PREMIERES

Caroline Reese’s upbringing is the kind of stuff you hear about in country songs. The young singer-songwriter grew up outside Reading, Pennsylvania, where the rust belt meets the Amish country. Her mom ran a horse farm and her dad sold antiques, and both of these facts inform the old-soul tendencies in her songs. She and […]

It may come as a surprise that the band keeping the Afrobeat torch burning hail from none other than the Lone Star State. Comprised of members of notable Austin acts like Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, The Calm Blue Sea, Cougar, Ocote Soul Sounds, and the Echocentrics among others, the 10-piece collective known as Hard […]

Jimmy Lumpkin grew up in Georgia but calls Mobile, Alabama home these days. After all, it is this place that informs nearly everything about the music created by Lumpkin and his band the Revival. Their sound is an amalgamation of the state’s rich musical history, taking inspiration from soul, blues, and rock and roll alike. […]

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad have spent fifteen years enlightening us with their colorful, eclectic take on reggae. With their respect for tradition and ability to let songs drift off in their own directions, GPGDS have won over the hearts and ears of traditional reggae fans while earning their place in the jam band scene. […]

Atlanta band Blair Crimmins and The Hookers have been catching ears and gaining fans with their unique blend of ragtime and 1920’s style Dixieland Jazz with a contemporary twist and a touch of rock and roll. Crimmins inserts a fresh energy into all of these styles that lents itself to spontaneous, rowdy live performances. On […]

Donnie Biggins, leader of Chicago’s The Shams Band and owner/promoter/head of Tonic Room, Harmonica Dunn and the annual Dunn Dunn Fest, will be dropping his solo debut, Profiles, on Tuesday, Nov 29. He will be celebrating the release with back to back shows at Tonic Room in Chicago on Dec 2 & 3. Glide is hosting an exclusive […]

Oregon native Sam Densmore has been a fixture in the Portland music scene for a handful of years now, playing in a slew of alternative bands throughout the ‘90s and embracing a defining era in the Pacific Northwest’s musical heritage. These days Densmore leans less on his rock band past and more on his folky future […]

Inspired by struggle, triumph, the natural world, and spoken with a sincerity that touches deep, Russell James Pyle’s songwriting is deeply intertwined with the nuances of life in America. Pyle is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is influenced as much by Bruce Springsteen as red dirt country. His music blends heart and hand as […]

A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of Bees is the new album from acclaimed electro-acoustic composer and performer Sxip Shirey, and is set for release January 13 on VIA Records. Composed and produced by Shirey with co-production and engineering by Don Godwin and mastering by Greg Calbi, much of A Bottle of Whiskey and a Handful of […]

For close to a decade Suzie Zeldin and Jesse Gabriel have been creating music as The Narrative, but when they began work on their new album four years ago it seemed that the future was uncertain. The group had achieved recognition for their charming indie pop, yet the production of the album led to logistical challenges that […]

Brothers Toby and Jake Vest and their friend Jeff Schmidtke have long been musical collaborators, starting in 2003 with their band Augustine. Since then the three have become vital members of the Memphis music scene, and in recent years Toby Vest has been focused more on the music of others with his High/Low Recording. To date he […]

Dojo are a collective of jazz and reggae musicians hailing from London, Paris, Nigeria and Lebanon, who are set to release their highly-anticipated new single “Bethel” on 25th November 2016. This is the first single taken from their forthcoming album Gaia due for release on December 9th. Today we are excited to offer up an […]

The phrase “Keep Austin Weird” is little more than a clever marketing slogan these days as traffic snarls the city, condos climb sky high, and tech bros fill the local watering holes. Though the weirdness so often alluded to may be in short supply, there are bands in Austin staying true to the far out […]

Eric Krasno, the co-founder of Soulive and former full time lead guitarist of Lettuce released his third solo album Blood From A Stone on July 8th. Although we’re already familiar with Krasno’s knock it dead guitar tone, this time around Krasno contributes vocals on every track of the self-produced album with the exception of  an instrumental […]

Ever since their days together in high school theater, Jack Wells and Mel Tarter have been inseparable. The pair, who co-front the indie pop quartet Those Willows, have been making music together for nine years. In 2012, the couple relocated from Detroit, Michigan to Portland, Oregon where they built a community and eventually joined forces […]

The Show Ponies have announced that their third studio album How It All Goes Down will be released on January 20, 2017. The album is available for pre-order now and the band has shared an incredible new track “The Time It Takes” from How It All Goes Down, which Glide is premiering below. To date, The Show Ponies have over 14 […]

Not your typical singer/songwriter – or protester – John Aulabaugh in his youth wasn’t disillusioned by images of the Kent State Massacre. He hadn’t grown up reading about Nixon calling out the National Guard in a history book; he’d seen it unfold on the CBS Nightly News with Walter Cronkite. He left his college band behind […]

The combination of Brandon Carr and John Dufilho is a special one. Both musicians have put in time with respected bands; Carr with the folk-psychedelia outfit The Earlies and Dufilho with experimental pop group The Apples In Stereo and indie rockers The Deathray Davies. Now, the Dallas-based musicians have joined forces as Corner Suns and will […]

Austin-born indie/blues guitarist/vocalist Jackie Venson, released her live album, Jackie Venson Live on September 16, 2016.  The live record offers a raw follow-up to her 2015 studio full-length, The Light in Me and shows Vensons’s tenacity at the blues with a precision cut tone and heartfelt delivery that rivals few today. Daughter of Austin music staple, Andrew Venson, Jackie’s early […]

Joan Armatrading is a performer who needs little introduction. The three-time Grammy nominee has released numerous albums over a career spanning forty years, earning a devoted cult following in the process. Now the legendary songstress and purveyor of finely tuned, emotionally charged music, is back with a new release. Billed as the  “Me Myself I World […]