December 10, 2007

Warren Zevon: Preludes/Stand in the Fire

Warren Zevon invaded the mainstream only briefly during his career but in so doing forged a memorable persona with the public. Preludes, a double disc package of unreleased demo recordings combined with an interview on cd, illustrates how much more there is to the man than the combination of comic absurdity and latent violence in songs such as “Excitable Boy” and “Werewolves of London.”

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The Glide 20: Our Top Albums of 2007

Every year this seems to come faster and faster, and every year Glide starts off the ‘best of the year’ discussions saying there really weren’t that many great albums to choose from. What used to be flipping through a dozen stacks of CDs, and finding a few forgotten gems, has now become two-dozen page scrolls through iTunes. And before you get to the random, unnamed tracks at the end, you realize how much newly issued music had a truly significant impact on our ears the past twelve months. So, as quickly as we initially dismissed the year, we inevitably end up having a hard time keeping the contenders list under 100.

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Citizen Cope Plots 2008 Trek

Multi-instrumentalist Clarence Greenwood, a.k.a. Citizen Cope, has announced a slate of headlining dates for early in the New Year. The singer has a handful of dates left on the books

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