
Matt Costa’s Top 20 Songs
Matt Costa shares with Glide his 20 favorite tunes with a little running commentary.

Matt Costa shares with Glide his 20 favorite tunes with a little running commentary.

O.A.R. picked them to open their 2005 summer tour, and now this week


The beginning of the year can be a sluggish time, so the following is a list of artists and bands to look forward to along with some long-awaited albums from a plethora of our favorite artists.

The forty-eighth Grammy awards are but a week away. The music industry will descend upon Los Angeles any moment now and will have to deal with Woody Allen’s assertion that he didn’t “want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.” Here are some predictions from the main categories

What better way to celebrate Glide

With the advent of the iPod, singles have become more ubiquitous and accessible than albums. The following is an array of songs that helped make 2005 a great year in music. There are songs for every genre: the bittersweet orchestrations of Sufjan Stevens, the rock orientated British invasion, the electropop of Aussie’s Cut Copy and the pensive folk of presario Aimee Mann. All the songs on the list were picked on the criteria on being so good they required pressing repeat more than once and were entertaining enough to endure the entire year. These are the tracks to relish as the year comes to an end and the tracks to take with us into the burgeoning new year.

Nice Talking To Me sounds like the same band you played hacky-sack to, but with a new found vigor and a contemporary flair. Still, second chances are hard to come by and rock reunions are typically better received at the twenty year mark instead of just a decade – just ask Motley Crue and Duran Duran. So we put drummer Aaron Comess on the hot seat and threw a few questions his way.

Here are fifteen Brit Rock bands focusing on quality versus quantity and thus may get lost in the clutter of bigger hyped bands, but they

Sounds, dance and blood into its vein. Ricky Martin and Shakira ain