B-Sides

It was perfectly apropos for the late drummer Butch Trucks, one of the original members of The Allman Brother Band, to nickname one of his own groups “Freight Train.” Even in the later years of his career, Trucks was the driving force of whatever band he was part of, taking as much relish in his […]

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, […]

As 2016 made way to 2017, stages across the landscape paid tribute to the year of the fallen musician. Covers from Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael were as common as a band original during many NYE performances, In many ways this New Years can be taken as both a celebration for the end and […]

If there is a theme linking most of these picks, it’s that they offer us something we probably have not heard before. Or, in the case of acts like The Beach Boys and Otis Redding, they provide die-hards a treasure trove of previously unheard renditions. Obviously, the material in reissues has already been recorded, which […]

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, […]

As 2016 comes to a final close, Glide recently chose its top rock/folk/alt/singer-songwriter albums of the year. However it would be wrong to leave out a list of the top jazz oriented albums of the year. Glide’s resident jazz critic Doug Collette has chose his top ten albums in the jazz world of 2016. Lets take […]

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, […]

The year 2016 and the words “best” might seem ironic considering all the loses we suffered in the past 365 days. Despite the death of David Bowie, we got one of his all time best albums with Blackstar but can the loss of Prince, Lemmy, Leonard Cohen and be even remotely compromised by fantastic new […]

On October 13, 2016, Sara Danils, Secretary of the Swedish Academy, informed a room full of expectant reporters that,“The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 is awarded to Bob Dylan for creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” That day, Dylan’s official Twitter feed gestured toward the award with a retweet. That […]

 While his flowing silver locks and gnarly beard created his countenance and contributed to his image as a rock ‘n’ roll renegade, the fact remains that Leon Russell was one of modern music’s most talented and tenured journeyman. Russell was a valuable utility man in every sense, whether in the studio or on stage, easily […]

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, […]

It took a couple of years but Blackberry Smoke has risen to the top of the heap, especially when it comes to rock & roll with a southern heartbeat. They have become the golden child, the chosen one to lead where the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd built a path. And their new album, Like […]

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, […]

Last week we counted down Gov’t Mule’s studio LPs from strongest on down and this week we do the same with their live LPs. As one of the most courageous and enduring live acts of our time, Gov’t Mule has gone from power trio to expanded quartet to hosting performance where anything is game from […]

With Halloween less than a week away and the long weekend of parties starting in days, most of us are probably still scrambling for the answer to that seasonal question – “what are you going to wear?”  In the spirit of Desert Trip (“Oldchella”) that took place a couple weekends ago and our 2013 list […]

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, […]

Gov’t Mule have always been too experienced and too professional to record anything less than a listenable album or perform anything less than a very interesting show. But bands are like all of us, with their good days and not so good days, and this band is no exception, keenly self-aware enough to know artists’ […]