Archive: 2015

This past weekend, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker delivered a rousing speech at a political convention in Iowa. While many on the right praised Walker for his appearance and have begun floating him as a strong candidate for the 2016 elections, Boston heroes and Irish punk legends Dropkick Murphys were less than pleased with at least […]

Hookers? Shoot-outs? Awkward kisses? It all adds up to a feet-lickin’ bad time in 1975’s ‘Mitchell.’

[rating=8.00] Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors release of Medicine may mark their biggest success yet. Holcomb’s ninth album is from Magnolia Records, and it is a slight change-up from the 2013 release Good Light, slowing the tempo on a majority of the tracks. Not to mention, wife Ellie Holcomb has begun a solo career as […]

The definitive Primus line-up – Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander – just reunited to release their first full-length studio set in nearly 20 years, Primus & the Chocolate Factory. Primus swiftly went out on the road the day after the album’s October 21st release. After a run of dates in Europe, […]

Faith No More have confirmed their first North American shows since 2010 with a spring outing kicking off April 15 in Vancouver. The announcement comes as the Bay Area band wraps up work on their follow-up to 1997’s Album of the Year.  The as-of-yet untitled album is due this May via the band’s newly formed […]

After a first year in Danville, Illinois that featured a top notch lineup but was also plagued by poor weather and unhappy campers who got stranded on the way in, Phases of the Moon Festival has announced today that they will be moving locations and be taking place on a new date. In what seems […]

On their fourth LP, Punch Brothers continue to push themselves compositionally, balancing the cerebral and emotional aspects of their music.

Mark Knopfler will celebrate the release of his new record, Tracker, due March 17 on Verve Records, with a 36-city North American tour that kicks off in Vancouver on September 10 and continues through the end of October. Fans that purchase tickets to ‘An Evening with Mark Knopfler and Band’ online will receive a physical […]

Burton Cummings is a storyteller, one of those people who can sit down anytime anywhere and talk about his life and not miss a tiny detail. Whereas we tend to forget small idiosyncrasies like names, dates, the color of the walls in second grade, Cummings remembers everything. So when you stop and have a chat […]

To celebrate the release of his forthcoming album Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens will tour North America beginning in April. The headline dates include stops at New York’s Beacon Theater and Washington, D.C.’s DAR Constitution Hall. Stevens will also headline the U.K.’s End of the Road festival this September. Presale tickets for the U.S. dates […]

Fresh off a January tour that included a powerful hometown show and two lauded sold-out performances at Nashville’s legendary Ryman Auditorium, Gregg Allman has announced a spring tour that will take him from Northfield, OH, on March 13 all the way to Austin, TX, on May 9, with stops along the way including the Wanee […]

Like their most recent sold-out appearance in the Ballroom at Higher Ground, Dr. Dog’s previous performances at this Vermont venue have become something of a rite of winter. Proceeding from acting as openers in a less-than packed smaller room in Vermont, these Philadelphia-based DIY rock and rollers have pushed their unorthodox methods of writing, recording […]

Boston’s own Extreme is currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of their most successful album to date, Pornograffitti. The band earned their first number one single with the monster ballad “More Than Words” alongside other hits as “Hole Hearted” and “Get the Funk Out”. Extreme is not known for embracing nostalgia, but they recognized their diehard […]

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. Bonnie Prince Billy debuted the single and video “Blindlessness,” the b-side of his “Mindlessness” 7″ single, available January 27, […]

Arizona’s decker. exceeds both lyrically and musically with their adventurous sound that is not quite definable – and that’s a good thing. Forget the desert and landscapes of their home state, decker. truly captures something imaginative that goes beyond geography. Led by the one-of a kind soulful and edgy vocal styling of Brandon Decker, his […]

Photos of’ Billy Idol at the Turf Club in St Paul, MN on 1/19/15.  The show was for 89.3  The Current’s 10th Anniversary and featured a solo acoustic set with Idol and longtime guitarist Steve Stevens. Photos by Billy Briggs. Edit this setlist | More Billy Idol setlists

Most people are familiar with the actor Jeff Daniels. Daniels first came to prominence in the 1983 film,  Terms of Endearment and has been working steadily on stage and screen ever since. He’s coming off a particularly big year  having won an Emmy for his portrayal of Will McAvoy in the HBO series, The Newsroom […]

Punk rock has been getting a lot of love recently. Johnny Rotten and Kim Gordon both have books coming out in 2015; Marky Ramone just released his autobiography; a DVD about Johnny Thunders hit shelves a few months ago and some old Clash footage has popped up on social media. So picking up a book […]

Third Man Records has announced the March 3rd release of Parquet Courts: Live At Third Man Records – the latest addition to the Live At Third Man series. Parquet Courts brought a sweltering performance to the hallowed grounds of Third Man’s Blue Room on June 5th of last year – and very fortunately, TMR was […]