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Follow us on twitter 2 SaltLakeUnderGround CRAFTLAKECITY.COM SaltLakeUnderGround 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 22• Issue # 269 • May 2011 • slugmag.com About the Cover: Designed and photographed by Chris Swainston, this month’s cover features Skate 4 Homies founder Todd Ingersoll and girlfriend Heidi Bogus with volunteer and local skater Levi Faust. Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Jemie Sprankle Editor: Angela H. Brown [email protected] Managing Editor: Shauna Brennan Jeanette D. Moses [email protected] Contributing Editor: Ricky Vigil Marketing Coordinator: Editorial Assistant: Esther Meroño Bethany Fischer Copy Editing Team: Jeanette D. Marketing: Ischa Buchanan, Jeanette D. 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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 Paige Snow—Roller Derby Correspondent Fishnets, roller skates and mouth guards, oh my! SLUG Mag’s very own derby correspondent, Paige Snow, knows the ins and outs of this brutal sport like no other. A microbiologist by day, Snow has it covered when it comes to brains and brawn, whether it’s in the lab or on the rink. Providing readers with bout coverage on slugmag.com on a regular basis, Snow enjoys the tough sport because it requires strength, skill and strategy, all with a feminine flair. Watch for her bout recaps online and be sure to join her in the stands this derby season to see what a true fan is all about. 4 SaltLakeUnderGround SaltLakeUnderGround 5 Dear friends at SLUG, Dear Dickheads, We just finished a wonderful tour I recently attended a friend’s party at around the Southwest. We played their house and they had this shitty at a handful of festivals, including electronic dance music DJ playing Neon Reverb, IndieFest, and SXSW. in their living room. I think they call We were able to play five shows it “dubstep” or “progressive house” over three days in Austin, including or something. It all sounds the same a sold-out official SXSW showcase. to me. I consider myself to be pretty Here’s a clip: http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=75OEdGIANxY. open minded when it comes to new music but a lot of these songs are We love the new issue of SLUG. It just “DJs” remixing the remix of a sounds like Jeanette and JP had a remix that Daft Punk did in 2001. great time in Austin. And we love the cover! The Black Angels recently No one writes their own music invited us back to Austin at the end anymore and everyone thinks they of the month to headline at Psych can DJ. It’s so sad!! They don’t Fest with them. even have any real DJ equipment We recorded a collaborative album like REAL turntables or REAL vinyl to with Austin-based My Education spin, it’s all-digital and it’s all shit. In while they were in SLC last summer, fact, I’m going to download one of and are calling it Sound Mass. It’ll those free DJ app’s onto my iPhone, be released on vinyl this summer hook it up to an amp and charge (another great feature of this month’s some hipster club somewhere $300 SLUG!). We’ll send in a copy soon. to play a 45 minute set. Hell, every- Just wanted to say thanks for your one else is doing it. I might as well support over the past, present, and jump on the bandwagon! future years. Oh, and Dear Daily Calendar, I know Sincerely, the print has already been published Disgruntled DJing Purist for April, but if you could add us to the online edition we’d appreciate it. Dear DJing Purist, Before hitting the road again, we’re playing with El Ten Eleven at Kilby on So let me get this straight: You’re Thursday the 21st. griping about shitty electronic dance music and DJs who don’t Best, have “real” equipment, and Theta Naught your solution is to become one Dear Theta Naught, of those DJs? This is why our country is doomed, all you fuck- Hopefully your PR people realize ing hipsters do is complain about that writing into Dickheads and each other and then exacerbate sucking up to SLUG isn’t the most the problem by doing the same viable way to promote your band thing in the name of irony. … Neverthless, we’re stoked to hear that a local band and Local- How about instead of whining, ized veterans are killing it like you guys! you go support the DJs you deem “pure” in a real way—actually buy Sounds like Austin is quite their albums, go to their shows, enamored with ya’ll, they best hype up their remixes—because be treatin’ you right or we’ll have let’s face it, you’ll never be as to send Jeanette and JP down good as those DJs you idolize. there again to show them how If you think you can do it better Salt Lake City loves on their local than those posers with oversized talent. Can’t wait to get the new album, we’ll be sure to review the headphones and a Macbook, shit out of it. then DO IT BETTER. Otherwise shut up, pound some PBRs and Thanks for the shout out, and just get your dance on with that hip- for future reference and the ben- ster bitch in the oversized granny efit of all local bands out there, glasses and lace American Ap- send in your dates to dailycalen- parel bodysuit. [email protected] by the 25 of the month prior so you’re sure to get listed for free. XOXO, SLUG Mag Love Always, SLUG 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 SaltLakeUnderGround 7 By GS [email protected] Photo: John Carlisle The Poorwills will release Drink Essentially carved out of the three separate acts of on The Wing on May 13 and will homes with only one professional studio recording Bluebird Radio, Glade and The Devil Whale, the set up for the piano. Pedersen and Fish hammered folk “super-group” of The Poorwills came together on play a private invite-only show out all the drums and bass in the first session, but a whim and spent nearly half a year putting together in Slowtrain’s Subterranean Lounge then it took over five months for the rest of the band their debut album, Drinks On The Wing.