Music
SLUG Magazine’s collection of reviews covering the latest and greatest of Utah-based music, covering all varieties of genre, style and type.
Local Review: Theta Naught – Something Scientific
Theta Naught Something Scientific Eden’s Watchtower Theta Naught put the mental back into instrumental. All instrumental all the time, their aptly titled Something Scientific bypasses the borders of known quantum mechanics, not through math metal, as may be expected by the album title, but via the vessel of abstract, mellow, Mazzy Star alterna-rock. They’re mathematical
August 2015 Local Music Reviews
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Local Review: Golden Plates – Eugenics
Golden Plates Eugenics Self-Released Street: 05.11 Golden Plates = (Lenny Kravitz x Monster Magnet) / The Strokes One of the toughest assignments I’ve had since I started writing for SLUG is the task of trying to define Golden Plates. Part blues, part distortion, part machismo rock n’ roll, it seems to be a music project
Local Review: Tony Holiday and the Velvetones – No Need...
Tony Holiday and the Velvetones No Need To Rush It Midnight Records Productions Street: 05.19 Tony Holiday and the Velvetones = Cody Canada + Kenny Wayne Shepard + William Clarke Tony Holiday and the Velvetones have given us their first album, No Need To Rush It, and Holiday’s signature energy is all over it. It’s good
Local Review: Rare Facture – Light In The Dark
Rare Facture Light In The Dark Self-Released Street: 06.30 Rare Facture = OMD + Depeche Mode Here’s a novel notion, local musos: study and learn the genre you’re interested in until it becomes your passion—if not your love—then go and make an album. Seemingly without pretension, local synth duo Tom Cella and David Burdick have
Local Review: Valentine & The Regard – Werewolves
Valentine & The Regard Werewolves FeralCatRecords Street: 12.23.14 Valentine & The Regard = Bright Eyes + The Cure Werewolves is a nostalgic trip through a series of poignant songs written in a manner that brings to mind both Conor Oberst and Pedro the Lion. Each song sweeps through straightforward guitar harmonies with an authentic sense
Local Review: Boone – Next Best Tapes
Boone Next Best Tapes Self-Released Street: 06.26 Boone = Kid Cudi + Pink Floyd No, Next Best Tapes is not the latest hip-hop release from frontiersman Daniel Boone (however interesting that might have been), but instead a solid premiere for the rising Huntsville artist, Boone. In Next Best Tapes, we find a rapper who is,
Local Review: Settle Down – If It Exists I Have...
Settle Down If It Exists I Have Seen It From My Throne Escapegoat Records Street: 06.16 Settle Down = Norma Jean + Touche Amore Settle Down remain one of my favorite acts in the valley. I can’t get enough of their emotionally layered groove with that sweet post-hardcore frosting. This is to say that I
Local Review: Revolt of the Potatobug – Into the Orchard
Revolt of the Potatobug Into the Orchard Self-Released Street: 06.11 Revolt of the Potatobug = Theta Naught + Drombeg + Raphi Gottesman Into the Orchard, a locally produced gem of richly composed instrumental songs that comprise an OST for a movie not yet made, exudes both an unrelenting sunny optimism and an intricate command of
Local Review: Andrew Shaw – You’ve Got An Evil Place...
Andrew Shaw You’ve Got An Evil Place In Your Heart Self-Released Street: 07.07 Andrew Shaw = All-Time Quarterback / Bright Eyes Andrew Shaw makes the kind of lo-fi bedroom folk that flourished in the mid-2000s through artists like Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Bright Eyes. Shaw’s latest album, You’ve Got An Evil