SLUG Magazine
Salt Lake UnderGround

february Issue
About the Cover: For our 30th Anniversary Edition, Robin Banks depicts people in our scene reading current and past SLUG magazines while listening to our local music. Death By Salt compilation series. Its punky color palette jibes with SLUG's continual endeavors to celebrate our community's cultural fringes. You can find more of Banks' work at robinbanks.bigcartel.com.
Local Music Reviews
30-Year Cover Retrospective: 2nd Decade
Content Shifter: 8 Sober TV Series to Stream
By Bill Frost
Slamdance Film Festival 2019
Sundance Film Festival 2019
The Nels Cline 4
By Ali Shimkus [Posted February 14, 2019]
The Nels Cline 4 performance on February 11 was musical and rich, challenging you to become a better musician. … read more
5 Experimental Releases That Push Old Styles In New Directions
By Connor Lockie [Posted February 14, 2019]
Out of the ever-expanding archive of great experimental music, here are 5 releases that take familiar sounds in unexpected directions, be it jazz, techno, ambient or pop. … read more
SLUG Style: Lois Brady
By Tyson Call @clancycoop [Posted February 12, 2019]
Lois Brady is an editorial intern here at SLUG Magazine, where she also writes film reviews. … read more
Episode #304 – Scary Uncle Steve
[Posted February 8, 2019]
Skunk of Scary Uncle Steve discusses the inception and transformation of the band as they continually treat audiences to upbeat, lighthearted punk and unexpected covers. … read more
Sundance Film Festival 2019 @ Park City UT 01.25-01.28
By Logan Sorenson [Posted February 8, 2019]
Thirty-four years of small-mountain-town, indie film, hustle and bustle continues in streets of Park City, UT during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Attendees arrive by the thousands from all over the globe to see the latest releases in independent film, the talent involved or perhaps just visiting the beehive state for some shopping and fresh … read more
Review: Talos – Far Out Dust
By Paige Zuckerman [Posted February 8, 2019]
Talos = James Blake + Bon Iver … read more
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
By Alexander Ortega [Posted February 1, 2019]
This documentary explores (some of) his love of Marianne Ihlen, with whom he was in an open relationship for many years and who is thought of as his muse. … read more
The Infiltrators
By Alexander Ortega [Posted January 31, 2019]
The Infiltrators is the stirring documentary cum dramatization about how members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) helped aid in halting various deportations from the U.S. … read more
Brother.
By Ali Shimkus [Posted January 31, 2019]
Brother. = Local Natives + Fleet Foxes … read more
Sonnets
By Peter Fryer [Posted January 31, 2019]
Sonnets = Angel Hair + City of Caterpillar + Love Lost But Not Forgotten … read more
Sex Room
By Russ Holsten [Posted January 31, 2019]
Sex Room = Love And Rockets + Ramones + early Nirvana … read more
Young Yankee
By Taylor Hartman [Posted January 31, 2019]
Young Yankee = G-Eazy + J Cole + Mac Miller … read more
Heather Grey
By Connor Brady [Posted January 31, 2019]
Heather Grey = Uyama Hiroto + Fat Jon + Shing02 … read more
Contributor Limelight – Bill Frost
By SLUG Staff [Posted January 31, 2019]
In a certain sense, Bill Frost is the longest-standing SLUG Magazine contributor of us all. … read more
Randy Vannurden
By Jack Dawe [Posted January 31, 2019]
Randy Vannurden enjoying a solid mid-December snowpack up Big Cottonwood Canyon. … read more
.05 to Drive!
By Mike Brown [Posted January 31, 2019]
As of Dec. 30, 2018, the great and wholesome state in which we reside has updated its DUI policy, lowering the legal limit from .08 to .05. … read more
MC Who
By Connor Brady [Posted January 31, 2019]
MC Who is a Salt Lake City hip hop artist with a raw, old-school style that allows him to stand out in the current trap-heavy and producer-focused scene. … read more
Beer of the Month: BrewSki Mountain Lager
By Chris and Sylvia Hollands [Posted January 31, 2019]
To get the setting right for this beer, we ensured that the 12-ounce, light-blue, snow-glazed aluminum was properly iced before cracking the top. … read more
Fat Candice
By Russ Holsten [Posted January 31, 2019]
They are masters at yanking at your music-memory strings and then shifting what’s familiar, turning it inside out, and making that sound their own. … read more
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