Authors: Asha Pruitt
The Linda Lindas Are Good at Being Angry, but It...
The Linda Lindas chatted with SLUG ahead of their first major headlining tour about the joys of playing all-ages venues and the difficulties of expressing anger as a young person. … read more
Amyl and the Sniffers @ The Complex 03.30.25
At once utterly committed to political resistance and completely unserious about the world, Amyl and the Sniffers were exactly what Salt Lake City needed. … read more
Review: Japanese Breakfast — For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) is a slow burn meditation on the consequences of desire, reconnecting with an estranged father and reconciling with disloyalty from a lover. … read more
Poppy Injects Optimism Into Negative Spaces
Negative Spaces is one of Poppy’s heaviest projects to date, but there’s a thread of optimism running through the album: “You don’t know how bright the light is without the darkness,” she says. … read more
Play Review: The Antipodes
Both playwright Annie Baker and director Jack Cobabe excel at finding the extraordinary in the mundane, and isn’t that what stories are all about, anyway? … read more
Scriver Brothers Balance Surrealism and Authenticity in Documentary Endless Cookie
A combination of Peter’s storytelling and Seth’s animation, Endless Cookie is a series of witty, wandering vignettes about Indigenous life in Canada and a rollicking family portrait. … read more
Cover Your Ears, Not Your Eyes for Welsh Folk Horror...
Rabbit Trap’s captivating, eerie atmosphere and thematic emphasis on sound mask a frustratingly vague narrative and distant characters. … read more
A Journalist’s Nightmare: Opus Is a Punchy but Predictable Cult...
It’s Midsommar (murderous cult in the countryside) meets Ingrid Goes West (the dark side of celebrity worship) meets Get Out (I wanted to scream “Get out!” the whole time). … read more
Top Five Albums of 2024 To Speed Run the Stages...
Spanning from ‘90s synth pop to retro psych-punk, each of these albums ushered in a new emotion—listed here in the sequence of the traditional therapeutic model. … read more