Music
32 Sensational Performances at Kilby Block Party 6
Kilby Block Party was bigger and better than ever this year. Check out reviews of 32 of our favorite performances from this year’s festival! … read more
Black Country, New Road’s Charlie Wayne On Continuity
SLUG had the opportunity to chat with BC,NR percussionist Charlie Wayne about touring, the continuity in the band’s approach and identity, parasocial relationships and playoff basketball. … read more
“Most of Your Life is Boring”: Lime Garden is Romanticizing...
Lime Garden will play Kilby Block Party this week, their first American music festival, and chatted with SLUG about motherhood, female friendship and romanticizing the mundane. … 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
“Love All” is the Beginning and the End: An Interview...
The Denver-based duo of Tennis produces a neo-psychedelia and surf-pop fusion that is sure to make one fall in love. … read more
Thou’s Bryan Funck Takes Himself Off The Pedestal
Thou vocalist Bryan Funck, whose initial struggle to turn the camera on instantly and comedically humanized someone I had placed on a pedestal. … 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
Suffering is Softening with Vagabon’s Latest Album
Performing as Vagabon, multi-instrumentalist Cameroonian-American Laetitia Tamko is the kind of artist whose sound is always evolving. … read more
SUMAC Tours Europe and the UK by Volcanic Storm
Northwest-based trio SUMAC, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist Brian Cook, and drummer Nick Yacyshyn, establishes the voices of our ancestry. … 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
Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman of Momma Talk Welcome to...
I sat down for a virtual interview with Momma’s primary singers, songwriters and guitarists, Allegra Weingarten and Etta Friedman, to discuss Welcome to My Blue Sky. … read more