Posts by Glide

Lockn’ 2014 has announced performances by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Wilco, Phil Lesh & Friends, Bob Weir & Ratdog,  and a one-of-a-kind collaboration with Widespread Panic and Steve Winwood. Confirmed to play two shows, this will be Wilco’s only festival appearance in 2014. This will also be Lesh’s lone festival appearances in 2014. The […]

Eric Clapton has often stated that JJ Cale is one of the single most important figures in rock history, a sentiment echoed by many of his fellow musicians.  Cale’s influence on Clapton was profound, and his influence on many more of today’s artists cannot be overstated.   To honor JJ’s legacy, a year after his passing, […]

Mastodon has announced details about their upcoming new album, their first since 2011’s The Hunter. The band’s sixth album will be called, Once More ‘Round The Sun, and will be released by Reprise Records on June 24th. It was recorded in Nashville with Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, who is known for his work with […]

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, The Bottom Dollars are that rock and roll band you keep imagining when you say “damn, there’s no good rock bands left today.” Their gravelly vocals, musical chops, hard tale lyrics, booming drums along with a mysterious bottom line give these Bottom Dollars some mighty clout. The Bottom Dollars recently released their […]

Damon Albarn will be making his way from Governor’s Ball to Bonnaroo this June and is pleased to confirm some new U.S. stops in between. In additional to his previously announced festival dates, Damon will headline New York’s Irving Plaza followed by stops in Boston, Baltimore, Raleigh and Atlanta. A limited number of Damon Albarn […]

[rating=6.00] Cope, the fourth full-length album by Manchester Orchestra, finds the Atlanta rockers at their loudest and most bombastic. From start to finish, the collection is wall to wall guitar crunch and dropped-D power chords. It abandons the experimentation of 2011’s Simple Math, opting for straightforward arena rock while eschewing the nuance that made the […]

Samuel L Cool J features a various cast of musicians hailing from the wonderful Phoenix area: Gospel Claws, Through and Through Gospel Review, Ladylike, Wooden Indian, Programming Hiro and Mergence. Formed by the versatile Joel Marquard and front-man vocalist Haendel Balzora, the retro soul outfit combines Motown, Staxx, Do-wop, rock and pop into a “Happy” […]

Neil Young will release a CD, digital album and a Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set of his recent vinyl album A Letter Home on Reprise Records on May 27th. The box set is a beautifully packaged expanded version of the vinyl edition first released on February 21stby Jack White’s Third Man Records. The Limited Edition […]

Fresh off their much-buzzed about performances at Coachella (the second of which featured Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong), The Replacements announced today their long-anticipated homecoming show at St. Paul’s Midway Stadium on Saturday, September 13, 2014. While the band has recently been performing at a few select festivals across the nation, their show at Midway […]

It was noted today on the band’s facebook page  that founding member/vocalist/mandolinist Jeff Austin will be leaving Younder Mountain String Band effective immediately.  What must come as a shock to the fans and the band themselves, YMS will continue on with fellow founding members Adam Aijala (guitar, vocals), Ben Kaufmann (bass, vocals), David Johnston (banjo, […]

Nikki Nack – the new album from tUnE-yArDs – is out in less than two weeks, and to coincide with their first show with Arcade Fire, they have just premiered the album’s first video for ‘Water Fountain.’

Boston Calling has announced its September 2014 lineup, which will take place September 5, 6 and 7, 2014 at the city’s historic City Hall Plaza [One City Hall Square, Boston, Massachusetts]. After playing to a sold out crowd at the inaugural Boston Calling last May, The National is back to headline and joining them at the […]

FREEMAN represents a new beginning-Aaron Freeman’s first album of original material since disbanding Ween and getting sober-but it isn’t a record mired in its maker’s private struggles. It’s simply a collection of gorgeous, subtly offbeat songs-in other words, a continuation of the thread that runs through the entire Ween catalog. The lush psychedelic pop of […]

The annual Austin City Limits Music Festival has lined up an interesting mixed set of headliners for its 13th installment. Eminem, Pearl Jam, Outkast, Skrillex, Beck, Calvin Harris, Lana Del Rey, F the Replacements and hometowners Spoon are all set to headline the multi-day fest, which will take place from October 3rd to the 5th […]

Paul McCartney is far from slowing down at 71. His upcoming Out There 2014 world tour will now feature five more U.S. dates: * Paul will return to Chicago July 9 at the United Center, his first appearance in the Windy City since the legendary 2011 Wrigley Field doubleheader, a tour de force that moved the * July […]

Following the weekend two Sunday night main stage closing set at this year’s Coachella festival, Arcade Fire has confirmed two new Los Angeles headline shows, August 1 and 2 at The Forum. Local and Facebook Pre-Sale is April 24th from 10am-10pm PST. General On-Sale is April 26th at 10am PST.  

Coldplay have announced that they will mark the release of their new album, Ghost Stories, by playing six intimate shows in six cities around the world. The dates are as follows: 25 April – E-Werk, Cologne, Germany 5 May – Beacon Theatre, New York, USA 19 May – Royce Hall, Los Angeles, USA 28 May […]

Mayer Hawthorne has joined forces with longtime friend and collaborator 14KT for Jaded Inc. The duo has premiered their track “People Change” off their upcoming album, The Big Knock (below). “People Change is one of the songs that set off the whole Jaded Inc. project,” says Mayer Hawthorne.  “I imagine it’s what having sex with […]

Veruca Salt recently broke the news of their epic reunion and Record Store Day release on April 19th, a 10-inch which will include their first new material in over fourteen years. On Tuesday the band announced a U.S. tour, during which the band will perform together with all four original members for the first time […]

Record Store Day falls right on Easter weekend this year. But in lieu of that rigged egg hunt your family forces you to participate in every year, vinyl hounds across America will be spending their Holy Saturday combing the cramped aisles of their favorite brick-and-mortar record store in search of the cornucopia of exclusives being […]