VOL. 24 / ISSUE 296 / AUGUST 2013 / SLUGMAG.COM / ALWAYS FREE slugmag.com 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 24 • Issue #296 • August 2013 • slugmag.com facebook.com/SLUG.Mag @SLUGMag @SLUGMag youtube.com/user/SLUGMagazine Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Marketing Manager: Editor: Angela H. 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Brown [email protected] Associate Producers: Esther Meroño, Alexan- der Ortega, Dan Nailen About the Cover: As a Craft Lake City DIY Festival veteran, Audrey Patten’s vintage take on pop culture classics, sense of humor and creepy-but-cute illustrations led us to seek her out as this month’s cover artist. She described the cover piece as “Sally Draper meets The Scarecrow,” which couldn’t be any more accurate. Find out more about Audrey in our feature on pg. 34, and don’t forget to seek her out at the DIY Festival! 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: Nate Abbott – Community Development Coordinator If you’ve popped in the SLUG office lately you may have noticed a new, moustachioed face around—none other than the visage of Nate Abbott, whom you may have previously recognized as the store manager of the Sandy Graywhale before he made the move to be a Community Development Executive with SLUG Mag. Along with his fun and endearing sense of humor, Nate has a refined taste in music, à la bands like Deafheaven, Black Marble, Sigur Rós and his fave, Joy Division, and so we’ve been spoiled with his great in-office music picks paired with ours. Nate gets the team smiling with en masse calls and responses to Master P’s “Make ’Em Say Uhh,” and when one of us is feeling down, he’ll go out of his way to turn a frown upside down with a Koka Moka Probar. Out in the field, you can catch Nate rendezvousing with local businesspeople, rousing up positive interaction within our burgeoning community to keep it growing. In his off time, Nate will probably be playing PS3 or watching Back to the Future, but if you see him about, buy this friendly dude a beer! 4 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 5 Dear Dickheads Dear Dick Wyndorf, I stopped reading at Madball, A few months ago, Madball was then listened to something supposed to come here with Suicidal better to cleanse my aural Tendencies but ended up dropping off ANNUAL palate (an old Casualties album the bill because a certain promoter told them that “hardcore had been banned was closest, so I grabbed that from SLC.” Now, anyone with a few and popped it in my computer). brain beans to mash together knows Yeah, I’ve definitely heard tell that this is just a hair short of hogwash of the Dick Snoozy–sounding (and that if he knew his history, he’d name of a promoter ripping off know that ST was a HC band too), fans and bands. Kind of funny but evidently the band didn’t, and they how two-step HARDCORE was CITY posted a lengthy diatribe about it on LAKEE CITY the only thing that played at the AFT K their Facebook page. CR FT LA Outer Rim some time ago, too. CRA What appears to be happening is that a I guess there was something certain promoter (I won’t say his name, that got slipped into a bill in DIY FESTIVAL but it rhymes with “dick snooze”) is the state legislature! At any freaked out at the prospect of hardcore/ rate, it sucks. I remember, back Presented by punk basement shows happening in the day, there was a certain without his involvement, and knowing promotion group that was that he’s an aging dinosaur with no real connection to that “scene,” tried to also notoriously hard to work throw his weight around on this show he with—I think they were called booked in an attempt to salt the ground “The Hollective.” At any rate, and scare those type of bands from I’ve already heard of people playing here altogether. He knows that if starting to be conscientious they do come, they’ll probably do shows as to who’s putting on shows with someone (since he’s a general rip- so they can pick and choose off artist) who ISN’T him, and he doesn’t #craftlakecity whom to support and whom to want the competition. craftlakecity.com boycott until all the promoter While I can respect his Gordon Gecko dicks wise up and stop fucking approach to doing “business” (it’s a hardworking people over. It’s reference bro, look that shit up), I’m not not fair to the bands, the fans sure he understands the damage he’s or our city. Also, by the way: doing. It’s hard enough to get good Nice gym shorts, bruh. hardcore bands to come to this fucking city, and propagating a rumor just so Over 200 Artisans, Vintage Vendors, Craft Foodies, XOXO SLUG you can hold some bullshit monopoly on booking bands seems childish and silly. FAX, SNAIL MAIL OR EMAIL There’s very little money to be made in Science & Technology Exhibits, Live Music, Bike Valet, US YOUR LETTERS! HC, and more often than not, 40% of the show attendees are going to sneak Fax: 801.487.1359 Activities for Kids of All Ages & FREE Admission in without paying anyway. Mailing Address: If he cared about music in SLC, he’d Dear Dickheads c/o SLUG Mag know that basement hardcore shows 351 Pierpont Ave. Ste. 4B SLC, with a 50-60 person turnout aren’t his AUGUST 9 AUGUST 10 UT 84101 real competition anyway. He should stick or [email protected] to booking shitty Alkaline Trio shows. 5PM - 10 PM 12PM - 10 PM -D. Wyndorf AT THE GALLIVAN CENTER 239 S MAIN STREET Acme Camera • Catalyst • Centered City Yoga • City Home Collective • Edible Wasatch GoEngineer • Iris Piercing • KCPW • Skinworks • Wells Fago • Winder Farms • XMission •Yelp 6 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 7 The quartet of Tolchock Trio—(L–R) Tommy Nguyen, Dan Thomas, Oliver Lewis and Ryan Fedor—are disbanding after 13 years of integrity as a local Utah band. Photo: Danielle Mariott TOLCHOCK TRIO 2000-2013 olchock Trio, the group best known for being able to stay together for so long and actually for Los Angeles to work with the Joshua Payne being a performing contradiction by act like professional musicians. The band has always Orchestra (brother of David Payne) and conquer playing as a quartet, are finally calling it boldly experimented with lineup changes, yet they the thriving nu-jazz market in a city of people who T broke the mold by being a standard “local band” tip with $100 bills.