For two weekends every year now, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA has not only become a musical festival but a trendy mecca for the H & M/American Apparel/Urban
[rating=7.00] Despite what may be assumed, Mozes and the Firstborn are not a 90’s band from Seattle. The young group of friends hail from Eindhoven, Netherlands, and consist of singer, Melle
[rating=6.00] Similar to the start of a one-night stand, Michael Ian Cummings met Josh Hubbard in 2011 at a party on a summer night in Los Angeles. Contrary to most
POND share three of their six members with notable Aussie psych band, Tame Impala. Fans of either band will no doubt love the other, yet the bands remain separate in sound, energy, and approach. Similarities and differences accounted for, both bands are talented and are making names for themselves world-wide. Glide caught up with guitarist, Jay Watson, before POND opened for Oberhofer…
The cinematic, vintage appeal of The Glorious Dead is what makes The Heavy's latest offering worth digging into, but it's also a record with too many missed opportunities to make it a great offering.
Blonds come across loose- like they only care half as much as they should, but it works for them in some blasé, cool factor, lo-fi lovers, garage lust way. Their elongated vocals and slow beats create a sound similar to Beach House. There is also some modern ambition and grunge of the Dum Dum Girls. The past is a prominent influence in The Bad Ones. The duo draw on 1930's histrionics, '40's jazz, '50's poise, some old Southern backbone, and '60's motown. In short, Blonds is a pair of old souls living in a modern world making music for the artsy, the cynical lovers, and all those scheming dreamers.
On Peasant's new album, Bound For Glory, Damien DeRose puts together some solid acoustic folk pieces. Though the album as a whole, and in comparison to his previous ones, remains static, it is still able to provoke a feeling parallel to hot, lazy summer days, sepia colors, and tumble weeds.
It is a trance-rap record full of cadence and soul, but one that might seem unappealing to the many who would otherwise embrace this type of avant-garde experimentation.
Glide Magazine had staff writer Gabriella Librizzi cover the first weekend (April 13-15), so for anyone wanting to relive the weekend or prepare for the second go-around, enjoy her in-depth look at the favorites from the weekend.
Even though Young Hines might easily be presumed as just a clever stage name, it is in fact this band leader’s own name, given to him on account of him being the youngest of seven children. After listening to Give Me My Change and hearing the striking range of Hines' voice, it comes as no surprise to learn that he was once John Lennon in a Beatles cover band called The Roaches.
