Archive: 2022

“Godmother to “WAP”” (CBC), feminist icon and pop provocateur Peaches’ announces The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary Tour, kicking off in Seattle, Washington on May 16. A celebration of the 20th anniversary of Peaches’ seminal The Teaches of Peaches, she will be performing the album in its entirety across North America, Europe and the UK. In […]

The Black Keys have officially announced their 32-date “Dropout Boogie” North American Tour.  The tour begins July 9 in Las Vegas with special guests Band Of Horses. Ceramic Animal, Early James, & The Velveteers for select dates. This is the band’s first proper tours since 2019’s Let’s Rock outing, and they have yet to tour […]

Rain Perry wades into the fraught topic of the day on her upcoming release A White Album, due out April 15th, in which she asks, with clarity, empathy and a little wry humor: what does it mean to be white? What can we learn if we face our demons head on? Can we get past […]

For rock & roll fans, when they imagine what a country music concert must be like, it usually consists of lower-volumed music, lots of cowboy hats in the crowd, and a setlist full of twangy ballads about two-timing men and broken-hearted women. Obviously, they haven’t seen Travis Tritt. Yes, he has ballads and drinking songs, […]

On Friday, January 28th, jamgrass outfit Greensky Bluegrass was joined by the Infamous Stringdusters at the House of Blues in Boston, MA.

Eric Gales is a blues-rock artist who released his first album at age 16. At the time, he and Joe Bonamassa were both hailed as the next torchbearers of the blues. Both have been successful although Gales’ career took a detour because of substance abuse issues, which ultimately landed him in Shelby County Correction Center […]

John Mancini started writing songs while working as a house painter in Crested Butte, Colorado, and began performing regularly when he moved to Southern Mississippi in 2004. Returning to his hometown of Baltimore, MD, in 2007, he started JMB, recorded two full-length award-winning albums, and toured the Mid-Atlantic from NY to VA until 2012. Picking up […]

The High Water Marks formed in 2003 when Hilarie Sidney and Per Ole Bratset met after an Apples in Stereo show in Oslo, Norway. The band recently followed up 13 years of being off the scene with a critically and commercially welcomed new album and then quickly came in hot with another batch of 13 […]

Budding or experienced guitar players out there, or really musicians who play any instrument, who have always wanted to take private lessons with Phish’s Trey Anastasio now have access to the next best thing. Anastasio now has posted two videos to his Instagram feed providing rudimentary music lessons, saying he wanted to pass on his knowledge because […]

Portland’s Mississippi Studios was in for a psychedelic treat on Thursday, Jan. 27, when a caravan of three bands arrived from Los Angeles on their current west coast tour.  Headliners L.A. WITCH brought along a couple of bands from their hometown, relatively new scenesters Tremours, as well as the laid-back power trio, Triptides.  The Portland […]

The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band was originally scheduled to play at Hard Rock Live in Orlando, Florida in February 2021, but due to COVID it was postponed to September 2021. As that date neared, a member of the band contracted COVID and it was postponed again. On January 28, 2022, a delighted Orlando crowd finally […]

In a new weekly roundup, Glide drops caustic commentary on selected tracks from release day Friday. Modern Nature – “Brigade” Jack Cooper’s stints with Mazes and Ultimate Painting have developed their own little middle-aged birdwatcher following but his most recent work with Modern Nature has been notably overlooked. Island of Noise hones Cooper’s spacier side, […]

After spending the last decade building her Hadestown project into a Broadway phenomenon and reworking traditional folk songs with Bonny Light Horseman, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell has returned with her first solo album since 2012. After shaking up her songwriting style working with the Bon Iver and The National-affiliated 37d03d collective, Mitchell delivers a tight set […]

The Mighty Mighty BossToneS, the beloved ska progenitors who formed in Boston 39 years ago and brought the ska-core subgenre into the mainstream, announced they are calling it quits. A statement on the band’s website reads, “After decades of brotherhood, touring the world, and making great records together we have decided not to continue on as a […]

On the first single from FREAKONS, “Blackleg Miner”, (listen below) Sally Timms doles out some rough justice. Taken from their forthcoming self-titled album, FREAKONS track a seam of gorgeous shiny black coal from Northumberland to South Wales and across under the cruel Atlantic to Kentucky. A 19th century English folk song from the Northumberlland region, […]

Singer-songwriter Forrest Hill wasn’t going to make a fourth solo album. As a musician, who had a fruitful “part one” career bisected by domestic bliss, enlightening personal journeys, and a fulfilling career outside of music, he felt satisfied with his “part two” output and was fine to move on. Then COVID-19 hit, his father passed […]

Simone Felice’s All The Bright Coins hearkens to Nothing Gold Can Stay, the first project he conducted (with Robert ‘Chicken” Burke) after leaving his band of Brothers. Not coincidentally, the songwriter/musician/poet/author’s fourth album under his own name is essentially a duo effort as well: a collaboration credited as ‘written and produced by Simone Felice and […]

Bill O’Connell’s A Change Is Gonna Come is ideally timed as the pianist, composer, and arranger is fresh off a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Arrangement (Instrumental or A Capella)’ for the song “Chopsticks” on Richard Baratta’s album Music in Film: The Reel Deal. Co-produced by band member and renowned drummer Steve Jordan, (yes, that same drummer who has now […]