Archive: 2015

Iconic British blues rock guitarist Kim Simmonds rolled into the sedate central California coastal town of San Luis Obispo, with his seminal rock group Savoy Brown, to perform at the SLO Brew Company. The Brew House, is a gem of a venue, offering an upstairs restaurant and bar, and a downstairs live music room. The […]

(Photo: Greg Aiello) Anyone who follows the jam, funk, and jazz scenes could probably rail off a list of musicians who would play in their dream collaboration. For music nerds this is like building your fantasy football team. Featuring three titans of the scene in Skerik (saxophones), John Medeski (keyboards), and Adam Deitch (drums), DRKWAV […]

[rating=6.00] There is a fine line between homage and all out copying of style. There are only so many notes you can play and of course pop music has filtered things down even more, but on Moonlight – Hanni El Khatib’s third release –  that dangerous line is blurred to the point of detriment. El […]

For the release of his 11th solo studio album, titled No Pier Pressure, Brian Wilson has returned to Capitol Records, his original label home with The Beach Boys.  The album will be released April 7 in standard 13-track and deluxe 16-track editions, each available on CD and digitally, as well as a 16-track 2LP edition […]

[rating=6.00] With its sixth album in as many years, Pond, an Australian band with members who also play in Tame Impala, has kicked its love affair with blues-metal riffs. Still hell-bent on pursuing a stadium-size psychedelic sound, Pond is now taking things slower, embracing synth-heavy, sleepwalking songs that seem to float a galaxy away from […]

Bill Frisell is making old songs new again. Or maybe, with 2014’s Guitar in the Space Age!, Frisell is making a new record, old. In any instance, when his tour pulled into Boston, and his band squeezed into the intimate space of Scullers Jazz Club, what was clear above all was the timelessness of some […]

AWOLNATION have announced the release of their new studio album titled Run (Red Bull Records) on March 17, the highly anticipated follow-up to their chart-topping debut Megalithic Symphony.  The band recently completed an official music video for “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)” that can now be viewed below. An extensive U.S. summer tour will announced shortly, […]

Ever since the infamous Nipple Gate fiasco at Super Bowl XXXVIII, the NFL has made it a point to occupy the Halftime Show of its biggest night with well established, universally regarded acts that have ranged from U2 to the Rolling Stones to Prince to Paul McCartney to The Who to Tom Petty and the […]

Actor Martin Starr (‘Freaks & Geeks,’ ‘Party Down’) speaks to Glide about his first leading man role in the dramedy ‘Amira & Sam,’ his increasingly busy work schedule, and the future of ‘Silicon Valley.’