Soundwaves is a biweekly podcast produced by Salt Lake City's SLUG Magazine, an independent free monthly magazine published since 1989. An acronym for Salt Lake UnderGround, SLUG's podcast, Soundwaves, focuses on local musicians and their music or upcoming events in Salt Lake City. For more information visit slugmag.com.
Experiences with and observations of American injustice have led Rade to funnel their frustrations and encourage change through music. … read more
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For Suit Up, Soldier, things are already looking up for a successful album release, with as a host of performances already lined up. … read more
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Episode #362 of "SLUG Soundwaves" features the Utah-born collective Dogma Society discussing their roots, their rise and their future. … read more
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Episode #361 of "SLUG Soundwaves" showcases Scott and Clark of local avant-everything group Portal to the God Damn Blood Dimension. … read more
La La Diabla draws inspiration from garage and surf rock and delivers their sound through a punk aesthetic that is as noisy as it is groovy. … read more
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Throughout Cybernetic Schizophrenia, Herrera explores themes derived from video games and sci-fi novels through synth-heavy compositions. … read more
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As ROUGH HANDS, Josie Cordova explores the biological and natural functions of living beings through the matrices of computerized systems. … read more
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“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
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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
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“We play classic rock brought into the modern age,” says Michael Collins, the drummer of the Salt Lake City–based Spirit Machines. … read more
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“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
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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
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Vocalist and guitarist Chazz says the best way to describe picnics is "like a scratched Nirvana CD playing from the room next to you.” … read more
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With new material on the way, hip-hop artist C.Valenta looks to continue wielding the power of expression through music. … read more
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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 listeni…
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
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Pony Logan describes his debut album, The Big Sky, as "country music for people who like Frank Ocean." … read more
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Bijuu started making beats in large part as a way to cope with the noise in his head. … read more
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MCKC processes the thoughts and feelings he can't bring himself to say plainly through his eponymous personal project.. … read more
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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
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