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Hot Chip will release their sixth album and second for Domino, Why Make Sense?, on May 19th. Recorded in Oxfordshire and London and produced by Hot Chip with Mark Ralph, Why Make Sense? is the band’s follow up to 2012’s critically acclaimed In Our Heads. Watch the below video for the Why Make Sense? album […]

Sound & Color – the follow-up to Alabama Shakes’ Gold-certified debut album, Boys & Girls, which earned the group three GRAMMY® nominations, including a nod for Best New Artist – will be released in North America on April 21 by ATO Records. Rough Trade will release the album in the UK/Europe on April 20. See […]

Following a handful of reunion shows in 2014 including a big homecoming show at Midway Stadium in St. Paul, MN on September 13, which sold out of all 14,000 tickets in less than 15 minutes and playing for 12,000 rowdy New Yorkers at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, The Replacements are back. Their first full […]

Howling Wolves Present has announced the lineup for the eighth annual Purple Hatter’s Ball. Taking place at the famed Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SOSMP) in Live Oak, Florida May 8 – 10, 2015, the three-day music festival benefits The Rachel Morningstar Foundation (a non-profit 501c3 organization) in honor of longtime SOSMP friend and […]

Seattle’s psychedelic rock sextet Rose Windows will release their self-titled second album, the follow up to their acclaimed debut The Sun Dogs, on CD/DL/LP May 4th in Europe and May 5th in North America via Sub Pop. Rose Windows, featuring the highlights “Glory, Glory,” “Strip Mall Babylon,” and “Blind,” was recorded in the fall of […]

As always the Grammy Awards gives props to many of the mainstream artists out there, while overlooking many of the most worthy musicianship of the prior year; we’ll give props to Sam Smith cause the man does have pipes. Although it’s hard to battle the industry dollars that run the Academy, here are some of […]

The Good Shit is a new Glide column which revisits and weeds out the televised and tubed trash of the prior week and highlights the good shit you might have already saw or could have missed. My Morning Jacket played their first shows in over a year at this year’s One Big Holiday, their own […]

AC/DC played their first live performance in 4 years at the Grammy Awards Sunday night with a performance of the title track of its latest album, “Rock Or Bust”, followed by an edited version of the group’s classic song “Highway To Hell”. This was the first performance of the new lineup of the band featuring […]

Chicago, IL’s Molehill doesn’t have the classic, charming origin story of longtime friends chasing down the spirit of rock in a suburban garage; Peter Manhart developed his love for performance in a touring Ukrainian dance troupe in his youth, Trevor Jones is a classical upright bass player, Devin Staples developed his drumming chops on the […]

Coming off a year that saw Spoon conquer the world’s premier venues and festivals, the band has announced a fresh batch of 2015 North American tour dates. Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Rob Pope, Eric Harvey and Alex Fischel will bring their tenacious live act to cities across the US and Canada which include stops at […]

1952, Queens, New York. Young Johnny Genzale is born and raised by his mother and older sister after his father decided to keep on with his wanton ways. Johnny is a cool kid, playing baseball, hanging out with friends. And then he discovers rock & roll and his new aura starts to sprout up like […]

Once again The Peach Music Festival will take place on Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA. Today the organizers dropped a stacked lineup featuring legends like Gregg Allman, Santana, and Bob Weir performing with Bill Kreutzmann’s Billy and the Kids project, Willie Nelsom, and loads of other acts. The Peach Music Festival goes down August 13-16. […]

Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has announced her first solo tour for the spring. The shows begin March 28 at the Big Ears Festival and continue through June, hitting major markets and festivals along the way, including New York City (April 9 @ Town Hall), Chicago (April 23 @ The Vic), and the Bonnaroo […]

UK duo Royal Blood have expanded their upcoming run of live dates in North American beginning this Spring. The NME and Brit Award nominated band has added headlining dates, festival appearances, as well as additional dates supporting Foo Fighters. See below for a complete list of upcoming dates and on-sale information. Royal Blood’s self-titled debut album was released […]

The self-titled debut album from Willie and the Giant is a double shot of vintage rock and soul. The retro-minded Nashville band cut these new songs at all-analog studio Welcome to 1979, where an impressive list of legends and contemporaries have recorded before them—Todd Snider and Dave Schools’ Hard Working Americans, The North Mississippi All-Stars, […]

Following the announcement of Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge in Washington, the team behind DelFest also dropped their lineup today. Like Sasquatch, DelFest takes place Memorial Day weekend (May 21-24). As per usual, the lineup features a bluegrass-centric roster of talent including renowned names like Old Crow Medicine Show, David Grisman, Hot Rize, Leftover Salmon and […]

Kicking off what’s guaranteed to be the best season of “That Metal Show” yet, Rush’s Geddy Lee has been confirmed for the debut episode of VH1 Classic’s centerpiece in original programming. He will be making his second appearance on the acclaimed hard rock/heavy metal talk show, hosted by Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson, and Jim Florentine. […]

The 2015 edition of Sasquatch Festival looks like it will once again be bringing together the hippest of the hip when it comes to indie rock, hip-hop, dance music, folk and more. This year’s lineup features an eclectic mix of big names like Robert Plant, Kendrick Lamar, Modest Mouse, and Lana Del Ray alongside lesser known but […]

Following the release of Complicated Game – out February 24 on Complicated Game Records – acclaimed singer-songwriter James McMurtry will embark on a spring tour around the U.S. that will hit the East Coast, Midwest, and parts of the South. Complicated Game is highly anticipated, as it is the Texas artist’s first new album in six years. According […]

Young Fathers just announced their latest album White Men Are Black Men Too, out April 7 on Big Dada. The UK-based trio follows their 2014 Mercury Prize-winning album DEAD with an adventurous 12-track set written and recorded throughout 2014 while they were touring around the world, and then completed at their studio in Edinburgh. “”Rain […]