May 15, 2009

Leftovers: Road to Camp Bisco Tour

The extremely hot Disco Biscuits have added eight shows to their Summer Tour Schedule leading up the band’s Camp Bisco three-day festival at Indian Lookout Country Club near Albany. Check

Read More

Blips: Two Under The Radar Bands

In our never-ending quest to dig up some great bands that cost less than a corned beef sandwich at Katz’s Deli, we bring you another round of Blips. Blips highlights some great bands that are largely still in their larvae stage, but will soon morph into their beautiful butterfly. In this edition, we have some really cool new music, so take a sec, poke around their various websites, and see what you think of these four under the radar musical groups…

BuzzUniverse

MySpace / Facebook

If you caught BuzzUniverse’s eye opening set at Mountain Jam last year you probably aren’t surprised that the eclectic group from New Jersey has been invited back to perform at this year’s festival. BuzzU gets people dancing with their high energy originals and diverse cover selections, a quality that acts as an aural shot of espresso for festival attendees.

READ ON for more about BuzzU and Nashville’s The Sways…

Read More

Hidden Track Feature: The Ins and Outs of Starting a Music Festival: Year Two

As some of you may recall, last summer we ran a post detailing the work that goes into the upstart of a music festival. While the increasing incidence of music festivals – and the seemingly infinite corresponding announcements therein – across the nation makes it seem like an easy task; an awful lot goes into each and every one of these festivals. The idea behind this article was to befriend some entrepreneurial music fans in the infancy of creating their own festival. Thus, we met Jimmy Hunt and Wes Hight, the braintrust behind North Carolina’s Music on the Mountaintop music festival.

Continuing on with the series, we caught up with Wes and Jimmy yet again this year, now with a year’s experience under their belts, to look back at the trials and tribulations of last year’s event as well as to check in on how they plan to approach year two of their festie. Hopefully, for those interested in the business side of things, this annual series will provide a transparent ongoing look at the festival scene.

Hidden Track: In terms of scope of the project, are you looking to grow it significantly or keep about the same size? Any plans to go the camping route?

Jimmy: Well, the most exciting thing is this years festival. Our lineup is – in our opinion and all our fans that we’ve spoken – much better! This years lineup is: Keller Williams, Sam Bush, Acoustic Syndicate, The Steep Canyon Rangers, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, Jon Scales Fourchestra, Do it to Julia, The Naked Gods, Mike Alvarado, Uncle Mountain, The Lost Ridge Band, Hope Massive, The Moderate, Major Magick, Ample Example, Ascella Vega, Native Sway, Bafoodus, and more; w/ a very, very special guest appearance by someone which we can’t announce until closer to the date.

READ ON for more on what exactly goes into running a festival…

Read More

Review: Avett Brothers @ Sloss Furnace

Hailing from Concord, NC – “a progressive city rooted in families, traditional values, southern hospitality and charm” – The Avett Brothers (only two brothers here: Seth and Scott) sailed into Birmingham, AL to showcase their unique blend of alt-country slamgrass on a mid-April’s night at the historic Sloss Furnace. With their boot-stomping, hi-lonesome/Appalachian sound mixed with impressive, earthy harmonies and texture-rich interplay, this night promised to be a culmination of brotherhood, heart and southern-fried fun.

[All Photos by Megan Case]

The quartet plays entirely acoustic: banjo, steel string guitar, cello and stand-up bass. The band’s camaraderie shows in each pluck and golden melody. The simplicity and minimalism of their stage setup is part of their draw and charm. No lasers, no fog machines, no light show, no BS. This is an enormously talented group, almost alarmingly so. Blood runs deep, as does the compassion, love and tenderness.

Tears can fall, as they do in their warm-hearted and moving performance of Murder In The City. This song is a glimpse of the true feeling and amour that exists in the Avett’s inner circle. The key lyric being “always remember, there is nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name.” Blood does run deep. READ ON for more of Matt’s review of the Avett Brothers…

Read More

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

Earlier this week, the Dave Matthews Band announced they would be celebrating the release of their new album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, by performing at the Beacon Theatre

Read More

Help Save Paste Magazine

Like the way of other recent music magazines like Harp and No Depression, Paste Magazine might be on the verge of folding its print editions, unless it receives so much

Read More

Minus The Bear Enters The Studio

Seattle-based quintet Minus the Bear are currently hard at work on their highly anticipated fourth studio album, still untitled. Excited to expand on their inimitable brand of rock n roll

Read More

View posts by year

Recent Posts

New to Glide

Keep up-to-date with Glide

Twitter