As I am ever the hopeless-romantic, the iconic image of Jimmy Cliff as the outlaw Ivanhoe “Ivan” Martin with the ready, go stance with guns drawn plays into my love for the rebel. My true appreciation for Cliff began with seeing him star as an aspiring reggae artist who turns outlaw (Martin) in the legendary film Harder They Come. … read more
“Summer is Over,” Case had sung as the night grew its coldest, warning us that the warmest of days are behind us. In many ways, the final concert of the Red Butte Concert Series did indeed harken the end of summer. The air is steadily cooling and the outdoor venues are steadily closing. The Twilight series has ended and USANA Amphitheater will close its doors for the season on Friday. I can’t think of a better way to welcome the sweet autumn air than with Neko Case. … read more
On Monday, September 16, Nike Snowboarding hosted a 24-hour online premiere of their newest shred flick, Never Not. Directors Joe Carlino and Per-Hampus Stalhanske split the film into two parts. Part 1 is your traditional snowboarding movie with backcountry pow scenes and city rails, while Part 2 has a documentary-like focus, bringing clarity to the snowboarding wizards behind the curtain … read more
The beautiful Hotel Monaco in downtown Salt Lake City was the setting for On the Edge of the Bed, a “ tastefully sexy” seminar presented by The Healing Group, a women’s clinic located in Holladay. … read more
By the time the third song rolled around, lead singer Mauro Remiddi let the small, but active audience know that somehow his next song, “Shapeless and Gone,” had something to do with the Rocky Mountains—even though the song wasn’t written with them in mind—and that he was blown away with the landscape of Utah and Colorado. … read more
How does one begin, in this progressive moment, to speak of the work of Martha Wilson? How to explain the beauty of the work’s relentless exploration of selfhood and its defiant feminist declaration of the body as the site of art to an audience whose ideas of art have been formed by technological saturation—a material reliance on electronic screens and an everything all at once attitude towards, well, everything? … read more
The stage was already set up with various props and canvasses by the time I arrived at the Urban Lounge for the Genral Jackett show on Monday night in SLC. Everything was already prepped for the small but elaborate “Hot Rod Acid Blooze” show that Genral Jackett has been performing versions of for 40-some years. … read more
Utah is in Harm’s Sept. 24. Founded in 2006, this sXe band is from Chicago, IL and has been stomping around the world for the past year. They just recently finished a tour of Europe with Australian band Twitching Tongues and are now in the initial days of a West Coast tour with the bands Dead In the Dirt and Homewrecker. SLUG got a chance to sit down with Chris Mills, the drummer for Harm’s Way and talk about the band’s recent EP, Blinded, their deal with Deathwish Records, their transition into a metal/hardcore sound over the past few years and Chris’ dream tour destination. … read more
Baths was energetic and imbued all of the dramatic air of a frontman, which I honestly wasn’t expecting from an electronic artist who likes to make music in the bathtub. … read more
Dopamine takes us around the globe and gets us psyched on scenes of untouched and near-vertical backcountry kush. … read more
PowderWhore’s latest release, Elevation, is the anti-ski film. It lacks all of the ski porn qualities most big-budget films have made the norm. The soundtrack is mellow, the stories are real, and the local population is represented. … read more
Ghostly International is more than just a music label. Ghostly is a community that is home to musicians, artists and dreamers who are all connected by a string of creativity. Together, they weave the web that makes up Ghostly International. … read more
