“If there’s one thing I’m gifted with, it’s working with my hands,” says Mike Mason, local craftsman and guitarist of Cult Leader. Mason comes from a family of builders and mechanics and learned the value of understanding the way things work.
After many years collecting, Carlos Gallegos became known as the “Utah Guy” among his fellow collectors in the breweriana world—that’s what they call their hobby of collecting beer memorabilia.
As of this past January, Counterpoint Studios is the official studio space for Midnight Records (MRP) and Utah Arts Alliance’s (UAA) Recording Arts Program. MRP are dedicated to making high-quality recording at Counterpoint Studios affordable for local musicians, where every aspect of Counterpoint’s construction was built to revolve around sound.
From light and dry to tart and fruity to hop bombs, we’ve got your summer sippin’ situation well in hand.
This month, we have a trio of options that gives you a good idea of what’s happening locally as well as a taste of what’s going on outside of our borders.
Local music reviews from Audio Treats, Baker Street Blues Band, Bird Eater, Christopher Alvarado, DiseNgaged, Disforia, DulceSky, Intra-Venus & The Cosmonauts, Linus Stubbs, M. Nomized RunAwayBlues, Squash, Strong Words and Version Two.
DVD reviews for 1066: The Battle For Middle Earth, Doctor Who: Last Christmas, Dungeons & Dragons the Animated Series: Beginnings, Fireball XL5: The Complete Series, Horrible Bosses 2, James Brown: Live at the Boston Garden, Marvel Knights: Wolverine Versus Sabretooth: Reborn, A MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney, Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Volume XXXII, Regular Show: Mordecai Pack, Rye Coalition: The Story of the Hard Luck 5, The Best Of: Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego.
The duo of Tyler Smith and Gentry Densley are known for bone-shaking performances, melding deafening doom metal with improvisation, brutality with artistry. When you’ve seen, heard and felt Eagle Twin, you’ve probably also seen, heard and felt the unique guitar cabinets flanking Densley and Smith onstage.
About a decade ago, Kyle Trammell, a wide-eyed home brewer from Utah’s suburbs, walked into the SLUG HQ with a mission to write about beer. Utah’s craft beer culture was exploding, and no one was covering it.
The Zion Zymurgist Homebrew OPerative Society is the oldest brewing club in Utah, which makes them pretty special when you think of how this state used to be.
If hip-hop in Salt Lake is something you’ve never experienced, look no further than April’s Localized, sponsored by Uinta Brewing Co., KRCL 90.9 FM and Spilt Ink SLC. This month’s lineup is solid through and through, starting with Swell Merchants and the Dine Krew, who will lay some groovy tracks down to get you hyped for Better Taste Bureau. You might just find yourself jumping up and down to their fresh flow. As always, $5 gets you in, so load up the van and get down to Urban Lounge, Saturday, April 18 at 10 p.m.
I’d brewed with plenty of folks before, but had not envisioned something as large as this. It turns out that Lauter Day Brewers is Utah’s largest homebrew club, with around 60 dues-paying members, which ensures that every one of their events is crowded.
