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![Local Review: Reverend Morley – The Kirby Project](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SLUG-2023-kirby-project.webp)
Local Review: Reverend Morley – The Kirby Project
The Kirby Project executes an unsettling vision with defiant rock. Reverend Morley’s aggressive instrumentation and vocals blend a raucous brio with experimental flair. … read more
![Local Review: Herring – Who Affects the Sun](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SLUG-2023-Herring-1024x1024.webp)
Local Review: Herring – Who Affects the Sun
If you crave post-punk-adjacent instrumentals in the fall, consider adding Who Affects The Sun into your leaf-crunching, moon-gazing, hot, black coffee-drinking music rotation. … read more
![Localized: Roses on the Moon](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/419-Ed-Localized-Roses-on-the-Moon-Jess-Gruneison-0695-1024x683.webp)
Localized: Roses on the Moon
Bobby B Mac and Vehnu Moon find that their creativity flows best if they put on a beat in the studio, write lyrics and immediately record it. … read more
![Localized: Øutset Bandits](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/419-Ed-Localized-Outset-Bandits-Jess-Gruneison-1231-1024x683.webp)
Localized: Øutset Bandits
Andrew, Saco and Mal of Øutset Bandits emphasize collaboration between members of their dynamic, eight-person group. … read more
![Local Music and Spirits Roundup: November 2023](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/419-Ed-LMSR-Spirit-Pairings-5-1024x684.webp)
Local Music and Spirits Roundup: November 2023
This month, SLUG is shaking things up by pairing craft local spirits with the best new music from the Salt Lake Valley and beyond! … read more
![The First Female Horror Host: A History of Vampira by Ashes Fallen](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SLUG-2023-vampira-e1698791408694-1024x576.jpg)
The First Female Horror Host: A History of Vampira by...
SLUG chatted with gothic-rock band Ashes Fallen about their tenacious investigations and archiving of Vampira’s legendary life as the world’s first female horror host. … read more
![Tyler Glenn on LOVELOUD, Neon Trees’ New Era and Becoming Himself](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SLUG-2023-Neon_Trees_Press_1-High-Res-AshleyOsborncredit-1024x819.webp)
Tyler Glenn on LOVELOUD, Neon Trees’ New Era and Becoming...
Tyler Glenn of Neon Trees has been busy. After a six-week tour Glenn will going to perform at this year’s LOVELOUD festival on November 3 at the Delta Center. … read more
![Local Review: Casio Ghost – Postmodern Blues](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SLUG-2023-casio-ghost-1024x1024.webp)
Local Review: Casio Ghost – Postmodern Blues
Postmodern Blues is all the vocal reverb and twangy guitar of modern surf rock combined with the lo-fi vocal distortion and barely intelligible lyrics of Julian Casablancas. … read more
![Set in Stone: An Interview with Nick Jost of Baroness](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SLUG-2023-Baroness-Ebru-Yildiz-1024x683.jpg)
Set in Stone: An Interview with Nick Jost of Baroness
With Baizley’s deep, blistering lyrics, Gleason’s insane guitar playing and the best rhythm section in hard music composed of Jost and Thomson, Baroness will never go gentle into that good night. … read more
![Review: Holly Humberstone – Paint My Bedroom Black](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SLUG-music-2023-holly-humberstone-paint-my-bedroom-black-high-res-1024x1024.webp)
Review: Holly Humberstone – Paint My Bedroom Black
Paint My Bedroom Black is an album from someone who is self-assured, creative and most of all a lover of music. Humberstone is well aware of the weight and solace music can provide. … read more