B-Sides

Over the last decade Hollis Brown have been chugging steadily along, putting in their time on the road and releasing albums of solid and catchy rock and roll. Recently the band dropped their new LP Ozone Park, which is easily their most adventurous to date. Compared to their earlier work, which was rooted more in Americana […]

Perhaps more than any other artist of the last 60 years Dr. John was the New Orleans sound, bringing it to the masses as Louis Armstrong did before him. With his recent passing Glide will take a look back into the Good Doctor’s past and rank/discuss his studio works. A member of the Rock and […]

Formed off an impromptu jam session and fondness of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Sweet Things quickly developed an underground buzz with the release of two independently released singles backed by airplay on NYC’s FM rock station Q104.3 and Sirius XM’s Little Steven’s Underground Garage. The rowdy rockers smeared the clubs of NYC with their rip-roaring live […]

Tommy Bolin had become one of my favorite musicians in roughly the year prior to his appearance with his group as openers for the Blue Oyster Cult at Albany’s Palace Theater.  The September date at the venerable venue in the state’s capital venue was part of a tour in support of the guitarist’s Private Eyes […]

Luna Shadows is an artist, producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist creating alternative pop with a dark melancholy and a California twist. She takes a completely DIY approach to her music and oversees and executes the audio and visual for her projects from beginning to end. She loves juxtaposition and the concept of contrast applied musically and […]

The broadcasters of sports leagues – ESPN, Sky, Fox Sports, and others – continue investing money into broadcasting the major sport events. And they do this with great gusto: Sky has recently paid $6 billion for the privilege to show three years of Premiere League Football. ESPN has signed a lucrative 12-year deal with American […]

Winter may have come but things are heating up in Westeros. With only two episodes left in the final season of Game of Thrones, the battle for the Iron Throne has intensified. The eight-season long journey has seen more than its fair shares of ups and downs, and while fans hope for a happy resolution […]

When Josh Ritter met Stephen Kellogg almost twenty years ago, Ritter was sleeping underneath a piano in Cleveland, Ohio. It was the 2000 Folk Alliance International Conference, and the then-twenty-four-year-old Ritter–like the then-twenty-four-year-old Kellogg–arrived on the banks of the Cuyahoga to peddle his wares, a young aspirant folk pup in search of connections and a […]

To celebrate the exact day in April 1969 when Beau (i.e. Trevor Midgley) released his debut album for John Peel’s legendary Dandelion Records (Medicine Head, Stack Waddy, Gene Vincent etc.), comes the digital release of Damascus Road fifty years down the highway. He also appeared on the highly-collectable sampler album of that label, There Is […]

On April 12th, renowned fiddler, singer, step dancer, and songwriter April Verch released her new album entitled Once A Day via Slabtown Records. On Once A Day, the Ottawa Valley native pays a heartfelt homage to 1950s and 60s classic country—a sound that may be surprising to some fans, but is integral to her musicality. […]

Rickie Lee Jones released her eponymous debut album forty years ago this month. Here, we look back at a classic LP that deserves a reappraisal. You can see it in the Norman Seeff cover portrait. Insouciant, effortless cool: a brown cigarette dangling from puckered lips; sandy ash-blonde hair lightly falling over a gamine face; red […]

Legendary Christmas Blockbusters Still Trending this Festive Season  Nothing gets you into the Christmas spirit like a good Christmas flick. It may seem corny telling all your friends you stayed in on Friday night to watch a Christmas blockbuster, but when you are cuddled on the couch with your loved ones, the fireplace going and […]

Planning your EuroTrip There are various ways of bringing variety into everyday life. For example, it is a good idea to plan and implement a tour together with your male friends. The closer the friendship is, the more fun and entertainment is offered in the days. The task, however, is to plan a destination, activities […]

The last season ended with a big surprise. Not only did VFB Stuttgart mess up the designated champion’s party on the last matchday. Also the new Bayern coach, at that time still with previous Club Eintracht Frankfurt, hit the same notch and snatched the title in the DFB Cup from the home high favorite in […]

To watch a sporting event like your own team’s game is also something very special. To cheer on the guys on the grass and to fever with them from the first to the last minute, that makes a real fan. And that doesn’t only apply to football, even if of course not all sports have […]

Football is a wonderful sport. Because it is so wonderful and refreshingly surprising. In many areas the little one can still beat the big one and even big tournaments like a football world championship are always good for a surprise, as you have seen again this year. This was not a matter of course in […]

Although it sometimes seems to pale in significance compared to the two years that preceded it, 1969 eventually proved to be one of the more essential 12 months in rock’s remarkable trajectory. It not only found the old masters — Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones, the Who and The Kinks — creating some of the most […]

The nominations are in. As the finale of the movie awards season, the Oscars represent the best of the best, the award most coveted by Hollywood and the men and women who put so much work into the films we love (and love to hate). 2018 was a banner year for film, and the nominations […]

Being invented in 1989, the World Wide Web has contributed a lot to the music industry. The internet has made music more accessible to the public. It also gave a possibility for consumers to broaden their musical horizons. Today audiophiles have no obstacles to access the albums of their favourite bands. A more recent development […]

Because the outstanding titles rolled out with almost clockwork regularity over the course of the twelve months, it wasn’t hard in the least to compile a ‘Best of Jazz’ list for 2018. In fact, these most noteworthy of releases were self-evident from the very beginning of the year, their distinction(s) readily apparent upon release. And […]