Archive: 2013

 The variable orchestration and detailed lyrics found on Fourth Corner show Trixie Whitley’s ability to structure ideas in separate environments, all while maintaining descriptive imagery for her voice to project upon.         

Over the last 15-odd years, it almost seemed unfathomable to think of a new Yo La Tengo album without the incorporation of a track that surpasses the 10 minute mark.

West Palm Beach rock band Surfer Blood have announced the release of new album and major label debut Pythons, out this summer via Warner Bros Records. The first song off the album, entitled "Weird Shapes" premiered today on the band’s website www.surferblood.com. "’Weird Shapes’ is a left of center pop song about someone who is […]

Jim James is thrilled to announce his full US tour in support of his forthcoming debut solo album Regions Of Light And Sound Of God, out February 5 on ATO Records. “Hello friends!” says Jim.  “I have put together a special band of some of my oldest pals to help bring this album to life […]

On April 30, !!! will release their fifth full-length album THR!!!ER. “Over the course of many long van rides and post-coffee verbal riff sessions", guitarist Mario Andreoni explains, "Thriller didn’t merely come to represent the selling of a lot of records…it became synonymous with an artist(s)’ and/or genre(s)’ artistic high-water mark. INXS’ Kick is the […]

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward – will release their third album of original material, entitled Volume 3, on Merge Records on May 7th, 2013 (The album will see its release in the UK/Europe on Double Six Records on May 13th, 2013).  The duo will also be hitting the road for a month-long tour this summer, […]

Today, Wavves announces the full details of their forthcoming Afraid Of Heights LP which is due on March 26th via Mom + Pop/Warner Bros. Wavves will be touring North America in support of their album and the band is pleased to announce tour dates with FIDLAR and Cheatahs for March and April with tickets going […]

Glide Magazine's Editor Peter Zimmerman spoke with Sara Quin last week about the new album. In their talk, Sara discusses the frustrations she finds with indie rock's obsession with obscurity and antipathy for widespread success, what it's like to work with someone who has produced records for P!nk and why she and Tegan are the next Beyoncé.

Check out a SBD/AUD Matrix recording and photos from the debut of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead

Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will collaborate with Crosby, Stills and Nash this May

Watch a clip of Stewart Copeland’s jam session with Primus

Check out Jeremy Gordon’s photos from Lotus at the Best Buy Theater

Three members of The Original Meters and Phish’s keyboardist will play the Ogden in Denver this May

My Morning Jacket front man Jim James just announced a lengthy cross-country tour

The Allman Brothers Band have added an 11th show to their March Madness run

The Growlers fuse ’60s surf rock with scuzzed out lo-fi psychedelia

Ben Folds will tweet during Ben Folds Five’s AXS TV televised live concert from San Francisco on Thursday. Ben Folds Five on Conan, Antibalas on Kimmel and Aaron Neville on Leno are among the other music on TV options this week.

Read about and watch Jon Fishman’s appearance with The Candles at the Long May You Run benefit

On paper the pairing appears unlikely — one was born in ’69, the other turns 69 next week — but Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite bridge their age gap with a proper album that traces their bond to the late ’90s. Blues great John Lee Hooker recruited them for a session, and that first meeting inspired another in 2003, when Harper backed Musselwhite on his Grammy-nominated Sanctuary. Get Up! reunites these old souls a decade later, with Harper leading the effort on his twelfth album and first for Stax.

Craig Chaquico should write a book. The former lead guitar player for Jefferson Starship, who now has a thriving solo career, has lots of great stories; some of which he shared with Glide when he called in to talk with me about his new album Fire Red Moon