Jeremy Lukens

1 month ago | glidemagazine.com | Jeremy Lukens

Singer-songwriter Amos Lee hit Orlando’s Plaza Theatre on May 1st on the last stop of the 2025 tour for a night of jams and sing-alongs. Half of the Washington duo Sway Wild opened the night. With Dave McGraw at home recovering from kidney stones, Mandy Fer played the set as a solo act. “Dave says he wishes he was here with you, and also drink lots of water,” she joked. With a Stratocaster in hand, Fer played a brief set of twangy folk songs without the help of McGraw’s drums or vocal harmonies.

1 month ago | glidemagazine.com | Jeremy Lukens

The Savage Imperial Death March Part II tour stopped in Orlando, Florida, on Friday for a night of crowd-pleasing, eclectic heavy rock from icons that have played sweaty clubs for decades. But before the rocking, the night opened with a strange set by Dark Sky Burial, a side project of Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury. Embury played programmed ambient music while occasionally tapping out beats on electronic drums and shouting hypnotic chants into the microphone.

1 month ago | glidemagazine.com | Jeremy Lukens

A6, the sixth studio album from indie pop artist Lights, delivers an album’s worth of warm, introspective synthpop but never lives up to the high standard of her previous releases. The Canadian artist has consistently demonstrated a diverse range of talents, self-producing her albums while playing most of the instruments, and writing and illustrating accompanying graphic novels. Previous albums have showcased impressive musical eclecticism, especially the genre-defying masterstroke, Skin & Earth.

1 month ago | glidemagazine.com | Jeremy Lukens

After a dozen albums, both as a band and as Will Toledo’s solo project, Car Seat Headrest has carved out a niche for lo-fi indie rock experimentalism. After the polarizing experiment with electronica on 2020’s Making a Door Less Open, the safe bet would be returning to something like 2016’s Teens of Denial or 2018’s Twin Fantasy, both of which got a second life after finding TikTok fame.

1 month ago | glidemagazine.com | Jeremy Lukens

Face Down in the Garden is an apt swan song for Denver indie pop duo Tennis. After fifteen years and nine studio albums together, married duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley announced the retirement of this project to focus on other endeavors. “It became clear that we had said everything we wanted to say, and achieved everything we wanted to achieve with our band,” they announced in their newsletter.