Slug Magazine

While quarantine has given B Zitting the opportunity to focus on a more experimental, production-focused EP, their bandmate Ryan Collenburg is integral to Pillars' aesthetic and sound. The band is currently working on two EPs in tandem, and both express an evolving facet of the band.  … read more The post Episode #344 – Pillars first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Over the last decade Martian Textilez has been working on himself. From relationships to friendships to his own sense of masculinity, Textilez' sees opportunity for growth in almost everything.  … read more The post Episode #343 – Martian Textilez first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

After years spent in his last project angrily expressing his relationship to depression, bipolar, anxiety and suicide, Teague Chubak realized he was only reinforcing the feelings he was trying to recover from. PETR Chubak became Chubak's new avenue for tackling these topics, now through a lens of positivity and a desire to be understood rather than merely heard.   … read more The post Episode #342 – PETR Chubak first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

World's Worst released their eponymous EP in April, and the album's themes of feeling stuck and rudderless hit different in the time of quarantine.  … read more The post Episode #341 – World’s Worst first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Glittering Serpent, the first full-length from PK Opal, speaks to the current political moment and how queer art should resist capitalist production. … read more The post Episode #340 – PK Opal first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

On Commander Salamander's debut album, Confidential Crocodile, the band spins an epic yarn about a brave Salamander who journeys ancient Egypt to restore balance to the world. … read more The post Episode #339 – Commander Salamander first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

The ability for two ideas to simultaneously contradict each other and still be true—this is at the heart of MSKING's music. … read more The post Episode #338 – MSKING first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

After releasing an EP and an album last year, Dad Bod is still finding their sound—with their most recent release of single "For Real," they're closer than ever. … read more The post Episode #337 – Dad Bod first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Eichler's SCENE KIDS is an experimental, collaborative mixtape featuring artists from Salt Lake's DIY music space, and it's a testament to the talent teeming in the scene.  … read more The post Episode #336 – Eichlers first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Choice Coin was the name Jared Montgomery had for a coin he relied on while traveling and living out of his car. When he came to a fork in the road, he'd flip it, follow it, and never look back. Now Montgomery leads the Choice Coin with Derek Wetenkamp on bass and Nate Harer on drums, and the group has just released its debut EP titled Too Tired to Eat; Too Hungry to Sleep.  … read more The post Episode #335 – Choice Coin first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

The improvisational space rock band SoundMass planned to release their newest album this spring after playing another year of SXSW—until COVID-19 changed everything. … read more The post Episode #334 – SoundMass first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

This setting of Reckon, and the metaphors within, have presented a new method for the members of Milk Money to craft vulnerable songs. … read more The post Episode #333 – Milk Money first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

After an intense period of self discovery late in high school playing with Dead Be Joint, Call sifted through through the chaos of working with a band of mismatched tastes and found the emotional means and energy to carve out his own musical identity as Teenage Flying Disc. … read more The post Episode #332 – Teenage Flying Disc first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

When Mason Runs Through of Wounded Knee moved to Montana to work on a reservation, he was starved of the opportunity to share his music in live performance—but not for lack of trying. After two bad experiences trying to play his brand of socially conscious, Americana folk, he considered calling it quits and selling his gear. Thankfully, through collaboration with drummer Nick Hansen, Runs Through has found a rejuvenated energy for telling his stories.  … read more The post Episode #331 – Wounded Knee first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

For Kyrbir Is-p-, front man of Purr Bats, growing up gay in mid '80s Utah Valley meant living with an ever-present sense of doom. … read more The post Episode #330 – Purr Bats first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

In anticipation of SLUG's February Localized Reunion show, Brice Obuko of Telepanther recounts his memories of various Salt Lake venues as they once were 20 years ago. … read more The post Episode #329 – Telepanther first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Once he got clean, Jade Whitlock's old band, Prozac, seemed to him like a childish portrayal of drugs and alcohol. His life wasn't like that anymore, and so the band dissolved, he took a break, and, eventually, found the means to start making music as Spirit Prison about his newfound stability. … read more The post Episode #328 – Spirit Prison first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Horrible Penny's first album, Shades of Green, channels lead vocalist Alllyson Katana's romantic voice—young and thoughtful, worthy of being spoken and heard.  … read more The post Episode #327 – Horrible Penny first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

With a new single and currently over half a million streams on Spotify, Acacia Ridge's lead vocalist Christian Mayfield talks about what went into their debut album and the way they've managed to successfully navigate the opaque waters of Spotify's algorithmic promotion. … read more The post Episode #326 – Acacia Ridge first appeared on SLUG Magazine.

Ben Ra's journey—from making his own beats in 2012 to entering the Salt Lake scene, from releasing a popular single to, eventually, falling into burnout—has all become a sturdy foundation for the talented artist, one whose creative aspirations lie outside of just music. … read more The post Episode #325 – Ben Ra first appeared on SLUG Magazine.