I was pleasantly surprised when I popped in Billygoat Database’s Time Capsule compilation, featuring music from VCR5, Nolens Volens and more. Not quite knowing what to expect, I was greeted with some extremely creative and varied techno jams. Each song seems to take you on a whirlwind adventure through a strange and mysterious land that is half Tron and half Lagoon. … read more
Local Reviews: The Weekenders
If you’re going to submit an album or EP to be reviewed, please don’t just burn a CD and throw it in a blank sleeve without a track listing. I have better things to do than look at your fucking MySpace page to match up the five songs you haphazardly sent in. … read more
Leæther Strip: Addressing The Human Elements
On April 2, Claus Larsen and The Zoth Ommog tour will be making a stop at Metro in Salt Lake City, and we could not be more grateful to have him visiting our city. Larsen has been a part of the industrial and underground music community for almost three decades, and is always on the move. … read more
Discussing Mongrels with Stephen Graham Jones
“Mongrels is about a kid, on the run, making his family up as he goes, like Lilo & Stitch kinda stuff” he says. “And for me that was kinda autobiographical until I grew up. … The family in this novel [was] my family.” … read more
The Practice of Suspense and Faith: URTC’s Doubt: A Parable
Suspicion is a feeling universal to humans. It sinks in slowly, starting with a single moment of doubt. Once suspicion arises within us, it is nearly impossible to close our doors to it until we have what we’ve been looking for: the truth. Doubt, written by John Patrick Shanley, throws its audience into the world of suspicion and mystery by setting us into the St. Nicholas Catholic Church and School in The Bronx, New York. … read more
A Radically Relevant Declaration: Chatting with The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart
On Feb.19, the Pop Group rereleased their phenomenal 1980 album, For How Long Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?, and the 1979 single, We are Prostitutes on their own Y Label, distributed through Rough Trade. These releases boast some of the best of The Pop Group’s signature expression of antagonistic post-punk that is influenced by funk, jazz and dub. … read more
When the Levee Breaks: Surviving Liquidation with Forrest Dowling
The team that made The Flame in the Flood is comprised of folks who’ve mostly had a decade or more of experience making games, which has given us all sorts of benefits, ranging from contacts throughout the industry to experience in managing development and keeping it on schedule. … read more
VanLadyLove: Small Town to Big Town
VanLadyLove had humble beginnings, and that humility is what has carried them to success. “We are going to hit the road so hard,” says Van Hoff when asked about the the band’s next big project. VanLadyLove are driven by passion and hard work and will no doubt continue to do what they love. “We can’t stop the music from being made. We just can’t stop, no matter what we do,” says Clarke. … read more
Worlds Inside Worlds: Say No! To Architecture and Composite Songcraft
Don DeLillo once wrote, “There is a world inside the world.” For Allen Roizman’s musical output, this couldn’t be more true. Say No! To Architecture has been crafting lived-in soundscapes of unidentifiable sources and layers upon layers of sampled noises from Plainview, New York, for close to 10 years now. … read more
Matt Piedmont and The Spoils of Babylon
This episodic mini-series spans multiple decades and genres of cinema, with extra points for its humor and sass. SLUG was lucky enough not only to get a sneak peak of the fully released mini-series, but also to pick the brain of one of its co-creators, Matt Piedmont. … read more
MedusaFest: A Musical Night For Women and Non-Binary People
On the frigid night of Feb. 6, Provo’s The Medusa Collective staved off the cold by putting on MedusaFest at Studio Studio Dada. The show was a collection of bands thrown together by means of names drawn from hats a month prior. … read more
Review: The Kimmie, The Yink & The Holy
The Kimmie, The Yink & The Holy Gose Ale Brewery/Brand: Anderson Valley Brewing Co. ABV: 4.2% Serving Style: 12 oz. can This beer pours a somewhat hazy golden/yellow color with a head that quickly fades to a foamy film. The nose is mellow with hints of lemon rind and dry wood. The taste starts tart but not overly
