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(Old Settler’s Music Festival, Photo: Arthur VanRooy) Long lines, corporate sponsors, mile long walks to the stage, and huge crowds filled with first timers who can’t handle their drugs. These are what come to mind when I think about festivals like Coachella, Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits. Those of us who have been there done […]

The Academy Awards are this Sunday, and by Monday morning I’m sure we’ll all be debating the pros and cons of the awards given. That’s sort of a fact of life about the Oscars—every year people are upset that their favorite movie was snubbed or not awarded. Usually this sort of talk has died down […]

In the fourth edition of Musings of Metal Deviant the Deviant offers his two cents on a few choice releases… Napalm Death – Apex Predator-Easy Meat Napalm Death is an institution. It’s hard to pull up dirt on a band like who’ve consistently topped and contended with the best. 1989’s From Enslavement to Obliteration made […]

Eddie Trunk is at home on the day he calls to talk with Glide about the new season of That Metal Show, the VH1-Classic music program he has been hosting for the past seven years. Born and raised in New Jersey, Trunk has built a metal rock empire just by being himself. All the musicians […]

So much ink has been spent discussing Kanye West and what an asshole he is. It seems like no matter where you turn there’s another interview with Kanye West saying the something douchy or generally acting like a complete and total asshole. There was his feud with Jimmy Kimmel, which proved that Kanye West doesn’t […]

“I’m speeding up,” Galactic drummer Stanton Moore said with a laugh at the end of our interview last week when I asked him if he was starting to slow down at all. For anyone who has ever experienced a Galactic live show, you’ll know that the energy level they bring is extremely high. Featuring at […]

The Good Shit is a new Glide column which revisits and weeds out the televised and tubed trash of the prior week and highlights the good shit you might have already saw or could have missed. My Morning Jacket played their first shows in over a year at this year’s One Big Holiday, their own […]

No one ever accused Saul Goodman of being a great lawyer, but it’s an accusation I’m making now. From the moment Bob Odenkirk’s sleazy attorney first bumbles onto the screen (Season 2, Episode 8 “Better Call Saul”) we’re supposed to look at him as a bit of a joke. Something to laugh at. Indeed, we […]

One minute, thirty-two seconds. That’s how long Gregory Alan Isakov’s “Fire Escape” is. Found on his second album, This Empty Northern Hemisphere, it contains about 60 words and some strummed banjo chords. You probably won’t hear it played in concert. But it’s the song he chose to talk about with me for my “One Track […]

Words are like lollipops. To the taste they can be flavorful and succulent; or they can be bitter and unappetizing. Words can hurt and words can protect. When they are floated inside a melody, they can hum you to sleep or make you cry or laugh or jump in the air with delight. For Elliott […]

The Good Shit is a new Glide column which revisits and weeds out the televised and tubed trash of the prior week and highlights the good shit you might have already saw or could have missed. R&B/soul singer D’Angelo‘s return to the forefront continued with two performances on Saturday Night Live.   The String Cheese […]

Ever since the infamous Nipple Gate fiasco at Super Bowl XXXVIII, the NFL has made it a point to occupy the Halftime Show of its biggest night with well established, universally regarded acts that have ranged from U2 to the Rolling Stones to Prince to Paul McCartney to The Who to Tom Petty and the […]

This past weekend, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker delivered a rousing speech at a political convention in Iowa. While many on the right praised Walker for his appearance and have begun floating him as a strong candidate for the 2016 elections, Boston heroes and Irish punk legends Dropkick Murphys were less than pleased with at least […]

Hookers? Shoot-outs? Awkward kisses? It all adds up to a feet-lickin’ bad time in 1975’s ‘Mitchell.’

Burton Cummings is a storyteller, one of those people who can sit down anytime anywhere and talk about his life and not miss a tiny detail. Whereas we tend to forget small idiosyncrasies like names, dates, the color of the walls in second grade, Cummings remembers everything. So when you stop and have a chat […]

This month has been busy as all hell. Moving around, working and then burning the other end of the candle to keep things nice and balanced is a sure way to keep time moving. But this also means it’s a sure way into quickly becoming a weathered and jaded cynic. That is, if you don’t […]

In Vinyl Lives we spotlight and profile record stores around the country who offer music lovers an experience that goes beyond an iTunes purchase or a Spotify playlist. Vinyl has found a new resurgence and the good folks behind independent record stores are on the front line, directly responsible for curating a unique collection of […]

“That’s real music there,” a young man said to his friend as they exited the Hard Rock Live in Biloxi following a red hot Foreigner concert. A band that keeps on going with no signs of aging, Foreigner has been rocking & rolling since their seventies conception, producing big hits that remain a part of […]

“Out of place and out of time stress in your mind,        Sweet peace in the music let me ride,        Can’t stay behind the lines just cause of the skin that covers my bones,        Listen to the music …bear the weight of my soul” – Jen Durkin The west coast is about to […]

Jumping into 2015 with both legs kicking, Foreigner’s Jeff Pilson has a lot on his tablet for this year … which is actually not surprising since the man is a jumping bean of energy on and off the stage. A part of the Foreigner family since 2004, the other band members know to be on […]