SLUG Mag Soundwaves

Throughout Cybernetic Schizophrenia, Herrera explores themes derived from video games and sci-fi novels through synth-heavy compositions. … read more

As ROUGH HANDS, Josie Cordova explores the biological and natural functions of living beings through the matrices of computerized systems. … read more

“I just want to make lo-fi pop songs with my garbage equipment,” says Polly Llewellyn, who records under the name Peachy Fingernail. … read more

Savage Daughters share a history that spans many critical years of their lives and culminates in a sound that is full of chemistry.  … read more

“We play classic rock brought into the modern age,” says Michael Collins, the drummer of the Salt Lake City–based Spirit Machines. … read more

“You can never kill the idea, you can only kill the man," says producer zonekidd about their path toward self-fulfilment in life and music. … read more

Nick Foster and Tim Meyers' Palace of Buddies is a project defined by a lack of commitment to any one particular style or sound. … read more

Vocalist and guitarist Chazz says tje best way to describe picnics is "like a scratched Nirvana CD playing from the room next to you.” … read more

With new material on the way, hip-hop artist C. Valenta looks to continue wielding the power of expression through music. … read more

Gavin Hoffman doesn't like people. In his debut release as Treason Angel, Ritual Sacrifice uses noise to channel an anti-religion, misanthropic ethos—though you may not recognize it just from listening.  … read more

For Kona Ossana, the release of his band Sindar's debut album Splintered Light was an opportunity to grow as a musician, both technically and creatively. … read more

Pony Logan describes his debut album, The Big Sky, as "country music for people who like Frank Ocean." … read more

Bijuu started making beats in large part as a way to cope with the noise in his head. … read more

MCKC processes the thoughts and feelings he can't bring himself to say plainly through his eponymous personal project.. … read more

Once skeptical of others' ability to understand him, Drew Kaluna learned that he could lean on others—that being vulnerable would make him, and Sunhills, better.   … read more

While quarantine has given B Zitting the opportunity to focus on a more experimental, production-focused EP, their bandmate Ryan Collenburg is integral to Pillars' aesthetic and sound. The band is currently working on two EPs in tandem, and both express an evolving facet of the band.  … read more

Over the last decade Martian Textilez has been working on himself. From relationships to friendships to his own sense of masculinity, Textilez' sees opportunity for growth in almost everything.  … read more

After years spent in his last project angrily expressing his relationship to depression, bipolar, anxiety and suicide, Teague Chubak realized he was only reinforcing the feelings he was trying to recover from. PETR Chubak became Chubak's new avenue for tackling these topics, now through a lens of positivity and a desire to be understood rather than merely heard.   … read more

World's Worst released their eponymous EP in April, and the album's themes of feeling stuck and rudderless hit different in the time of quarantine.  … read more

Glittering Serpent, the first full-length from PK Opal, speaks to the current political moment and how queer art should resist capitalist production, which encourages us to polish our work so hard we sand ourselves into dust.  … read more

On Commander Salamander's debut album, Confidential Crocodile, the band spins an epic yarn about a brave Salamander who journeys ancient Egypt to restore balance to the world. … read more

The ability for two ideas to simultaneously contradict each other and still be true—this is at the heart of MSKING's music. … read more

After releasing an EP and an album last year, Dad Bod is still finding their sound—with their most recent release of single "For Real," they're closer than ever. … read more

Eichler's SCENE KIDS is an experimental, collaborative mixtape featuring artists from Salt Lake's DIY music space, and it's a testament to the talent teeming in the scene.  … read more

Choice Coin was the name Jared Montgomery had for a coin he relied on while traveling and living out of his car. When he came to a fork in the road, he'd flip it, follow it, and never look back. Now Montgomery leads the Choice Coin with Derek Wetenkamp on bass and Nate Harer on drums, and the group has just released its debut EP titled Too Tired to Eat; Too Hungry to Sleep.  … read more

The improvisational space rock band SoundMass planned to release their newest album this spring after playing another year of SXSW—until COVID-19 changed everything. … read more

This setting of Reckon, and the metaphors within, have presented a new method for the members of Milk Money to craft vulnerable songs. … read more

After an intense period of self discovery late in high school playing with Dead Be Joint, Call sifted through through the chaos of working with a band of mismatched tastes and found the emotional means and energy to carve out his own musical identity as Teenage Flying Disc. … read more

When Mason Runs Through of Wounded Knee moved to Montana to work on a reservation, he was starved of the opportunity to share his music in live performance—but not for lack of trying. After two bad experiences trying to play his brand of socially conscious, Americana folk, he considered calling it quits and selling his gear. Thankfully, through collaboration with drummer Nick Hansen, Runs Through has found a rejuvenated energy for telling his stories.  … read more

For Kyrbir Is-p-, front man of Purr Bats, growing up gay in mid '80s Utah Valley meant living with an ever-present sense of doom. … read more