Issues: Issue 312 - December 2014
SLUG Mag’s Top 5 Albums of 2014
Every December, SLUG Magazine sounds the rallying call and gathers the staff’s lists of Top 5 albums from the year. In the next few pages, find a wide range of genres, artists and records that were of note for 2014—with a few other Top 5 beats like video games, comics and movies peppered throughout. … read more
Fishing Duck
What are you fishing for? … read more
SLUG Skate Photo Feature: Isaiah Beh
Isaiah has been around the Salt Lake skate scene for a long time. He won’t remember this, but I first saw him skate in person one night in 2003 … … read more
SLUG Snow Photo Feature: Mikey LeBlanc
In this day and age of stunt snowboarding, nothing is more refreshing than a day at the Rail Gardens with Mikey LeBlanc. … read more
December 2014 Local Music Reviews
Local music reviews for Andy Vigilante, Christopher Alvarado, The Cotton Pinies, Grizzly Spectre, Hel Audio, Herban Empire and New City Sky. … read more
Contributor Limelight: Courtney Blair
Courtney Blair is the brains behind our December “Top 5” cover, and a beloved SLUG alum whose name readers may recognize from her KRCL Saturday show, “Afternoon Delight.” … read more
December 2014 National Music Reviews
National album reviews for Agnes Obel, Alison Moyet, Biull Burr, Co-Pilgrim, Cult Of Youth, David Lunch, Ex Cops, FF, Foo Fighters, Freaky Mind, Haunted Heads, Katie Kate, Loveskills, Marianne Faithfull, Nots, Our Wild America, Pig Destroyer Primus, Sinkane, Thurston Moore, Tetema, WISH, Women’s Hour, The Mytches, Yelle and more. … read more
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
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: Pink Mountaintops
Get Back received mixed reviews across the board—some reviewers lauded the album as a rock n’ roll tour de force (Mojo, PopMatters) and others expressed wishy-washy reactions (Paste, Pitchfork). Most seemed, to some extent, to decry the sixth track, “North Hollywood Microwaves” because Annie Hardy (Giant Drag) raps about the joys of cum, declaring “I am a slut!” amid her blithe confessions of bestiality with donkeys and bears (because men no longer satisfy her). The prank worked. … read more