PREMIERES

Arrica Rose and Mark W. Lynn have a long history together. The two met years ago on a spring evening at the Huntington Beach Library in Southern CA when Arrica was still a teenager and Mark was just a few years older. Her local punk band (Uxby) was opening for his touring band (Uranium 9 […]

Say what you will about Nashville and the state of the music industry these days, but the fact is that there are some real fine bands coming out of Music City. One of those bands is the young trio Harpooner, who bring to mind The Strokes meets 1970’s power pop with a hint of psychedelia […]

For any music lover who catches shows regularly, there are the acts that make it big and those that don’t. Bigger acts – if they don’t succumb to drug addiction, band quarrels, or the fate of being one-hit wonders – have a sense of security that allows them make a career out of music. Acts […]

Nashville based Great Peacock might be just another band based out of Music City, but upon listening to Making Ghosts, the band’s harmony-heavy, guitar-driven 2015 debut album, you can hear immediately the band are making music for all the right reasons. Its 11 songs are filled with a gritty directness that gives the Americana genre its defining element along […]

Getting together for rehearsals and gigs as a 10-piece band is never easy, but since 2011 Austin soul band The Nightowls have been doing just that, and at a remarkably steady pace to boot. Fronted by the charismatic singer Ryan Harkrider, The Nightowls seek to bring together the fun loving times of Motown and Memphis soul, […]

When Brooklyn singer-songwriter Pete Sinjin finished his fourth album of original songs, he was struck with the realization that what made them all work together is that they “all were love songs in one way or another. Love in all its various incarnations: tender, lost, found, nostalgic, passionate, defiant, foolish, hopeless, awe-inducing, life-changing. It wasn’t […]

“The dark rasp of Marcus Blacke will hit you from behind, and the way it sneaks up will make you want to follow it through the hauntingly beautiful intricacies of Blacke’s new self-titled record. Hailing from Australia, Blacke’s voice has the world-weary, lived-in feel of a rail-riding wanderer.” Glide writer Maeri Ferguson described the new self-titled record […]

Shawn Amos has done just about everything over the course of his 48 years, ranging from making music under his own name and collaborating with the likes of Solomon Burke, to producing other artists and taking on just about every job in the music industry. Despite having so much on his plate, the singer-songwriter and […]

If you haven’t seen the live event known as Royal Southern Brotherhood in a club near you – seriously, you are truly missing out. Sure most live bands can fire it up on the stage, but putting those songs on record and making the recordings sound as poignant and timeless? Royal Southern Brotherhood triumphantly pulls […]

Brooklyn-based rock & rollers, Skunkmello will release their new album  Hot Chicken, out June 10, 2016. Back to the basics rock is certainly a welcomed addition in 2016 and Skunkmello hits the volume and swagger dial on all cylinders. Blending the influences of classic rockers and blues artists, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Towns Van Zandt […]