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.’

Can the world afford to wait every two years until Dengue Fever release another album? The more I delve into their music, the more insatiable my ears become, eagerly awaiting the next psychedelic spy thriller soundtrack set to frontwoman Chhom Nimol’s uber confident vocals. Like a slow drip of the sweetest pressed coffee, their spurts […]

Israel Nash’s 2014 record Rain Plans was one of the best releases of 2014. It’s a kind of electric mash up of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Neil Young, with gritty, Southern roots. Nash himself, all in black with a tangle of blonde hair and weathered cowboy boots, is a convincing Texas rock star. He […]

[rating=5.00] The Lone Bellow’s sophomore effort Then Came the Morning is a mixed product.  The album strikes out as a synthesis of various traditional styles, but filtered through a modern lens. The result is an ambitious series of songs that maintains a consistent style alchemizing all of these ideas but often underwhelms in their execution. Early on […]

Tucson Arizona’s Calexico are returning with the follow-up to 2012’s Algiers and the 2013 live album Spiritoso. Their ninth studio full length recording is called Edge of the Sun  and is due out April 14th via Anti-/City Slang and it features collaborations with Neko Case, Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell, DeVotchka’s Nick Urata, Gaby Moreno, […]

After the surprise announcement that they will be playing next to the likes of Tyler the Creator, Kaskade and Bad Religion at Coachella this April, that pink elephant on the lineup bill – Steely Dan- have announced a series of shows that surround their two Coachella weekend appearances. The band led by Walter Becker and […]

This morning Forecastle Music Festival dropped the first round of artists playing the annual event in Louisville, KY on July 17-19. As per usual, the festival features a wide range of acts, offering something for every type of music fan. The lineup announcement comes one day after the festival confirmed a 5-year deal to keep […]

Neko Case will be reissuing her iconic album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood in a limited edition run of red vinyl to commemorate Record Store Day 2015. Neko will be performing in Portland, Oregon on April 18th at Revolution Hall to celebrate the indie record stores that have been so integral to her life and […]

[rating=9.00] In their campaign to revivify the power trio concept originated by Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Gov’t Mule always emphasized improvisation. Five years into that initiative, the band in its initial configuration of guitarist/vocalist Warren Haynes, bassist Allen Woody and drummer Matt Abts, began to alternately fine-tune and expand their approach to jamming […]

Just when we thought the method of purchasing money orders, decorating envelopes and going to the post office to request tickets might have gone the dated way of the Maxell XLII, we’ve come to find out that over 60,000 mail request envelopes were requested for the Grateful Dead 50 Fare Thee Well concerts in Chicago […]

(Photo Credit: Alissa Anderson) Last year Ethan Miller found himself in a dark place. For the last 14 years he had been working non-stop as a career musician, fronting Bay Area noise rock band Comets on Fire before shifting his primary focus to more of a classic rock sound with his Howlin’ Rain project. Between both […]