Archive: 2015

Slightly Stoopid have enlisted their friends and Cali cohorts Dirty Heads,The Expendables (on select dates) and Stick Figure (on select dates) for their “Everything Is Awesome” Summer 2015 tour. Slightly Stoopid’s annual summer trek will hit 40+ cities in select outdoor amphitheaters and theaters commencing July 8 in Simsbury, CT and ending September 19 in Del Mar, CA, with stops at […]

The legendary Roots crew announced their annual ROOTS PICNIC is returning to Philadelphia’s Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing on Saturday, May 30th for the biggest event yet. The festival is celebrating its eighth year with an eclectic lineup over THREE stages boasting performances by:   The Weeknd, Phantogram, Erykah Badu (backed by The Roots), A$AP […]

The third annual Rock Against MS concert, filled the Whiskey a Go Go club on Sunset Boulevard on March 3rd. The VIP pre-party and subsequent marathon concert, featuring over 50 performers, lasted over seven hours. The event was organized by Nancy Sayle, a Los Angeles publicist, popular amongst area celebrities and musicians. Sayle, who is […]

Van Hunt, the Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer has announced his fifth studio album The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets to be released May 5th via Nashville-based Thirty Tigers and Hunt’s own label godless-hotspot. Of the album Van Hunt states: “”The drive to create something new and different is what keeps me excited and engaged as an […]

Photos by Bill Shettle of ZZ Top at the  Grand Theater at Foxwoods, Mashantucket, CT, on 3.7.15.  

Tame Impala will embark on a full US Tour this spring beginning on the West Coast with Coachella and wrapping up at Governors Ball in New York in June with a wide array of shows in between. Multiple festival dates have already been announced including Boston Calling, Bunbury in Cincinnati, Shaky Knees in Atlanta and […]

Each one of us loves turning on the radio and being hit in the face with a balls-out rocking tune. It just makes the day worth living, the place you’re headed to a little bit better. Unfortunately, in today’s overgrowth of bland indistinguishable pop, that experience happens less and less. But because of the simple […]

Mumford & Sons deserve credit for taking a huge risk with their music, but we won’t know until the entire album is out whether that risk pays off.

When the an established band sees one of its member form a side-project, sometimes the strength of that project threatens to eclipse the band from which it branched off of. Moon Duo, with their third full-length, is poised to do just that, as Ripley Johnson’s little experiment in synth & garage drone rock has produced […]

[rating=8.00] Disassociating Will Butler with Arcade Fire is the first step to setting expectations for his solo record Policy, a killer, energetic retro rock and roll treat. Policy sets Butler apart from that crowd in the best way, showing off his crystal clear voice and dark songwriting chops. An alternative mix of instrumentals that set […]

Back in 2007, Drive-By Truckers did a series of shows called The Dirt Underneath. A halfway acoustic tour, the band sat down (most shows) and re-arranged and reinvented songs, pulled out ones that usually don’t get played often and incorporated a little more banter and story-telling — and a generally different vibe overall — from […]

Multi-platinum rock band Alice In Chains has announced a headlining U.S. summer tour set to kick off July 17 at the Starlight Theatre at Pala Casino Spa & Resort in San Diego, CA. The full itinerary is below and ticket pre-sales begin tomorrow, March 10. The band is donating two dollars for every pre-sold ticket […]

From the moment Los Lobos hit the stage, their Latin vibe rhythmic rock and roll set everything in motion; the sextet wandered the stage as if making a game of musical chairs, their fans were shaking and by the end of the night the tiny theater was quaking. At this point in their forty-two year […]

Renowned blues rock guitarist/songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd and guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Jonny Lang will be hitting the road together for the first time ever on a co-headlining tour beginning this June in the United States. The tour will begin on June 11 in Portland, ME and will head down the East Coast and into […]

Americana/folk rock band No Dry County are releasing their debut full length album The Night Before on March 10, 2015.  No Dry County, better known as NDC, now comprised of Trent Langford (Singer/Songwriter/Guitar/Keys), Matt Newsom (Drums/Vocals), Dub Wood (Bass/Vocals), Jonathan Dunlap (Guitars/Vocals), and Bristen Phillips (Guitars/Keys), began in 2009, as an 80’s cover band. Developing […]

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. The third solo record from Old Crow Medicine Show’s Gill Landry was released last week. The self-titled LP features […]

There’s something to be said for a band that can transcend labels. Sure, it would be easy to call Greensky Bluegrass a jam band or a bluegrass band, but the Michigan quintet is much more than just those two things. The group writes songs in an alt. country/Americana vein that are thoughtful and well sung, […]

Lucero and Ryan Bingham hail from totally different parts of the country, yet somehow booking them on a co-headlining tour makes complete sense. Both Ryan Bingham and Lucero’s lead singer Ben Nichols possess two of the roughest voices in rock and roll. Their gravelly voices are unmistakable and fit perfectly when singing songs of heartbreak, […]

[rating=8.00] Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is the latest move Netflix has made against the traditional model of television productions. Co-produced and co-created by Tina Fey (along with former Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock writing and production alum Robert Carlock), the series follows the trials and tribulations of the titular Kimmy Schmidt, a woman kidnapped as […]

[rating=8.00] Looking at the slate for the coming year in movies, there are a lot of things to be excited about. 2015 is shaping up to be an incredible year for movie fans. The Avengers: Age of Ultron is right around the corner; Star Wars: The Force Awakens sits as a beacon guiding us towards […]