Interviews

Danny Kiranos, known by his musical alter ego Amigo The Devil, is an approachable and kind man. A gifted and hard-working songwriter who possesses a robust knack for an honest and emotional release. Kiranos captures potent moments in time, linked into each other, palpable and rich in their vulnerability and authenticity. On his sophomore record, […]

When the members of New Orleans group Dumpstaphunk started recording their first new album in seven years, they weren’t anticipating that the world would go to shit. Throughout their career, the group, led by the venerable Ivan Neville on keys, was focused on bringing the party with raucous concerts that were about getting people dancing […]

He’s a motorcycle riding, leather jacket wearing, guitar playing true blue rock & roller, who has remained true to his roots from day one. Teasing us since last year about an upcoming album, Gilby Clarke began by releasing a single here and a single there. Now he’s unleashed the whole shebang, The Gospel Truth, this […]

What the world needs right now, and is certainly ripe for, is feel-good music. Music like they used to make back in the day, where a good groove was enough to get you through anything. Legendary guitarist Steve Cropper has a new album, Fire It Up, coming out on April 23rd and it’s just what […]

Louisiana-based Hardcore band Capra have been building an album out of blood, sweat, and tears for several years, but the roots of the album reach further back into each member’s musical history and their sense of energy in coming together in a new lineup that affirms each of their goals. With the album complete in […]

Unlike a lot of musicians, Parker Millsap actually had plans to record an album last year, even before the world came to a sudden, brake-grinding halt. It’s just that he also planned to spend most of the year on the road, as he has for pretty much the bulk of the past five years. So, […]

Philadelphia-based songwriter and musician Greg Sover released his latest EP, The Parade, with The Greg Sover Band in October of 2020, taking on many of the key experiences of 2020. Now, with a little time to reflect, and plenty more time to go full steam ahead toward a “Part II” of the EP expected to […]

Like pretty much everyone in the music industry, Israel Nash didn’t expect to be sidelined from touring for an entire year. Stuck at his home in the Texas Hill Country outside of Austin, Nash decided he would seize the moment by diving headfirst into the studio he calls Plum Creek Sound that he built on […]

German Death Metal band Endseeker had only just started touring for their album The Harvest when Covid grounded touring, but now, they’ve put together their follow up album, out April 16th, and will be launching it with a record release party on April 18th. The band have been working with Metal Blade since The Harvest. […]

Songwriter, performer, and Musical Director for Little Steven Van Zandt, Marc Ribler, has his next, much-anticipated solo album coming up for a June 2021 release from Wicked Cool Records/The Orchard, The Whole World Awaits You. The first single from the album, “Shattered”, has already been released, with b/w “Hand Me Down”, and we are delighted […]

Swedish Classic Rock band Heavy Feather got started in 2016, gathering as a group of experienced musicians to form a new collective based on similar interests. Their goal was to build on their mutual Blues roots to create new music emulating the sounds of the 1960s and 1970s. In 2019, they released their first album, […]

Every now and again a voice will rise from the Americana vein, born of soil and sweat, steeped in power, gentle in nature yet fierce in complexion. S.G. Goodman is the latest incarnation of that voice. Elegantly she creates timeless joy on her 2020 release, Old Time Feeling, as she, again and again, delivers potent […]

Few artists have had the kind of impact on rock and roll that Donna Jean Godchaux Mackay has amassed in the past fifty years. While most fans fondly remember her as the graceful vocalist (and lone female member) of The Grateful Dead from 1971-1979, Donna cut her teeth as a teenager in the Muscle Shoals, […]

There is a constant searching that permeates our world, a question that stumbles through light-hearted conversation and “deep” thought philosophical undertakings. A bantering silhouette, perched tall and proud in its hilarious nature, laughing at us as we seek grand success and monumental happiness. So we ask ourselves once again … what is truly most important […]

From the late ‘90s to the early ‘00s, Matt Hock and Dave Walsh played a brilliantly catchy and efficient style of punk rock with their band The Explosion that managed to channel the ferocity and political consciousness of bands like Bad Religion and The Clash without coming off sounding like they were simply re-treading well […]

Bruce Sudano has written plenty of hits; from suave R&B flavored songs with his band Brooklyn Dreams during the age of disco to sassy tunes for his late wife Donna Summer. A song about his parents’ divorce, “Starting Over Again,” became a #1 country hit for Dolly Parton while several of his compositions ended up […]

Stephanie Luke has been the drummer and contributing songwriter with the influential Punk and Garage Rock band The Coathangers for going on 14 years, and has always brought flair to backing vocals, but she’s recently also teamed up with Dan Dixon of PLS PLS and Dropsonic for a new musical project, NRCSSST. Their self-titled debut […]

A sonic joy, Portland, Oregon-based Rare Monk have delivered a focused and evolved indie-rock proclamation on their new LP Never Really Over. Fusing tasteful arrangements and emotional vocal charisma, Never Really Over is an alt-rock triumph from start to finish; one of Glide’s essential discoveries in the past year. As we navigate our new direction in the modern world we […]

Continuing his collaborative compatibility with guitarist Earl Slick, Glen Matlock has released “Consequences Coming,” a rockabilly-flavored single from a forthcoming album he hopes to release sometime this year. Matlock, an original Sex Pistol who played with such artists as Iggy Pop, Slim Jim Phantom, Blondie’s Clem Burke, and Midge Ure after leaving the punk pioneers […]

On March 19th, Metal Blade will release Metal band DVNE’s new album, Etemen AEnka. As the band’s name might suggest, they are big science fiction fans and also steeped in the world building that we find in fantasy books and films, and musically they are influenced by Post-Metal and Progressive Rock sounds. Though DVNE have […]