Soundwaves is a biweekly podcast produced by Salt Lake City's SLUG Magazine, an independent free monthly magazine published since 1989. An acronym for Salt Lake UnderGround, SLUG's podcast, Soundwaves, focuses on local musicians and their music or upcoming events in Salt Lake City. For more information visit slugmag.com.Read more »
Soundwaves is a biweekly podcast produced by Salt Lake City's SLUG Magazine, an independent free monthly magazine published since 1989. An acronym for Salt Lake UnderGround, SLUG's podcast, Soundwaves, focuses on local musicians and their music or upcoming events in Salt Lake City. For more information visit slugmag.com.Read Less
For Kyrbir Is-p, front man of Purr Bats, growing up gay in mid ’80s Utah Valley meant living with an ever-present sense of doom. The LDS Church taught him he was chosen to live in the end times, that his family would eventually rise to heaven while the Earth was crystallized and sanctified—meanwhile, Kyrbir and his queer friends would face Armageddon. When he eventually moved to Seattle and saw the contrast in how queer culture there was accepted and even celebrated, Kyrbir was mad. His home had done him wrong. He moved back and channeled that anger into Puri-do, the seed for Purr Bats. While the purposefully ugly sound of Puri-do expressed the trauma of living with a sense of doom, Purr Bats was that trauma processed: Now it was time to have fun.
Purr Bats will play SLUG’s Reunion Localized Show this Friday, February 21, along with Beachmen, Dreamslut and Telepanther.
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