Review: Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded

Review: Melody’s Echo Chamber — Unclouded
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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

Local Review: Hangxiety — Super
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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 

Top Five Albums of 2025 for Mesmerizing Busy Minds 
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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

Localized: The Apathetics
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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

Localized: Punks & Punchlines

Localized: Punks & Punchlines
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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

Local Music Singles Roundup: January 2026

Local Music Singles Roundup: January 2026
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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

Top Five Albums for the Sad Girl Psyche
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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

Local Review: Lounge Monkey — An Ode to Self Sabotage
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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 Made Me Hate AI Even More

Top Five Albums of 2025 That Are So Good, They...
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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 Alive As Ever

Top Five Albums of 2025 That Prove Rap Is As...
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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

Local Review: Port Ross — Nighttime at Gardner Hall
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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

In Time: A Posthumous Retrospective on Talos
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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