Crucial Salt Lake is an all day, all ages festival that showcases some of Salt Lake City and Utahs best and brightest up coming heavy music bands. This year features a variety of hardcore, rock and metal. Graywhale will be there with their now famous Crucial Record Store Pop-up as well as Black Harbor Strings, and other local vendors.

Crucial Salt Lake is sponsored by Graywhale, Huge Brands, Rock Doc, Black Harbor, Brains Media, Bonneville Jones Photography, and Crucialfest. Crucial Salt Lake's mission is to support local bands and cultivate and contribute to Salt Lake City and Utah's amazing music and arts community, especially in their most unique and extreme forms.