Year: 2011
![Wasatch Roller Derby’s Midnight Terrors vs. Slaughterhouse Roller Derby’s Prime Cuts 06.26](/uploads/exclusives/2894-2894-5879879224_7de670fe0d-crop-396x288.jpg)
Wasatch Roller Derby’s Midnight Terrors vs. Slaughterhouse Roller Derby’s Prime...
From the opening whistle, Wasatch Roller Derby’s Midnight Terrors began doling out the punishment to Slaughterhouse Roller Derby’s Prime Cuts of Greeley, Colorado. … read more
![Kid Cudi @ Saltair 06.27](/etc/exclusives/2895-kid-cudi-crop.jpg)
Kid Cudi @ Saltair 06.27
As we expected, Cudi killed it. Touring with a live band, this time around the music was more personal. Instruments bring a whole new feel to some of his classic tunes, as well as his new shit that is more evolved. … read more
![Junction City’s Train Wrecks vs. Slaughterhouse Derby Girls’ Prime Cuts 06.25](/uploads/exclusives/2893-2893-5886582022_45a5aed4be-crop-396x288.jpg)
Junction City’s Train Wrecks vs. Slaughterhouse Derby Girls’ Prime Cuts...
The Prime Cuts of the Slaughterhouse Derby Girls traveled from Greeley, Colorado to challenge the girls of Junction City. Immediately after the bout started, Killa Patra #629 of the Junction City Train Wrecks scored 25 points and it seemed like the bout was over before it had really even started. … read more
![Vegetable, Handicapitalist, Firebrand, Dick Janitor @ Raunch 06.29](/etc/exclusives/2910-vegetable%20at%20raunch-crop.jpg)
Vegetable, Handicapitalist, Firebrand, Dick Janitor @ Raunch 06.29
The shows that Raunch Records hosts are consistently solid. The crowd is energetic and colorful, the bands kick ass and proprietor Brad Collins is a friendly, genuine dude. The audience, who had filed in to listen to Handicapitalist, Dick Janitor, Firebrand and Vegetable, didn’t know it at the time, but in the back parking lot of Raunch Records there was a sinister car full of kids who probably deserved a fine stomping. … read more
![YOB @ Club Vegas 07.04](/etc/exclusives/2911-yob-crop.jpg)
YOB @ Club Vegas 07.04
YOB is a three-piece band from Eugene, Oregon. Their sound emanates principally from the burly Mike Scheidt, whose guitar style is virtually unmistakable. It consists of huge, frequently grooving and throbbing guitar riffs made almost lush and orchestral not with distortion so much as thick dissonance. The result is a dense sonic mass which Scheidt continually cuts and tears asunder with a sudden ringing upstroke, which has become his musical signature. … read more
![Bitter and Then Some: Liturgy Interview](/etc/exclusives/2912-cover-crop.jpg)
Bitter and Then Some: Liturgy Interview
Welcome to the second installment of Bitter and Then Some, bringing you the falsest of false metal on a non-regular basis! This week we have an extended interview with the controversial Brooklyn-based black metallers Liturgy, a very sparse rundown of metal events happening this week and a few blog exclusive reviews from SLUG’s own Dylan Chadwick. … read more
![Face Melting Goodness: Glitch Mob Interview](/etc/exclusives/2913-img9327-crop.jpg)
Face Melting Goodness: Glitch Mob Interview
Since 2006, the three-member group The Glitch Mob has been blowing minds and melting faces all over the world. Last year they played Salt Lake City for V2’s Get Freaky in front of a massive crowd of over 700 people. With their new EP, We Can Make the World Stop the Glitch Mob has been endlessly promoting and touring all over the country. … read more
![2011 Mayhem Festival Preview](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/megadeth-band.webp)
2011 Mayhem Festival Preview
Since 2008, the Mayhem Festival has been a staple of North American touring metal fests, and its stages have been graced by such heavyweights as Slayer, Slipknot, Dragonforce, Lamb of God, Hatebreed and Killswitch Engage. Known for diverse lineups from subgenres all across the metal spectrum, Mayhem has raised the bar for their 2011 tour. Although there is no Salt Lake City stop on the tour this year, it will hitting the Nampa Ampitheatre in Nampa, ID on July 13th. … read more
![The 48 Hour Film Project Awards Ceremony 06.30](/etc/exclusives/2915-lexerotfilmworksthemarriagemagician-crop.jpg)
The 48 Hour Film Project Awards Ceremony 06.30
You want to make a movie, but you have nothing: no one cast, nothing written and you have 48 hours to do it. Go. … read more
![The Saintainne 07.09](/etc/exclusives/2916-saintannetom-crop.jpg)
The Saintainne 07.09
With their debut appearance at Bar Deluxe scarcely one hot week behind them, and the sounds of a July 4 gig still ringing the ears of the newly schooled, local act The Saintanne came back atcha, Salt Lake, one more time, Saturday night at 10 o’clock, on the blacktop out behind Black Chandelier. SLUG was there, where the fuck was you? … read more