Glide Magazine’s Jeff DeMars recently spoke with drummer Janet Weiss, touching on her background with Brownstein in Sleater-Kinney, her own role as a musician before coming to Wild Flag, the group’s future sights and why she would love to add the title “Janitor” to her business card.
To celebrate the time that Del played with Bill Monroe, he recently put out Old Memories: The Songs Of Bill Monroe; a collection of the father of bluegrass’ songs, recorded by the Del McCoury Band.
Formed in 1995 as a solo project by Craig Minowa, Cloud Cult has since become a full touring ensemble, creating idiosyncratic, electronica-infused indie music. The band prides themselves on their do-it-yourself and environmental approaches to music business;
Glide Magazine had the pleasure of speaking with Amy Ray about the writing and recording of the newest album, as well as her feelings about the role of activism in their work, her relationship with Emily Saliers as songwriters, what it’s like to balance her Indigo Girls and solo work and why she doesn’t play “Blood and Fire” anymore.
In this second part of our conversation, we look into Shenale’s history as one of Tori Amos’ closest collaborators. We also look at his involvement with the Night of Hunters world tour, in which he’s rearranged a large number of works from Amos’ catalogue and reinterpreted them for the show.
In Part I of our conversation, we examine the Night of Hunters creation process. Part II focuses on Shenale’s work on the Night of Hunters tour and his background with Amos and their history of working together, including the serendipitous point where he took the helm as her orchestral counterpart.
After months of debates, hours of downloads and excessive playlist sharing, we still had a difficult time narrowing our list to the top twenty releases of the past year. In an ever-changing industry landscape, It was another miraculous twelve months of music.
It’s been a decade since his debut, which has seen Dybdahl release quite a few more records and gain extensive notoriety in Scandanavia; however, despite writing songs in English, he’s still relatively unknown in North America. To counter this, in July Decca Records released a compilation album of his strongest work, simply titled Songs to try and break into the market, and this fall Dybdahl will support Tori Amos on her tour through the States and Canada.
His writing for The Daily Show and 30 Rock got the attention of NBC who cast him on Community alongside Chevy Chase and E! Entertainment’s Joel McHale. But I’m interviewing him before a sold out show at Boston’s House of Blues where he’ll be performing as Childish Gambino, a hip hop persona many have compared to both Kanye and Drake.
Life is good is proud to announce the release of Ryan Montbleau’s new record Live at Life is good. The album was recorded this past summer at the flagship
