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On June 23rd Portland, Oregon-based Chris Marshall & The August Light will celebrate the release of their latest full-length, Some Kind of Dream. The album is a departure from the alt. country/Americana of their previous works, and an expansion of the new ground they started to chart on 2012’s Waltz EP. Kicking off with a grandiose wash of orchestral sounds, Some Kind […]

Back in December, the members of Minneapolis soul band Sonny Knight & the Lakers each selected their favorite live albums for a special feature right here at Glide. The members were excited to share personal favorite live shows because they were getting ready to record their very own live album. If you read that piece […]

At only 26 years old, singer-songwriter Seth Glier has released three albums prior to If I Could Change One Thing, including his Grammy-nominated sophomore album The Next Right Thing, and the critically praised I Should Let You Know. Glier has shared the stage with artists as diverse as James Taylor, Ani DiFranco, Edwin McCain, Martin Sexton, Emmylou Harris and […]

Boulder, Colorado’s Otis Taylor just released one of this year’s most profoundly psychedelic albums. Hey Joe Opus/Red Meat is a sprawling work anchored by the guitarist’s “trance blues” takes on Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe”. Taylor’s gruff vocals combined with his otherworldly guitar tones and playing are as haunting as they are electrifying, and the music sounds as if […]

Perseverance. Through a career that spanned five full-length releases with his band Fat Opie, a struggle with a long-term illness and a career as a fine artist, Scott Mickelson has persevered. Now, with his debut solo release Flickering (released 05.05.15) Mickelson delivers the record he’s worked towards since he first sat down in front of […]

The team of Stephen Kalinich and Jon Tiven has an extensive and extremely impressive combined resume, but resting on laurels is something they refuse to do on their upcoming new album  Each Soul Has a Voice being released by MsMusic July 3.Their respective compositions have been sung the world over by Beach Boys both as a group […]

Americana/rock group Tumbleweed Wanderers will release their sophomore album, Realize, due out June 9, 2015. After recording Realize at Panoramic Studios in Stinson Beach (My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses), the band spent months meticulously overdubbing at a mansion in San Francisco that was turned into a home studio. They then drove to Chicago to […]

Few artists are nailing Southern roots rock and roll better than Jimbo Mathus these days. This is a fact that is solidified by the Mississippi artist and his band the Tri-State Coalition’s impressive output of three albums in the last three years, all of which will leave you floored and wondering why the hell he’s […]

As one third of the visionary indie band, Dispatch, Pete Francis inspired legions of fans with an aesthetic that was as accessible and inviting as it was artistically uncompromising. Now, he embarks on a new era of inspired creativity with a multitude of new projects, including an invigorating hip-hop flavored band, Dragon Crest Collective, whose […]

Billy Shaddox effortlessly crafts a majestic blend of soul-stirring Americana and dreamy pop harmonies. The Colorado transplant truly transforms with his forthcoming album I Melt, I Howl, to be released on June 16. “This album was born in a time of change for me,” explains the singer-songwriter. “It’s about being excited about moving forward…or being […]

We’re excited to bring you a taste of the new album from Portland, OR singer-songwriter Bert Sperling. The album is called Renaissance and comes out on June 24th. One of the standout tracks on the album is “Love Don’t Live On Love Alone”, which you can hear below. Sperling himself humbly reflects on how this song came […]

It was June of 2014, Umphrey’s McGee, while overseas for some London Brooklyn Bowl shows, received privileged but pricey time in the famed Abbey Road Studio where the Beatles recorded most of their iconic records as well as Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Recorded in 12 hours with little time for breaks or […]

Sun Bones, from Tucson, Arizona might have a seemingly desert themed band name, but don’t consider them “desert rock.” In fact their music has more in common with the stylistic diversity of The Arcade Fire than the sandy lore of Gram Parsons.  The band is comprised of Sam Golden (vocals, guitar), Seth Vietti (drums, vocals), Bob Hanshaw (bass, […]

Calling Charlie Hunter’s sound jazz would be an oversimplification. On his new album Let The Bells Ring On, which drops June 9th, the guitarist and composer has his sights on something bigger and more complex than just showing off how well versed he is in the form. Teaming up with longtime collaborators and veterans of the New […]

As one quarter of the Texas folk group The Trishas, Jamie Lin Wilson has spent much of her musical career as one of the elements that contribute to the group’s larger distinctive harmonies. Now the singer-songwriter is devoting her “honeyed tenor twang” to her own project, the debut solo album Holidays & Wedding Rings, which comes out on […]

Death by Dixie isn’t just a record; it’s a reckoning. The new album from The Last Tycoon—the Americana project of Atlanta-based songwriter John Gladwin—reflects on what it means to be Southern in the 21st century. It explores how old wounds, harbored just below the surface, are faced in the New South. Produced by Jim White […]

Will Currie & The Country French’s third LP They Killed Us will be released on June 9, 2015 via the Vancouver label and the band’s longtime home, File Under: Music. The 14-track album follows the band’s two previous releases, 2008’s A Great Stage and 2011’s Awake, You Sleepers! Glide Magazine is proud to premiere the […]

Austin, Texas is all over the news these days getting praise for economic growth, tech startup culture and its hip foodie scene, among other things. But no matter how many condos they throw up in this town and how many yuppies continue to invade, the freewheeling, beer swilling hangout culture that made Austin such a […]

Austin’s The Lonesome Band proudly classify themselves as Texas Cosmic Honky Tonk Country, and this is a pretty damn accurate label. The group embraces the progressive country sound that helped put the “Live Music Capital of the World” on the map, bringing to mind troubadours like Jerry Jeff Walker, Robert Earl Keen and early Steve […]

Does knowing someone for your whole life make for better music? It certainly seems so in the case of The Grahams. The duo were friends as children before coupling up and eventually getting married later in life, and throughout all of that time they have been pursuing a love of music together. As The Grahams […]