founder of Punks & Punchlines. … read more
Interviews | Localized | Music
Local Music Singles Roundup: January 2026
We’ve got punk-ish punches to lay you out, even vein-injected industrial for your withdrawal. Come find your high on this edition of SLUG’s Local Music Singles Roundup! … read more
Top Five Albums for the Sad Girl Psyche
Being a “sad girl” isn’t defined by gender or expression, either; it is in your psyche. Here are five albums that have carried me through all of my emotions. … read more
Local Review: Lounge Monkey — An Ode to Self Sabotage
Lounge Monkey can finally be a confident, born-again, five-piece rock band with clear direction and purpose, unleashed from their insecurities and inhibitions. … read more
Top Five Albums of 2025 That Are So Good, They...
Even at its most sophisticated, I doubt that AI could successfully replicate even a viral Vine. It would be nothing but an amalgamated copy of videos made by people. … read more
Top Five Albums of 2025 That Prove Rap Is As...
I can attest, after besieging my already-fragile eardrums for nearly 12 months straight, that rap still overflows with creative vigor. … read more
Local Review: Port Ross — Nighttime at Gardner Hall
With Nighttime At Gardner Hall, Port Ross gives us a record about death, loneliness, loss and being alive in a world that is a constant shipwreck. … read more
In Time: A Posthumous Retrospective on Talos
I suppose I needed my own space to be shocked and saddened before I could sit at the keys and give Eoin French the nod he deserves. So here we are. … read more