Music
Chasing Cuban Ballerinas with Chicken from Dead to Me
You might get the idea that Dead To Me is some kind of sappy inspirational band more apt to play self-help seminars than sweaty punk clubs, but their music makes it clear that punk rock can be about more than hating everything and everyone around you. … read more
Drawn OK: An Interview with Badly Drawn Boy
When Damon Gough and his alter ego Badly Drawn Boy rolled into Salt Lake City’s Zephyr Club in support of his debut album The Hour of the Bewilderbeast he had already taken the Mercury Music Prize (the UK’s Album of the Year) beating out Coldplay’s Parachutes and The Doves’ Lost Souls. When he left he had set up residency as one of the top ten bands I’d ever seen live. … read more
The Corleones
This is the last show, reunion or otherwise, The Corleones will ever play. … read more
Snow Patrol: Still Chasing Stars
The Snow Patrol caravan returns to Utah on March 5th at the Salt Air Pavilion, maybe this time we can leave them more to remember than a bunch of kids moshing to their mid-tempo hit “Chocolate.” … read more
The Virtue of Abandonment: An Interview With Shedding
Shedding started when Bell’s electro-pop group Paden slowly dissolved due to busy schedules and social lives; he realized that the band was becoming more about getting ready for shows, than creating something new and interesting. … read more
Localized: Clear
The date of the SLUG 18th Anniversary show is almost 11 years to the day from when CLEAR played their first show in February 1996. … read more
Localized: Iceburn
Iceburn was active from the late 80s into the early 2000s, with band members and influences changing almost as often as the seasons. … read more
Digging up the Classics: Exene Cervenka and Bill Morgan discuss...
The early 1980s was an interesting yet often overlooked time period in music. The bands that came out of the era of 80s punk rock are some of my favorites, and they seem to be rediscovered regularly by every generation. The resurgence of older bands in the last few years has been amazing. In 1980,