The Galactic album that became From the Corner to the Block was originally going to be all-instrumental, and in its initial stages was a little loose on concept. That was two years ago, when the band found itself on tour with Bay Area emcee Lyrics Born as the opening act and nightly sit-in guest, and was really enjoying itself as it figured out the next direction.
Dane Cook is everywhere these days. If you haven’t caught him on HBO during his “Tourgasm” episodes or concert in the round, then it’s likely you’ve seen him on the big screen, smooching it up with Jessica Alba or Jessica Simpson. Come on, you know him…remember “There’s only one October!” during this past baseball season? Yeah, that guy. And now we're going to tell you a little bit more about him.
Conrad Keely is always keeping busy. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead return to the United States this fall, and as their Myspace page informs, they’re still “on tour until they die” in support of last year's incredible release, So Divided. Glide recently spoke to Conrad about the many instruments he plays, and his early life in Olympia, WA and Austin TX.
Nearly twenty years later, following creative times both fat and lean and two tours of duty with the Crowes, Marc Ford is older by fact, wiser by his own admission, and hardly throwing in the towel. He seems to be as busy as ever, and just returned to the road with a brand new band and a meaty new collection of songs.
We all knew Steven Wright was on to something with his 1985 Grammy-nominated CD, I Have a Pony…but did he? It took 22 years to make another CD but not for lack of lackluster or deadpan-ability. I Still Have A Pony, released on Comedy Central Records last month, proves that he’s still got it…Pony and all.
Today’s the day the Ryan Montbleau Band has been looking forward to since they first entered the studio in March to record a follow-up to 2006’s One Fine Color. Now the band finally gets to share its sophomore album, Patience on Friday, with the rest of the world.
on Spencer has always been a man on the move, constantly bouncing from project to project and band to band, though he always seems to come back to his longtime cohorts and friends in Blues Explosion. Recently he hooked up with Canadian guitarist Matt Verta-Ray, who has played with Madder Rose and Speedball Baby, to form Heavy Trash.
n His Own Worlds, the latest album from singer/songwriter Nathan Moore, is a journey inward, a poetic trip to the center of what makes one human. The naked honesty in Moore’s lyrics and voice give the songs an evocative fluency that resonates with anyone who has, even in passing, questioned their true self and what it all means.
Al Green tours like he’s 45, looks like he’s 35 and sings like he’s 25. At 60, the soul legend is so full of life that it is hard to get him to focus on one topic for very long and so full of songs that he can hardly get a full sentence out without breaking into one.
In one of Neil Young’s many great songs on Harvest Moon, we are given a description of a free soul, a woman with long blonde hair flyin’ in the wind. This woman also dresses two kids, used to work in a diner, and grew up in a small town. The woman in the song is loyal. The woman is Pegi Young.
