SLUG Contributor Limelight
August 3, 2017
Contributor Limelight: Erin Moore
Since Erin Moore joined the SLUG writing team in February 2015 and the copy editing team a year later, she has brought her strong sense of style, expertise and impeccable taste—in writing, fashion, music and otherwise—to cover our local scene. Having written countless music pieces for SLUG, Moore weaves her words together in an expressive, descriptive and stirring voice, capturing the pathos and essences of her musical beats, which range from shoegaze and goth to dreampop and punk. The month, Moore writes on SLUG Localized’s Madge (p. 7) and Peach Dream (p. 8). Moore recalls picking up an issue of SLUG shortly after she moved to Salt Lake in 2013, citing the magazine and its emphasis on local music as introductions to the community. Now, we’re proud to have Moore as a SLUG contributor—her work continues to introduce and invite individuals and communities into our SLC scene.
Articles by contributor
Review: Youth Worship – LP1
Youth Worship LP1 Self Harm Records Street: 06.30 Youth Worship = Local H + Hum + R.E.M. Even though this new project from Asobi Seksu’s James Hanna started off compellingly enough with the rad EP1, their debut album, LP1, turned out to be a far cry from it. Somehow, they fell prey to something of
Review: Yowler – The Offer
Yowler = Grouper + Ȏ PAON + Mitski … read more
Review: Young Galaxy – Falsework
Young Galaxy = Small Black + Washed Out + Caribou … read more
Review: Yuck – Stranger Things
Stranger Things does maintain the tangy sweetness in both slower, lighter songs and the harder, grungier ones that have always been present in Yuck’s music. … read more
Review: Various Artists – Songs From Under the Floorboard
Songs From Under the Floorboard = All your favorite goth and post-punk bands … read more
Review: Tom Diabo – Dark Star
Tom Diabo = Horrid Red + Joy Division + Big Black … read more
Review: Totally Mild – Down Time
Totally Mild = Mac DeMarco + Tennis … read more
Review: Thrushes – Exposing Seas
Thrushes =Esben and the Witch + Swirlies
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Review: The Muscadettes – Side B
The Muscadettes = Best Coast + Hinds
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Review: The Stargazer Lilies – Door To The Sun
The Stargazer Lilies = Stella Luna + Astrobrite
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Review: The Soft Moon – Criminal
The Soft Moon = All Your Sisters + The KVB … read more
Review: Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
Brooklyn-based Sunflower Bean are a dynamic trio who’ve made lightning-fast progress as a band to watch, pairing their fast-paced and energetic psych rock with equally paced, widespread tours. … read more
Review: Tacocat – Lost Time
Tacocat = Upset + La Luz
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Review: SoKo – My Dreams Dictate My Reality
SoKo = The Psychedelic Furs + Bow Wow Wow … read more
Review: Smiling Disease – Beach Bodies: 2008-2014
Smiling Disease = Kurt Vile + The New Year … read more
Review: SPORTS – All of Something
SPORTS = Diet Cig + Alvvays … read more
Review: Solange – A Seat at the Table
Solange = Tweet + Kindness + Blood Orange … read more
Review: Slowdive – Self-titled
Slowdive = Slowdive … read more
Review: Still Corners – Slow Air
Still Corners = Chromatics + Blouse … read more
Review: Sneaks – Highway Hypnosis
Sneaks = TV Girl + Peaches … read more
Review: Shana Falana – Set Your Lightning Fire Free
Shana Falana = No Joy + Frankie Rose … read more
Review: Shark? – Becky and Debbie EP
Shark? = Bass Drum of Death + FIDLAR … read more
Review: Rat Columns – Fooling Around
Rat Columns = Twerps + Crystal Stilts … read more
Review: Ringo Deathstarr – Pure Mood
Ringo Deathstarr = A Place To Bury Strangers + Chapterhouse + My Bloody Valentine … read more
Review: PINS – Wild Nights
PINS = Koala Temple + Savages + PJ Harvey … read more
Review: Pinkshinyultrablast – Grandfeathered
Russian shoegazers Pinkshinyultrablast have quickly followed up on last year’s debut, Everything Else Matters, with Grandfeathered, an album that races off into the same horizon that the prior did. … read more
Review: Preoccupations – New Material
Preoccupations = Ought + Pylon … read more
Review: Palehound – Dry Food
Palehound = The Breeders + Violent Femmes … read more
Review: Normil Hawaiians – Return of the Ranters
Normil Hawaiians = Cleaners from Venus +
Swell Maps
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Review: No Joy – More Faithful
No Joy = Ringo Deathstarr + Girls Names
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Review: Nothing – Tired of Tomorrow
Nothing = Creepoid + Cloakroom … read more
Review: No Joy – Creep
No Joy = Tamaryn + Ringo Deathstarr … read more
Review: No Age – Snares Like A Haircut
No Age = Women + Male Bonding … read more
Review: Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Press Color
Lizzy Mercier Descloux = ESG + Lydia Lunch … read more
Review: Land of Talk – Life After Youth
Land of Talk = Speedy Ortiz + Big Thief + All Dogs … read more
Review: Keep Shelly in Athens – Now I’m Ready
Keep Shelly in Athens = Purity Ring + Teen Daze
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Review: Iceage – Beyondless
Iceage = Savages + Ought … read more
Review: Hierophants – Parallax Error
Hierophants = Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti + Mr. Elevator and the Brain Hotel
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Local Review: Sympathy Pain – Tangled Molten Skull
Sympathy Pain = Sister Grotto + Benoît Pioulard … read more
Local Review: teenage sport – lungs EP
teenage sport = Snail Mail + Harvard … read more
Local Review: r. Candall Lark – Fantastic
r. Candall Lark = Jake Lazarus + Whatever, Dad … read more
Local Review: panthermilk – Totem
panthermilk Totem Self-Released Street: 03.12 panthermilk = Woods + TOPS The second EP from Loganite Benton Wood’s solo project, panthermilk, reminds me of those wholesome snack food commercials where the mom and the kids are flipping their shit over their healthy treats. It’s a vision of wholesomeness. Though this association may seem negative, it’s not.
Local Review: No Ditching/Baby Ghosts – Split 7”
No Ditching/Baby Ghosts = P.S. Eliot + Diet Cig
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Local Review: Peach Dream – Self-titled
Peach Dream = Tacocat + The Babies + Vivian Girls … read more
Local Review: officer jenny – shoulder devil
officer jenny = Mount Eerie + Big Thief … read more
Local Review: officer jenny – god of death
officer jenny = Benoit Piollard + Angel Olsen (pre-WOMAN) … read more
Local Review: Moriah Glazier – Old Days
Moriah Glazier = Cat Power + Songs: Ohia … read more
Local Review: Marina – Orbit Pluto
Marina = Kelela + Empress Of … read more
Local Review: Eyesore – Self-titled
EYESORE = Pussy Galore + Flipper … read more
Local Review: Civil Lust – Constitutions
Civil Lust = Tropic of Cancer + All Your Sisters + Soft Kill … read more
Local Review: Choir Boy – Passive with Desire
Choir Boy = Lower Dens + Wild Nothing … read more
Local Review: Braeyden Jae – Culture Complicit
Braeyden Jae = Six Organs of Admittance + Yellow Swans
Local Review: Angel Magic – 2012-2015
Angel Magic harbor a pristine electro-pop sound that’s mood settling and fine-tuned to feel smooth and consistent. … read more
Local Music Review: Hoops – One Day I Will Always...
Hoops = Emily Yacina + Conor Oberst … read more
Review: Girlpool – Before The World Was Big
Girlpool Before The World Was Big Wichita Recordings Street: 06.02 Girlpool = Vivian Girls + Juliana Hatfield Much like the little-kid world illustrated on the cover of the album, Before The World Was Big, the debut full-length by duo Girlpool is a colorful, nostalgic and stripped-down work that steadfastly holds the hand of that scared,
Review: Girlpool – What Chaos is Imaginary
Girlpool = Japanese Breakfast + (Sandy) Alex G … read more
Review: Frankie Rose – Cage Tropical
Frankie Rose = Tamaryn + Still Corners … read more
Review: Exit Earth – Calm Waters
Exit Earth = Pavement + Yuck … read more
Review: Dinner – Three EPs, 2012–2014
Dinner = Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark + Ariel Pink … read more
Review: Cuushe – Night Lines EP
Cuushe Night Lines EP Cascine Street: 04.07 Cuushe = Supreme Cuts + Populous + oOOoOO Shaking off the murky, noisy and wandering tangles of earlier works and slipping into a suit of dark, rhythmic clarity, Kyoto-native Cuushe presents her four-track EP Night Lines. She keeps with her trippy, experimental foundations, but the addition of faster
Review: BUTANNA – Self-Titled
BUTANNA = G.L.O.S.S. + Bikini Kill
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Review: Bully – Feels Like
Bully Feels Like Columbia Street: 06.23 Bully = Japandroids + Best Coast + Yuck The first thing that came to my raised-on-Disney brain upon hearing Bully was that if Ashley Spinelli from Recess—9 and donning moto boots—started a band, it would sound like this. Overwhelming at first–maybe with the volume of rock-solid grindy guitar and
Review: BOYTOY – Grackle
BOYTOY = Charly Bliss + Chastity Belt … read more
Review: Bleached – Welcome the Worms
Bleached = The Coathangers + FIDLAR + Best Coast
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Review: Bikini Kill – Revolution Girl Style Now
Bikini Kill = Babes in Toyland + Sleater-Kinney … read more
Review: Auxes – Boys In My Head
Auxes = Local H + Pixies – Modest Mouse … read more
Review: Au.Ra – Jane’s Lament
Au.Ra = JAWS + Beach Fossils … read more
Review: angelic milk – Teenage Movie Soundtrack
angelic milk = Hinds + Joanna Gruesome … read more
Review: All Dogs – Kicking Every Day
All Dogs = Bully + Speedy Ortiz … read more
Review: Air Waves – Parting Glances
Air Waves = Strong Words + The Fresh & Onlys + Veronica Falls … read more
Review: A Place to Bury Strangers – Pinned
A Place to Bury Strangers = Ringo Deathstarr + My Bloody Valentine … read more
Slamdance Film Review: History of Love
History of Love is a visual exploration of what grief looks as it unwinds, and as it unwinds people. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: The Professional: A Stevie Blatz Story
The Professional is an apt title for a film about someone going through the realest hustle, of owning one’s own business and trying to keep a life together around it. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Impetus
Alleyn’s journey through grief results in a fragmented story, one that quietly shudders between her introspective narration, her conversations with friends, and the film she is attempting to make. … read more
Este Barrio No Se Vende: Jessica Sabogal’s Artistic Activism
Muralist Jessica Sabogal is a first-generation Colombian American whose spray-painted works reach out to marginalized people, show them support and speak the message of their struggle and humanity, which is so often misheard or misrepresented. … read more
Art | Art and Fashion | LGBTQ+
Cultivating Life: Niki Chan Wylie’s Photographic Storytelling
The photography of Salt Lake photographer Niki Chan Wylie is the kind that nudges you when you look at it, encouraging you to really feel out the story indicated in her images. She describes her work as “honest visual storytelling, walking the line between documentary and art.” … read more
A Story’s Mask: Enter the Inner Workings of Michael Mejia’s...
Tokyo is rewarding and responsible in that its form is all about process and awareness—of readership, authorship and culture. … read more
Albatross Recordings & Ephemera Presents: Meet the Creatures
Albatross Recordings & Ephemera is ready for the Spirit of Halloween for their event “Meet the Creatures,” held Oct. 27 at The Ruin. … read more
Three-Pronged Plant-Based Living with Sage Mountain
If you want to do some yoga poses with pigs, take the plunge and do a 10-day vegan challenge, or simply have questions about veganism, you should make the trek up the dirt road to Sage Mountain. … read more
Localized: Madge
Having expertise and a hunger to learn is what helped Leavy start Madge. “I think this project has been in my brain for a long time,” she says, “and recently, I’ve had the tools and the skills to realize it.” … read more
Localized: Peach Dream
DIY, but not glued to its fuzz, Peach Dream will undoubtedly continue to bring their ultra-catchy songwriting skills wherever the fuck they want to. … read more
Threading Through: McKell Maddox Fashion Design
Maddox’s “method of madness” is fueled by unconventional inspirations and design processes. She says that her inspirations don’t just come from people she sees on the streets but also from songs or things that she reads. View her work at mckellmaddox.com. … read more
Line of Best Abstraction: Jared Steffensen & Christopher Kelly, Scott...
CUAC’s current exhibitions feature works that use stark lines and color in a minimalist way. This approach highlights the dynamics and textures that arise from things as simple as lines and shapes, making the viewer question their own perception of what they first think they see, and then they should interact with or try to understand it. … read more
Pillars of Salt: Don’t Condemn Me for Caring
Pillars of Salt is a new zine based currently in Provo, that includes content contributed by people from both Utah County and Salt Lake City. … read more
MedusaFest: A Musical Night For Women and Non-Binary People
On the frigid night of Feb. 6, Provo’s The Medusa Collective staved off the cold by putting on MedusaFest at Studio Studio Dada. The show was a collection of bands thrown together by means of names drawn from hats a month prior. … read more
All Dogs Are All Set
Ohio-based pop punk band All Dogs have definitely found their way to making heart-on-their-sleeves music, and they’ve been blossoming steadily for the past few years. It isn’t just their charming brand of pop punk that’s attention-grabbing—it’s also the way in which they disarm with melancholy and emotionally bare lyrics that tip down into a sea of thrashing harmony. … read more
Ringo Deathstarr: Keeping it Pharmaceutical-Hard
Austin band Ringo Deathstarr have picked out the many things that typify shoegaze, hurled them to the ground and stomped all over the pieces. … read more
Looking Around at Beat Happening
Think DIY, and one thinks homey, living-room production, a sort of playing around—though not always playfulness—and a raw sort of determination. This perception comes from a long line of DIY artists that have passed through our ears and venues over the years, but few have both endured as long and so purely embodied that feeling
Not Alone: Westminster’s Title IX Symposium
Across the country, colleges are attempting to shake off a rather unpleasant part of college culture; rape culture. … read more
Chastity Belt: A Quartet of Cool Sluts Out on Tour
The title to this interview isn’t meant to be a jibe, but a reference to the Chastity Belt song “Cool Slut” where lead singer Julia Shapiro sings about the lifestyle of “a couple of sluts / out on the town / fooling around.” … read more
Viet Cong @ Kilby Court 03.25 with What Moon Things,...
The night of March 25 finds me entering it baffled, checking and double-checking the sky, gazing around perplexed at the lightly thrumming energy of the sizeable scrap of people gathered at Kilby Court’s dusk-blued entryway. … read more
Peach Kelli Pop @ Diabolical Records 04.08 with Tim Allen’s...
It’s 7:50 at Diabolical Records, and the wide, fluorescent-lit spaces between the record racks and the walls stretches out before me, filled only by the scanty clatter of setup—empty. Not 20 minutes later, though, suddenly everything’s buzzy—full, clamoring and ready to go. … read more