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![Little Dragon @ The Complex 10.22 with Shy Girls](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8385-LittleDragon.jpg)
Little Dragon @ The Complex 10.22 with Shy Girls
To help promote their fourth studio album Nabuma Rubberband, Little Dragon scheduled a stop in Salt Lake on a Wednesday at The Complex. I have been waiting patiently for this show, but butterflies still form in my stomach while getting ready. I know it will by popping with energy from all of the YouTube videos I have been ogling over the past months leading up to this night. … read more
![Foxygen 10.21 @ Urban Lounge with Dub Thompson](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8386-Foxygen_Cara_Robbins.jpg)
Foxygen 10.21 @ Urban Lounge with Dub Thompson
When I heard that Foxygen canceled their opening spot with MGMT for the Twilight Concert Series last year, the news hit me pretty hard. So I have to admit, after hearing that they were coming to Salt Lake City this fall, I withheld my enthusiasm—I’ve been hurt before. But tonight, the marquis of Urban Lounge proudly boasts their arrival, and it thaws my cold, nervous heart. Uh, I mean … “Word.” … read more
![Musée Mécanique @ Kilby Court 10.23 with Book on Tape Worm, Richie Kissinger](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8398-museephoto1-525x349.jpg)
Musée Mécanique @ Kilby Court 10.23 with Book on Tape...
Seeing a band live can give a more human quality to what may otherwise be somewhat otherworldly music, and I think this is especially the case with Musée Mécanique. … read more
![Cannibal: A Love Story @ Jeanne Wagner Theatre 10.24](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8399-Cannibal_1.jpg)
Cannibal: A Love Story @ Jeanne Wagner Theatre 10.24
It’s refreshing to see humans being eaten by something other than zombies. Salt Lake City recently housed such a spectacle and everyone seemed very OK with it. Strange Beast Dance Circus brought us the musical/comedy/horror, Cannibal: A Love Story. … read more
![Media Speaks: Brooke Gladstone @ SLCC Grand Theater 10.27](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8407-15466008999_cc36f036bd_o.jpg)
Media Speaks: Brooke Gladstone @ SLCC Grand Theater 10.27
Monday night Brooke Gladstone, Managing Editor of NPR’s On the Media, sat down with Terry Gildea, the News Director for KUER, for a loose fitting interview that encompassed Gladstone’s refreshing insight on contemporary media. The discussion for the evening was specifically plotted around “Contemporary Journalism in the Age of Digital Media.” … read more
![Chuck Palahniuk @ Union Ballroom 10.29](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8414-image2.jpg)
Chuck Palahniuk @ Union Ballroom 10.29
We had sharpies, inflatable clear beach balls. Palahniuk had a clever grin and a bag of tricks—the night teemed with potential. What’s the worst that could happen? … read more
![Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. @ Urban Lounge 10.27 with Miniature Tigers, Madi Diaz](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8417-Dale_Earnhardt_Jr._Jr..jpg)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. @ Urban Lounge 10.27 with Miniature...
I’ve been a junkie of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. ever since I first caught that guitar riff on “Vocal Chords” a couple years ago while cleaning my kitchen. It’s a hell of a song. If you haven’t listened to its hometown album, It’s a Corporate World, you should make out to it. Seriously. … read more
![Alt-J @ The Complex 10.27 with Lovelife](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8418-Alt_J.jpg)
Alt-J @ The Complex 10.27 with Lovelife
Alt-J delivered a fantastic performance to a sold-out crowd—most of the stops on their current tour are. … read more
![The Shivas @ Diabolical Records 10.29 with Super 78](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8419-The_Shivas_Adam_Blackman.jpg)
The Shivas @ Diabolical Records 10.29 with Super 78
The Wednesday before Halloween, I found myself at Diabolical Records for the first time, surprised by the tiny crowd. I arrived promptly at 9 p.m. and could hear the first note struck from the alley, as Salt Lake’s Super 78 had taken the stage and began play. From that first tune I heard from the alley, I knew I was going to dig this band. … read more
![Rapture and Fascination: Erasure @ Capitol Theatre 10.29](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/8423-DSC00037-1.jpeg)
Rapture and Fascination: Erasure @ Capitol Theatre 10.29
Bell truly sounds magnificent and it is something watching him perform in person. One of our generation’s best blue-eyed soul singers, his technical voice is a marvel. Taking another unexpected curve, Clarke starts up the dark engines of Tomorrow’s World’s bitchy “I Lose Myself,” and Bell looks like he’s having a blast singing it. … read more