Jack White/Run the Jewels – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 1/30/15 (SHOW REVIEW)
Jack White is one of the few rock stars doing it right these days and on a freezing Friday night in the heart of the Big Apple he displayed his chops but also paid homage to New York City Hip Hop. It started with the opening act, as Run The Jewels were asked to perform […]
Murder by Death – Big Dark Love (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=9.00] Indiana-bred band Murder By Death is the epitome of alternative rock, in the sense that they never stop evolving and playing with alternative sounds. Their new record Big Dark Love is both big and dark, and finds the band exploring everything from country rock to folk rock, pop rock, punk rock, classic rock, Southern […]
Mike Farris- Shine For All the People (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=8.00] Nashville soul singer, Mike Farris has a multi-faceted musical career starting as a front man for a 90’s rock band, Screaming Cheetah Wheelies but over the last decade his career as a soul singer has what has brought him legions of fans, music awards, and critical acclaim. Farris live performances at Bonnaroo, SxSW Festival, […]
Tedeschi Trucks Band to Open Blue Ridge Bowl Venue on Lockn’ Site
Tedeschi Trucks Band are among the signature acts to bring their fire and spirit to the Lockn’ Music Festival. After performing at Lockn’ in 2013 and 2014, they’ll be back in September for year three, which makes them the ideal artists to launch a new music venue in a natural amphitheater setting at the festival […]
Umphrey’s McGee – The Lyric Theatre, Oxford, MS 1/28/15 (SHOW REVIEW)
Oxford, Mississippi holds a special place in the history of Umphrey’s McGee. As it was revealed last week, the band gets its name from a distant cousin of guitarist and lead singer Brendan Bayliss, a lawyer from Oxford named Humphreys McGee who he met at a family wedding. Bayliss remarked, however, that it had been […]
Seth Avett Covers Elliott Smith with Jessica Lea Mayfield (INTERVIEW)
Words are like lollipops. To the taste they can be flavorful and succulent; or they can be bitter and unappetizing. Words can hurt and words can protect. When they are floated inside a melody, they can hum you to sleep or make you cry or laugh or jump in the air with delight. For Elliott […]
Patti Smith – Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA 1/27/15 (SHOW REVIEW)
The mother of the original New York Punk music scene sauntered into Santa Barbara Tuesday night, January 27th, to play a very special concert downtown, at the elegant Granada theater. The concert began shortly after the red carpet opening of the 32nd Santa Barbara International Film festival, just across the street at the Arlington Theater. […]
D’ Angelo, Foo Fighters, The Roots, The Suffers, SCI, Katy Perry & Lenny Kravitz (VIDEOS)
The Good Shit is a new Glide column which revisits and weeds out the televised and tubed trash of the prior week and highlights the good shit you might have already saw or could have missed. R&B/soul singer D’Angelo‘s return to the forefront continued with two performances on Saturday Night Live. The String Cheese […]
Thursday Night Asteroid – Reimagining The Last Great Decade in Rock
Just last Monday on the Facebook page for Thursday Night Asteroid there an shared article from a science website that Asteroid 2004 BL86 will sweep past the Earth at a distance of 1.2 million kilometers with a clever enough remark – “Another near miss. We’ll get you all one of these days.” If this wasn’t the […]
Run Boy Run – Something to Someone (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=7.00] Polished and clean vocals and instrumentals are what you’ll find on the new record from folksy darlings Run Boy Run. Something to Someone is light and sweet, but that doesn’t mean it’s lacking in depth or certainty. Made up of brother and sister Matt and Grace Rolland, sisters Bekah Sandoval Rolland and Jen Sandoval, […]