Archive: 2021

South by Southwest (SXSW) has announced the second wave of musical artists for the 2022 festival

Old Crow Medicine Show has announced Paint This Town, the GRAMMY award-winning Nashville-based band’s seventh studio album releasing April 22 via ATO Records. The band also shares a music video for the album’s title track “Paint This Town,” a swinging anthem that fully embodies the band’s carefree troublemaking over the last two decades. The video […]

The 19th installment of Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding was a relentless barrage of high-energy musical entertainment at Phoenix’s Celebrity Theater.. Two long years have passed since the previous Alice Cooper Christmas Pudding. That is a long time for an organization that depends on two events to fund Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers. The mission of […]

Lord Nelson Push Through the Darkness with Alt-country Rocker “Drag Me Down” off their upcoming album Transmission

Olivero is one of those musical prodigies who are just born with indescribable talent. At only nine years he was already playing complex pieces by Bach on the cello in the conservatory in front of a sophisticated and astonished audience, followed by successful participations at various competitions and masterclasses. Yet it was his encounter with […]

UK-based singer-songwriter Ben Auld has announced his forthcoming LP, Lemongrass (due February 15, 2022 via Earth Libraries), with a debut single entitled “D4A” which Glide is premiering below. Channeling the likes of Elliot Smith with soften-spoken harmonies and laid-back acoustics, the track is intimate and heartfelt, expressing the purest of emotions in a relatable, touching […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Motorheart, the newest album from heavy metal outfit The Darkness, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

Having returned to live shows for the first time in over a decade this past summer, Bright Eyes are prepared to hit the road again. The band has announced a run of US shows beginning in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 23rd. For the tour, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott are partnering with Plus1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to […]

On Sunday, December 5th, folk troubadour John Craigie played the second of two nights at Portland’s Aladdin Theater as part of his Keep It Warm 2021 tour.

Laura Tsaggaris (sah-GAIR-iss) is a singer, guitarist and songwriter. Her story begins in Pennsylvania where she grew up in the Pittsburgh area. College and a tennis scholarship brought her to Williamsburg, VA. She left that historic city with a love for another: Washington, DC. Touring across the country while calling the nation’s capital home laid […]

Indie music duo The Bergamot, comprised of Nathaniel Hoff and Jillian Speece, engaged in an experiment early in the pandemic period of doing 100 livestreams in 100 days. This paved the way for a dramatic new form of engagement with fans and led to an outpouring of songwriting that’s still impacting them today. The most […]

Blue Note Unearths Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Classic Lineup On ‘First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings’

The wild and unexpected popularity of Cobra Kai—whose fourth season premieres on Netflix on December 31—has naturally led to a rise in interest in the films that birthed the surprise streaming hit. It was difficult to grow up in the 80s without idolizing Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi and now, parents ourselves, we can finally […]

I was far, far too old to catch the wave of Avatar: The Last Airbender as it made its debut in 2005. That was a world to which I felt I would never belong, a sort of symbolic generation gap that would forever define the chasm between elder Millennials and Gen Z, one which I […]

Whiskerman is an indie rock band from Oakland, California. Passionate, clowning, pensive and raw, the band has emerged as a creative engine of the west coast psychedelic scene, and has released 4 studio albums to date. Frontman Graham Patzner’s songs make the collapse of industrial civilization sound catchy, as it should, for there is no […]

Ben Larsen is a long time resident of Portland, OR where he began his music career thirteen years ago. A singer-songwriter, and multi instrumentalist, Larsen has been busy developing and producing his solo project. Before embarking on his current endeavor Larsen was the bandleader and frontman for acoustic roots group, Crow and the Canyon. Today […]

Primavera Sound, the renowned festival in Spain that hosts lineups worth flying the Atlantic will now be touching down in California. The first confirmed names of the festival, which will take place on the 16th, 17th and 18th September in the L.A. State Historic State Park, over three days has been revealed. The preview of […]

Rainbow Kitten Surprise have announced new North American tour dates for Spring 2022. The newly announced shows kick off at Township Auditorium in Columbia, SC on April 7th. Presale begins Tuesday, December 7th, at 10am, with the general on-sale starting Friday, December 10th at 10am (all times local). The dates coincide with the band’s performance at next year’s Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, GA […]

HAIM have announced their North American tour for Spring and Summer 2022 in support of their latest album ‘Women In Music Pt. III.’ Promoted by Live Nation, the band will kick off the 27-date One More HAIM Tour on April 24th in Las Vegas, NV, and hit major cities across North America including Chicago, Houston, […]