Posts by Andrew Quist

For all the adversity Wolf Jett has faced, they have earned the right to musically brood in their new releases. No one would blame them for putting out dark, moody jams that might make us listeners count our blessings and consider how lucky we are. When a 2020 wildfire wiped out the band’s newly minted […]

Greg Loiacono & Stingray have released “Nothing Can Come Between Us,” (below) a reimagining of the classic Sade song. Over the last two years, the Northern California–based collective has been steadily building a following throughout the region, fine-tuning a retro soul sound that makes reinterpreting Sade a natural extension of their musical identity. A lone […]

The release announcement came days following, perhaps, the most acrimonious presidential election in American history. Americans were at their most divided. But, here came ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) with their Frames announcement. Those of us who know this band had a chance to pause in the uncertainty and heave a sigh. This was the best […]

Piet Dalmolen has spent the past fifteen years gigging with other bands and playing covers.  Sure, it was good to have the work, but these gigs did not feed a necessary creative fire and it’s been a long dry spell since he made his own music. That has now changed. Feeling inspired to dive back […]

You can’t thow a stick these days without hitting a band that says they bend genres into a potent stew of original sound that sets them apart from everybody else. At this point, it’s almost cliche. BUT . . . Santa Cruz, California’s Wolf Jett smashes that cliche to bits with their masterful command of […]

If there is one thing that you can hang your hat on, one thing in this world by which you can set your watch it is that ALO will ALWAYS deliver a solid performance. By rights, as they wheeled into Santa Cruz’s Moe’s Alley this past Friday, not only was it their 17th consecutive Tour […]

Kareeta’s sophomore record, Freeway Junkie Queen is an album that anyone that listens and enjoys Widespread Panic needs to check out not because it sounds just like WSP but it certainly shares similar sensibilities. In fact, Dave Schools plays bass on the album and Jerry Joseph has a guest spot on backing vocals as well. […]

Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) high stepped into the Fillmore in San Francisco this past Saturday, March 23rd, not only because this night was chosen as the celebration of their 25th anniversary as a band, and not just because the vaunted room was completely sold out.

The best shows, though, turn a Monday night into a Friday night we will never forget. That is what The Wood Brothers did this past Monday night, February 6, at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz,

The Mother Hips have roared into 2023 with, When We Disappear, their eleventh release as a band, and their third with the label Blue Rose Music.

Wolf Jett’s new single “Broken” (below) is a beautiful balance of dark and light. The song celebrates life’s rebuilding following one of those knockdowns we can all understand.

Nine months after 2021’s Glowing Lantern sessions, the wax still warm on the vinyl presses, The Mother Hips moved from their digs at 25th Street Recorders in Oakland, California, and were headed to Jono Manson’s Kitchen Sink Studio in New Mexico to begin work on their next LP, When We Disappear. This is a rapid […]

Greg Loiacono’s second single, “Giving It All Away”,  the title track from his forthcoming third solo record exhibits a real depth of collaboration not only through the musicians he played with on the track but also that his son, Noah Loiacono, created the accompanying video with his partner Isaac Goff and their friend Pheobe Zheng […]

The sonic gut-punch of Mike Clark and The Sugar Sounds’ title track from their latest release Moon Rock materializes out of an unsettling psychedelic cloud layer. The wind picks up with pounding drums, bass, and organ chords. You look out, survey the musical landscape in front of you and something is just . . . […]

Mike Clark and the Sugar Sounds’ first single “Warm Me Up” from their forthcoming LP Moon Rock  (due for release on March 11th) dropped on February 14th and for good reason: the sweet, little Soul number fit the Valentine’s Day vibe just right. Now, the band’s second single, “Moon Rock ” has arrived. And just […]

You ever heard of Mike Clark? No? Really? It’s okay, you’re reading this and your situation is about to be remedied. Mike Clark is a Colorado guy. He’s a member of The Haunted Windchimes (heard of them? No? Fix that) and leads a band called The River Arkansas. The Windchimes are rooted in honey soaked […]

For the next however long it takes for me to write this, I have the unenviable task of trying to describe the ethereal – to put into words musical moods that eschew a label. The last hour has found me trying to formulate the sentences only to be stymied by the impossibility of what lies […]

For the last twelve months, Glide Magazine has covered the storied but woefully underappreciated thirty-year musical career of The Mother Hips. We have spent that time looking back at a band as it teetered on commercial success, slid into darkness, and then picked itself back up by the bootstraps and forged ahead into what would […]

The alt-country scene has a new band busting into the genre. Kareeta’s roots run deep into the red clay of the south and their music rises up like early morning mists hanging over a delta swamp, serene in moments but portending blackwater depth. And that music can strike with the power of a cottonmouth through […]

As The Mother Hips’ 30th anniversary year begins to wind down, there continues to be so much to be happy about if you are a fan of this band. Late this summer and then in the fall, the band re-released three more of their albums on vinyl. First was 2009’s Pacific Dust, then 2013’s Behind […]