Archive: 2011

Glide Magazine was there to take in the wide array of entertainment, from music, food and wine, to dancing and general shenanigans. And a little tip to those who may be contemplating: start putting in your vacation requests for 2012

Written and recorded in a relatively short amount of time, Bright and Vivid is a masterfully refined piece of work that illustrates a maturation that can only come from intense growth and change. Some folks break when too much happens in a short period of time, yet Kathryn Calder reached deep within and manifested it […]

Björk has collaborated with app developers, scientists, writers, inventors, musicians and instrument makers to create a unique multi-media exploration of the universe and its physical forces—particularly those where music, nature, and technology meet. The project is inspired by and explores these relationships between musical structures and natural phenomena, from the atomic to the cosmic. Biophilia […]

Hailed as Nashville’s answer to The Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons, The Apache Relay have announced their Fall tour dates for the months of September and October. After joining Grammy-nominated Mumford & Sons onstage at Bonnaroo Music Festival in June, the band is ready to hit the road themselves to bring fans up and […]

Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan released his new album, 100 Acres Of Sycamore worldwide this week through Heavenly Recordings / Cooperative Music, with the physical release to follow in early 2012. The album is the follow-up to last year’s The Shadow Of An Empire, and the title track is available as a free download here. Self-made for […]

Punk icons The MisfitsThe Devil’s Rain will be released October 4th on Misfits Records.  It was produced by Ed Stasium, whose credits include the Ramones’ Road to Ruin and Too Tough to Die, as well as the Misfits’ 1999 release Famous Monsters.  The Devil’s Rain showcases a jaw-dropping, two-panel front/back cover painting featuring the rebirth of the band’s […]

This week, Heavenly Recordings re-released the debut album from Seattle-based band The Head and the Heart. The record was issued earlier this year in North America via Sub Pop Records. The band has steadily built a major international presence with its blend of Americana, folk and indie rock sounds, with pensive, poignant lyrics and compelling […]

[Originally Published: April 12]

Pattie Boyd man. How could one woman be the inspiration for so many epic rock songs? We’re talking Bell Bottom Blues (Cover Wars), Wonderful Tonight, Something, and believe it or not – a few others as well. Layla was released in 1970 by Derek & The Dominos on their incredible LP Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs. In 1992, Clapton rearranged the tune for MTV Unplugged and took home the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. And it keeps going from there, one of Clapton’s arrangements is just a couple of days old, at the bottom of this Cover Wars you’ll see some videos from April 9th’s performance at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis. And, if you haven’t seen Goodfellas, well. . .

The Contestants:

Duane Allman died less than a year after he lent his legendary slide guitar skills to the original Derek & The Dominos studio take. Thirty-three years after its release, The Allman Brothers Band started covering the song, a nod that some attributed as a tribute to both Duane and the producer of the original record Tom Dowd, who died months before the Allman’s debuted it. Guitarist Warren Haynes handles the vocals. Audio Source: 9-25-2004

Video from 2003:

READ ON for more covers of Layla from the likes of The Charlie Daniels Band, Derek Trucks, Phish, Umphrey’s McGee and Herbie Mann…

In celebration of the Equifunk Festival and the Three Grown Men covering it, this Friday, it’s all about funk horns and ridiculous rhythm. Here is some conjecture to ease you in: If women were made of whiskey, men would fist fight more frequently but exhibit greater general happiness. Jean-Claude has made gratuitous nudity an important part of his […]

It’s make or break time in the baseball season as we are officially entrenched in the dog days of summer. While Brett Dennen’s Oakland A’s can only hope to play the role of spoiler this year, they did the singer-songwriter the thrill of a lifetime by letting him shot the video for his latest single […]

Kings of Leon’s backstory is well-known – the band is made up of three brothers and a cousin who spent their childhoods traveling from one tent revival to the next with an evangelist father/uncle. What isn’t as well-known are the inter-band dynamics which were on display earlier this month in Dallas as part of vomitgate. […]

The three remaining members of the original R.E.M. lineup have been more than just dutifully loyal to their legacy since the departure of drummer Bill Berry in 1997 following New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Their respectful attitude–as much as an implicit acknowledgment of their chemistry –compels recognition of their history in the 25th Anniversary packages such as this one devoted to Life’s Rich Pageant.

The current crop of neo-R&B artists: Raphael Sadiq, Fitz and the Tantrums, Joss Stone, could do well to listen well to Willie and Mink DeVille.  As what they are recreating, he created.

Since the demise of The Fratellis a few years ago, people have waited for a punchy, catchy and sinfully infectious band to come along to carry the torch. And with Locksley, well they look to be that group. After being The Kinks’ Ray Davies backing band on a U.S. trek, the quartet has gotten much mileage from the huge sing-along nugget “The Whip.”

AC/DC have announced that they are bringing out their own range of fine wines. The Australian stadium rockers, who are currently on an extended break from recording and touring, will produce four wines, each named after one of their biggest hits. The first is ‘Highway To Hell’ which is a Cabernet Sauvignon, the second is […]

On September 20 at Seattle’s Sky Church/Experience Music Project, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic will join a gaggle of Seattle musicians to perform Nirvana’s Nevermind in full (for the 20th anniversary in case you didn’t know). The concert will also feature Fastbacks, the Long Winters, Visqueen, Vaporland, Campfire OK, Valis, Ravenna Woods and more. The concert […]

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood lays out a lengthy tour with almost all dates going on sale today. With The Black Crowes currently on indefinite hiatus, Robinson has focused on his Brotherhood project. The group did a California tour earlier this year and has dates this month as well as a small number of performances planned […]

[Originally Published: April 28, 2011]

Yesterday, Wolfgang’s Vault unveiled a Video Vault featuring 50 years worth of footage lovingly restored by archivist Braden Towne and his team. Towne detailed the painstaking process of prepping this footage for the internet age in a fascinating blog entry. Best part? You can stream each video for free.

Since I’ve spent most of the last 24 hours checking out videos on the site, I thought I’d make a list of the best clips I came across for this week’s B List. I stuck with clips from the ’70s this time around and once Wolfgang’s adds more video to the portal, we’ll examine material from other decades.

1. The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop (12/28/1978)

The Grateful Dead famously closed out the Winterland in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve 1978, but a few nights earlier The Ramones tore through many of their best songs at the venue including Blitzkrieg Bop.
Audio Quality: A, Video Quality: B+, Black & White

2. The Allman Brothers Band – Whipping Post (9/23/1970)

This clip gives us a look at the Fillmore East as the Allman Brothers Band, i.e. the Fillmore “house band,” tear through Whipping Post with the late Duane Allman leading the way.
Audio Quality: A-, Video Quality: A, Color

READ ON for more of this week’s B List…

With the Grateful Dead’s massive, drool-inducing Europe ’72 box set set to finally roll out this fall, the band’s 22-date tour will once again be mined for a scaled-down companion release for those that didn’t want to pony up for all 73 discs. The latest compendium will come in the form of a 2-disc set […]

In our never-ending quest to keep you updated on Grateful Dead/Furthur bassist Phil Lesh’s plans to build an intimate music venue in Marin County, we’ve got a weird and creepy addition to the story. According to Richard Halstead of the Marin Independent Journal, Phil asked that the Fairfax, California Town Council pull discussion of the proposed venue from the agenda of last night’s meeting after he was “unnerved” by local protests.

[Artist rendering of Terrapin Crossroads via MIJ]

Turns out, an anonymous protester of Lesh’s plans posted signs near the 71-year-old bassist’s house saying, “No Terrapin, Please.”

“They must have done it in the middle of the night after watching where he walks,” she [Lesh’s wife Jill] said Wednesday. “It felt a little weird and creepy.”

Officials didn’t know who had posted the signs.

Fairfax Town Manager Michael Rock said, “Nobody put their name on it. It’s a cowardly act.” [via MIJ]

Phil and his wife Jill have been looking to work with the local community since first announcing their plans and made it clear that they would move the project elsewhere if the neighbors protested too much. Besides the signs, which were posted on Phil’s normal walking route, negative flyers were put on windshields of cars parked in a church parking lot that may eventually be used for Terrapin Crossroads parking. READ ON for more…