slugmag.com 1 2 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 3 SaltLakeUnderGround • Vol. 23 • Issue #282 • June 2012 • slugmag.com Publisher: Eighteen Percent Gray Marketing Coordinator: Editor: Angela H. Brown Karamea Puriri Managing Editor: Marketing Team: Ischa Buchanan, Jeanette Jeanette D. Moses D. Moses, Stephanie Buschardt, Giselle Contributing Editor/Napalm Flesh Editor: Vickery, Veg Vollum, Emily Burkhart, Jeremy Ricky Vigil Riley, Sabrina Costello, Taylor Hunsaker, Tom Editorial Assistant: Esther Meroño Espinoza, Grason Roylance, Kristina Sandi, Junior Editor: Alexander Ortega Brooklyn Ottens, Angella Lucisano Office Coordinator: Gavin Sheehan Copy Editing Team: Jeanette D. Moses, Social Networking Coordinator: Rebecca Vernon, Ricky Vigil, Esther Meroño, Grason Roylance Liz Phillips, Rio Connelly, Alexander Ortega, Mary Enge, Cody Kirkland, Hannah Christian, Distribution Manager: Eric Granato Johnathan Ford, Eleanor Scholz, K.C. 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Brown [email protected] Associate Producers: Jeanette D. Moses, Ricky Vigil, Esther Meroño, JP About the Cover: When we saw the cover art by Santos for Torche’s new album, Harmonicraft, we were inspired. We comissioned SLUG illustrator, Sean Hennefer (you may recognize his work from our John Waters cover in October ‘11), with the task of coming up with a cover based on that magical work of art. The result is our own technicolored masterpiece. Check out Torche at Urban Lounge on June 15. 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 Maggie Zukowski – Designer Maggie Zukowski is a motorcycle ridin’, cat fosterin’, pink-hair rockin’, kick-ass SLUG designer. She came to us from Minnesota in October 2011, and we’ve kept that fluorescent mane close ever since. Using her mad illustrative skillz, Maggie designed our Blue Dress Birthday Party poster back in February, and each month she designs a handful of ads for the magazine, putting an extra edge on her work to make them stand out. Check out her work on the ads for Unhinged, Johnny’s and Dr. Sketchy’s in this issue to get a first-hand glimpse at this design-guru’s magic touch. Known as Miss Maggie Bliss to some, she has also hosted Dr. Sketchy’s SLC each month since January 2011, putting her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota to use with some artistic community service. Go say hello at the “Tribute to Betty Paige” themed Dr. Sketchy’s on June 26 at Metro ... Maggie’s a tough one to miss. 4 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 5 Dear Dickheads, Trees—I like them the same way I like, er, Taio Cruz. If you want the Early in May, Hope Woodside of real Provo scene, go see a Despite Fox 13 did a story about how Club Despair house show. Velour is the “center of the scene.” Now, no offense to the owners and –Ernie Sanchez employees of Velour—I’m sure that they invest a lot of effort into what Dear Ernie, they do, and Provo is undoubtedly Hope Woodside may have won fortunate to have them around to a City Weekly’s “Best Of” award for degree … But what the fuck does Best Anchorwoman 15 times in a Hope Woodside know about “the row, but no offense Ernie, you’re scene?” The story boasted that a fucking moron if you’re going to four LOCAL bands have made it to trust any anchor man or woman major-label fame through the help from a Fox station to give you a of Velour, which is great, but the foot- balanced and unbiased dish on age of their local shows just showed any “local scene.” a bunch of white kids standing around listening to some other white That said, Provo is lucky to kids strum guitars gently like they’re have a venue like Velour for the at a goddamn Ben Kweller concert. same reasons that Salt Lake I’m sorry, but if the club’s owner, is lucky to have a venue like Corey Fox, is looking at new bands Kilby. Venues like this encourage as “starters” (as he said in this story) people to start bands by giving to tailor them to sound like Neon them a place to play—which will Trees, that’s not local music: That’s ultimately encourage a scene to pop-culture bureaucracy that doesn’t keep moving forward. As I’m sure generate any sort of character or you know, any “scene” is multi- “sound,” so to speak, for Utah. faceted. A kid who is interested in standing quietly and bobbing his The story also said that this “center head to some acoustic folk pop is of the scene” is not Salt Lake City. not the same kid with the bright Granted, there is a definite dearth pink mohawk and too much of all-ages venues in our capital, metal shit hanging off his face. with Kilby taking on a huge load to Consider the diversity of Utah’s carry, but if I can’t go see something music scene a blessing. I’m sure aside from singer-songwriter-indie the bands and fans do. hogwash that’s not pushing the envelope, I’d rather hit the stinky xoxo, dive bar. And not to hate on Neon SLUG Mag 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 8 SaltLakeUnderGround slugmag.com 9 point in my life, I’m listening to a lot of obscure delta to their record that came out last year, Double straightforward approach hasn’t changed—they For many people, bluegrass is a tough pill to blues, guys like Mississippi John Hurt, who is a Down. It’s a good time, and it’s honest and down to still try to be better musicians, and have only gotten swallow, but the Puddle Mountain Ramblers have a major influence on me. If you go back and research earth. I truly get the impression that if they never got tighter as a band. way of making this seemingly ancient music come some of these old bluesmen, they influenced people paid and if no one ever came to their shows, they’d alive for an audience today. like Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. I guess that’s still be doing it. “The better we get, the more fun it becomes,” says the definition of roots music.” Ligman. “We learn songs faster and we get people “I’ve had conversations with people who tell Puddle Mountain Ramblers who appreciate what we’re putting out there. After me that they have never liked bluegrass,” says Disinterested in pursuing a career in music, neither playing this long, we read each other well and we’re Uriona, “but they say they had a great time at our musician was planning on starting a band, but Beau Uriona – Banjo making each other better all the time.” show. It’s pretty hard to not have a good time when their paths crossed, it was apparent that they Nicko Baron – Fiddle at a bluegrass show. It’s a very inviting scene. It had a connection through their mutual passion for Matt Ligman – Upright Bass Stellar musicianship in a bluegrass band is doesn’t exclude anybody.” country and blues. The two met when Brandenburg Nick Boyer – Guitar essential.