SLUG Magazine’s collection of reviews covering the latest and greatest of Utah-based music, covering all varieties of genre, style and type.

Local Reviews: Various Artists

Local Reviews: Various Artists
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I was pleasantly surprised when I popped in Billygoat Database’s Time Capsule compilation, featuring music from VCR5, Nolens Volens and more. Not quite knowing what to expect, I was greeted with some extremely creative and varied techno jams. Each song seems to take you on a whirlwind adventure through a strange and mysterious land that is half Tron and half Lagoon.  … read more

Local Reviews: Ugly Valley Boys

Local Reviews: Ugly Valley Boys
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Traditional, American roots and hillbilly are all adjectives that have somewhat permeated into the underbelly of “country music.” With all the negative connotations and pop music associated with the current state of country music, it pains me to call this country.  … read more

Local Reviews: Twisted Axis

Local Reviews: Twisted Axis
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If Nickelback and Black Sabbath were forced to combine forces, this is the product of that sad, sad scenario. Twisted Axis has a lot of ’70s rock influences, which is all well and good, but there is also a definite early 2000s radio “rock” music direction they tend to lean toward. The vocals are pretty weak, and there’s no real spark in the music, but I can see how people could like it.  … read more

Local Reviews: Twilight Transmissions

Local Reviews: Twilight Transmissions
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Possibly one of the most aptly named bands out there, Twilight Transmissions is like something you’d hear on some 3 a.m., non-commercial radio show dedicated to space music, but with a twist of something darker than a black hole. … read more

Local Reviews: Tough Tittie

Local Reviews: Tough Tittie
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Tough Tittie are hitting us with a five-song EP plus the entire album Pink Roid Rage all on one disc. From the first track on the Stomach Transplant portion, “The Introducer,” Tough Tittie takes the goofiness of the Weirdos and reformulates it into a bar-band punk style.  … read more

Local Reviews: Swindlers

Local Reviews: Swindlers
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The four-piece experimental rockers out of Provo are known best for their live house shows, complete with lights and fog, turning a regular venue show into an experience. Bands who can pull that off will have an audience no matter where they go, but translating that experience onto a recording rarely works. … read more

Local Reviews: Rotten Musicans

Local Reviews: Rotten Musicans
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This joint cracks me up and sets me silly in the streets with smiles and roller skates. This EPee is far from rotten, and the jams are air-tight. This is the polar opposite of the street hustler rap I’ve been tuned into, and this joint is just what the times have ordered.  … read more

Local Reviews: Punk Rock Joe

Local Reviews: Punk Rock Joe
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Poetry on Acid 23 is a stream-of-consciousness collection of short ditties, expressive but simple, about everything from Wal-Mart to suicide.  … read more

Local Reviews: Perception Cleanse Perception

Local Reviews: Perception Cleanse Perception
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At the end of his decade-long experiment, KJ Cazier (Little Sap Dungeon) closes with inVERSIONS. Citing the instability of the project and the mixing of genres within it, Cazier decided to end PCP with an album mainly composed of remixes of previous material.  … read more

Local Reviews: One Strike One Rise

Local Reviews: One Strike One Rise
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Bring it Back in Me is meandering, rote dirge rock. The band, at its most successful, recalls the gothic country of Songs: Ohia. At its least successful points, the vocals sound one take away from being finished, and there’s a flute needlessly warbling all over the track.  … read more