Archive: 2022

Steve Poltz is getting more comfortable in Nashville. The former San Diego-based and Nova Scotia-born humorous folk singer made his Red House debut with the acclaimed 2019 Shine On, collaborating with Will Kimbrough. He now turns to Oliver Wood and Jano Rix of The Wood Brothers, collaborating on Stardust & Satellites. The humble Poltz claims […]

For those who have followed the career of the North Mississippi Allstars, part of the excitement has been the many iterations of the lineup over the years. With brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson at the core on guitar and drums, respectively, the rest of the band has rarely stayed for more than a few tours. […]

Grampfather is an eclectic rock band based out of Kingston, NY, whose material traverses a variety of rock genres, such as indie, garage, punk, psych, chill, and thrash. The band is composed of James Kwapisz (guitar and vocals), Andrew Blot (lead guitar), Tony DiMauro (drums), and Jake Offermann (bass). Kwapisz started the band in 2013, […]

The Revelries started in a college dorm room at Louisiana State University 2016 but almost immediately became a local performance band. A few years into their development, with some singles out, and having recorded their first EP, they became part of a program with EDGEOUT Records, a division of UMG, that intentionally develops Rock artists […]

Mike Zito has recorded his long dreamed of live blues album and as they say in the sports world, he and his band “left it all on the floor.” Zito made a special trip to the neighborhood where he grew up, South St. Louis, for an explosive show at the Old Rock House. Zito, who […]

You ever heard of Mike Clark? No? Really? It’s okay, you’re reading this and your situation is about to be remedied. Mike Clark is a Colorado guy. He’s a member of The Haunted Windchimes (heard of them? No? Fix that) and leads a band called The River Arkansas. The Windchimes are rooted in honey soaked […]

More than a half-century since its release, The Allman Brothers Band’s concert album, At Fillmore East, remains their signature release. It is, in fact, the title by which most people know the seminal Southern band’s work. Yet its successor, Eat A Peach, isn’t far behind in terms of widespread recognition and for good reason: it […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Spoon – “Lucifer on the Sofa” Spoon tried to record Lucifer on the Sofa (the album) seven different times before the pandemic hit Texas, and then many more times after that. The band has never had a break in […]

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the fifth album from American folk-rock force of nature Big Thief, isn’t so much a culmination of their career up to this point as it is the beginning of a whole new chapter. Like a butterfly freshly emerged from its chrysalis the album bears some of the […]

This news is going to bring down my uncle’s country place that no one knows about. Neil Peart’s January 2020 death closed the door on Rush ever again releasing newly-written music, but fans can look forward to a new “super deluxe” expanded edition of Moving Pictures slated for release on April 15 (or in Rush dates that’s […]

For the next however long it takes for me to write this, I have the unenviable task of trying to describe the ethereal – to put into words musical moods that eschew a label. The last hour has found me trying to formulate the sentences only to be stymied by the impossibility of what lies […]

Produced and arranged by Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ Beautiful World (released 2/11/97) sounds as polished and potent a quarter-century after its release as it did upon its original issue. More importantly, the benefit of hindsight reveals how this fifth studio album of the Colorado band planted the seeds of […]

Veering between lush folk and orchestral nods, Raygun Carver surely sounds bigger than its parts. With warm earnest singing, brooding openheartedness, and a kaleidoscope of genres, this musical project of Pacific NW artist Michael Soiseth is surely a name we deserver to hear more of. Bad Thing, the follow-up to the artists’ 2020 LP Moon […]

People, the first collaboration between powerhouse vocalist Hinda Hoffman and Chicago’s near-legendary Soul Message Band is the second installment in this writer’s self-dubbed “year of the organ-led bands.” Yes, 2022 is starting that way. This marks a couple of firsts too. It’s the first time the band has ventured into vocal jazz and the first […]

Mestizo, his fifth album as a leader, may well be rising saxophonist/composer/arranger/educator Diego Rivera’s crowning achievement to date. The Michigan-born and raised and now Associate Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University delivers his third album as a leader for Posi-Tone and has found a home there both for his solo projects and as […]

Orville Peck, the fringed mask artist with the lonesome twangy howl should be the next crossover star here in months. In the meantime, he is following the success of 2019’s Pony with his sophomore album Bronco on April 8th. The fifteen track album will be available globally via Columbia Records and will be released in […]

Today, Kentucky folk-rocker Ian Noe releases his second single “River Fool,” a buoyant portrait of a local Kentucky figure, from his anticipated sophomore album River Fools & Mountain Saints, a masterpiece of high-energy roadhouse rockers and Appalachian ballads set for release on March 25 via Thirty Tigers. “River Fool” teems with mandolin, banjo and fiddle […]