Posts by Glide

As the narrator in the video below declares, “This bands been called the loudest band in the world,” it’s hard to argue that anyone topped Deep Purple at the time. Between Jon Lord’s howling Hammond organ, Ritchie Blackmore’s blistering riffs and leads, and Ian Paice’s thunderous drums, the band pushed volume and intensity to new […]

There are few road warriors in American music quite like Steve Earle. In 2026, the singer, songwriter, author, actor, and activist will once again lace up his boots and head out on an ambitious North American run dubbed Steve Earle: Fifty One Years of Songs and Stories. Spanning more than 70 dates across the U.S. […]

Portland’s own Alela Diane has long occupied a singular space in contemporary folk—equal parts hushed intimacy and emotional gravity. On May 22, she returns with her seventh album, Who’s Keeping Time?, arriving via Fluff & Gravy Records and Loose Music. The record finds Diane tracing the fragile threads between grief and community, solitude and collaboration, […]

District Five is a four-piece band from Zurich, Switzerland. The multi-instrumentalists have been meeting in the rehearsal room and beyond for over ten years, reflecting on themselves, their friendship, their influences, and their experiences in their music. The result is a work that keeps on moving. Sometimes closer to jazz, sometimes pop, sometimes further away […]

Caleb L’Etoile makes music like ghost stories — vivid and impossible to shake. The Virginia-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist blends art pop with DIY punk energy, wrapping melody around lyrics that are equal parts grief and humor, strange and deeply personal. Influenced by Arthur Russell, mewithoutYou, Modest Mouse, and The Armed, his sound shifts shape […]

Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Karen Dahlstrom arrived at folk music the long way around. Raised on show choirs and jazz ensembles, she built her early voice around the precision of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, earning attention as a gifted soloist. But a preoccupation with technique eventually led her to step away from singing for much of […]

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser, and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. On catalog highlights including 2020’s Auto and the 2024 free-jazz sprawler […]

Since First Day Of Spring’s inception, the London-formed group has worked as a vehicle for creative exploration in their previous releases. After what at times has seemed like a continual interchange of members, the band’s current arrangement has informed their sonic output and heightened their shift in sound, resulting further in their unyielding artistic intent. […]

Phish has unveiled plans for their Summer Tour ‘26. The newly announced dates include a return to Boston, MA’s historic Fenway Park for a two-night run (July 31-August 1), and five shows at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (July 22, 24, 25, 27, 29). These will be show numbers 92, 93, 94, 95, and 96 at The Garden since making […]

There are only a handful of artists who can speak to the moment just before their star starts to rise. Is it the fulfilling spectacle of years of hard work culminating in a dream come true, or simply a reminder that the journey is just beginning? Does a musician even sense that stardom is around […]