Archive: 2014

The lineup for the 12th Music Annual McDowell Mountain Music Festival in Phoenix, AZ has been announced. The lineup includes Widespread Panic, Passion Pit, Thievery Corporation, Phantogram, Portugal. The Man, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Beats Antique, Trampled by Turtles, StrFkr, Robert Delong, and Break Science. The three-day festival will be […]

Any music critic worth his salt fears the year-end list where it’s time to go back and sift through that bottomless collection of promos to produce a list of the year’s “best” albums. For one that obsesses over music and listens to just about everything, this is no easy task. This year saw more than […]

After Eliot Bronson wrote the songs that would end up on his self-titled third solo album, he emailed a demo of one song, just vocals and guitar, to Dave Cobb, the celebrated Nashville producer who was behind the recent award-winning albums by Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. It was a long shot, to say the […]

Living Colour recently rescheduled a number of their fall tour dates to get back in the studio to finish work on their forthcoming album, Shade. One of the dates that weren’t rescheduled was the one at Irving Plaza. And the band was in top form, belting out a great set of hits and some new […]

Aaron Behrens is a strong believer in the idea that if you’re an artist and you embark on a side project there is no point in making it exactly like your main project. As one half of the electro, laser-loving dance duo Ghostland Observatory, Behrens is stepping away from the untz and moving into the […]

Domino has announced Gliss Riffer, the new album from Dan Deacon will come out on February 24, 2015. Gliss Riffer marks new territory for Deacon who, following up on the release of his large ensemble-based recordings – 2009’s Bromst and 2012’s America – decided to return to a simpler way of writing and recording, similar […]

Sleater Kinney, who recently announced their new album No Cities to Love will come out 1/20/15 have announced a second run of U.S. shows to keep with up with the demand. The new run begins in April in Dallas and ends in May. — Sleater-Kinney — 2015 Tour Dates (new U.S. dates in bold) 02-08-15 […]

Back in 2009 we launched a column here at Glide Magazine called Vinyl Lives. The column was dedicated to a deep love of record collecting and the tendency of that love to turn into an obsession. It was also focused on the resurgence of vinyl as the most optimal platform for ingesting music in the […]

Widespread Panic has announced the first leg of Spring Tour 2015! Kicking off in Boise, the band will travel west with stops in Spokane, Seattle, Portland, three nights in Oakland, two in Los Angeles and wrapping up with two shows at the Joint in Las Vegas. The band has also announced that it will headline […]

It might be correct, with all due respect, to call author/historian Dennis McNally the Zelig of contemporary culture, except that he doesn’t just appear in pivotal situations of paradigm shift to immerse himself in his surroundings to merely observe. Instead he recounts what he sees with a discerning eye from a perspective all his own. […]