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“Get ready for Bas-Fest!” Always a tornado of excitable energy, Sebastian Bach is more than ready to talk about his new solo album, Give ‘Em Hell. In fact, Bach is excited to talk about everything. To remain this positive, this downright happy, is somewhat quizzical after going through a life like his in the music […]

Philadelphia-based quirky blues rockers, Thee Idea Men, will release brand new album New Level Shoes on May 20th, and are streaming it exclusively with Glide (below). Thee Idea Men is the product of a senior year school project between the collaboration of lead singer and guitarist, Matthew Jurasek, and fellow Drexel University student and current […]

Almost ten years ago, Kelly Hansen stepped into some mighty big shoes as the new lead singer of Foreigner. Lou Gramm had departed the band for good and founding guitar player Mick Jones wanted the band to stay alive. Hansen had made a name for himself in the late eighties/early nineties with his band Hurricane […]

The Boston Calling Festival kicks off this Memorial Day Weekend at City Hall Plaza in downtown Boston. Crash Line Productions, Bowery Boston and Aaron Dessner (composer/guitarist/keyboards) of The National have put together an outstanding line-up. The festival also features two stages, with no overlapping sets, allowing music fans the ability to catch every minute of […]

The songs are as iconic today as they were after being released in the late seventies and early eighties: “Faithfully,” “Separate Ways,” “Don’t Stop Believin,” “Wheel In The Sky.” It’s like they have always been a part of our lives. And Journey, the band that brought them to illustrious life, has always been out on […]

Pavement’s indie-rock classic ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’ turns 20 this year. Daniel Couch revisits the album’s defining single ‘Cut Your Hair’ and examines his evolving relationship with the song’s purposefully ambiguous lyrics.

For the first time ever, Bonnaroo will feature three scheduled SuperJams. After midnight on Friday June 13 at That Tent, Derek Trucks will lead a jam that includes Chaka Khan, Taj Mahal, Eric Krasno, James Gadson, David Hidalgo and Adam Deitch with special guests Andrew Bird, Susan Tedeschi, Ben Folds and more. At the same […]

Standing out in a blues-making crowd is not something that guitar player Matt Schofield spends his time worrying about. Hailing from the United Kingdom, the up & coming blues player feels that he just needs to be himself, following his own pied piper visions and letting the others fret about trying to be different … […]

Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, The Bottom Dollars are that rock and roll band you keep imagining when you say “damn, there’s no good rock bands left today.” Their gravelly vocals, musical chops, hard tale lyrics, booming drums along with a mysterious bottom line give these Bottom Dollars some mighty clout. The Bottom Dollars recently released their […]

You know you’re getting close to Jazz Fest time when the pollen starts swirling in the breezes and a sunny morning can turn on a dime into a rainstorm from hell. Welcome to spring in Louisiana. Despite the weather idiosyncrasies, that has rarely dissuaded festival goers from attending one, if not all seven days of […]

ODESZA, a two-year-old electronic duo from Seattle, has quickly gone from side project to a notable underground electronic act now on their first national tour. Consisting of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, their debut release, Summer’s Gone, was a mixture of dreamy  melodies, mixed with glitchy vocals and grandiose bass lines.. Two tracks from Summer’s […]

Record Store Day falls right on Easter weekend this year. But in lieu of that rigged egg hunt your family forces you to participate in every year, vinyl hounds across America will be spending their Holy Saturday combing the cramped aisles of their favorite brick-and-mortar record store in search of the cornucopia of exclusives being […]

To leave a popular band is a pretty gutsy move. But for guitar player Rob Caggiano, it was the right move. “I shared some of the best times of my life with these guys,” he explained in his official statement in early 2013 upon his departure from Anthrax. “This is an extremely difficult and emotional […]

It’s the early 1970’s and Joe Elliott is a kid in Sheffield listening to some music when he discovers Mott The Hoople, that quirky yet rocking band featuring a curly-haired dynamo named Ian Hunter. And it literally changes his life. Move ahead to 2009 and Elliott, now a famous frontman himself for the British band […]

The Firefly Music Festival, “the East Coast’s premier live music experience”, is returning to The Woodlands at Dover Downs International Speedway in Dover, Delaware for the third year. Red Frog Events expanded the festival to four days, increased the venue space, and most significantly, added more artists. Big name headliners, critically acclaimed artists and emerging […]

During football season, every team gets a bye week to rest up and reorganize in preparation for the rest of the season. This is one of those weeks here at MY ROOTS. So as not to leave you in the stands with no one to cheer for, I have prepared for you a little bratwurst […]

This upcoming weekend (April 4-6), the fourth annual Rock and Roll Resort  is poised to be another spectacular year filled with endless spontaneous adventures.  An all-inclusive festival, with reasonable prices, the weekend musical excursion takes place all under one comfortable roof at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkon, New York which is conveniently […]

It’s two days following the death of Stooges drummer Scott Asheton and James Williamson has a full day of press ahead of him. Our interview had been booked two weeks prior but who knew a tragedy would strike someone close to him. Williamson, however, didn’t want to cancel. “You know, it’s not going to be […]

Illinois-born musician, Andrew Belle, has focused his career on songwriting with a lush atmospheric pop sound that would be reminiscent if Chris Martin of Coldplay went solo. His recent release Black Bear, has received rave reviews and was placed on the iTunes Best Of list for the singer-songwriter category in 2013. Belle spoke with Glide […]

This cinematic abortion stars ’90s rap face-palmer Vanilla Ice in the role of douchebag-on-motorcycle. It’s 50% ‘Footloose,’ 50% ‘The Wild One,’ and 100% everything we regret from the ’90s.