Columns

A couple of times this year, MY ROOTS will give you a glimpse of someone behind the scenes of the music we all love. We begin with a peek inside the life and career of music photographer Katarina Benzova. She is the official photographer for both Guns N Roses and the Dead Daisies, but did […]

If there is anything as expected as the announcement of the new year’s inductees into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, it is the massive blowback it receives from the supporters of those who remain overlooked from consideration.  After careful mulling over the holidays, it has been surmised that these ten artists rank at […]

Everyone lost their minds earlier this year when the rumor of a Led Zeppelin reunion first started circulating. They lost their minds again, this time in a bad way, when it was announced that Robert Plant tore up a lucrative $800 million contract, effectively ending any talks of the reunion. While both the reunion and […]

It starts off so simply, with the vibration of one note. Its purity slowly wraps around you and even though you have someplace else to be, you find that you have become so enthralled with the notes, the voice, the hum of the words, that movement is not an option. And this is what Victor […]

In our fourth year of MY ROOTS, the column continues to venture out away from its, well, roots. From a straight-forward examination of a musician’s early days into a much broader look into their lives and music, we have grown into an all-around glimpse into the heart and soul of some of your favorite artists […]

The seven piece funk ensemble The Motet have dubbed their sold out New Year’s Eve party as Funklandia and will be hosting the celebration at Portland Oregon’s Crystal Ballroom to ring in 2015. They are bringing their talented friends The Polyrhythmics, DJ Weather, and special guest Jennifer Hartswick to bolster the bounce of the non-stop […]

It’s the voice that grabs you first. That big, whiskey-flavored tonsil showdown that can kick your butt one minute and soothe your ills the next. Once she has caught your attention, Dana Fuchs will proceed to give you a piece of her heart with her arsenal of songs that were built from feelings, experiences, some […]

Christmas time is here, a season of stress and indulgence. The holiday is contrived beyond recognition to most but for those of us who can see through the fabric or could just care less, nothing is really different except for the decor of surroundings. All throughout the town one can see the sights of minty […]

Much like soul singers Charles Bradley and Lee Fields, Sonny Knight has been making music for nearly fifty years, but recently the 66-year-old performer has found a new zest for the stage with the help of his young whipper snapper band The Lakers. Together the group released their aptly titled debut album I’m Still Here earlier this […]

Do you have that one festival that is so much fun that you make certain you return each and every year?  For a growing number of music aficionados that festival is the trailblazing and unique Rock N Roll Resort.  On New Year’s Eve,  Rock N Roll Resort & Turkuaz present The Ball Drop, a spectacular […]

When you think about a rock & roll band, the keyboard player is not exactly the first musician that comes to mind. But Michael T. Ross is ready for that to change. He is calling out his fellow brothers-in-arms to make a move, get excited, slam the keys and rock out just as hard as […]

Any music critic worth his salt fears the year-end list where it’s time to go back and sift through that bottomless collection of promos to produce a list of the year’s “best” albums. For one that obsesses over music and listens to just about everything, this is no easy task. This year saw more than […]

After Eliot Bronson wrote the songs that would end up on his self-titled third solo album, he emailed a demo of one song, just vocals and guitar, to Dave Cobb, the celebrated Nashville producer who was behind the recent award-winning albums by Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson. It was a long shot, to say the […]

Back in 2009 we launched a column here at Glide Magazine called Vinyl Lives. The column was dedicated to a deep love of record collecting and the tendency of that love to turn into an obsession. It was also focused on the resurgence of vinyl as the most optimal platform for ingesting music in the […]

Musicians are notorious gypsies, traveling around the world, never liking to stay in one place too long. Some musicians are content to stay with one band their whole lives while others love the thrill of new vibrations. There is a little of both in guitar player Keri Kelli. Reading over his portfolio you get the […]

Free’s legendary bass player Andy Fraser really doesn’t consider himself a bass player. He began his musical noodlings on a piano when he was around five, moved on to the guitar before his teens and ended up taking up the bass simply because no one else wanted to do it. He is one of those […]

When it’s all set and done, who knows what type of legacy 2014 will hold in the history of rock albums.  Anyhow, once again our staff writers narrowed down the list to our top 20 albums of the year along with a list of honorable mentions.  We’re confident that this is a definitive list of […]

A few years ago, I came upon the following pronouncement in a rock critic’s snarky column: “Listening to Primitive Radio God’s ‘Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand’ on YouTube is the equivalent of watching child pornography.” Obviously, this jerk takes his music too seriously — or child abuse not seriously […]

There’s no question about it. When you need a drummer, you call Brian Tichy. A monster drummer, he has been the number one go-to drummer when a band is in need of someone behind them with power. And he has been summoned by some mighty big names: Billy Idol, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Steven Tyler, Whitesnake, […]

This last year New York has offered a premium taste of music in the heavy metal corner. Whether it be in the form of long awaited live shows, a fresh and emerging band, or an institution that continues to build on a grind of a career; metal and the like has recently been a hotbed […]