April 2015
Review: Catholic Girls – Distant 7
Catholic Girls = Scum + Black Flag + Sonic Youth (early ’90s) … read more
Review: Butch Walker – Afraid Of Ghosts
Butch Walker = Ryan Adams + Pete Yorn – John Mayer … read more
Review: California X – Nights in the Dark
California X = Meat Puppets + Dinosaur Jr. – J Mascis … read more
Review: Bob Dylan – Shadows in the Night
Bob Dylan = Bob Dylan … read more
Review: Björk – Vulnicura
Björk = Kate Bush – Portishead … read more
Review: Beech Creeps – Self-Titled
Beech Creeps = Black Rebel Motorcycle Club + Motörhead … read more
Review: Alex Calder – Mysteries
Alex Calder = Deerhunter + Beach Fossils + Mac DeMarco … read more
Localized: Dine Krew
It’s not unusual for a group of teenagers to spend long stretches of time in their parents’ basement, eating ramen noodles and staring at some sort of a screen while vaguely recognizable jams bump in the background. Generally, these hangouts don’t equate to much other than high scores on Mario Kart, but Dine Krew took their adolescent experiments and ideas and painted that shit gold, so to speak. … read more
April 2015 – Beer Reviews
It used to be that Utah was a beer wasteland. For decades, it was impossible to get your hands on quality beers that were made outside of the state. This all changed in 2010 when Utah’s lawmakers created a variance that would allow beer distributors to store the beer and allocate all of that precious state warehouse space for liquor and wine.
SLUG Snow Photo Feature: Sammy Taxwood
Sammy Taxwood is no longer a teenager, but he can still act like one. The snowboarding future is bright with this kid and his Lick the Cat crew.
Collected By Himself: Captured Tracks Founder Mike Sniper on New...
Under the direction of Mike Sniper, Captured Tracks has grown from a small, independent music label based in Brooklyn to a sonically diverse, aesthetically vibrant vision for the state of millennial music. Today, with a full roster, Sniper has his sights on an even more expansive assembly of sounds with label group Omnian Music Group.
Mike Brown: My Name is Mike Brown
My name is Mike Brown. It is a plain and boring name. When my parents were initially going to name me, they wanted to name me Matt but decided that was too common of a name. True story.
