Nick Gunther

40 Watt Hype: Push

When you listen to a record like Push, it’s almost like you’re feeling the live show right through the headphones.  Definitely a band with a positive outlook, 40 Watt Hype is a rare breed of instrumental hip-hop soul and the Latin influence that is rooted within the music only gives off more energy.    

Read More

2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival

Few people have experienced such an event that has featured performances by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, John Mayer, ZZ Top, B.B. King, Derek Trucks, Sheryl Crow, Susan Tedeschi and Buddy Guy all in one concert, and now everyone has an opportunity to relive the ultimate guitar lover’s dream on the two DVD Crossroads Guitar Festival.

Read More

Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society

Chamber Music Society, co-produced by Ms. Spalding and Gil Goldstein, embodies a sense of wholeness as the tracks have a flowing connective nature to them.  Deviating from a standard rhythm, Ms. Spalding twines multiple time signatures together on “Really Very Small” which features her free floating vocals and a reoccurring bass line complemented with a tangential piano riff.  

Read More

Joe Satriani: Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards

You can immediately tell what light-year a Joe Satriani album is traveling in by the way the first song definitively captures you with your first listen.  The vibrations of his initial entrance are defining points of both his live shows and studio records which electrify listeners time and time again. 

Read More

Silversun Pickups: Great Plaza at Penn

Last week wasn’t the first time Silversun Pickups brought their distinctive fuzz through Philadelphia; in fact, it was their seventh time playing in front of a crowd of Brotherly Love since 2004.  If you were lucky enough to spot this great rock band earlier in their career then you probably made it out to their shows at Johnny Brenda’s or First Unitarian Church back in 2006, but odds are that lead vocalist and guitarist Brian Aubert won’t believe you really did. 

Read More

Crossroads Guitar Festival: Toyota Park, Chicago, IL 6/26/10

The dream originated in 2004 when Eric Clapton decided to gather the top guitarists in the world to share the same stage for a hot summer weekend festival in Dallas, Texas.  Since then, Crossroads has returned every third year, the last happening at Toyota Park in 2007 and back again at the same venue now in 2010.  Having collaborated with so many amazing musicians over the years and honoring many of the legendary blues guitar heroes from long ago, Clapton has paid tribute to those who have influenced him throughout his career and those whom he admires.  The day-long festival is a benefit for The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment center for chemically dependent persons, founded by Clapton himself in 1998.  With the help of his friends and peers, Eric Clapton once again succeeded in assembling some of the best collaborative performances on the greatest of stage, and it’s all for a good cause.

Read More

John Butler Trio: Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, PA 6/17/10

As a son of mother earth and a brother to this land, one of John Butler’s goals has been to promote mutual respect and raise awareness toward bettering the environment through music.  April Uprising has been his latest musical vehicle that travels down a revolutionary path and draws meaning from ancient ancestry.  Several days after playing a set at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the John Butler Trio stopped by Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia to give fans a taste of the latest from the Australian-based roots jam band. 

Read More

Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project

With the incredible success of his recent collaborations on Possibilities and River: The Joni Letters, music legend Herbie Hancock explores world harmony, peace and greater hope on his newest release, The Imagine Project.  Just in time for his 70th birthday, Hancock creates another musical masterpiece that was recorded all around the world in the collaborators native lands when possible, sometimes even in simulcast.    

Read More

BLK JKS: ZOL!

As the spirit descended upon the South African band, BLK JKS (pronounced “Black Jacks”), again in the time following their 2009 full length release, After Robots, it brought forth messages of celebration and conveyed new adventures to be translated musically.  The answer to that interpretation has come in the form of their latest release, a five song EP titled “ZOL!,” which will debut on Secretly Canadian just days before the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.  The collection of songs is deeply rooted in vast African culture and combines psychedelic guitar riffs with complex drum patterns and echoing vocals.   

Read More

Pat Metheny: Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA 5/18/10

To give you an idea of the magnitude of Orchestrion and how Pat Metheny’s system works, imagine a controlled orchestra that at times can respond only to the input of one single instrument, in this case the guitar.  Each instrument is programmed and synchronized to react to what is played on Metheny’s guitar or previously composed and similarly he has the ability to control which instruments are playing at a given time. Last Tuesday was no ordinary show when Pat Metheny brought the tour through the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, PA to an audience that was curious to see the virtuoso in a different element. 

Read More

View posts by year

Recent Posts

New to Glide

Keep up-to-date with Glide

Twitter