2 SCTV legends, 1 gloriously unhinged interview. Martin Short’s Jiminy Glick, the pompous, clueless, completely fictional entertainment journalist, sits down with Catherine O’Hara in a clip that holds up completely more than a decade after it was recorded. Short’s commitment to the character is total, O’Hara’s ability to play it completely straight while barely holding it together is a masterclass in comic timing, and the chemistry between 2 performers who have known each other since their SCTV days makes every exchange land harder than it should. If you’ve never seen Jiminy Glick in action, this is the perfect introduction. If you have, you already know exactly why this keeps circulating.
Denny Seiwell Shares His Paul McCartney Story and It’s Everything You’d Hope It Would Be
Denny Seiwell was the drummer for Wings during one of the most creatively fertile periods of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles career, and his conversation with The Sessions Panel delivers exactly the kind of firsthand insight that only someone who was actually in the room can provide. The Sessions, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to educating musicians on the business side of the industry, has built its Artist Series around exactly these kinds of conversations, pairing legendary musicians with interviewers who understand the craft and the context. Seiwell’s McCartney story is candid, warm, and specific in ways that remind you how much of music history happened in ordinary moments between extraordinary people.
Rick Beato Sits Down With 28-Year-Old Polish Bass Phenom Kinga Głyk and the Result Is Unmissable
Rick Beato has a gift for finding the musicians that serious players are already whispering about and putting them in front of a wider audience, and his interview with 28-year-old Polish bassist Kinga Głyk is one of his best. The conversation, which has already pulled nearly 667,000 views, covers her technique, what she actually practices, and the specific challenges of being a working musician in the age of social media. Głyk, who has performed with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band and appeared at Jazz in Marciac and Leverkusener Jazztage among many other prestigious stages, brings a fluency and musicality to the bass that genuinely stops people in their tracks, and Beato gives her the space to explain exactly how she got there and what keeps her developing. For anyone who plays bass, loves jazz, or simply appreciates watching someone operate at the highest level of their craft, this one demands your full attention.
Rick Beato Gets The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins to Break Down How “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” Got Made
Justin Hawkins is one of the most entertaining talkers in rock music, and his conversation with Rick Beato about the making of “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” is exactly the kind of inside look that reminds you how much craft and luck goes into a song becoming a classic. The clip covers the realities of getting a record deal in the early 2000s alongside the specific creative decisions that made the song land the way it did. Hawkins is candid, funny, and completely unguarded in a way that makes the whole conversation genuinely entertaining regardless of how well you know The Darkness or the song itself.
Video: Walk Off The Earth Bring Their Signature Magic to Massey Hall in a Full Concert for CBC Music
Walk Off The Earth’s Live at Massey Hall performance for CBC Music is exactly what this band does better than almost anyone working in Canadian music right now. The concert opens with a thumping drum sequence that mimics a racing heartbeat before launching into “Red Hands,” and the energy never really lets up from there. Across 9 songs the Burlington-born multi-instrumentalists move through a catalog that has built one of the most devoted followings in Canadian indie-pop, pulling from across their discography with the kind of live arrangement creativity that has always set them apart.
Video: Howard Jones Still Gets Excited by His Roland Jupiter-8, and He’s Had It Since 1983
Howard Jones has owned his Roland Jupiter-8 since 1983, and 43 years later it still excites him. The British synth-pop legend shared a short clip revisiting the iconic synthesizer, complete with a snippet from a Dick Clark interview on American Bandstand and artwork by Daniel Arteaga on the back wall. The video serves as a reminder that the Jupiter-8, one of the most celebrated analog synthesizers ever built, remains as inspiring in 2026 as it was when Jones first got his hands on it during the peak of his career. For anyone who grew up on “What Is Love?” and “Things Can Only Get Better,” watching him return to the instrument that helped define that sound is a genuinely warm moment.
Chad Smith Takes On the Black Sabbath Drum Challenge and Bills Ward’s Checklist on Drumeo
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith sat down with Drumeo to tackle a Black Sabbath-inspired drum challenge built around a Bill Ward checklist, flams, signature hi-hat techniques, iconic grooves, and a drum solo in the style of “Rat Salad,” and the results are exactly as entertaining as that premise suggests. The video, which has already pulled nearly 2 million views, captures Smith across 2 takes, initial thoughts included, before revealing his final score and diving into why Black Sabbath has always held a special place in his drumming world. It’s part of Drumeo’s ongoing series with Smith, which has also seen him tackle Keith Moon and John Bonham, and it connects to his new Drumeo course, Legends of the ’70s.
16-Year-Old Mandolin Prodigy Wyatt Ellis Honors His Roots With Stunning New Single “West Dakota Rose”
Wyatt Ellis is a 16-year-old mandolinist already playing with the kind of authority that takes most musicians decades to develop. His latest single “West Dakota Rose” is out now, and it’s a compelling ensemble bluegrass performance from a young musician who clearly understands the tradition he’s carrying forward.
The tune was written by Ellis’s longtime mentor Christopher Henry, and it’s become a modern instrumental standard with a firm place in the live sets of contemporary jam bands. Ellis first learned it directly from Henry at age 10, and it’s been a cornerstone of his live shows ever since. Recording it now, surrounded by the very players who shaped his development, carries real weight.
The track opens with Ellis’s mandolin before the melody passes to twin fiddles from Noah Goebel and Christian Ward, then to Kyle Tuttle on banjo, back to Ellis, and finally to a powerful guitar solo from Henry himself. Sarah Griffin’s bass holds the whole thing together, giving every soloist room to move. The result is a performance where each solo grows naturally out of the last, fluid and driving from start to finish.
The collaboration is a direct expression of bluegrass’s mentorship tradition, the hand-to-hand passing of craft that keeps the music vital across generations. Ellis steps into that circle here as both student and emerging force, and the recording makes clear he belongs exactly where he is.
“West Dakota Rose” is out now and worth every minute of your time.
Wyoming Singer-Songwriter Ben Musser Arrives as a One-Man Band on Debut LP ‘Sentimental Fever’
‘Sentimental Fever,’ the debut album from Wyoming singer-songwriter Ben Musser, is out now via Blackbird Record Label, and it’s a record that covers serious ground without once losing its footing.
Musser wrote every song and played nearly every instrument across the album, a demanding two-week session that produced something genuinely personal and sonically wide-ranging. The record moves through folk-rock, Americana, blues, classic pop, soul, and even 1950s doo-wop, all filtered through the lens of a man taking honest stock of his own life.
Lead single “Falling by the Wayside” sets the tone immediately. A propulsive, politically charged blues-rocker driven by Wurlitzer and slide guitar, it channels the spirit of Eric Clapton and Duane Allman’s 1970s heyday while delivering a pointed message about apathy and disengagement. “I’m sounding the alarm,” Musser says, “that the life and privileges enjoyed by Americans is ‘Falling by the Wayside’ because of apathy.”
GRAMMY-winning legend Scott Mathews plays drums on the track, moving between sparse alt-rock toms in the verses and full ride-cymbal rock on the choruses. It’s a master class in restraint and release, and Mathews brought the same instinct to his contributions across the album, adding drums, spinet, and background vocals to 2 tracks total.
The album was co-produced with Mathews, whose production credits span The Beach Boys, Mick Jagger, Van Morrison, and Roy Orbison. Mastering came from Jeff Lipton, whose resume includes Bob Mould, Andrew Bird, Madison Cunningham, and Stephen Malkmus. The pedigree surrounding ‘Sentimental Fever’ is considerable, and the record holds up to it.
Released under his own name for the first time (formerly recording as Benyaro), ‘Sentimental Fever’ is Musser being a good husband, a father, a man in love, a man with losses, and a citizen with something to say. The whole thing was recorded at his Jackson Hole, Wyoming homestead, and that sense of place runs through every track.
Transatlantic Folk Storytellers Sons of Town Hall Release ‘Of Ghosts and Gods’ and Head to the UK in June
‘Of Ghosts and Gods,’ the sophomore album from transatlantic duo Sons of Town Hall, is out now, and it delivers on nearly a decade of creative promise.
Ben Parker and David Berkeley first dreamed up the project in a London pub, and the result is one of the more genuinely distinctive folk records to arrive this year. Part storytelling adventure, part atmospheric song cycle, the album draws comparisons to Tom Waits-like lyricism and Everly Brothers-style harmonies, and earns both of them.
The album’s sonic architecture is rich and carefully constructed. Strings arranged by Will Robertson, horns from Jordan Katz (De La Soul, Father John Misty, Macy Gray), and percussion from Mathias Kunzli (Regina Spektor) give ‘Of Ghosts and Gods’ a cinematic sweep that never overreaches. The songs breathe inside it.
The duo has built an elaborate fictional world around the record. Parker inhabits George Ulysses Brown and Berkeley becomes Josiah Chester Jones, 2 Victorian-era travelers navigating the globe on a self-built mythical raft. Their live shows combine music, humor, and theatrical storytelling in a way that The Observer described as “seamless vocal harmonies, stories of sea voyages, betrayal and desolation.” NPR called it simply “one for the dreamers.”
Berkeley frames the project’s spirit plainly: “We are characters in a fiction we’ve dreamed up and re-create with our audiences every night. Given the woes of today’s world, it feels more important than ever to collectively imagine something better.” Parker adds that the costumes “somehow enable us to be more ourselves.” There’s genuine warmth and wit in how these 2 approach their craft.
The album’s universe extends beyond the record itself. The duo launched the Madmen Cross the Water podcast, hosted by fictional superfan Elias B. Worthington, played by British actor Oliver Maltman. Equal parts globe-spanning travelogue and classic radio theatre, it features original score, sound effects, and a script Folk Radio UK called “a splendour to behold.”
Sons of Town Hall return to England this June for a run of dates including a London show at Islington Assembly Hall with Police Dog Hogan.
‘Of Ghosts and Gods’ Tracklist:
- Gods
- How to Build a Boat
- Wild Winds
- The Lion’s Paw
- Whalebone
- The Rocky Shores of England
- Sirens
- Antarctica
- New Orleans
- Mutiny
- In My Arms Once More
- Ghosts (Instrumental)
2026 UK Tour Dates:
June 11 – Caroline Street Social Club – Shipley
June 14 – Kirkby Stephen Sports & Social Club – Kirkby Stephen
June 16 – Arts Hub – Ripon
June 17 – Greystones – Sheffield
June 18 – Islington Assembly Hall – London (w/ Police Dog Hogan)
June 20 – The Tolmen Centre – Constantine