SaltLakeUnderGround 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 22• Issue # 270 • June 2011 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Shauna Brennan Editor: Angela H. Brown [email protected] Managing Editor: Jeanette D. Moses Sales Coordinator: Shauna Brennan Contributing Editor: Ricky Vigil Marketing Coordinator: Editorial Assistant: Esther Meroño Bethany Fischer Office Coordinator: Gavin Sheehan Marketing: Ischa Buchanan, Jeanette D. 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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 Travis Bone—Cover Artist Burly and bearded, much like the character in his artwork for this month’s cover, Travis Bone is one badass local artist. Bone’s résumé boasts design work for the likes of Mogwai, My Morning Jacket, Iron and Wine, The Swell Season, the Twilight Concert Series and Uinta’s Cockeyed Cooper Barley Wine. Featured at the prestigious Flatstock poster show series, Bone frequents SXSW along with showcases in Chicago and Seattle. Check out his exquisite artwork this summer at the Twilight Concert Series, Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee and, on a more local level, the Park Café, Signed and Numbered and Slowtrain. 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Fax: 801.487.1359 band a bad review? Did you try to Mailing Address: Dear Dickheads write for us, but plagerized all of your c/o SLUG Mag work, we caught you and had to fire 351 Pierpont Ave. Ste. 4B SLC, UT you? Are you bitter about it? Well, 84101 or [email protected] start your own fucking magazine 6 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 7 Cooked with Love : BlackBlack LipsLips Jeanette Release By D. Moses Arabia Mountain jeanette@@slugmag.com It was a windy afternoon in Austin, “To me, [Arabia Mounatain] is kind Texas during SXSW when I found of where Good Bad Not Evil left off,” myself sitting poolside at a swanky says Pé before clarifying that he does hotel with Cole Alexander and Ian still like 200 Million Thousand and that Saint Pé of Black Lips in a cabana he looks at it as though it were one that was clearly marked as being of his children. “That child was bad, reserved for someone else. “We like to though. We had to put that one in come in and improvise. See, this was rehab,” says Alexander. Black Lips reserved,” Alexander says as he picks took approximately a year and a half Photo: Zach Wolfe Photo: Zach Wolfe up the sign. “This was reserved for to record Arabia Mountain, ample time us.” According to Alexander and Pé, to slow roast it and “cook it with love.” despite working with a producer for the “We didn’t want to fuck with anything. first time ever, this “improvisational” We wanted to make sure it was perfect. attitude played a big role during the Now it is,” says Pé. creation of their sixth studio album, Arabia Mountain, due out June 7 on In addition to working with Ronson, Vice Records. Deerhunter’s Lockett Pundt worked on production for two of the tracks “We’re going to take you for a few on the album—“Bicentennial Man” loops on this ride, but I think this will be and the feel good, surf rock song “Go our most successful album to date,” Out and Get It.” But the most unusual says Alexander regarding the finished contribution to the upcoming album product.