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![General Violence Conference Brings the Brutality in its Third Year](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rankandvile-landon-hale-1024x683.webp)
General Violence Conference Brings the Brutality in its Third Year
Passion, independence and commitment to the hardcore community are what keep GVC going, a refreshing change in ethos in the era of mega-festivals and entertainment giants. … read more
![Local Review: frick. – frick.](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frick.webp)
Local Review: frick. – frick.
At first listen of frick.’s debut album, I asked myself, “What are these cats so angry at?,” before I quickly realized I’m angry at the exact same things, too. … read more
![Local Review: Jacob T. Skeen – Telestial](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/a2240272802_10-1024x1024.webp)
Local Review: Jacob T. Skeen – Telestial
Fresh off the electric high of SLUG Mag’s 35th Anniversary Party, Jacob T. Skeen fires off punk-experimental mortar rounds at every bystanding listener to mosh for cover in his new album Telestial. … read more
![Fresh Fruit for Plotting Vegetables: Al Grossi, The Punk Rock Farmer](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/393-Ed-Punk-Rock-Farmer-Aldine-Strychnine-Jessica-Bundy-1024x682.jpg)
Fresh Fruit for Plotting Vegetables: Al Grossi, The Punk Rock...
The bounty from Al Grossi’s garden is something he believes even urbanites with a small amount of space can achieve. … read more
![SLUG Picnic: MUTIE](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/0324326_0324326-R2-E048-1024x692.jpg)
SLUG Picnic: MUTIE
Like other mutant-punk groups, the members of MUTIE don a full persona with an ever-rotating series of masks. … read more
![Review: Sea of Troubles – Ecchi](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/a4062877667_10-1024x1024.jpg)
Review: Sea of Troubles – Ecchi
Sea of Troubles = Minor Threat + The OBGMs + Bad Brains … read more
![Iceage: Punk’s Achilles’ Heel](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/8266-Courtesy-of-Iceage_1.jpg)
Iceage: Punk’s Achilles’ Heel
After two albums of the kind of scorched-earth, blackened punk that thrust a teenage band from Denmark into the global limelight, the savant-as-ever Iceage have finished their third and most accomplished album yet. … read more
![Punk’s Dead Concert Shoot With Indiegogo Fans @ The Complex 06.20 with Screeching Weasel, The Dwarves, Eight Bucks Experiment (Extreme Corporal Punishment), Ulteriors, Dog Party](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/7863-screaching-weasel.jpg)
Punk’s Dead Concert Shoot With Indiegogo Fans @ The Complex...
Many have traveled from all over the states and even internationally to take part in something inspirational for punks. If anything, the showing of support proves that punk is not dead. Not even close. The camaraderie around this event is impressive to say the least. Even if this film is controversial for some, this gig helped put Salt Lake City back on the map for punk rockers. Exactly where it should and always be. … read more
![Vowel Movement: An all too brief talk with Johnette Napolitano](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-05-24-12.56.49-PM.webp)
Vowel Movement: An all too brief talk with Johnette Napolitano
The reason for the quote, besides its deep meaning to the lyrics, is that Johnette Napolitano has tied two ends of time nicely, and is stringing up for more. … read more
![Local Band: November 1994](https://www.slugmag.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-20-at-5.24.00-PM.webp)
Local Band: November 1994
The Obvious isn’t one of those bands that does things just to please someone else. They do it because that’s what they want. … read more