Reviews

ALO (a.k.a. Animal Liberation Orchestra) brought their 12th annual Tour d’Amour to Portland, Oregon’s Wonder Ballroom last Friday, February 9th, as they spread the love up the West Coast from their Bay Area home. For this swing, they brought along the Monophonics to get the crowd limbered up. Built around the powerful, soulful vocals of […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Don’t Talk About It, the new album from country rocker Ruby Boots, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop): Read Glide’s written review of the album HERE.

[rating=9.00] After gaining considerable critical acclaim and picking up new fans with 2016’s Teens of Denial, the band’s second album released under a record label, Car Seat Headrest follows up with the effort with a re-issue of its best self-released album, Twin Fantasy. Originally released only on Bandcamp in 2011, Twin Fantasy has been painstakingly […]

[rating=8.00] You have to give Belle and Sebastian credit for their sheer perseverance. Over the course of their 22 years and umpteen numbers of albums and EPs, they’ve kept their consistency when it comes to a sound that’s so unfailingly effusive. They remain at the forefront of those that set the standard when it comes […]

Sundance Now presents a bold and original new series with nuanced portrayals of the deaf community.

[rating=8.00] Mind the sparks that will no doubt pop from your speakers like little fireworks when you hear opening track “It’s So Cruel” off Ruby Boots’ new record Don’t Talk About It. It is an electrifying introduction to an artist that will knock your socks off with her smart, unpretentious rock and roll. A self-assured […]

Cross the afrofuturistic big band jazz of the Sun Ra Arkestra with the deep grooves and party mentality of Parliament Funkadelic and you get Golden Dawn Arkestra. Under the guidance of bandleader Topaz McGarrigle, known in Golden Dawn world as Zapot Mgwana, (organ, vocals, tenor sax), the avant-garde afrofunk troupe has assembled a cultish following […]

[rating=7.00] MGMT continues the inside joke of their satirical songwriting on their latest album,Little Dark Age, with a tip of the hat to convention. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden wrote their mega-pop hits “Kids”, “Time to Pretend”, and “Electric Feel” as tongue in cheek, but the songs ended up changing the pop music landscape and both […]

It’s over. It’s finally over.

Entanglement may seem all too familiar, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less charming.