Archive: 2022

Elena Loper is an alt-folk singer-songwriter and guitarist based in Seattle, WA. Loper’s music combines her soaring vocals with her intricate guitar picking and introspective writing.  Cozy up to the warm fingerpicking and beautifully woven melodies of Loper’s new single “Blue Canyon”. Loper shows the restraint of an old pro, changing her vocal inflections at just the […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Guided By Voices – “Mad River Man” Ever since Robert Pollard started fleshing out his songs past the two-minute mark, his releases with GBV have become more and more scattershot. That’s probably an exaggeration. Although none of his later-career […]

“We’re gonna play a lot of songs tonight. It’s the last night of the tour, we’ve got a little bit of gas in the tank, why not? We’re gonna play most of the songs we know,” announced Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall midway through the band’s sold-out show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Wednesday. He […]

The Dip is a seven-piece band from Seattle that has built quite an impressive following (nearly a million monthly Spotify listeners as of this writing) with its lively, soulful sound. On its first two albums, the band showed some similarities to Orgone and Eli “Paperboy” Reed and The True Loves. The new album Sticking With […]

Ryan Adams has booked a show at the 2,804-seat capacity Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage in Carnegie Hall The New York City performance is slated for May 14, 2022, at 8:00 p.m.  Adams made the announcement via Instagram, and it’s remarkable because the North Carolina native has not performed in public since a bombshell February 2019 New York […]

Bob Dylan last night (March 3) performed at the Arizona Federal Theater in Phoenix, AZ for the first stop of 2022 on his Rough and Rowdy Ways World Tour, kicking off the trek with another mighty setlist for his dedicated fans. Dylan and his five-piece band performed the same set that they did at New […]

Lucius’ has shared the video for the new song, “Heartbursts,” which is debuting today. The video is the directorial debut for acclaimed international choreographer and movement director Teresa “Toogie” Barcelo. Known for her work with artists such as Harry Styles, Dua Lipa, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera and St. Vincent, Barcelo has also choreographed large-scale performances for […]

Heartbreak is one of those life events that make you take a step back and look at your life, yourself, your world and call it into question. On her new EP What’s After “I Love You”?, MALIA masterfully muses those topics, following a life-changing breakup, as she explores the various facets of heartbreak. With pristine production and […]

Last year, The Weather Station’s Ignorance seemingly came out of nowhere, often as great albums do, to plow its way into countless year-end lists. Tamara Lindeman’s opus was written in 2018, during a particularly creative time that, also like many other great albums, yielded a whole lot of extra material. Sometimes situations like this simply […]

Nashville via Australia isn’t an artistic path we’ve heard often, but somehow it all makes sense. Take the outrageous alt-pop flair from the outback and mix it with the pristine Nashville production and we get something that smells like Parcels bathing musically with Lord Huron. Nashville-via-Australia artist Josh Rennie-Hynes takes the prize home with his […]

Irish singer/songwriter and performer Wallis Bird released the challenging album, Woman, in 2019, leaning into Soul music and taking on global ideas that later crystallized for her as the “fall of empires” in our current world. Moving in 2020, she didn’t intend to work on new music, but rather have some down time, however, getting […]

Drummer/composer Tomas Fujiwara has been working with several of the kindred spirits in his sextet, Triple Double, for the past two decades. His relationship with cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, who also doubles up instruments in his sextets, fellow drummer Gerald Cleaver, guitarists Mary Halvorson and Brandon Seabrook, and trumpeter Ralph Alessi along with Bynum. Together they comprise Fuiwara’s Triple Double. […]

Ural Thomas And The Pain today announce their new album Dancing Dimensions released 3rd June via Bella Union and available to preorder here. To mark the occasion the celebrated soul star has shared an entertaining part-animated video for the album’s irresistible title track and announced a London Jazz Cafe show on Saturday 18th June along […]

With quarter-century hindsight, U2’s Pop (released 3/3/97) takes on more significance than it had at the time of its original release. Or in the interim immediately following for that matter. Looking back on its recording as well as the public perception around 1997, the group’s ninth album would foreshadow the protracted processes of composing, performing, […]

Trey Anastasio (if you can find anyone else on the internet with the same name we’d like to know) sat in with Yim Yames and My Morning Jacket yesterday (March 2) on a trio of songs on the second night of My My Morning Jacket’s One Big Holiday at Moon Palace The Grand in Cancun, […]

Kevin Morby has announced This Is A Photograph, his new album, out May 13th on Dead Oceans, and shares its title track and accompanying video. Additionally, Morby has announced tour dates spanning the globe.  This Is A Photograph, Morby’s 7th album, finds him making an Americana paean, a visceral life and death, blood on the canvas outpouring. The creatively invigorated songwriter has managed to […]

Auditorium is the project of Los Angeles-based artist Spencer Berger. Originally hailing from Queens, New York, Berger began performing at the age of nine as a member of The Metropolitan Opera’s Children’s Chorus, singing onstage with such golden-throated legends as Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. This past year marked the 10th anniversary of Auditorium’s 2011 […]

Belle and Sebastian have announced their 9th album and first studio full-length in seven years, A Bit Of Previous, released May 6th on Matador. Watch the video for the first single “Unnecessary Drama” below. “The song is about a young person experimenting in being a human again after a forced hiatus”, says frontman Stuart Murdoch. “The […]

Last Friday night guitar sensation Mdou Moctar brought his tour behind last year’s standout Afrique Victime back to Brooklyn for a special performance at the Howard Gilman Opera House at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Billed as the first time he’d perform the entire album, the concert served as the first in a series curated […]

A new arrival to the ambient music scene, French artist Piers is premiering with Glide “Dusk” –  the lead single off his debut EP Ire. The EP, which is due out April 15th, is an impressive collection of ambient instrumental piano tracks which are brief but impactful, showcasing the artist’s deeply felt appreciation for melodies that cut […]