There’s no bigger purveyor of new wave pop than SLUG’s own beloved music lover Dean O Hillis. As a manager of MODified Music in the ’90s, Hillis was Salt Lake’s ambassador of musique Britannica, from Morrissey to Pet Shop Boys to Saint Etienne. He began writing for SLUG nearly 15 years ago, and has
Dangereux American Farmhouse Ale pours hazy golden straw in color with a big, fluffy head that is full of staying power. … read more
Rather than spending the running time chained to the wall, though, Eve immediately smashes a brick across Phil’s face and frees herself. … read more
Immune System is the third installment of the Dewey Decimal Trilogy. Set mainly in the United States, this dystopian novel follows a man who is in cahoots with a corrupt mayor, living in the Chinese district of New York and is sent to protect a pair of Saudi royals. … read more
Airspace: The Fall of Gravity is a beautifully unique platformer about an octopus and his other aquatic friends who get abducted by a mechanical alien race. … read more
Design by Humans doesn’t mess around on this front, as their selection of designs are almost unanimously gorgeous. … read more
Logan’s Gravetown could be considered “the new(er) guys” in Utah’s metal breeding grounds. For a demo, the production of the five tracks here is better than a good chunk of material I’ve come across that actually had album producers and mixers. Gravetown dish up some devious death n’ thrash with the intent to respect the elder metal gods as well as bust the heads of “noobs.” … read more
Clocking in at nearly 45 minutes, this might be the longest EP I’ve ever heard—but I’m totally okay with that. Huldra’s sound is firmly cemented in the spacey, weighty grounds of post-metal where ISIS and Neurosis trod before them, their songs building and crashing over striking keyboard passages, and punctuated by bellowing howls. … read more
See what’s going on music-wise in Utah in this month’s Local Music Reviews! … read more
Check out SLUG’s September selection of National CD Reviews! … read more
Kristian Matsson goes by The Tallest Man on Earth and has released four full-length albums and two EPs. Mattson is a folk genius, with acoustic sets that attract people from every direction. … read more
My only real complaint with this album by local hip hop artist Israel West is how hard the vocals are to hear on some of the best songs. They often sound like they were recorded in a shower, or from down a hallway and the beats totally overwhelm them. … read more
