Archive: 2023

Solid Lines’ self-titled debut offers a deeply compelling introduction to Austin-based auteur Greg Barkley’s playfully melodic, warmly soulful electro-pop song craft. Effortlessly winsome tunes confront the ups and downs of human affairs while balancing introspective melancholy with the transcendent uplift of pop perfection. Solid Lines – which picks up where Barkley’s previous band, the acclaimed […]

Ohio-based four-piece The Shootouts had no intention of putting out their third LP so soon. Their last record, Bullseye, came out less than a year ago, but Ray Benson – founder of the Texas Swing band Asleep At The Wheel and musical hero of The Shootouts – mentioned he wanted to work with the band, […]

On Maxo’s new LP, Even God Has A Sense of Humor, the rapper explores those moments that take us out of solace and places them under a microscope to further understand why certain moments can snap us out of relaxation.

Preeminent contemporary jazz artist, ambassador, and impresario Christian McBride has built his stellar reputation in part by not being easily pigeonholed.

Trumpeter Josh Lawrence leads a quintet featuring the stalwart Posi-Tone rhythm section along with Willie Morris on tenor sax and Jason Tiemann on drums for select tracks for And That Too, his fifth recording for the label, a quick follow-up to Call Time, released in September 2022.

Over this weekend (February 18), the always-entertaining series Austin City Limits presented by PBS aired its latest full performance for fans outside of the city to enjoy. The legendary Spoon made their triumphant homecoming to Texas late last year for a performance at The Moody Theater.

Glide has hand-picked some examples of this to highlight the creative moments where rappers reimagined their sound and created a new lane for themselves. 

Seattle singer/songwriter Ian Jones will be releasing his debut full-length album, Results Not Typical, on April 7th, 2023. Though it was preceded in widespread release by his EP Everygreens (2021), it was actually recorded pre-pandemic in Ojai with Producer Jesse Siebenberg (Lucas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Supertramp). The album was tracked live at […]

Cyote is the musical moniker of Carter Lou McElroy, a mixed-media artist and songwriter based in the Hudson River Valley of  New York, Mohican Territory. After 12 years of working behind the scenes for artists such as Tori Amos, Thurston Moore, Meshell Ndegecello, Kaki King, and the Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, she debuted her first […]

Midnight North kicked off its winter tour on Thursday, February 16th at The Hamilton Live in Washington D.C., a regular stop for the Marin County-based outfit featuring Grahame Lesh and Elliott Peck sharing vocal and guitar duties. It was the first show of the year for the group, and 2023 started off in memorable fashion. […]

The Secret Machines’ newest release actually dates back to 2010 when the group started recording it in a unique, real-time fashion using a ‘first thought being the best thought’ rule for the session.

As a founding member of Manchester’s notorious PINS, Faith has played main stages of festivals like Reading & Leeds, had Maxine Peake read her poetry, heard her music used on the BBC’s Wimbledon coverage as well as various Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV series, and has collaborated with Iggy Pop. Swagger may be the right word […]

Obviously, in modern music, there is a hefty amount of genre-bending and blending, but something that can be even harder to pull off and much less clear-cut is vibe blending. On Richard Rourke’s new single “Can You Feel It?” he and his band have managed to create a duality between low-key jazz funk and chilled-out […]

Damned Damned Damned is widely considered the first punk record to be released in the U.K. and would introduce the country to this new take on rock music lovingly labeled “Punk”.

Upon a quick first reading, Blueprint (released 2/18/73) might not seem a fitting title for Rory Gallagher’s third solo album.

It’s been a minute since Margo Price has graced a Portland, Oregon stage, what with the lost years of COVID, etc. From the “anarchist jurisdiction” out here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve watched through a social media lens as Price has released albums and videos, written books, become a board member of Farm Aid, and […]

Another week goes by and another major cultural event drowns your timeline. If the Super Bowl taking place this past weekend wasn’t enough, a pregnant Rihanna came out to perform the halftime show. Between football fans arguing over that last call and almost every major music publication obsessing over the pop star’s newly announced pregnancy, […]