Archive: 2021

Santa Cruz based indie-rockers and Glide favorites Bobcat Rob & The Nightly Howl are back with their offbeat brand of jangly psych on their new single “Popcorn Lung.” Built on a warm and wide bed of low end and sprinkled with fastidious keys and rich guitar tone, “Popcorn Lung” is an expressive track touching on […]

Gracie Convert is a London based contemporary R&B artist, becoming known for her raw unapologetic lyrics and silky vocals over alternative beats. Having already garnered support from tastemakers and received National radio backing, Gracie Convert returns with her new single “Stay.”  Glide has gotten hold of the fresh new single “Stay” (below) from this burgeoning […]

Singer/songwriter, Yacht Rock icon and five-time Grammy Award winner Michael McDonald appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last night to perform his classic hit “What A Fool Believes;” check it out the nearly flawless performance below… The television appearance comes in anticipation of McDonald’s upcoming livestream performance Home Alone 2, Birthday Bash: A Party of One, set for […]

Bluegrass maven Billy Strings has announced a three-night run of socially distanced outdoor concerts in St. Augustine, Florida at the St. Augustine Ampitheatre from March 19-21. These shows, which mark Strings’ first in-person performances in front of a live audience since his critically acclaimed “Meet Me at the Drive-In” tour last September, will feature enhanced […]

The new album from Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Bandwas written by candlelight and then recorded using the best technology available . . . in the 1950s. Scheduled for independent release April 9, 2021 via Thirty Tigers, Dance Songs for Hard Times conveys the hopes and fears of pandemic living. Rev. Peyton, the Big Damn Band’s vocalist and world-class fingerstyle guitarist, […]

Roll The Bones X, the special edition reissue celebrating the 10th anniversary of Shakey Graves’ breakout debut album Roll The Bones, is set for release on April 2 via Dualtone Records. Originally released in 2011 exclusively on Bandcamp, the forthcoming double LP release will now be available on all digital service providers for the first time. In celebration of the upcoming […]

The Hold Steady announce plans for an unprecedented 2021 edition of The Weekender, the band’s annual multi-night live event for fans in the United Kingdom and European Union. Traditionally held at the legendary Electric Ballroom in Camden, London, this year will see The Weekender livestreaming directly from Brooklyn, NY’s Brooklyn Bowl for two concerts on Friday, March 5 […]

Named after a riff on an obscure internet inside joke slung by a semi-literate troll in the comment section of a clickbait post about the discovery of a massive prehistoric alligator, Pinguin Mofex has never been accused of making sense. They have a song where the 5-7 members of the band shout “Snakebite!” for three […]

Like the local dive bar’s perennial drunkard, Parker Smith’s music has that rare ability to thrive while at its scrappiest. All aching pedal steel and cigarette-soaked pleas, Smith seems to put his own spiritual turmoil in a chokehold, elevating it until he squeezes out the elegant songs that make for his forthcoming sophomore LP, Underground, […]

Hailing from the D.C. area, Domenic Cicala – A singer/songwriter with a love for the 3 minute song.  Largely influenced by the holy musical trinity of Hank, Elvis and Bruce and owing all his musical acumen to the sagely philosophy of Woody Guthrie “If you play more than 2 chords you are showing off”.   Domenic is a Roots […]

This is Beth Lee stepping out on her own four years after the release of her critically lauded album, Keep Your Mouth Shut, with her roots rock ‘n’ roll band Beth Lee & The Breakups. She left her comfort zone behind, this being her fourth album recorded in California’s East Bay area. With a similar Americana filter […]

The late beloved actor Harry Dean Stanton appeared in well over 30 films but musically, other than a few cameos, there’s only one of his albums available.  The same company, Omnivore, who delivered the 2014 Partly Fiction, now finds a bit more Stanton material in collaboration with the band, The Cheap Dates, for a combination […]

With their scuzzy and feverish grunge riffs, Yorkshire based post-punk group LUMERLUMER are fast becoming a manic force to be reckoned with. Recently likened to acts such as Yak, King Nun and Black Flag, LUMER have bloomed out of Hull’s thriving alternative music scene, holding the garage-punk torch aloft and lighting the way for the […]

Inspired by uncertainty and crystallized in isolation, Brooklyn based Jack Symes’ sophomore album is a testament to spending time with yourself and making peace with the parts of you that have been neglected. Written while uprooting his life, and recorded in the blurry ebb of life under a pandemic, the deeply personal songs are at […]

Just one listen to Andrew Grimm’s well-worn gravitas and backwoods authenticity, you know this isn’t just another Americana wanna-bee. In fact, Grimm has been out there and hustlin’ his songs for longer than Tyler Childers has been old enough to drive. Enter Grimm’s gritty project June Star and the release of its new album How […]

Yes has a long history with bass player Billy Sherwood. Once he discovered them as a youth growing up in Las Vegas, that was it and he tried his darnedest to be Chris Squire. The only band member to be with Yes from the beginning, and on every album, Squire was a legend. But in […]

Fear – it can grab us by our fingernails and keep us in its vice grips. It can keep us from singing the song, from making the call. It can keep us from buying the motorcycle. Or releasing the album. Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia duo Mink’s Miracle medicine navigated trepidation and wanderlust before deciding to […]

N8NoFace has been creating Synth-Punk music and releasing it into the wild on the internet since the days of MySpace, finding it to be an outlet for his voracious songwriting tendencies. Meanwhile, making like-minded friends and pursuing live performance eventually led to some great opportunities to spread the word about his solo work. In 2018, […]