Ned Clayton: Creative Music Electronics with Hex Amps

Ned Clayton’s Phase Wizard corrects phase problems between multiple amps for musicians who like to play loud n’ proud.

Initially, before Densley and Smith started Hex Cabs, Clayton says he worked at modifying old amps they’d find. “Gentry was always bringing me crazy, junked amps to try and make something cool out of,” he says. “We would take old Peaveys and weird amps, and gut them and rewire them for his own use. Eventually, we were like, ‘Let’s make our own amps!’”

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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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