Posts by Hannah Means-Shannon

Street Eaters are an Oakland, California-based post-punk rock band who just released their new album, Opaque, via Dirt Cult Records. The record channels a lot of emotion and struggle, and has the climate and feeling that we’re all familiar with these days where police action and immigration raids seem to be the new normal. However, […]

Singer/songwriter, author, and songwriting teacher Dar Williams will be releasing her thirteenth album, Hummingbird Highway, on September 12th, via Righteous Babe Records. She feels that this album, particularly, speaks to her perspectives gained as a touring musician, and within it we encounter many voices and glimpses of human history from various standpoints in time. Something […]

Connecticut-based Indie Rock trio The Problem With Kids Today released their third album, Take It!, on August 22nd, via their own imprint, In The Shed Records. While they have had a full gamut of studio experiences, from small to large, this time around they decided to bring an amenable Producer, Joe LeMieux, into their practice […]

On September 5th, PINES, the new project led by Josh Hight, will release its first EP, titled In His Wake (ORDER). Also a photographer and filmmaker, Hight was born in Detroit, but is currently UK-based, and was formerly a member of the Post-Punk band The Detachment Kit, and also had his own solo project called […]

Indie punk band The Manic Standstill are a relatively new configuration of experienced musicians, including guitarist and vocalist Adam Bones (Save Ferris, Richie Ramone, Josie Cotton, The Two Tens), drummer Brad Dickert, and bassist Eddy Hewitt. They’ve been releasing singles via Wiretap Records/Double Helix leading up to their debut album, Moving, arriving later this year.  […]

Portland-based Chicano Rock artist Joshua Josué has recently released his debut full-length album, Beneath The Sand, via Electric CholoLand Records. Like his live performances and influences, it blends Americana with Latin Folk and Rock ‘n’ Roll. While Josué has been making music for a number of years, this particular collection has a specific focus in […]

On August 22nd , Portland, Oregon-based Indie Rock band Glitterfox will be releasing their debut full-length album, decoder, which was Produced by Chris Funk of The Decemberists, via Jealous Butcher Records. Previously releasing via Kill Rock Stars, Glitterfox is steered by front person Solange Igoa (they/ them) and guitarist Andrea Walker (they/them) who collaborate with […]

On September 12th, singer/songwriter Maia Sharp will be releasing her next solo album, Tomboy, and today she is releasing the powerful single “Only Lucky” exclusively on Glide. Every time that Sharp sets out to create a new record, she considers the terrain of her life and makes sure to bring a new angle to things. […]

UK-based journalist, author, and musician Mark Brend will be releasing Down River: The Search for David Ackles in August via Jawbone Press, and with it will be introducing Ackles’ work to a generation of people who may have never heard of Ackles or his work in music before. His time in the limelight was brief […]

Singer/songwriter and Underground Punk artist Walt Hamburger has released new album …And Louie!, which deviates in part from his previous solo records in that its supported by a raucous full-band sound. Walt Hamburger has recently been on the first leg of his album-supporting tour, and delivering the same songs solo in inventive ways. Hamburger is […]

North Carolinian songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and Producer Chris Stamey’s new album, Anything Is Possible, arrived in multiple formats on July 11th, and he’s been busy with a series of performances bringing the album’s intricate sounds to audiences. It’s almost entirely original content (the outlier is Brian Wilson’s “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder”), […]

The ground-breaking multi-genre collective Fishbone has spent several decades bringing together Ska, Punk, Funk, Soul, Rock, and more, and in late June released a new album titled Stockholm Syndrome. The album very much addresses our times, song by song, speaking to different situations we may ourselves face or merely witness in life, and bringing in […]

British Indie Rock outfit Band of Skulls is celebrating its 15th Anniversary by releasing a limited-edition deluxe box set called Cold Fame, which arrived on June 27th, via Artist Royalties Collective. It closely follows their first North American tour in several years, part of which they played in support of the Australian Rock band Jet. Both events are landmarks for […]

Movie Club are an instrumental Rock duo from Venice Beach, California, who are always coming up with new and inventive ways to explore the possibilities of their music and its intersections with visual and dramatic art. Earlier in June, they released a new EP, titled Black Mamba, that presents three new tracks, recorded and mixed […]

The Whimbrels are a relatively new, New York-area band formed by a notable collection of experienced musicians who will be releasing their self-titled debut album on June 27th. Described as a “power art-rock band”, members include Arad Evans, Norman Westberg, Luke Schwartz, Matt Hunter, and Steve DiBenedetto, whose band credits include Glen Branca’s Ensemble, Swans, […]

On June 20th, longtime New York-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Willie Nile will be releasing his 21st long-playing album, The Great Yellow Light. Steeped in inquisitive songwriting as his albums always are, Nile’s The Great Yellow Light also captures a certain flame of positivity that seems so embattled these days. Far from making positivity sound easy, […]

Colorado-based Alt-Country and Rock band The Gasoline Lollipops released their new album, Kill The Architect, on June 13th. It was produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, recorded at Dockside Studios in Louisiana, and made possible by a massively successful Kickstarter campaign. If all these things sound very positive, you’re right, and add to that the fact […]

Strawberry Fuzz is a long-running Venice Beach, California-based band that started off focusing on Garage Punk Rock and has expanded over time to high-energy explorations of the many avenues of Rock and Punk. Their third record, Miller’s Garage, came out mid-May and boasts a whopping 14 tracks, hailing from older songs that have been show-tested for years and […]

Knox Chandler is known as an instrumentalist, and as a Producer, and arranger. With his new solo release, titled, The Sound, he also brings in his painting and writing to create a multi-media project that takes the form of a book with an accompanying musical download. Memoir-like, The Sound documents Chandler’s encounter with the Connecticut […]

Goth and Glam Rock band The Ritualists released their new album, Too Pure To Cure, in April, and hit the road soon after to deliver the new music to fans. Following their expansion to a wider lineup for the previous album, Baroque & Bleeding, the new album takes a similar tack of pushing the possibilities […]