Posts by Mark Pursell

In 2014, upon Christine McVie’s announcement that she would be returning to Fleetwood Mac after many years away, Glide writer, Mark Pursell wrote an impressive list story about Christine McVie’s contributions to the band. With her sudden death today at age 79 (11/30) now is a good time to revisit the brilliant musician/songwriter/vocalist’s contributions that made her British twang so beloved…

In the five years since Elly Jackson’s debut album under the La Roux, moniker, she’s clearly gone through a bit of a transition.

If the lyric from “Oysters” of “working my way back to me again” was a goal and creative impetus for this project, one can say without reservation—imperfect as the record is—that Tori Amos has succeeded.

Lykke Li’s new album “I Never Learn” manages the contradictory feat of lingering in your mind without sonically overstaying its welcome.

You wouldn’t necessarily associate the word “wistful” with the name Sharon Van Etten.

If Volume I of Lars Von Trier’s erotic opus was too much, Volume II is a kitchen sink’s worth of misguided excess.

‘Nymphomaniac Volume 1,’ one-half of a four-hour X-rated opus, finds Lars Von Trier up to his old tricks.

It’s not that she’s never played with blues/soul before, but it’s the mission statement of Joan As Police Woman’s fourth album “The Classic,” and serves as the record’s unifying vision.

It’s a mob drama, dontchaknow?

Vibrate does contain some of his very best songs, and for the devoted fan, the deluxe edition is unbeatable. It’s a celebration of the unique, mournful, self-deprecating music of Rufus Wainwright, and, if you’re unfamiliar with his work, not a bad place to start.