Archive: 2022

Captured at Woodstock, New York’s Levon Helm Studios in the summer of 2011, Carry Me Home features a pair of icons, Mavis Staples and Levon Helm. The live recording has Staples’ and Helm’s bands operating at full throttle in an eclectic setlist of tunes made famous by the likes of Nina Simone, The Impressions, Bob Dylan, and The […]

Over the course of several reviews for Seth Walker, this writer has in the past described him as a “bluesman dressed up as an Americana artist” but with each studio album Walker has been leaning toward the latter style, never more so than with his latest, I Hope I Know. Again, he collaborates with longtime […]

The term “Play it again,” couldn’t be more poignant than for Brian Lisik, who released a live solo version of his song “Sleeping With A Moron” that was originally on a 2006 album but has since become one of his most requested songs. Glide is premiering this lyrically candid live version of “Sleeping With a […]

Brooklyn-based five-piece band Jeremy & The Harlequins will release their fourth full-length album, ABRA CaDaBRA digitally and on CD on May 20th via Pasadena Records (ORDER), with vinyl to follow in the Fall. With it, the band delve into musical traditions from earliest Rock to bring a certain amount of “boogie” to the new collection. […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Hard Times and a Woman, the new album from Americana artist Justin Golden, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

After wetting his feet as a solo artist with 2012’s Clear Heart Full Eyes, Craig Finn put together what works out to basically a strong, thematically linked, a triple album on his next three releases, Faith in the Future (2015) We All Want the Same Things (2017) and I Need a New War (2019). He […]

“This song is about love and loss; not from a lover, but a friend. I had a disagreement with a few friends who made assumptions about me, and were later proved to have been wrong and malicious with their intentions. This is the ‘f*** you, you don’t determine who I am‘ song for the record. The […]

New York City got a treat on Friday night May 13th as Grayson Capps played a short but tasty set at Stage 3 of the Rockwood Music Hall. Grayson plays in a number of configurations: solo, with a full band, and as a duo with his lead guitarist, Corky Hughes. Happily, he brought Corky north […]

Ghost will be bringing their live shows to North America for the next leg of its globally dominating IMPERATOUR. The North American IMPERATOUR will see the GRAMMY® Award-winning Swedish theatrical rock band headlining 19 arenas across the U.S. and Canada (plus an appearance at Virginia’s Blue Ridge Rock Fest), kicking off August 26 at San […]

Goose has shared “Arrow,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services. The official music video is streaming now via YouTube and can be heard below. An explosive staple of their live setlist since its December 2019 debut, the long-awaited studio version of “Arrow” marks the latest track release from the band’s upcoming new album, Dripfield, due […]

The Emo pioneers My Chemical Romance traveled overseas to perform in the U.K. for the first time in 11 years at The Eden Project in St Austell, England on May 16th, This show kicked off their long-awaited reunion tour, and the initial run of shows in 2020 fell victim to the pandemic. The setlist was […]

In what is shaping up to be one of their most unique tours yet due to unforeseen circumstances of drummer Matt Cameron being sidelined with COVID, original Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen rejoined his most famous band on stage Monday night (May 16) in Fresno, Calif., his first multi-song concert performance with the group since May […]

Iconic Japanese dub/rock band Fishmans is revered for their distinct dreamy psychedelic sound, and understandably, Philadelphia art-rockers Pine Barons are amongst their many fans. With regard to their love for the group, Pine Barons have crafted a brand new Fishmans tribute album, I LOVE FISH (due July 8 via Grind Select), and today Glide is […]

After nearly a decade in New York City, alt-country rocker Whitney Lockert finds refuge and renewal in Los Angeles and classic country/rock songcraft on his sophomore LP, Long Way to California (out July 15th). The record plays like a series of musical postcards from pasts and futures, both real and imagined, and draws on Lockert’s […]

Fresh from Jazz Fest, Robert Walter returned to the West Coast for a pair of sold-out shows in the Pacific Northwest, hitting Portland’s Star Theater on Saturday, May 14th. Seattle and Portland both had the pleasure of hosting Walter over the past weekend. The founding member of the Greyboy Allstars enlisted some fellow improvisational virtuosos […]

Under the Porch is the Albany, NY-based collective’s Bright Dog Red’s (BDR) fifth album for Ropeadope since 2018, and we have covered each annual release on these pages since 2019. Unlike 2021’s live recording, this one is born from excruciating studio details. There are a dozen tracks, recorded part by part, layer by layer, edit […]

On his debut album Wellswood, New Orleans by way of Tampa musician Thomas Dollbaum delivers eight no-frills, satisfyingly original songs that pull in blues and folk influences for a beautifully bastardized version of both genres.  The set kicks off with “Florida,” a brooding, Bukowski-worthy tale of the darker side of the Sunshine state, filled with […]

Anglo-French singer-songwriter Michael Baker released his debut album Dust & Bone in 2016 while living in his van for two and a half years during the recording. He followed it up with 2020’s Salt and 2021’s How Come You Sleep. “Often when confronted with something beautiful, a happy moment, I’m overwhelmed with how ephemeral everything is, thus finding sadness. It’s a […]

“Claude the Armadillo”, the latest release from Lou Hazel, is an old school country storytelling song about a small placental mammal hoping to inspire a mixed-up, on edge world to try just gettin’ by on gettin’ by. Lou Hazel is the country/folk project of Chris Frisina, who when writing songs “uses what can only be explained as […]