Archive: 2023

The legendary Depeche Mode is gearing up for their triumphant return to rock music as they prep for the release of their new LP. Memento Mori is set to release on March 24 via Venusnote and features 12 new tracks from the band. They brought the album’s sole single to life last night (February 23) […]

Glide picks best new music of the week Feb 20-24

When Matt Andersen steps on stage, he brings a lifetime of music to every note he plays. The Big Bottle of Joy is about celebration – hard-won, overflowing, exuberant celebration. Over a dozen songs infused with raw blues-rock, rollicking Americana, thoughtful folk, and ecstatic gospel, he testifies to something we could all do well to […]

The enduring Australian band’s twenty-sixth album, The Hypnagogue, might well be termed a return to form, except that, even as it incorporates new recruits, the band picks right up where it left off with 2017’s Man Woman Life Death Infinity.

Those familiar with the legendary bassist Buster Williams likely think of him in terms of his associations with Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and countless others. To these, this recent release, Unalome, a vocal album, may come as a bit of a surprise. Yet, through his storied career, Williams has also been […]

In town for a performance on Saturday Night Live a few days later, Jack White spent Wednesday night in Bushwick shaking the rafters of the 1,800-capacity Brooklyn Steel

The Backseat Lovers have announced an extension of their 2023 North American Tour.

The Ramones’ Subterranean Jungle (released 2/23/83) begs the question of whether this is the album that signals the punk icons’ awareness of the passage of time and, more specifically, the fact they are aging. It’s certainly dangerous to (over) intellectualize the work of the seminal punk band. The fact of the matter is, though, that the quartet […]

Shame’s third album Food for Worms is the invigorating third LP from shame and captures the band at a moment where they finally seem at peace with their newfound fame

On their latest release, Cracker Island, Gorillaz continues to dive headfirst into entirely new worlds and this time around, it’s more scenic than ever. 

Death Valley Girls have softened musically with each release, adding more pop influences, and digging more into the spiritual hippy cosmos of the we-are-all-in-this-together vibe. They also have continually improved, as Islands in the Sky is their best album to date.

It’s certainly fair to say Big Head Todd & The Monsters’ third album, Sister Sweetly (released 2/23/93) was a sizable achievement for the Colorado-based band.

Pianist Steve Okonski, the leader of his eponymous trio Okonski, teamed with drummer Aaron Fraser, also a member of Durand Jones’ band, along with bassist Michael Isvara “Ish” Montgomery in the Colemine label’s Loveland, Ohio studios

David Heatley is a musician, cartoonist and animation director living in Queens, NY. He has recorded two albums with legendary Shimmy Disc label founder and producer Kramer back in the early 1990s. In the mid-2010s, Heatley performed as part of The Bischoffs and The Angel Numbers Band, releasing a series of well-regarded EPs and albums. […]

Both united by the uncertainty and frustration of the pandemic, Jerry A. Lang and Pieter Coolen look back at the very beginning of their collaboration as something rewarding and organic. The story of their friendship goes back when Toxic Shock opened for Poison Idea in Antwerp. “I was frustrated, had a lot of riffs floating […]

When it came down to telling the story of their home and exactly what it means to them, the Davisson Brothers Band took great pride in not only correcting any misunderstandings but painting a true and downright fun picture of everything from their humble mountain roots to their present Americana rock reality. Their upcoming album […]

After more than two-decades fronting Eleven Hundred Springs, one of the Lone Star State’s most popular honky tonk bands, Matt Hillyer wasted little time turning over the page to the next chapter of his career. The band called it quits in 2021, and Hillyer is already out with a solo record, though admittedly one he […]

Those that have even dipped their toe into Blues music have likely heard of John Lee Hooker, one of the earliest to adapt Delta blues to an electric guitar. Starting his recording career in the 1940s, there is no shortage of recordings of Hooker’s work floating around. There is, however, a shortage of great sounding […]

Simultaneously playful and incredibly tight, “Silhouettes” is a tour of sounds that are blended in a way that feels oddly cohesive. Norway’s Orions Belte don’t take any shortcuts in their songwriting. The track opens with a groove that they could have settled into for the entire four minutes of the track and wouldn’t have heard much in the […]