B-Sides

As we woke up today that the golden pipes of Chris Cornell left us way too soon, this departure has to go down in the books as one of the most unexpected of the unexpected. Having just performed with Soundgarden hours before in Detroit, nobody would have guessed this wound have been the end. There […]

On Tuesday May 9th, the Americana Music Association revealed the nominees for the 2017 Americana Honors and Awards. As the Grammy’s have turned into a mush related field of industry and big business pop cultural influences, the Americana Awards remain grounded in honoring the best in songwriting and artistry. The 2017 Americana Honors and Awards will […]

Alive with the Dead: A Fly on the Wall with a Camera, a compendium of Grateful Dead photos and stories from Susana Millman was recently released. This spectacular book represents 25 years of Millman’s work with the Grateful Dead. In conjunction with Glide, Millman has provided her thoughts on some of her favorite photos from the […]

In perhaps the most poetically tragic ending to a musical career – Col. Bruce Hampton, died onstage towards the end of his 70th Birthday Gala at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta. For a musician who influenced and was beloved by so many, it was almost fitting his end came on stage surround by his closest friends. […]

Iggy Pop Turns 70 – Ten Other Living Legends of The Punk Ethos

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Here’s how the story goes: a middle-aged elementary school teacher from Dayton, Ohio, named Robert Pollard was just blowing off steam with his drinking buddies in his spare time. Fueled by R.E.M., The Who and many thirty-racks, they recorded a massive catalog of songs, usually on consumer-grade tape recorders. More of a self-described “songwriter’s guild” […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Bob Dylan’s become a man of few interviews over the course of his fifty-year plus career, so when he does deign to give one, it means something. The most recent one with Bill Flanagan is hardly coincidental, particularly because it’s posted-presumably in its entirety on bobdylan.com. His new album, a triple set titled Triplicate, comprised […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Most avid music listeners will have this recurring dilemma. An artist playing sounds so familiar that one can’t quite fathom if and when those ears had even heard it prior. That Sarah Bethe Nelson sounds so recognizable – so much that it sounds like you went through a big portion of your life with one […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

For longtime fans of Zach Deputy, the idea of taking in one of his self-described “explosion of groove, trance and soul” performances, on a beach under the Costa Rican sun surrounded by a few thousand like-minded, fun-loving individuals, is an experience concocted in music festival heaven. As a truly unique “celebration dedicated to awakening human […]

You know you got a good friend when he knows you so well he does on instinct what you would do yourself under similar circumstances. I was lucky enough to have such a friend in the fall of 1975 when my former classsmate saw a crowd gathered at the University of Vermont’s Patrick Gym and […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Going on 18 Years, Lotus has evolved with more proficiency than most bands within the instrumental improvisational scene. Most importantly, the band has gradually built its fan base strong,  where today its live shows continue to be an anything goes must hear affair that now draws to Red Rocks and most prestigious of venues  No […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]