Glide Magazine

5 days ago | glidemagazine.com | Doug Collette

Even given Bob Dylan’s self-professed discomfort about exactly who constituted his audience by the time the Eighties rolled around, it still defies logic he would attempt to connect with the MTV Unplugged demographic by appearing on the popular television series half-way through the next decade. But, leave it to the Nobel Laureate to fully play the part for those watching and listening.

5 days ago | glidemagazine.com | Neil Ferguson

Considering the worldwide influence that the late Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat music has had on everyone from the Talking Heads to Arcade Fire and modern-day funk and hip-hop, it’s perplexing that the small handful of acts waving the torch for the real thing sometimes fall below the radar. This music is energetic and full of life, often carrying political and social messages of freedom. In other words, all stuff that should appeal to generation after generation.

5 days ago | glidemagazine.com | Ryan Dillon

We’re over here, sweating and shoveling coal into the old Caustic steam engine as we barrel into a fantastic New Music Friday with an open mind and full of steam. As we roll through 2025, the New Music Fridays have only become more exciting, and this week is really kicking it up to the next level. We have welcomed returns from punk heroes, legends teaming up for full LPs, twangy balladry from young country greats, and Hip-hop so refreshing you can use it to cool off in the Summer heat.

6 days ago | glidemagazine.com | Shawn Donohue

The San Antonio, TX based hardcore freak-punks, Butthole Surfers, were notorious for their live shows and the band’s newest archival release, Live at the Leather Fly, does a good job capturing their mid-career, chaotic noise sound. The album is not dated or given a specific location where it was recorded, but it sounds like one complete show. Judging by the songs played it seems to have been captured around the release of their 1991 album Independent Worm Saloon.

6 days ago | glidemagazine.com | Neil Ferguson

Last fall, we were gifted with a somewhat unexpected release from a new “supergroup” of sorts called The Hard Quartet. Featuring Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus along with venerable go-to talents Matt Sweeney, Jim White, and Emmett Kelly, the group’s album dabbled in a sort of worship of old Britpop and psych, freak-folk, and garage rock, albeit with the artistic stamp of each musician involved.