David Jimenez & Tastemasters: Crafting Conversations Jimenez hopes he can keep expanding and growing Tastemasters. He hopes to keep talking to people in different areas of fermentation, such as kombucha and hot sauce. He also wants to host new kinds of guests, including politicians and policymakers. “If I ever come and reach out to an individual,…
Slackwater: Finding Success in SLC After finding success with its first two locations in Ogden and Sandy, Slackwater is finally in Salt Lake City. The restaurant brought its artisan pizzas and vast beer selection to the Granary District in late 2021, and as it did with its first two locations, Slackwater hopes to win over SLC with its fresh…
Tommy Nguyen & the Pearl: the Best of Growing Up For Tommy Nguyen, owning a restaurant with his own curated menu didn’t always seem like a possibility. Once a high school dropout working at a Denny’s in Utah County, he eventually made his way to Salt Lake City, where he found opportunities working in the city’s…
Surmise Clothing Company: Justice through Paradox The big picture for Surmise in 2020 is continuing to take on more social and political issues in the vein of police brutality. Jones and Surmise want to make change through T-shirts and attempt to bring more attention to those kinds of problems in the world. “I’ve tried really hard to…
Mast: Empowering the Artist Entrepreneur Today, MAST is a program put on by SLFS and is driven to help young filmmakers and artists hone their craft and to become “artist entrepreneurs”—fledgling filmmakers who know how to construct a proper business plan in distributing their work, which is a skill many creators today lack. “Successful artists must be entrepreneurs,” says…
WAVVES –YOU’RE WELCOME You’re Welcome is one of the better albums I’ve heard so far this year, too. With a lot of psychedelic bands coming out from the ether lately, it’s nice to know that punk still works and can still sound new. Wavves fans might not be in love with every track on the…
THE GROWLERS – CITY CLUB It still feels like new music, doesn’t it? Each new record from The Growlers has something gripping enough that makes it as exciting as a debut. The Growlers swooned us back in 2013 with “One Million Lovers” and Gilded Pleasures, those “Humdrum Blues” with Hung At Heart, and then, within the more…
Violent Soho: Finding a Way Out of This Thing It’s been an emotional ride for Australia’s Violent Soho. The troupe—Luke Boerdam, James Tidswell, Luke Henery and Michael Richards out of Brisbane, Queensland—has gone from trying to grab the attention of America in 2010 to moving back in with mom and dad and applying to McDonald’s to recording a gold-selling album…
Fidlar: Honest, Clean, Original If you have listened to FIDLAR’s albums, Fidlar and Too, you see what they represent: at first you’re in the heat of the party, burning in the prime of your youth. But then, before you know it, you’re nursing your hangover in rehab. For their frontman, Zac Carper, these two albums have been exactly that. Around…