Authors: Asha Pruitt
Dykes on Bikes: Riding with Pride
Ultimately, DOB Salt Lake is a sisterhood of tough women who have seen a lot of shit and care about keeping people safe. Despite the current political climate, they haven’t lost hope. … read more
Local Music Singles Roundup: June 2025
Check out both a combination of the bands that keep Salt Lake City cool and the writers that keep SLUG Magazine running. … read more
“Most of Your Life is Boring”: Lime Garden is Romanticizing...
Lime Garden will play Kilby Block Party this week, their first American music festival, and chatted with SLUG about motherhood, female friendship and romanticizing the mundane. … read more
32 Sensational Performances at Kilby Block Party 6
Kilby Block Party was bigger and better than ever this year. Check out reviews of 32 of our favorite performances from this year’s festival! … read more
Hungry Hearts: Utah Eateries that Feed the Soul
Whatever the plate might’ve been, there are certain foods that will always have a special space in our hearts. So, join us in a feast of core memories — it’s time to feed the soul! … read more
The Linda Lindas Are Good at Being Angry, but It...
The Linda Lindas chatted with SLUG ahead of their first major headlining tour about the joys of playing all-ages venues and the difficulties of expressing anger as a young person. … read more
Amyl and the Sniffers @ The Complex 03.30.25
At once utterly committed to political resistance and completely unserious about the world, Amyl and the Sniffers were exactly what Salt Lake City needed. … read more
Review: Japanese Breakfast — For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) is a slow burn meditation on the consequences of desire, reconnecting with an estranged father and reconciling with disloyalty from a lover. … read more
Poppy Injects Optimism Into Negative Spaces
Negative Spaces is one of Poppy’s heaviest projects to date, but there’s a thread of optimism running through the album: “You don’t know how bright the light is without the darkness,” she says. … read more
Play Review: The Antipodes
Both playwright Annie Baker and director Jack Cobabe excel at finding the extraordinary in the mundane, and isn’t that what stories are all about, anyway? … read more
