Christmas Wish List from the Underground: A Collection of Appeals From Grown-Ass Adults

Christmas Wish List from the Underground: A Collection of Appeals...
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Remember when you were young and anxious, desperately propelling yourself up from the tile floor of a shopping mall with your toes just to glimpse the red mess of a man who, according to your sources, planned on hooking it up big time? We remember. That’s why SLUG recently sat down with a handful of members from Utah’s underground music community and asked them some irresponsibly Christian-based questions about what they want for Christmas this year. … read more

Top 5: Horseback

Top 5: Horseback
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Jenks Miller, the father behind Horseback’s latest album, Piedmont Apocrypha, has again created a twined nest of experimental sound by combining a base of seething feedback and altering levels of oozing drone. The album as a whole lifts up the listener in a cradle to help see Miller’s vision of music as a single, fluid entity with this nongenre specific album. … read more

Review: Hookworms – The Hum

Review: Hookworms – The Hum
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Hookworms = Rubella Ballet + X-Ray Spex + Siouxsie and The Banshees … read more

Review: Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways

Review: Foo Fighters – Sonic Highways
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Foo Fighters = Nirvana + Them Crooked Vultures – metal + arena rock … read more

Top 5: Hundred Waters

Top 5: Hundred Waters
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Following the subtly intricate formula of their first album, Hundred Waters’ new release continues with the same airy splendor, but with more refinement. The musical foundation of this album perfectly represents 2014, a year of revitalization and self-discovery, by sounding neither senescent nor ahead of its time, but flawlessly fit into the fringes of current music. … read more