Posts by Glide

Steven Feifke is a GRAMMY Award winning bandleader, composer, and arranger. He is one of the most in-demand jazz artists in the world today. The upcoming release of Catalyst (out June 16th via La Reserve / Bandstand Presents) will be his sixth album in two years. Catalyst debuts nearly a half-dozen new compositions, and several […]

In a world filled with overproduced and underwritten country music, it’s always a breath of fresh air to hear a singer-songwriter as authentic and sincere as Tommy Goodroad. In his new single “Goodbye for Good,” he shows just what a genuine approach to Americana music in 2023 can sound like. He sings over a simple and […]

“Quiet Thrills” is an apt title for Buck St. Thomas’ new roaming indie-fueled single. Opening with a simple, buzzy, and slightly dissonant guitar line reminiscent of early Modest Mouse and landing right into a quiet and emotive vocal delivery that’s almost Elliot Smith-esque. As the song moves on though it’s easy to hear that Thomas has […]

As Night Beats, Texas-born, LA-based artist Danny Lee Blackwell creates music like one might assemble a puzzle. The Western psychedelic auteur builds his work from one moment, an initial spark, that must fit a certain criteria: it must give him goosebumps. If that sensation arrives, Blackwell will pursue the idea relentlessly until he has a […]

Sam Blasucci‘s (one half of the Cali roots rock duo Mapache) debut solo album Off My Stars arrives June 2 on Innovative Leisure, the LP is infused with an honest, personal perspective about settling into adult life—about developing as a person and a partner and a family member—it’s a record with classic songbook sparkle inspired just as much by the […]

Riot Fest has announced a stacked 2023 line-up, featuring headliners Foo Fighters, The Cure, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, and Queens of the Stone Age. This stellar array of top-billed talent will be rounded out by Turnstile, The Mars Volta, Mr. Bungle, Tegan and Sara, 100 Gecs, The Gaslight Anthem, Death Grips, AFI […]

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Liz Phair’s beloved debut record, Exile In Guyville, which was first released on June 22, 1993 via Matador. An 18-track double album loosely framed as a song-by-song reply to The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St., Exile In Guyville was dubbed a classic upon arrival. The album’s profile […]

In the realm of shamefully underrated singer-songwriters, Malcolm Holcombe has to be near the top of every list. The Western North Carolina lifer is truly the real deal with his genuine vibrato filled with explosive anguish and hard-traveled grit. And that grit took another step as he recently battled cancer and is now a survivor.  […]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce their new double LP album, PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation, out June 16th on KGLW, and present its lead single/video, “Gila Monster.” PetroDragonic Apocalypse, King Gizzard’s 24th album, is where the moon becomes full and their gnarly lycanthrope-selves take control again. It […]

Following 2022’s Lucifer on the Sofa, Spoon will now go the short EP route. Out digitally on June 13, Memory Dust features three new Spoon recordings – the original songs “Sugar Babies” and “Silver Girl,” plus a cover of Bo Diddley’s “She’s Fine, She’s Mine.” These aren’t b-sides. The recordings began during sessions for Spoon’s Grammy-nominated album, Lucifer […]

“Let’s just say I live in a very different Jersey than Springsteen’s Jersey.” J Hacha De Zola speaks with authority about the reality that he knows better than anyone who may mythologize his home state through the songs of The Boss. “With this album, I want to anchor myself as being from ‘Dirty Jerzee,’ he […]

Steve Earle’s 8th Annual John Henry Benefit for The Keswell School was delayed this past December and finally took place on Monday, May 18th at the luxurious Town Hall in New York City.  This year saw a change to the program as no longer would the Dukes back up his special guests (as Earle said, […]

Strap in for a straight-up two-minute twenty rocker from Chicago’s Joe McGuire on his new track “Gentleman of the Bedchamber.” It’s a thing of beauty to hear songwriters putting this kind of raw energy with a catchy melodic sensibility into songs these days. Too often bands will lean into one side or the other and forget […]

Sometimes you’re struck by a song that is just what pop is meant for; Angel Abaya’s new single “I Don’t Need a Boyfriend” will give you all the sonically soothing production and clean catchy vocals you could ask for. The writing is engaging without feeling like its whole purpose is to keep you up at night with […]

Texas born, Portland-based songwriter Laith doesn’t want to dissect his songs, and he doesn’t want to tell you what to make of them either.  Raised by the sprawling suburban hurricane beyond Houston, Laith grew up in a close-knit neighborhood where he could knock on his cousins’ door, or take a short drive to see his grandparents […]

Margo Cilker has announced her highly anticipated sophomore LP Valley Of Heart’s Delight), and album opener “Lowland Trail” is streaming everywhere today. Set to release on September 15 via Fluff & Gravy Records (Loose Music in the UK/EU), the upcoming record sees Cilker return with the same group of collaborators (and a few additions) as […]

Grandaddy have announced a 20th anniversary salute to their breakthrough third LP, 2003’s Sumday.  Sumday Twunny, a limited edition 4-LP boxed set, will be released on September 1 via Dangerbird Records. The collection includes the remastered original album as well as a complete 4-track demo version titled Sumday: The Cassette Demos, and a 13-song set of rarities and B-Sides […]

Rodney Rice knows just how to capture the fleeting glimmers of an emotional moment in life and turn them into songs that evoke our own feelings of despair and hope, loss and love. Rice delivers his lyrics with a knowing nod and wink and a twinkle of the eye to the difficulties we encounter in […]

The new release from Canada’s Elephant Stone “The Imajinary, Nameless Everybody In The World” is an odyssey that’s worth every second of its nearly 8-minute run time. Opening with a harmonic vocally driven sound drawing from CSNY and vaulting into a sound reminiscent of a deep-cut Grateful Dead studio track all before getting even a quarter […]

Go By Ocean is the Marin County, CA based musical project led by singer-songwriter Ryan McCaffrey. The band has featured an array of talented musicians from the indie rock and improvised music scene, who have all come together to help bring McCaffrey’s sublime songs to life.  “Should Have Known” has Marin County sounds painted all […]