Posts by Glide

When speaking of San Francisco these days, it seems like it is stereotypically presented as either a city full of young tech nomads lining up for artisanal coffee, or as a blighted, urban hellscape of fentanyl zombies and street crime. But with his sixth solo album 24th Street Blues (due out October 6th), Tom Heyman […]

There we were messing around with our favorite toys in our parent’s basements, and then here we are again years later sifting through those very same items packed away in boxes. This time, though, they’re just souvenirs from a bygone era stuffed in a storage container. Singer-songwriter Rose Gerber’s latest release, the four-song EP Memories […]

Annie Schultz is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Olympia, WA. In recent years, Schultz has established themself in the Olympia scene, routinely sharing bills with local and touring acts and playing both solo acoustic and full band sets. “Wave”, the latest track from Annie Schultz, lands as a stunning sound collage full of movement and […]

Flashback to the Bay Area music scene of 1993 when a young, wildly talented, and curiously dressed group of kids from Santa Cruz might have just had a shot at having their names etched into the alt-punk history books. The Cast-Iron Canaries were their name and unless you lived in the Bay Area in the […]

Any festival-goer has most likely heard Bend, Oregon’s Jeshua Marshall – even if they don’t know it. With 18 years of experience writing, playing, singing, and touring original music with Larry And His Flask, and as a solo artist, he has performed in every state in the U.S., every province in Canada, 15 countries in […]

Minnesota-based singer/songwriter Tony Cuchetti is following his debut album, Hid It On The Sly (2020), and performance album, Live From Drum Farm Studio (2020), with 2023’s Freer Street, a collection of original songs punctuated by a couple of beloved cover tunes. Cuchetti returned to home turf at Drum Farm Studio in Menomonie, WI to record, […]

While OSEES continually gets caught up in the race for the world’s most prolific band alongside Guided by Voices, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and Ty Segall; there is no denying this San Francisco band might lead the quality-over-quantity race. John Dwyer and his cohorts recently announced details for their forthcoming LP, Intercepted Message, due August […]

The ’70s blues guitar rock energy of Humble Pie, Free, and Rory Gallagher blast to the surface when listening to American Restless’ self-described “Rust Belt Rock and Roll.” This Racine, WI-based band trio hones some legit chops in their growling package that is strikingly vintage. With their debut, Rust Belt Rock N Roll on San […]

Built on a cutting and cool guitar riff, Sarah Crean sings with a welcoming embrace, delivering a poetic and focused new alt-rock single on, “Wasted Youth”. In the second single from the forthcoming EP, Death By Laundry, Crean is a confident and collected, gifted young Irish artist with a clear penchant for hooky alt-rock design and lyrical brilliance.  “Wasted Youth […]

Matilda Mann seemingly can do no wrong. Her keen ability for harmonious lyrical design and rich melodies, paired with her delicate, yet self-assured vocal touch, is a soothing and welcoming sound. On a recent EP release, “You Look Like You Can’t Swim,” Matilda gifts us with a Wes Anderson-inspired video full of light and color and handsomely staged scenes, paired with the song, it’s a joyous occasion for her ever-growing international fanbase.  […]

Check out the sunny new single, “Sand, Salt Crystals” from Bay Area/Nashville-based Jeff Moller. Riding on the wave of tasteful guitar riffs and a rock-steady low-end groove, Moller croons with a smooth and laid-back vocal approach. Reminiscent of a 70’s sun-laden Beach Boys cut with modern flair, Moller has a certain warmth in his voice that really […]

A songwriter with a gift for whimsical melodies, breezy productions, and introspective lyricism, Dakota Theim has been a mainstay on the Portland indie underground for years. His sound is largely inspired by the golden age of FM radio, laden with sunny harmonies and blissed-out guitars. With his latest releases, he is exploring new sonic territory […]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is very proud to share the initial lineup for its upcoming return to San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Park from Friday September 29-Sunday October 1. Now in its 23rd year, the free music festival will once again present a truly eclectic bill of top performers spanning an array of genres, including Jason Isbell and […]

Animal Collective will release their new studio album Isn’t It Now? on September 29th via Domino. The quartet of Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist recorded Isn’t It Now? with the Grammy-winning producer Russell Elevado (D’Angelo, The Roots, Kamasi Washington), who co-produced and mixed the album. Animal Collective’s structure has long been that of a playground, an open space for exercising and indulging new […]

 Acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitar virtuoso Daniel Donato is set to release his highly-anticipated third album Reflector on November 10th via Retrace Music. Reflector is Donato’s first collection of all original material and a true representation of the continuously evolving musical space he has carved out for himself, which he calls cosmic country. Listen to his new track and album opener “Lose […]

Glen Hansard is set to release his fifth solo record ‘All That Was East Is West Of Me Now’ on October 20. It will mark the singer songwriters first record in over four years and follows a period that found Hansard moving between collaborative work with Eddie Vedder and Cat Power to live performances with The Frames and Markéta […]

Psychedelic singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Anton Barbeau has always been prolific. Since 1993, the California-born artist has released over 30 albums and countless singles, EPs, anthologies, and collaborative works. The songs on Barbeau’s forthcoming record Morgenmusik/Nachtschlager are culled from three feverish writing sessions. In 2022, Barbeau made two trips to Berlin, where he’d lived for […]

Anna Tivel’s recently announced new album Outsiders (Live in a Living Room) is an intimate acoustic duo re-recording of her widely acclaimed 2022 release. It’s due out on August 18 via Mama Bird Recording Co (Haley Heynderickx, Damien Jurado). Tivel delivers beauty, grace, and tactile vulnerability on her new single, “Invisible Man” from her forthcoming album, Outsiders (Live in […]

When Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mali Velasquez traded her Texas panhandle home for the verdant foothills of Tennessee, she did so with a newfound perspective that mirrored her environment, culminating in the lushly raw edge of her folk-rooted indie rock. Wistfully openhearted and incisive, Velasquez tips the fulcrum between reflection and remedy with melody-forward unction and lyrical […]

Phish will play two special shows at the Broadview Stage at SPAC (Saratoga Performing Arts Center) in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 25 and 26, 2023. The concerts will benefit Vermont and Upstate New York flood recovery efforts. Communities throughout the region were inundated earlier this month with historic levels of rain and major flooding. In 2011, Phish performed […]