PALACE OF BUDDIES play SLUG’s Blue Dress Birthday Bash with God’s Revolver and DJ Godina Julian Carr One Model Nation The Growlers Vol. 23 • Issue 278 • Feb. 2012 Always Free • slugmag.com slugmag.com 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 3 MAGAZINE SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 23 • Issue #278 • Feb. 2012 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Editor: Angela H. Brown Managing Editor: Marketing Coordinator: Jeanette D. Moses Karamea Puriri Contributing Editor/Napalm Flesh Marketing: Ischa Buchanan, Jeanette Editor: Ricky Vigil D. Moses, Stephanie Buschardt, Giselle Editorial Assistant: Esther Meroño Vickery, Veg Vollum, Emily Burkhart, Office Coordinator: Gavin Sheehan Jeremy Riley, Sabrina Costello, Taylor Metal Coordinator: Bryer Wharton Hunsaker, Tom Espinoza, Grason Ro- Copy Editing Team: Jeanette D. ylance, Kristina Sandi, Brooklyn Ottens, Moses, Rebecca Vernon, Ricky Vigil, Angella Lucisano Esther Meroño, Liz Phillips, Rio Connelly, Social Networking Coordinator: Alexander Ortega, Mary Enge, Cody Grason Roylance Kirkland, Hannah Christian, Johnathan Distribution Manager: Eric Granato Ford, Eleanor Scholz, K.C. 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Brown [email protected] Associate Producers: Jeanette D. Moses, Ricky Vigil, Esther Meroño DISCLAIMER: SLUG Magazine does not necessarily maintain the same opinions as those found in our articles, interviews or advertisements. If you are easily offended, please do not blame us. We are a carrier for the voice of the people and it is not our fault if you don’t like people. Content is property of SLUG Magazine. Please do not use without permission, or we will hunt you down and make you pay for your sins. Now that’s a promise. Contributor Limelight Chad Kirkland– Photographer As one of our newest photographers, the talented Chad Kirkland appeared right under SLUG’s nose when he moved his studio next door in July 2011. We gave him a friendly SLUG neighborhood welcome by soliciting his services right away, and his first official assignment was done on our shared patio, awwww. Since then, Chad has photographed everything from quirky Localized bands to glamorous fashion shows and risqué Princess Kennedy profiles, his photo credit gracing the pages of SLUG nearly every issue. In fact, you can take a peek at his work by turning back the page, as he’s our cover photographer this month, a photoshoot he claims to be his favorite SLUG assignment so far. When he’s not hanging out in our SLUG ‘hood, Chad works hard as a professional photographer, involved in commercial projects for the classy Italian-tie company Sette Neckwear, and working as the Art Director and Chief Photographer for Axl’s Closet, a hip children’s clothing company. Of course, Chad wouldn’t be SLUG’s Mister Rogers if he wasn’t generous. He’s been a part of Help-Portrait the past three years, an event he looks forward to because he doesn’t “save lives on the daily with photography” too often.We disagree. 4 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 5 dear Dear Dickheads, people don’t include women in their bands because the bands they On August 26, RadioActive aired a show grew up idolizing didn’t have female asking the question “why are there not members? Because that’s both more female-fronted rock bands in fucked up and fucking stupid. Since Utah?” I called in and stuck my foot in you said you have stuck your foot in my mouth, in a sense. I said that I feel your mouth before, I’ll give you the it may have something to do with folks benefit of the doubt and assume that looking up to their favorite bands as you meant something entirely dif- idols rather than people just like them- ferent, even though I already have a selves expressing their ideas through pretty strong dislike for you because music, which I agree with. Where I of your fondness for Pink Floyd (if fucked up is calling out bands. I said you can buy a band’s shirt at JC something like “bands people idolize, Penney, that band sucks). Women like Pink Floyd, The Doors and a lot of have always been underrepresented metal bands.” in art and music, but there are a lot of women in Salt Lake making great First of all, I’m a huge Floyd fan. I feel local music. We love the hell out of they are a band that I have idolized in Subrosa, whose most recent lineup my life, which is why I said it. Same with featured three women. Spell Talk The Doors. And generalizing a whole has recently added a great female genre like Metal? I was out of line. So guitarist. Pretty Worms released to Pink Floyd, Doors, and Metal fans, I three awesome 7”s last year, all with apologize. a female vocalist. Daisy & the Moon- shines, Uncle Scam, ESX, Bellrave, However, I’d still love to see more ladies Chainwhip, IX Zealot, INVDRS, Dani fronting rock bands in this state. There Lion, Moon of Delirium, Dick Janitor, are plenty of affordable guitars, basses The Suicycles, Dances With Wolves, and drumkits out there, so if you’re a Erin Barra, The 321s, Handicapital- woman who’s thought about doing it, ist, The Folka Dots, ABK Band, and do it! We’re lucky to have KRCL with probably a shitload of bands from programs like RadioActive in Utah. Next Provo all feature at least one female time I decide to call in, I will be choosing member, and they’re all pretty great. my words more carefully. Maybe. Some- It’s definitely true that there are way times I can be a compulsive, neurotic more dudes making local music fuck. How interesting are careful folks than ladies, but there are more local anyway? female musicians than most people Damn the man, think. And even though I hate The Benjamin H. Doors, Benjamin, you do raise a good point: We could always use Dear Benjamin, some more awesome women mak- ing music in Salt Lake. I’m not sure I entirely understand your point—are you saying that FAX, SNAIL MAIL OR EMAIL US YOUR LETTERS! Fax: 801.487.1359 • Mailing Address: Dear Dickheads c/o SLUG Mag 351 Pierpont Ave. Ste. 4B SLC, UT 84101 or [email protected] 6 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 7 Everyone always had their own nickname for Dave Amador. Amadorabe (I have to give LOVE skateboarding and to At SLUG, Amador made up his own when he chose to write Sam Hubble credit for this express your individuality at under the pseudonym of Peter Panhandler back in 2005. David Henry Amador name) was my best buddy whatever cost. I thought I was He’d handwrite a rough draft on yellow lined paper, bring it ever. When Angela gave the best at partying, but I was in and read it to me aloud. I always loved these readings— me the opportunity to write just keeping up. He believed he’d stop and laugh at his own jokes or ask “Is it okay if I about him I thought of the in all of his friend’s talents and write that?” Amador was always straight up in his writing— 1975-2012 last conversation I had with pushed them to reach their full telling-off respected skateboarders in the community, Dave. He told me how potential. He was their biggest talking shit on Thrasher and Transworld and bitching he wrote a letter to Dear cheerleader when he saw them about the skate park scene … or about anyone else he felt Dickheads and how Angela succeed. needed a taste of humble pie. But Amador didn’t just gripe, had busted him because he I am so grateful for the he wrote encouraging words about up-and-coming skate sent it from his email. Then memories that we all have rats, hiding inside jokes and wit in every sentence. He loved he told me of how he had with him.