2009

Tortoise Returns to the Road

Tortoise‘s new album and first full-length release of all new material in over five years, Beacons of Ancestorship, is out June 23rd on Thrill Jockey. As previously reported, the band

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Gossip Present Music For Men Oct. 6

DIY post punk-rock trio Gossip’s first major label offering of new material, Music For Men, hits stores Tuesday October 6, 2009.  The album will be available earlier via all digital

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Cracker – Milk & Honey With David Lowery

Signing with a new record label (Savoy/429 Records) Cracker returns with the usual suspects: Lowery’s long-time partner, Johnny Hickman, drummer Frank Funaro and bassist Sal Maida.  Taking a new approach to their creative process, Sunrise is a collaborative effort by all four bandmates. Surprisingly self-disciplined, they took one week every two months between tours to write together over the course of a year.  The result was a creative outpouring with a strong common thread – all four musicians came of age playing in the origins of punk and new wave and once again found those sounds rising up.

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Regina Spektor Expands Theater/Club Tour

Regina Spektor has added a a month’s worth of late-summer dates to her U.S. tour behind her forthcoming Sire Records release, "Far." Spektor performs tonight (6/17) at New York City’s

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Best Of Bonnaroo 2009 On The Net

The eighth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival kicked off late Thursday afternoon, and while the weather may not have cooperated by all accounts things got off to a great

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Reminder: Rothbury Giveaway on Twitter

We wanted to remind our readers that Glide and Hidden Track are giving away a pair of tickets to the Rothbury Festival today using Twitter. Just tweet the message “@glidemag

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Stormy Mondays: Best & Brightest Pianists

I really enjoyed the four part mini-series that ran on the Documentary Channel last month, Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense, which focused on the quiet revolution currently

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Getting Low

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before – band hunkers down in a cabin during the bleak winter months to record and emerges with an album chocked full of

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