PREMIERES

I have a confession to make: I live in Austin and somehow I’ve never managed to see The Bellfuries perform live. This is something I’m actually a little ashamed about since they are one of this town’s most talented groups, and have become one of my favorites since first hearing them. Plus, they play all […]

Listen to the 3rd studio album from The White Buffalo, which drops August 21st via Unison Music Group, and you will hear an artist ready to take the world by storm. Love and the Death of Damnation is country, rock, folk, and so much more, but most importantly it is the singer-songwriter Jake Smith at the absolute […]

A lot can happen in 16 years. For a band this amount of time can mean huge changes and even demise. But since 1999 guitarist and singer Max Fender and bassist Joey Beck have been rocking basements and bars across the Midwest as Alone At 3AM. The band’s lineup has changed plenty of times over […]

In the Blazes,  the debut LP from Aaron Lee Tasjan -who cut his teeth playing lead guitar in late-period incarnations of The New York Dolls and Drivin N Cryin— has wound up with one hell of a debut LP. “I read something about Guy Clark getting high and just making songs up, and I thought, ‘Maybe […]

Nashville-based post-rock quartet aave will be releasing its debut full-length, There’s Nothing, via Villain Place/Rock Ridge Music on August 14, 2015 (in the digital format only). The creative collective specializes in sprawling psychedelic soundscapes and hypnotic musicality that evokes both bleakness and bliss, and music that is brimming with intricate ambient patterns, intriguing drum sounds, […]

Woodstock-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Adrien Reju isn’t one to hide her influences on Strange Love and The Secret Language out August 7th. The accessible yet respected harmonies and compositional mode of Fleetwood Mac and Feist is present in this worldly recording of singular love songs that feature A.C Newman, Marco Benevento and also includes covers of artists David […]

If Holly Golightly’s name sounds familiar it’s because she was named after the main character in Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s. You know, the iconic character played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film adaption? But Holly Golightly’s name should also be familiar because of a career in music that goes back to the early 90s […]

Good Field began as the solo recording project of Paul Price, former member of Brazos and The Early Tapes, and secondary guitarist and bassist for Voxtrot. While playing with these bands, Price visited an isolated adobe in Morelos, Mexico and wrote a group of songs he imagined for a full band. He continued working on the songs in between tours and […]

For just about a decade Bradenton, Florida band Have Gun, Will Travel have been making music that can’t be put in a box. It has often been easiest for critics to just call them an alt. country band, and there are good enough reasons for that. But, whether it be pop-infused choruses or personal, soul-baring […]

The 1980s are often seen as a musical sinkhole – a time when synthesizers, white suits and bad hair ruled. There is plenty of truth in that perception, at least in the mainstream, but for every Flock Of Seagulls there were loads of small bands around the world making real music that was challenging, exciting, […]

Led by the charismatic and magnetic frontman Ziek McCarter, San Francisco’s Con Brio are onto big things with their carefree, contagiously danceable blend of funk, soul, and R&B. Back in May the group stopped by Napa, California for a performance at the Bottle Rock Music Festival. While there, they managed to film an intimate (and most likely sweltering hot) […]

Soul/blues-infused rock quintet, Moondog Matinee, are premiering via here at  Glide the track “Put Me Right” from their forthcoming sophomore album, Carry Me, Rosie, due out August 25, 2015.  Lead singer Peter Barnato rekindles the golden era of gritty voice lead singers, while the rest of the band carries a thrusting and quivering ferocity that yearns […]

The eccentric, oddball artist Daniel Johnston has always attracted musicians from all walks of life to his catalogue of strange yet perfectly written songs. There’s an honesty and straightforward dishing of emotions presented from an almost childlike perspective, as well as a devotion to pop structure, that gives Johnston’s songs a timeless, catchy quality. His […]

Sydney Eloise is at once catalyst, vessel and torchbearer. With her close friends and collaborators—co-producers Damon Moon and Chandler Galloway—she spent an entire year building and rebuilding her debut album Faces in the studio until it felt just right, with the end result drawing tastefully from every decade of recorded music since the 1950s, right up […]

Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades or so. Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, to name a few, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid […]

Caleb Warren and the Perfect Gentlemen reignite the music of old-timey speakeasies and juke joints while blendin timeless traditions of Americana and Western Swing with a fresh flavor that transcends genre. Their acoustic brass ‘n’ brew-grass tunes include raucous barnburners and heart-breaking ballads that continue to intoxicate audiences with performances of the highest spirits. Caleb […]

What comes to mind when you hear the name Blinddog Smokin’? Maybe a skanky blues club bathed in red light, curling plumes of cigarette smoke, and a healthy dose of late night debauchery. This seems to be the intended effect from the Southern California-based band, who throw funk, blues, soul, and roots rock and roll […]

Danish composer, songwriter and vocalist Emil Friis paints a compelling sonic portrait of a world that lives just beyond the edges of the one we know on his latest album Sand In Your Eyes. Sometimes dark and tinged with sadness, yet flickering with glimmering possibility, Friis’ songs glow faintly from within with the warmth of our shared humanity. […]

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 […]