Archive: 2013

Primus will return to the Bay Area for New Years Eve for a show at Oakland’s Fox Theater billed – Primus and the Chocolate Factory featuring The Frog Brigade Ensemble. This special show will feature the return of Tim “Herb” Alexander playing with Les and Larry for the first time since 2008’s Outside Lands Music […]

On a seasonably warm night in New York City some loud straight ahead rock filled one of the Big Apple’s best venues. Opening the night were Bass Drum of Death with the trio’s take on garage rawkin. John Barnett is the founder and front-man slamming away on his Fender as Len Clarke simply dominates the […]

Plant says the band should have been named “Hidden Gems.”

[rating=7.00] It is easy to appreciate the beauty of a record like Let’s Be Still. It has a generally even pace to it with some perfectly placed rousing moments, the songs are crafted meticulously with regard to structure, sing-ability and theme, and the vocals are top-notch. In short, Let’s Be Still is everything a solid […]

Last year critically acclaimed UK band The Stone Roses reformed after a 16-year hiatus. What followed were numerous festival appearances, a sold-out UK reunion tour, and a headlining spot at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California – cementing the band as one of the most important British acts in music history. […]

It can’t beat the original, but it’s worth hearing.

After the campy thrills of the season premiere, this episode focuses on establishing the story arcs.

At one point, Willem Dafoe punches someone in the face with brass knuckles.

A 17-piece orchestra took its seats in darkness, minutes before a snippet from a tennis match — sampled from a commentator announcing a score of “thirty-thirty” — introduced Deltron 3030. For its second New York show this month, the hip-hop trio packed Highline Ballroom to promote Event II, the long-in-the-works sequel to the group’s apocalyptic, […]

Yonder Mountain String Band, hit Charlotte for the first time in a few years delivering their definitive blend of the classic, the rocking, and the interpretive. The first set kicked off with “East Nashville Easter,” from their self-titled 2006 album, into offerings from their other studio releases, like Town By Town’s “Loved You Enough,” and […]

Tommy Emmanuel performs in Columbus, OH

The nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2014 are in, and the list includes Nirvana, Kiss, the Replacements and Hall and Oates. The rest of this year’s hopefuls are the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, LL Cool J, N.W.A, Link Wray, the Meters, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Yes and the Zombies. The top vote-getters will be inducted in April […]

Rubbish spends some time with Mick Jones and Paul Simonon at Electric Lady Studios, interviewing the duo and even squeezing in a jam session.

It’s a glitchy electro-pop beauty.

[rating=9.00] The latest edition of Bob Dylan’s ongoing archive project, Another Self-Portrait (1969-1971) The Bootleg Series Vol. 10, will probably have great appeal to those music lovers who found pleasure and insight in the man’s return to his folk roots in the early 90’s with World Gone Wrong and Good As I Been to You. […]

“The Biz is a Glide column by guest columnist Pete Mignola, the owner and chief engineer of MetroSonic Studios which is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY.  MetroSonic Studios is a world renowned fully analog & digital studio hosting projects for major & independent labels from EMI, Island/Def Jam, Warner Music Group, Vice, Universal and  ABC TV to […]

If you have been lamenting the fact that artists who make full length LP’s who also tour and musically expand on the recorded material are extinct, rest easy there has been a sighting!  Touring in support of the just released, critically lauded, Sunday Morning Record the Band of Heathens (tBoH) hit Cambridge on September 28th. […]

As part of their ongoing “The Music Experiment 2.0” social media-driven concert series, MTV Iggy and Intel Corporation today announced that Grammy Award-winning rock band Arcade Fire will perform a special show at an as-yet-unannounced outdoor location in Los Angeles on October 29th, upon release of their hotly anticipated fourth studio album, Reflektor. Beginning October […]

The 2014 class is eclectic and awesome.

Check out the Thom Yorke-led band’s intense ACL set.