Archive: 2015

[rating=10.00] To those who have not yet jumped on the high-speed train that JD McPherson is driving, don’t waste one more minute. We were pretty certain he was a force to be reckoned with after 2012’s Signs and Signifiers, but with his new record Let the Good Times Roll, there’s no question. A modern soul […]

Kindred, the new album from Passion Pit, will be released April 21 via Columbia Records. Listen to the first track from the album, “Lifted Up (1985),” is streaming below, The albumwill be available for pre-order tomorrow (2/17) with “Lifted Up (1985)” and a second track, “Where The Sky Hangs,” as instant downloads. Kindred was written […]

Yonder Mountain String Band played the second to last date of their winter tour with a Valentines Day show at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Saturday night.

Scottish four-piece Django Django have returned to announce their sophomore album, Born Under Saturn is due out May 5th. The album’s first single “First Light,” (below) released last month, suggested the news was imminent. Born Under Saturn expands on the slippery, indefinable nature of their self-titled debut, applying all of it’s giddy art-rock imagination only […]

Eddie Trunk is at home on the day he calls to talk with Glide about the new season of That Metal Show, the VH1-Classic music program he has been hosting for the past seven years. Born and raised in New Jersey, Trunk has built a metal rock empire just by being himself. All the musicians […]

Buster Poindexter sang his heart out during a pre-Valentine’s Day set at the Café Carlyle on Tuesday, reviving R&B, doo-wop, and soul covers on the first night of a two-week residency at the New York supper club. The performance marked David Johansen’s latest return as the slick, smarmy lounge-singer character he created in the ’80s, […]

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. Burette and Gabrielle Douglas of The Cush keep the tradition alive of stellar husband wife duos with their newly […]

Forget about the sports bars, born-again Christians, golf and Arizona, Alice Cooper is still a tried and true rock and roller. In Austin on Thursday Cooper exorcised his demons through a 90-minute set that encapsulated why he is one of the most influential performers to ever hit the stage. Sure, the set was a romp […]

[rating=1.00] The whole phenomenon surrounding the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has always  baffled me. I’ve seen it billed as “housewife porn,” a sort of refuge of sexual imagination and fantasy for the otherwise vanilla middle-American. I suppose that makes sense, given our attitudes regarding sex and sexuality in our country. We tend to repress […]

The 10th Annual Pitchfork Music Festival happening Friday, July 17 through Sunday, July 19 at Chicago’s Union Park has unveiled this year’s lineup. In celebrating 10 years, the 2015 festival showcases an exciting mix of emerging artists and established favorites. Wilco headlines Friday, July 17 and will be joined by Chvrches, Panda Bear, Mac DeMarco, […]

Led by the husband-and-wife team of David Pelta-Tiller (mandolin, tenor guitar, vocals) and Enion Pelta-Tiller (five-string violin, vocals), Colorado’s Taarka specialize in weaving intricate folksy tales with technical acoustic musicianship not unlike groups like the Punch Brothers or fellow Coloradans Elephant Revival. It helps that this duo also features guitarist Ross Martin and bass powerhouse Sam […]

[rating=7.00] Near the close of the 1990’s and at the peak of their success, the gentlemen of 6 String Drag packed up their instruments and called it a day. Although respectively hailing from various Southeastern locales, the group called Raleigh, North Carolina their home, and for a few years proved to be one of the […]

Not many 23-year-old guitarists can claim to have toured opening for B.B. King—Hamish Anderson has already checked this milestone off the list, having finished a run with the iconic bluesman in October. Hamish made a name for himself in his hometown of Melbourne, Australia, with an impressive live show offering a mix of electric-blues-soaked rave-ups […]

[rating=8.00] Until fairly recently only fans of the Carolina Chocolate Drops knew that the group’s multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Rhiannon Giddens had one of the most amazing voices in the contemporary music world. That all started to change in 2013 when Giddens sent jaws dropping with her stand out performance at a star studded New York City concert […]

So much ink has been spent discussing Kanye West and what an asshole he is. It seems like no matter where you turn there’s another interview with Kanye West saying the something douchy or generally acting like a complete and total asshole. There was his feud with Jimmy Kimmel, which proved that Kanye West doesn’t […]

The Rolling Stones will return to playing live with live dates in America set to take place this summer reports NME. Guitarist Ronnie Wood let the information slip while speaking to Billboard. The band have yet to complete their 50 & Counting world tour and were forced to postpone some dates towards the end of […]

Bob Dylan and his never ending tour continues back into the states and will kick at The Borgata in Atlantic City on April 10. Although Dylan did recently just put out an album of Sinatra standards titled Strangers in the Night, there is no telling that these songs will appear in the set lists.Ticketing details […]

Coming off a recent historic three-night run in Colorado, moe. bass player and vocalist Rob Derhak spoke with Glide Magazine’s Ken Lawson to get his take on the recent Grammy Award debacle with Kanye West, “al.nouncements” and his essential go-to musical influences. moe. recently lost a long-time fan and taper in Eric Vandercar. I would […]

As what has now become a summer regularity, Steely Dan has announced a 22-date Summer Tour featuring support from Elvis Costello & The Imposters. Although this a bit of a surprise pairing musically, it hardly compares to the wtf moment of seeing Steely Dan on the Coachella bill this year. These show come after the […]

[rating=8.00] Once the Dodos wrapped recording on 2013’s Carrier, the San Francisco duo realized that they still had a lot more to say. Wanting to capture the momentum, they immediately began laying tracks for their sixth album, Individ. After spending their first several years crafting their distinct and instantly recognizable sound and the last few […]