Music
Pallbearer: Foundations of Burden
“Sorrow and Extinction developed a following pretty quickly, and luckily, we had a lot of people in our corner to help push the new album,” he says. “It sort of came out of the gate pretty hot, surprisingly. None of us really expected that at all.” Despite their sudden popularity, Pallbearer try to focus on their music, not on the publicity. “It’s basically like we do with everything—try to take everything in stride, not have any expectations about what is coming next and just roll with it,” says Pallbearer bassist Joseph D. Rowland. … read more
Top 5: Horseback
Jenks Miller, the father behind Horseback’s latest album, Piedmont Apocrypha, has again created a twined nest of experimental sound by combining a base of seething feedback and altering levels of oozing drone. The album as a whole lifts up the listener in a cradle to help see Miller’s vision of music as a single, fluid entity with this nongenre specific album. … read more
Review: Trigger – Start Our Revenge
Trigger = Magrudergrind + Man is the Bastard + Napalm Death … read more
Review: Elisa Ambrogio – The Immoralist
Elisa Ambrogio = Mirah + Kimya Dawson … read more
Review: Flowers – Do What You Want To, It’s What...
Flowers = Aberdeen + Pam Berry … read more
Review: Nots – We Are Nots
Nots = Wax Idols + Good Throb … read more
Local Review: Christopher Alvarado – Fog Music 12
Christopher Alvarado = One Horse Town + White Origins + Carbon111 … read more
Christmas Wish List from the Underground: A Collection of Appeals...
Remember when you were young and anxious, desperately propelling yourself up from the tile floor of a shopping mall with your toes just to glimpse the red mess of a man who, according to your sources, planned on hooking it up big time? We remember. That’s why SLUG recently sat down with a handful of members from Utah’s underground music community and asked them some irresponsibly Christian-based questions about what they want for Christmas this year. … read more
Top 5: Hundred Waters
Following the subtly intricate formula of their first album, Hundred Waters’ new release continues with the same airy splendor, but with more refinement. The musical foundation of this album perfectly represents 2014, a year of revitalization and self-discovery, by sounding neither senescent nor ahead of its time, but flawlessly fit into the fringes of current music. … read more
Review: The Underachievers – Cellar Door: Terminus Et Exordium
The Underachievers = Flatbush Zombies + (Pro Era x Joey Badda$$) … read more
Review: Flying Lotus – You’re Dead!
Flying Lotus = MF DOOM + Duke Ellington + Boards of Canada + Felix Laband … read more
Review: Marianne Faithfull – Give My Love To London
Marianne Faithfull = Grace Jones + Tom Waits … read more
