999 Ride: Chatting with Phill Faber and Nicholas Lotze about Bike Rides and Community

Out on any given Thursday night at 9 p.m.— through rain, sleet or snow—odds are you’ve seen an assortment of cyclists hanging about Coffee Garden at 878 E. 900 S. This large group of two-wheeled miscreants have been gathering here for almost five years with a simple mission.

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Just Another Man From The Cosmic Inferno: Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple

(L–R) Satoshima Nani, Tabata Mitsuru, Tsuyama Atsushi, Kawabata Makoto and Higashi Hiroshi will bring the sonic vibrations of the cosmos to Urban Lounge on April 24 as Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.

Over 20 years, 72 full-length albums and countless tours throughout the world, Japanese music collective Acid Mothers Temple have produced some of the world’s most fascinatingly weird tunes. At the center of this ever-shifting kaleidoscope of musical collaborators, Kawabata Makoto acts as both originator and catalyst for a cosmic musical energy that stretches beyond the boundaries of the strange and into the realm of the sublime.

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Pandemonium: Motorists Go Ham on Cyclists for Even More Bike Lanes

Although SLUG’s Legal Department is fidgeting nervously inside a closet somewhere while the Columbia Journalism Review concludes its investigation into SLUG’s article in the March 2015 Issue on the updated parking/bike lane situation on 300 South, the magazine is boldly pressing forward with further coverage of #WeirdBikeLaneGate with a smoking-hot, exclusive lead.

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April 2015 Video Game Reviews

Video game reviews for AERENA: Master’s Edition, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Cities XXL, Dead Or Alive 5: Last Round, Double Dragon Trilogy, Dragon Ball Z: Xenoverse, Dying Light, The Escapists, Evolve, Game of Thrones, Hand of Fate, #IDARB, iO, JUJU, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D, Monster Hunter 4, Pix the Cat, Tales of Hearts R, Tempo, Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries.

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Greasy Wrenching for Kids at the SLC Bicycle Collective’s Earn-A-Bike Program

The Bicycle Collective is a full community bike shop with virtually every tool one could ever need to keep a bike up and running. The Collective promotes cycling as a clean and healthy mode of transportation and, according to Catharine Scott, the Coordinator of the Earn-A-Bike Program, teaches kids about the benefits of riding bikes and gives them access and knowledge to fix their own bikes.

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Singing Those Armageddon Blues: An Interview with Power Trip’s Riley Gale

(L–R) Chris Whetzel (bass), Riley Gale (vocals), Chris Ulsh (drums), Nick Stewart (guitar) and Frank Ibanez (guitar) will bring thrash to the Loading Dock on March 10.

It was an interview that almost didn’t happen. After not one, but two failed attempts at speaking with Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, it seemed that this piece wasn’t to be. Fortunately, a third go found SLUG and Gale on the phone discussing everything from the awesome, “WTF” lineup of Power Trip’s upcoming tour and new material to graphic novels and the militarization of police.

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