Year: 2015
![Chatbooks: Binding Technology and Memory](/uploads/exclusives/9652-tumblr_static_img_8359.jpg.900x400_q85_crop-crop-396x288.jpg)
Chatbooks: Binding Technology and Memory
Chatbooks is a Provo-based app that takes pride in two things: creating an incredibly simple user experience and providing that service at an unbelievable price. … read more
![Hurray For The Riff Raff @ The State Room 03.26 with Adia Victoria](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hurray-for-the-riff-raff.jpeg)
Hurray For The Riff Raff @ The State Room 03.26...
The night began with Adia Victoria taking the stage with her backing band—composed of guitarist/home-town hero Mason Hickman, bassist Jason Harris and drummer Tiffany Minton—and immediately played a set that will forever be etched into my memory. … read more
![Grabbing the Kat by the Tail: Koffin Kats Interview](/uploads/exclusives/9665-koffinkats_hiresphoto-crop-396x288.jpg)
Grabbing the Kat by the Tail: Koffin Kats Interview
Anyone who’s seen the Koffin Kats live will tell you that they are fueled by sweat and blood and that they put everything they can of themselves on stage. It’s intense, it’s keyed up to 11 and they have no other setting than balls to the wall. … read more
![Closing the Sale with Swell Merchants](/uploads/exclusives/9667-image-20-03-15-09-55-14-crop-396x288.jpg)
Closing the Sale with Swell Merchants
When Nico told me he was a rapper, I asked him for some music. Honestly, I didn’t expect a whole lot—you never know—but the moment I threw Swell Merchants into my car stereo, I knew it was something special. … read more
![Jesse Walker: On Beats, Booze and Bunny Ears](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/5th-annual-bunny-hop-poster.webp)
Jesse Walker: On Beats, Booze and Bunny Ears
One of Salt Lake’s quintessential members of the music scene, Jesse Walker, has been throwing parties for decades. Five years ago, after being introduced to Bob McCarthy and Marsha Merrill, owners of Garage on Beck, he realized that their glorious patio was the perfect place to party and listen to some groovy, crackling vinyl with his buds. … read more
![Adventure Time: The Wasatch Mountain Film Festival](/uploads/exclusives/9669-static1.squarespace-crop-396x288.jpg)
Adventure Time: The Wasatch Mountain Film Festival
While browsing among the latest outdoor recreational gear at this year’s Adventure+Gear Expo is enough to get the blood pumping, it takes a bit more to become truly inspired. With that in mind, local outdoorsman and film enthusiast Stuart Derman has partnered with Wasatch Mountain Arts to create the first annual Wasatch Mountain Film Festival. … read more
![Comedy @ The Loft 03.26](/uploads/exclusives/9670-img_20150326_200913-crop-396x288.jpg)
Comedy @ The Loft 03.26
Comedy traveled up North to start the spring in style, bringing five local comics to the top floor of the Ziegfeld Theater—aptly named The Loft—in Ogden as part of a new monthly event. … read more
![Viet Cong @ Kilby Court 03.25 with What Moon Things, Andy Shauf](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/viet-cong-kilby-court.webp)
Viet Cong @ Kilby Court 03.25 with What Moon Things,...
The night of March 25 finds me entering it baffled, checking and double-checking the sky, gazing around perplexed at the lightly thrumming energy of the sizeable scrap of people gathered at Kilby Court’s dusk-blued entryway. … read more
![Review: Bad Religion @ In The Venue 03.27 with OFF!](/uploads/exclusives/9674-img27004-crop-396x288.jpg)
Review: Bad Religion @ In The Venue 03.27 with OFF!
I hastily rushed around the corner to the entrance of the venue, where I heard Keith Morris singing the lyrics to “Poison City.” I walked onto the dance floor, which already reeked of alcohol and BO, and admired the two-man mosh pit that was going on. … read more
![A Night of Reverence with the Elias String Quartet](/uploads/exclusives/9676-elias-quartet-courtesy-photo-crop-396x288.jpg)
A Night of Reverence with the Elias String Quartet
Every time I walk into the Libby Garner Music Hall, I am taken by just how aesthetically and aurally pleasing it is. The beautiful tone of the wood, and the glorious Lively-Fulcher pipe organ that fills the front of the room leaves you in awe and sets the mood for beautiful, classical music. … read more