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FLASHBACK 1989: Underground music is alive and well in Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake has the potential to become the "next alternative music mecca" of America—and it's happening in your own backyard.
In commemoration of City Weekly's 40th anniversary, we are digging into our archives to celebrate. Each week, we FLASHBACK to a story or column from our past in honor of four decades of local alt-journalism. Whether the names and issues are familiar or new, we are grateful to have this unique newspaper to contain them all.
Title: Notes from the Underground Author: Ziba Marashi Date: Aug. 25, 1989 This summer has been marked by musical anniversaries: the two decades since Woodstock, the 25th birthday party of the Who, and the not-so-Rolling Stones return to the stadiums.
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