The Good Shit is a new Glide column which revisits and weeds out the televised and tubed trash of the prior week and highlights the good shit you might have already saw or could have missed.
The third solo record from Old Crow Medicine Show’s Gill Landry was released last week. The self-titled LP features appearances from Robert Ellis and Laura Marling. The A.V. Club exclusively premiereed the new video for “Just Like You” and with its moving scenes and rich baritone, this single could make Landry the first breakout star of the vaulted touring band.
Stone Jack Jones has released his video for “Circumstance,” off his upcoming album Love and Torture, due out March 17 on Western Vinyl). Stone Jack Jones is the real deal as his name makes him out to be – a true folksmith in very sense and a bit of a bad-ass too.
The ever quality consistent Helio Sequence are set to release their self-titled sixth album May 19th via Sub Pop. The Beckish lead-off track, “Stoic Resemblance” has been released through an animated visual (Not-the-video) directed by multimedia artist Emanuele Kabu.
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The 25th Annual Tibet House US Benefit sold out Carnegie Hall last week and was led by Debbie Harry, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson (Miley Cyrus made an appearance as well). The Flaming Lips, along with ambient artist Juliana Barwick and the Scorchio Quartet, performed dazzling covers of songs by The Beatles and David Bowie.
Drug Cabin comprised of onetime Ambulance LTD frontman Marcus Congleton and former Pretty Girls Make Graves guitarist Nathan Thelen, released their debut album, Yard Work, on February 24 and have already announced its follow-up, Wiggle Room. The prolific duo released “Handsome” from Wiggle Room which premiered this past week, and earlier the catchy “Sapphire” video hit the net…
Laura Marling returns with a new album Short Movie, to be released through Ribbon Music on March 24th. Laura premiered the track “I Feel Your Love” which certainly has a bluesy Chrissie Hynde feel.
There’s been a lot of speculation about who American Wrestlers is. All that was previously known is that he is a Scotsman whose music led him to his future wife and, ultimately, Missouri, where they were married and now reside. It’s revealed that the man behind American Wrestlers is Gary McClure, who had previously performed in and written for Manchester band Working for a Nuclear Free City. American Wrestlers dropped a new song.from the album and it is the opening track “There’s No One Crying Over Me Either” – surely one fans of War on Drugs might dig.
The only thing odder than Bob Dylan doing a an album of Sinatra covers is the inigma himself “acting” in a video. Check out his starring role in his brand new video for “The Night They Called It A Day” from his Shadows In The Night album.
Delta Spirit released a new video for “Language Of The Dead,” the new single from their 2014 album ‘Into the Wide,’ out now on Dualtone Records. Front man Matt Vasquez directed and edited the tongue-in-cheek video himself, using a green screen in his home to create a trippy, space-traveling, time-warped reality inspired by Mel Brooks’ ‘Spaceballs’ and ‘History of the World: Part 1,’ that finds Agamemnon, Robert E. Lee and Tolstoy teaming up to battle a space monster (not-so-terrifyingly played by Vasquez’s cat).
