Posts by Glide

Mastodon have announced they will reissue all of their Reprise Records titles on vinyl in the coming months. The first album in the series will be 2006’s Blood Mountain, which will be issued on a mix of solid yellow and transparent green vinyl on March 3rd. On June 2nd, 2009’s Crack the Skye will be […]

Tedeschi Trucks Band are among the signature acts to bring their fire and spirit to the Lockn’ Music Festival. After performing at Lockn’ in 2013 and 2014, they’ll be back in September for year three, which makes them the ideal artists to launch a new music venue in a natural amphitheater setting at the festival […]

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. R&B/soul singer D’Angelo‘s return to the forefront continued with two performances on Saturday Night Live.   The String Cheese […]

[rating=6.00] There is a fine line between homage and all out copying of style. There are only so many notes you can play and of course pop music has filtered things down even more, but on Moonlight – Hanni El Khatib’s third release –  that dangerous line is blurred to the point of detriment. El […]

For the release of his 11th solo studio album, titled No Pier Pressure, Brian Wilson has returned to Capitol Records, his original label home with The Beach Boys.  The album will be released April 7 in standard 13-track and deluxe 16-track editions, each available on CD and digitally, as well as a 16-track 2LP edition […]

AWOLNATION have announced the release of their new studio album titled Run (Red Bull Records) on March 17, the highly anticipated follow-up to their chart-topping debut Megalithic Symphony.  The band recently completed an official music video for “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)” that can now be viewed below. An extensive U.S. summer tour will announced shortly, […]

Ever since the infamous Nipple Gate fiasco at Super Bowl XXXVIII, the NFL has made it a point to occupy the Halftime Show of its biggest night with well established, universally regarded acts that have ranged from U2 to the Rolling Stones to Prince to Paul McCartney to The Who to Tom Petty and the […]

Tucson Arizona’s Calexico are returning with the follow-up to 2012’s Algiers and the 2013 live album Spiritoso. Their ninth studio full length recording is called Edge of the Sun  and is due out April 14th via Anti-/City Slang and it features collaborations with Neko Case, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell, DeVotchka’s Nick Urata, Gaby Moreno, […]

After the surprise announcement that they will be playing next to the likes of Tyler the Creator, Kaskade and Bad Religion at Coachella this April, that pink elephant on the lineup bill – Steely Dan- have announced a series of shows that surround their two Coachella weekend appearances. The band led by Walter Becker and […]

This morning Forecastle Music Festival dropped the first round of artists playing the annual event in Louisville, KY on July 17-19. As per usual, the festival features a wide range of acts, offering something for every type of music fan. The lineup announcement comes one day after the festival confirmed a 5-year deal to keep […]

Neko Case will be reissuing her iconic album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood in a limited edition run of red vinyl to commemorate Record Store Day 2015. Neko will be performing in Portland, Oregon on April 18th at Revolution Hall to celebrate the indie record stores that have been so integral to her life and […]

Just when we thought the method of purchasing money orders, decorating envelopes and going to the post office to request tickets might have gone the dated way of the Maxell XLII, we’ve come to find out that over 60,000 mail request envelopes were requested for the Grateful Dead 50 Fare Thee Well concerts in Chicago […]

The definitive Primus line-up – Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander – just reunited to release their first full-length studio set in nearly 20 years, Primus & the Chocolate Factory. Primus swiftly went out on the road the day after the album’s October 21st release. After a run of dates in Europe, […]

Faith No More have confirmed their first North American shows since 2010 with a spring outing kicking off April 15 in Vancouver. The announcement comes as the Bay Area band wraps up work on their follow-up to 1997’s Album of the Year.  The as-of-yet untitled album is due this May via the band’s newly formed […]

After a first year in Danville, Illinois that featured a top notch lineup but was also plagued by poor weather and unhappy campers who got stranded on the way in, Phases of the Moon Festival has announced today that they will be moving locations and be taking place on a new date. In what seems […]

Mark Knopfler will celebrate the release of his new record, Tracker, due March 17 on Verve Records, with a 36-city North American tour that kicks off in Vancouver on September 10 and continues through the end of October. Fans that purchase tickets to ‘An Evening with Mark Knopfler and Band’ online will receive a physical […]

To celebrate the release of his forthcoming album Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens will tour North America beginning in April. The headline dates include stops at New York’s Beacon Theater and Washington, D.C.’s DAR Constitution Hall. Stevens will also headline the U.K.’s End of the Road festival this September. Presale tickets for the U.S. dates […]

Fresh off a January tour that included a powerful hometown show and two lauded sold-out performances at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium, Gregg Allman has announced a spring tour that will take him from Northfield, OH, on March 13 all the way to Austin, TX, on May 9, with stops along the way including the Wanee […]

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. Bonnie Prince Billy debuted the single and video “Blindlessness,” the b-side of his “Mindlessness” 7″ single, available January 27, […]

Arizona’s decker. exceeds both lyrically and musically with their adventurous sound that is not quite definable – and that’s a good thing. Forget the desert and landscapes of their home state, decker. truly captures something imaginative that goes beyond geography. Led by the one-of a kind soulful and edgy vocal styling of Brandon Decker, his […]