Posts by Mac Lockett

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Modern Nature – “Brigade” Jack Cooper’s stints with Mazes and Ultimate Painting have developed their own little middle-aged birdwatcher following but his most recent work with Modern Nature has been notably overlooked. Island of Noise hones Cooper’s spacier side, […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide will drop caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Jake Xerxes Fussell – “Breast of Glass” It’s hard to write a folk song, and “Breast of Glass” is not exactly a perfect entry, but it does what it should do, place a simple melody over a simple, […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide will drop caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. FKA Twigs – “Careless (feat. Daniel Caesar)” The obvious choice here would be “Tears in the Club”, the Arca produced, Weeknd featuring banger; but instead let’s go with “Careless”, a softer Tobias Jesso Jr. penned track. Daniel Caesar […]

It’s hard to think of another musician as consistent as Elvis Costello. Given, that probably has more to do with his 45-year-old discography than it does the quality of each independent release, but regardless, he remains, unlike many musicians of his generation, an artist to watch. Only two other artists have been as prolific over […]

When people began noticing Courtney Barnett, they noticed her singing. They noticed her dry wit and her evocative lyrics, and they noticed her sprechgesang, the way everything she sang came off almost as narration. People then inevitably compared her to Lou Reed, something that Barnett has inevitably pushed back on, to the point where when […]

Adam Granduciel’s work with The War on Drugs began earnestly as what would essentially be a Kurt Vile Collaboration. Their first record, 2008s Wagonwheel Blues blended the two’s, then more complimentary, styles together to make for some spacey guitar ambience, a sound that Granduciel brought to its natural endpoint on his next record, 2011s Slave […]

Meg Duffy is known for a particular kind of soft melodicism, crafting their last two albums with the prowess of an adept multi-instrumentalist, and fine-tuning their work down to their most minimalist kernels. Duffy’s Hand Habits moniker has always served a particularly personal role, giving them a chance to emerge from behind the countless touring […]

After hearing The Lamb, Lala Lala’s 2018 breakout, it was hard to imagine what Lillie West would do next. That album was an effectively straightforward, scaled-back, indie rock record, one that could have been seriously hampered by here cliched indie vocals. Instead, West delivered on the promises of her debut, presenting a string of hyper-melodic, […]

Sarah Tudzin started out in production and engineering, exerting her influence all over the alt-landscape, even contributing to the original Hamilton soundtrack, all before she tried her hand at songwriting. By 2018, she had released the debut from her project Illuminati Hotties, Kiss Yr Frenemies, one of that year’s best, and became a sort of […]

Jose Gonzalez, the son of two Argentinian refugees, was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, and like many musicians in Sweden, he writes the bulk of his music in English. That being the case, it’s surprising that Local Valley, his fourth solo studio album, is the first to feature songs sung in all three of those languages. […]

Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker sound like the names of a couple of early nineties shoegazers, and effectively that’s how they were regulated when they first started touring. In the shadow of the burgeoning grunge movement, their band Low sounded like a quieter and more contemplative side project from someone like Slowdive, a precursor especially […]

For over two decades Devendra Banhart has been collaborating with multi-instrumentalist Noah Georgeson, who in turn ended up producing most of his albums. But on their newest project, both musicians wrote and recorded their parts separately at the height of the pandemic before combining them into a single product. This earned Georgeson top billing, but […]

New York synth-pop group Caveman had to self-release their first album, 2011’s CoCo Beware – but it wasn’t long before word of mouth brought that album a rerelease on Fat Possum. By 2013, its follow-up the self-titled Caveman had begun to make big waves in the indie world. Its title proving apt as the band […]

Lucy Dacus, the young singer-songwriter phenom and one part of supergroup boygenius, has never been afraid to open herself up to the world. Perhaps even more than her fellow heart-on-their-sleeve band members, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers, Dacus has built her first two albums around visceral and often voyeuristic honesty. Home Video is nothing different, […]

As the summer concert season approaches and vaccination rates improve across the country; bars, restaurants and venues are beginning to return to their pre-COVID capacities. Regardless, it’s never been more important to stay up to date on the quickly changing standards for public safety in whichever way you enjoy live music. As of May 14th, […]

After two albums and a bestselling book fixating on her mother’s death, Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) is ready to focus on herself, and she has a lot to be happy about. So far that death has haunted her discography; Zauner’s debut Psychopomp came out back in 2016, in the midst of her mother’s death, and […]

It’s hard to call anything progressive-rock these days. The term carries with it more baggage than just about any genre, evoking elaborate costumes, giant drum sets, and armadillo tanks. Even during its resurgence in the 90s, bands like The Mars Volta and Porcupine Tree pushed against those stereotypes enough that it was hard to even […]

As part of the rollout for Damien Jurado’s personal record label, Maraqopa Records, he is releasing a new album, one that, like creating a label, marks a revitalization for the singer-songwriter. That, along with the death of frequent producer/collaborator Richard Swift has led Jurado towards a different, more tempered period in his discography.  The Monster […]

Iceage has never had a formula, a rarity for most bands dabbling in post-punk these days. Instead, the Copenhagen quartet has pushed themselves to be more adventurous on each release, stubbornly insisting on distancing themselves from the sound that made them famous. In the process, the band has released four critically acclaimed albums, each record […]

Dawn Richard’s career has been defined by her evolution. From her earnest beginnings as a cast member and eventual winner of Diddy’s Making The Band reality show and eventual pop success with her fellow contestants as Danity Kane, Richards has been poised for reinvention ever since. Even as her band’s success dwindled and the group […]