Kim Driggs has been teaching guitar at the studio for 25 years now, longer than any other instructor at Acoustic Music Studios. … read more
The Life Acoustic: Teacher Kim Driggs
Beer of the Month: Saint Blackout
I came across the Saint Blackout Tripel Belgian Style Ale from Shades of Pale Brewing. While there are a few locally made Belgian-style tripels floating around the Utah market, there are not many that are available year-round and fewer still that have the high level of drinkability that is commonly associated with big, boozy beers of this style. … read more
Finding an Ocean in a Storm: A Breezy Chat with Tennis’ Alaina Moore
Tennis are one of those rare pop bands that has managed to stay relevant all the way up to a fourth album, their upcoming Yours Conditionally. … read more
Melissa Collins: The Life of a Luthier
Melissa Collins is a local luthier that practices her art out of her home workshop. She specializes in the making of the viola, cello and violin. Collins moved to Salt Lake City in 2010 to enroll in the The Violin Making School Of America, a renowned luthier school in the heart of our city. This
Snow Photo Feature: Bryan Fox
Last year, we went up to Logan in hopes of building some jumps. We found out that it was shallow and dangerous for air time. So we said fuck it, and just took pow laps. Here’s Bryan Fox doing just that. … read more
Movie Review: Julieta
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar bases his latest effort, Julieta, on three short stories from Alice Munro’s book Runaway. … read more
Out of the Woodwork: Four Electric Guitar Luthiers: McKinley Sound
Whether you have a guitar that’s been thrown out of a train, smashed to pieces at a concert, or is broken from using it so often, luthier Moses McKinley at McKinley Sound can fix it. … read more
Educating the Next Generation of Disc Jockeys
Looking at the Hip-Hop Education & Resource Center (HERC) located at 2505 S. State St. in Salt Lake, you get a sense of the raw and organic style of teaching that goes on here. … read more
Mike Brown: Jumbotrons and DJ Juggy – A Utah Jazz Love Story
One of the biggest and best upgrades that they finally made this year was putting longtime local DJ and hip-hop heavy-hitter DJ Juggy behind some wheels of steel inside the arena and making him the official in-house DJ of the Utah Jazz. Naturally, I had my SLUG editor pull some strings so I could get on the court with Juggy. … read more
Out of the Woodwork: Four Utah Electric Luthiers: RIP Custom Guitars
Rob Gray of RIP Custom Guitars offers a variety of guitar building classes: pedal building, basic guitar wiring, neck building, and full electric guitar building workshops. … read more
Skate Photo Feature: Garrison Conklin
Garrison Conklin – Pole Jam to Fakie – SLC, Utah … read more
Movie Review: The Founder
While the acting from the entire cast of The Founder works together, an actual documentary may have been the more appropriate approach for this story. … read more
