Angela H. Brown

Founder / Publisher

Owner and publisher of SLUG Magazine for 25 years (2000-2025). Creator of the Death by Salt compilation series documenting 100+ Utah bands across five volumes starting in 2004. Founder and executive director of Craft Lake City, now a 501(c)(3) drawing 20,000+ attendees and 250+ local artisans annually. Started at SLUG as a photographer in the late 1990s. Bought the magazine outright at 22 and built it from a black-and-white punk zine into Salt Lake City's definitive underground culture publication: full color, 30,000 monthly print circulation, the Soundwaves podcast, HUM TV, and over 150 volunteers. Josephine Zimmerman Pioneer in Journalism Award. Utah Business "30 Women to Watch." Community and Culture Sego Award. SLCC Distinguished Alum. KUER 90.1 advisory board. Inaugural Rock Salt Hall of Fame inductee, March 28, 2026, International Women in Music Day. She describes herself as "almost like an anthropologist." Youngest of six kids in a conservative LDS household. Voted "most likely to become an anarchist" by her 8th grade class. Made her own zine called Chug (Churchill Underground) in junior high, modeled after SLUG.