Archive: 2015

Adam McKay deftly explains the 2008 housing collapse and financial crisis better than has been done before.

The annual Summer Camp Music Festival revealed the first round of acts for the 2016 edition of the annual event. The event will take place Memorial Day Weekend (May 27-29) at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois. So far the lineup has a handful of regular acts returning once again and features the usual mix […]

[rating=9.00] Tusk, Fleetwood Mac’s 1979 opus was a daring experiment, one that defied commercial possibilities while expanding the band’s musical parameters into areas that were otherwise unimaginable. It was especially daring considering the fact that the band had just come off two LPs that had broken them wide open in the States, Fleetwood Mac and […]

[rating=7.00] Billy Talbot’s back story is fairly well known. At the age of 17 he moved to L.A. and then cast his fate with drummer Ralph Molina and guitarist Danny Whitten. After a series of false starts and unfortunate names, they eventually morphed into a band called the Rockets. After releasing one album on the […]

Back at the cabin, Ash has a confrontation with himself.

Jacksonville based Singer-songwriter Jeremiah Daly might be most familiar to many as the former frontman of acoustic-pop band the Perfect Measure. Courageously he stepped away from the group to do his very own thing in a more folksy, Americana roots style that spoke to him on a more personal level. Daly’s solo debut album, The […]

What a year it has been for The Suffers. After just a few years of existence, this group has everybody talking. With an arousing appearance on Letterman, which left the host slobbering all over himself with excitement, and house-shaking performances at festivals and clubs, The Suffers are stirring a pot. But don’t call them Retro […]

[rating=8.00] The Flaming Lips are justifiably famous for any number of reasons — their eclectic aural imagery, leader Wayne Coyne’s floating bubble that carries him over the crowds during their concerts, their oblique lyrics and oddly inspired references, a host of critical kudos and five Grammy nods to boot. And yet, ask any outsider for […]

Semantic ponderings, endless analysis, fruitless bickering. A Jedi craves not these things.

[rating=8.00] The Motor City rock sound ignited by the Stooges and MC5 is still alive and well as evidenced by the latest release from Detroit post-punkers, Protomartyr. Their third album, The Agent Intellect, descends into your psyche like a black cloud of angst, accompanied with sardonic quips and thinly-veiled rage.   The mood of the album […]

[rating=7.00] For an album titled Stonerism, certain expectations might include spaced-out, fuzzy grooves. And those expectations would be right on, man. Chicago rockers Strange Faces deliver that and so much more on their debut record with its telling name. The lo-fi pop garage rock they’ve created is frenetic, but polished in that kind of intentionally […]

Sisters is a painful experience that will leave you longing for the comforts of home.

You can shelve any worry you might have had about The Force Awakens, it’s awesome.

Is this the end? On Thursday the organizers behind Wakarusa Music Festival, which takes places every June on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas, issued a statement announcing that the beloved festival would be taking a break in 2016 because “Wakarusa was significantly damaged by partners claiming to share our vision.” As a whole the statement […]

Back in September, Glide contributor Christian Long had this to say about the new album from indie pop group Superhuman Happiness: “There’s not a lot of bad things to say about Escape Velocity; the crisp, clean production lets the eclectic arrangements alternate between instruments as they move in and out from one another. A precise work of […]

Flatpicking guitar phenom Larry Keel will dazzle music-lovers once more with his 15th self-released album Experienced, due out February 26, 2016. The album is entirely original work that showcases both Larry’s and bandmate Will Lee’s exceptional songwriting, singing and jaw-dropping instrumental performances, accompanied by Keel’s equally talented wife Jenny Keel on upright bass and harmony vocals. It was recorded at Wally Cleaver Studio in Fredericksburg, […]

On the heels of their surprise release of Cabaret Showtime, a limited-edition album of covers and live songs, the Waco Brothers announced the forthcoming release of a new full-length album Going Down in History. The album will come out on February 26th via Bloodshot Records and is the group’s first album of original material since 2005’s Freedom & Weep. […]