Archive: 2017

Phish returned to Madison Square Garden (MSG) in downtown New York City last night to kick off their annual four-show holiday run. Billed jokingly as their triumphant return to the hallowed arena, after their historic 13 show run at the venue this past summer, the band came out hot. Over two sets punctuated by a […]

The moments on the big and small screen that shaped this year’s entertainment

In the first of two installments of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle revisits his favorite albums of 2017, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop): See also: Glide‘s Top 20 Albums of 2017

The essence of folk music is the song and the song is made up of two basic components, lyrics and melody. Boiled down to the very elements it really is that simple a combination. By that logic though we should all be accomplished folk musicians, but we aren’t. Why? Because there is one other thing […]

If you’ve heard the single, “Young Adult,” from Inara George’s upcoming album, Dearest Everybody, you can tell that a lot has been on the mind of the wife and mother of three young children, and none of it really revolves around Hollywood parties or hanging with rock stars. That’s because her family has been her […]

[rating=9.00] Just in time for perhaps a late gift, of this century’s most decorated jazz albums, Herbie Hancock’s River-The Joni Letters, is now available in a double CD format containing four new tracks that are appearing in CD format for the first time. Now the recordings are available in all formats, including vinyl. This is […]

With nearly two weeks of its theatrical run under its belt, debates over the merit of Star Wars: The Last Jedi don’t show any signs of letting up (you can read our review here). But whether you’re a defender of Rian Johnson’s divisive installment, or you simply have bad taste in movies, The Art Of […]

Entering its eighth year as one of the Southeast’s best music festivals, Savannah Stopover is announcing the first wave of bands for their 2018 lineup. Regional favorites of Monreal are set to headline Saturday, March 10 at Savannah’s Ships of The Sea Museum, North Garden. The three-day festival takes place each year in historic downtown […]

Jamie McLean Band has just announced the Feb. 23 release of its new LP, One and Only, produced by ex-Wilco drummer Ken Coomer (Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris) at Nashville’s legendary Sound Emporium, and featuring contributions from an impressive list of guest artists, from Americana mainstay Sam Bush to reed man extraordinaire Jeff Coffin (Bela Fleck, […]

Jessica Chastain offers a brilliant performance in this witty thriller.

A valiant effort, sure, but Alexander Payne misses the mark big time.

Spielberg returns to form with this journalism thriller.

There’s virtually no text within the approximately two-hundred seventy-five pages of Grateful Dead Photography, but there doesn’t need to be. Apart from the acknowledgments, a listing of credits and a foreword from Graham Nash, only captions appears this chronological visual history of the iconic rock and roll band, and that’s as it should be. And […]

As a native Houstonian, it is a strange feeling to have an event in our city considered the paradigm of ‘cool’. Sure, Houston has incredible museums, an expansive ethnic food offering, and is home to the largest rodeo and renaissance festival in the nation –but it is the nascent Day For Night festival that causes […]

A Metz appearance in Austin is like Christmas come early for dissonant rock enthusiasts in town, of which there are many. An army of black-clad testosteroned adolescents, long-haired metal vets, and discerning bespectacled hipsters all gathered at the Mohawk on Friday, December 15 to bask in the pulsating greatness of Metz. Disappointment has never been […]

In 2018 the 45th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival will once again take place in the bucolic mountain wonderland that is Telluride, CO. Today the organizers of the festival have announced an impressive initial lineup of acts who will descend on the festival grounds June 21-24, 2018. This initial lineup announcement includes about two-thirds of the Festival’s main […]

Great performances still leave something lacking in Ridley Scott’s latest film.