Posts by Nancy Lasher

With a full review/recap to follow soon on Glide, there were many photograph opportunities this past weekend in Asbury Park, NJ, on September 14 and 15, 2024. The highlights, of course, were surrounded by New Jersey’s all-time greatest performer, Bruce Springsteen, as he led his E-Street Band through a 29-song showdown. Springsteen also joined up […]

Sea.Hear.Now will pay respects to its state’s most important all time musical band as they bring Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band to the beaches of Asbury Park, NJ for a historic headline performance on Sunday, September 15, along with another first-time headliner set from Noah Kahan on Saturday, September 14. The Gaslight Anthem, Trey Anastasio Band, The Black Crowes, […]

It was just ten years ago that this reviewer saw Simone Felice perform with his band The Duke and the King which rates highly on one’s greatest shows ever list.  So when Felice performs within a two-hour ride, it’s essential to attend; oh, and he has new music – an album All The Bright Coin […]

February 19th at Rough Trade in Brooklyn was a night for straight-up rock and roll – no hip hop toss-ins, no pop sentiments, no funk bass lines; just unapologetic, in your face rock and roll.  The night started off with JJ Wilde and her band. Wilde is from Ontario, and at only 27, commands the […]

New York City was lucky to get one of dreamy (in every sense of the word) singer-songwriter Alexandra Savior’s few US shows before she zips off to a brief European tour to promote her 2020 sophomore release The Archer.  Savior has a distinctive voice and most of her songs have a similar atmospheric sound and […]

It took some time, but once Highly Suspect lead singer Johnny Stevens shed his down parka, struggled through sound issues that troubled him the entire opener “Bath Salts”, and gave the sign to crank the volume; he led the band through an excellent, varied and highly energetic two hour show at Brooklyn Steel on November […]

The crowd cheered as J.S. Ondara peeked his head out the stage door, trotted down the steps, and took center stage. But as he launched into an acapella version of “Turkish Bandana”, the crowd stilled, all eyes on the pink-suited, ruffle-shirted young man in the fedora crooning in front of five microphones. For the next […]

You may not be aware of it, but this weekend (July 12-14) the best little music festival on the East coast will be rocking on and you should be there. The Green River Music Festival takes place on the beautiful campus of Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, MA. It features three main stages, local food […]

In Glide’s final coverage of Jazz Fest 2019, we offer another photo collection of weekend two’s musical magic that included soul veterans: Mavis Staples, Diana Ross, Glady Knight & more. Photos by Nancy Lasher

The Northside Music and Innovation Festival kicked off its music schedule on Thursday night. June 7th. It may have seemed like any early Thursday evening in Williamsburg, with residents and outsiders pouring out of the subway, filling up the seemingly ever-increasing collection of restaurants and bars, and the streets filled with New Yorkers ready to […]

Summer kicks off in New York City at Governor’s Ball – the three day music festival that follows the (usually) rainy Memorial Day weekend. The kids are home from college, private high schools are over, and public school kids are in that end of the year lull. For working New Yorkers, it’s a nice time […]

Photos by Nancy Lasher from weekend one at the 2018 New Orleans Jazz Fest that took place April 27th thru April 29th.

Nashville-based Judah and the Lion headlined Irving Plaza on October 18th, one of the few times they’ve returned to the New York area since scoring an early time slot at Governor’s Ball in June. After a long intro of distortion, excerpts from historical political speeches, and smoke, as the sold-out crowd waited patiently, they bounded […]

Photos of the very diverse offering of artists from the 2017 Newport Jazz Festival that took place July 28th through July 30th 2017. Photos by Nancy Lasher.

So stop me if you’ve heard this one: How many Westchester hippies does it take to put on a music festival?…. All of them! The 2017 Clearwater Music Festival – The Great Hudson River Revival – returned to Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, NY after a year-long hiatus. The festival was started by folk singer […]

The music at Northside Festival kicked off Thursday June 8th with a pair of Canadian indie-rockers – Land of Talk and Wolf Parade – at the outdoor stage in McCarren Park, and continued into the wee hours of Sunday night. (Northside Content and Northside Innovation preceded, each two days, hosting a series of talks, expos and […]

Friday – Governor’s Ball 2016 kicks off.  Doors at 11:45 am; music starts on two of the four stages at 12:15 pm and then the stages alternate all day with a wide variety of quality acts til the closing bands shut the festival down about 11 pm.  While the larger acts get the two bigger […]

Sunday night, post JazzFest, a sold out crowd of weary music lovers geared up at One Eyed Jack’s for one more show.  Three, sometimes four guitars, bass, a keyboard with some weird apparatus on it, a drum kit, two sets of bushy ‘burns, a tambourine, maracas, and Anton Newcombe and his seemingly endless cache of […]

The Revivalists, in town in support of their new album Men Amongst Mountains, played Wednesday and Thursday night to sold-old audiences.  Playing most of the songs from the new album, though many weren’t new as they’ve been weaving them into their shows for the past two years, they still made time for their big crowd […]

Photos of Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival that took place June 20 & 21, 2015 at Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY. Featured performers included David Crosby, Citizen Cope, Neko Case, Guster, The Lone Bellow and The Mavericks. Photos by Nancy Lasher