Archive: 2015

Van Halen will release its first-ever live album to feature original singer David Lee Roth. Recorded on June 21, 2013 at the famed Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, TOKYO DOME LIVE IN CONCERT includes 23 songs, spanning all seven of the band’s albums with Roth. It will be released as a double CD; four-LP set […]

On May 4th, 2015 My Morning Jacket are set to return with their seventh full-length album,The Waterfall via ATO Records/Capitol Records. This release will mark the band’s first on Capitol Records. Today, the Louisville quintet reveal the new album’s cover art, full track list, and the lead single, “Big Decisions”, as well as launch a pre-order for […]

Futuristic impressionists DRKWAV channeled the performance space of the Cambridge Regattabar into a canvas of deep, intricately textured jazz fusion. Two lengthy sets provided the trio of John Medeski, Adam Deitch, and Skerik to ability to explore some of the more menacing aspects of psychedelic jazz, all the while keeping a pulsing, funky rhythm that […]

Mumford & Sons have announced the details of their forthcoming third album, Wilder Mind. Wilder Mind will be released in North America through Glassnote Records on May 4. It is produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, HAIM, Florence & The Machine). It features twelve new tracks, written collaboratively by the band in London, Brooklyn, and […]

After taking a year hiatus in 2014 Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival is returning to MASS MoCa in North Adams, MA June 26-28. While it’s a given that Wilco will headline this unique event, tonight the festival announced the lineup via live Facebook trivia and its a hot one with a diverse lineup that includes Real […]

“Marc, we need you.” It was 1987 and current Ramones drummer Richie Ramone had walked out of the band with shows coming up in the near future. The band was desperate. Marky Ramone had moved on after his departure in 1983. He had cleaned up and was working. He had a new grasp on his […]

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. THEESatisfaction proved that hip hip has can revamp itself in the form of quirky, weird, odd and adventurous in […]

On the coldest night of the year in the winter wasteland that was once Boston (minus 5 degrees), Sturgill Simpson, arguably one of the music industry’s hottest acts, rolled into town. The 800 person capacity club was  sold out for months and by show time the room was full and then some; barely a sliver […]

The historic Lobero theater in Santa Barbara was buzzing with excitement on during the world premiere of the rock documentary about the unlikely rise of the band Kansas to superstardom in the film – Kansas: Miracles Out of Nowhere.  Three members of the band, Phil Ehart (drums), Richard Williams (guitar) and Robby Steinhardt (violin) were […]

[rating=9.00 Labeling Diamond Rugs a “supergroup” is almost too small a concept to hold the explosiveness of what they create together. Though each part of the whole came from an established outfit, as a band they are so cohesive you can easily separate them from anything that came before or co-exists. On their second record […]

No matter how long and prosperous one’s life may be, eventually it must end. Leonard Nimoy passed away the morning of Friday, February 27 as a result of COPD—a byproduct of years of smoking—and he leaves behind a larger than life legacy that will live on long past any of us. Though he did a […]

[rating=9.00] On Rose Mountain the Screaming Females explore new terrain (for them) as the New Jersey based trio go cleaner, focusing on verse-chorus-verse song structure and melody. In moving towards more “accessible” rock they have shockingly added a new and exciting dimension to their sound. The band (Marissa Paternoster, Jared Dougherty, Mike Abbate) have actually […]

Los Angeles band Francisco The Man brought some heat to Allston Rock City’s Great Scott this past Sunday evening. On tour in support of their first full-length LP Loose Ends, the West Coast group’s fiery power pop lit up lit up the audience with emotive songwriting and sharp, fuzz-driven musicianship. Francisco The Man wasted no […]

As depicted in its chronological delineation of recordings, True to the Blues illustrates how the recently deceased Johnny Winter became one of contemporary blues’ most formidable guitar heroes. Rising above more than a little hype when he signed with Columbia Records for a sizable bonus in 1969, after a somewhat formulaic label debut, he resumed […]

Friday will be the new Tuesday beginning this summer, when the worldwide music industry begins putting out new releases on most music buyers’ paydays. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the British-based organization that acts as a music-biz United Nations, announced on Thursday that the new plan would go into effect this summer. […]

[rating=7.00] Colin Hay, best known for his role as the singer for the immensely popular Australian pop rock band Men At Work (“Down Under”, “Who Can It Be Now?” and “Overkill”) is back with a new solo album – Next Year People. It is crafty, well constructed and seemingly quite introspective. Produced by Hay and […]

[rating=8.00] “Quirky” is a word that has often been used to describe the North Carolina-based chamber/pop band, Bombadil. But their fifth studio release, Hold On (Ramseur Records), doesn’t include the kind of characters who have inhabited their previous releases. There are no circus animals like “Oto the Bear” from Tarpits and Canyonlands or a philosophizing […]

Festival organizers have dropped the initial lineup for Bunbury Music Festival, which takes place June 5 – 7 at Cincinnati, Ohio’s Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove. Check out the lineup below… Bunbury Music Festival 2015 Initial Lineup: The Black Keys The Avett Brothers Snoop Dogg Brand New Tame Impala The Decemberists Old Crow Medicine Show twenty […]