This is an archive of press & media specific to Glen’s solo record & touring in 2012!
Rhythm and Repose entered the Billboard 200 at #21 and the Folk chart at #1! Also: Rock at #8, Independent at #4, Alternative at #5, Digital at #19 & Tastemaker at #8.
// TV & Radio & Special Performances
12 December – Glen chats with Marian Finucane at RTE Radio 1 (starts about 15:00), or you can listen to just his 33 minute interview uploaded to YouTube (by TheDoran144)
4 December – Glen talks to Radio National in Australia on “The Inside Sleeve” (starts around 12:30)
October – 2 songs for Hauskonzerte sessions in Munich
October 11 – Interview with FearNoArtChicago from the Hideout Block Party
October 4 – 4 songs and interview in studio at 101.9 Kink Fm in Portland, OR
September 25 – 5 songs in studio at 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis, photos, photos
August 30 – Today FM audio interview w/Ray D’Arcy and video performance
August 24 – Video interview on Studio Q, Song of Good Hope, Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting
August 21 – Video interview with Glen on listening to KCRW
August 13 – Performance of ‘This Gift’ on Late Night with David Letterman along with photos on the Brooklyn Youth Choir site
August 1 – Interview and performance with David Dye on NPR
July 31 – ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ on AV Club
July 26 – Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting and Song of Good Hope on FaceCulture in Amsterdam. Interview in five parts. One, Two, Three, Four, Five
July 24 – Interview about the ‘Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting’ video on Band in a Box
July 23 – 3FM 3voor12radio performance in Amsterdam
July 12 – NPR interview for the ‘Mom and Dad’s Record Collection’ series
July 10 – Radio Euskadi interview and performance (in Spanish)
June 26 – XRT Radio Performance
June 25 – Spotify Live Performance
June 19 – KCRW Studio (Morning Becomes Eclectic)
June 18 – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting)
June 18 – The Tavis Smiley Show for PBS
June 18 – Audio interview + performance with Studio Q at CBC news
June 17 – Video of 4 songs + audio download for the NPR Tiny Desk Concert
June 15 – Live performance for WXPN’s World Cafe Free on Fridays
June 11 – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (video: High Hope, Song of Good Hope)
// Interviews & Features
September
– Krytyka Polityczna (polish)
– Guitar Acoustic (German, jpg clipping)
August
– Video interview with Trailer Addict about his song “This Gift” in the movie The Odd Life of Timothy Green
July
– fm5.at
– Glen talks to Hot Press about Bruce Springsteen (clipping)
– ilsussidiario.net (Italian. English version here)
– Gaffa (Denmark)
June
– Nice Audio interview with WFVU
– New York Irish Arts Podcast
– Hot Press Cover Story
– New York Irish Arts
– Irish Times (scanned jpg version)
– CBC Music audio interview (download), or listen on YT: parts one, two and three
– New York Times
– Huffington Post
– Interview Magazine
– Rolling Stone Australia (jpg clipping)
– The West Australian (pdf)
– Video interview at Toro Magazine
– National Post
– Interview + audio excerpt at CBC music
– thewest.com.au
– Danish National Daily newspaper
– Audio interview at npr.org‘s [audio:http://orderinthesound.com/audio/glennpr_20120616_wesat_10.mp3|titles=Weekend Edition]
– Audio interview with Dave Fanning at rte2fm (starts around minute 13)
– New York Post
– Excerpt from Hot Press interview, Glen speaks about the Commitments reunion last year
– Interview with rockol.it in Italy
– Excellent interview at The Irish Voice
– Q+A at Billboard.com
– Q+A at RollingStone.com
– Preview of the Hot Press interview
– Rolling Stone posted videos for 4 new tracks recorded live in their offices and an interview at their site here
– Audio interview with Glen after the Tonys on PRI’s The World – listen:
[audio:http://orderinthesound.com/audio/glen_PRI_06112012.mp3|titles=PRI’s The World]
– Interview with Glen and Steve Kazee about Once the movie and the musical at The Daily Beast
– toronto.com
– Planet Notion
– with Doug Wallen
– spinner.com
– exclaim.ca
// Rhythm and Repose Reviews
collection of 2012 Korean press / La Parisien (french, jpg scan) / LA Music Blog / folk radio uk / Rolling Stone /the music (Australia) / Radio Télévision Suisse (Switzerland) / Music Savage / Pittsburgh WYEP / Blurt / Jim Farber’s Top Ten this wk at NY Daily Post / Twin Cities StarTribune.com / Stack Magazine Album of the Month (Australia) (jpg scans 1 & 2) / Farrel Magazine (German) / Now Toronto / Onda Rock (Italian) / Shiver Webzine (Italian) / musikalia (Spanish) / Winnipeg Free Press / Theater Mania / CrazeWire (German) / Trouble Zine (Italian) / New York Daily News / Buffalo News / Revolver- Lust For Life (Dutch)(jpg) / Zoolamar (German) / Sydney Morning Herald (and jpg version) / Controlacrisi (Italy) / Irish Central / Pop! Blerd / Virgin.com / Cleveland Scene Magazine / Focus Knack (Belgium)(jpg) / Gaffa (Denmark) / Rockville (Denmark) / diffuser / Consequence of Sound / RevRanks / rockol.it (Italy) / Dagens Nyheter (Swedish) / Nojesguiden (Swedish) / Paste Magazine / Associated Press / Whitetapes.com (German) / via dpa-info.com (German) / HIT Magazine (Australian)(jpg) / Drum Media (Australia) (jpg) / Christianity Today / Red Eye Chicago / XL la Repubblica (Italy) (jpg) / JAM (Italy) (jpg) / Shakenstir.co.uk / Express.co.uk / Alternativemusik.de (German) / rte.com / Aftonbladet (Nordic daily newspaper) / Sunday Business Post Magazine (Ireland)(jpg) / Stuz.de (German) / Irish Times / State / NWT (Swedish) / MusicIndustry.ie / studenty_cork / Laut.de (German) / independent.ie / Alan Corr Pick of the Week RTE (jpg) / Irish Daily Star (jpg) / themusic.com.au / ology.com / writteninmusic.com (the Netherlands) / sputnik music / Dutch Heaven magazine (the Netherlands) (jpg) / Economist / NPR.org / wers.org / Long After Dark / Planet Notion / Hot Press
// Bits, News, Radio and such…
*Rhythm And Repose opened at #21 on the Billboard chart selling just over 16,000 copies.
December – Rhythm and Repose is #3 in the German Stereo Magazine Critics Top 10 album list of 2012. Scans.
July 13 – “This Gift” will be on the soundtrack of the Disney film The Odd Life of Timothy Green, to be released on 15 August 2012.
July 2-6- Rhythm and Repose is RTE Radio 1’s Album of the Week
June 19 – Rhythm and Repose is Album of the Week on Italian N°1 indie radio network Radio Popolare
June 18 – Rhythm and Repose is the DeutschlandRadio Album of the Week
June 18 – Rhythm and Repose is NDR.de Radio’s Nachtclub Album of the Week
June 14 – Glen answers the prompt “How I Write” at cbc.ca
June 1 – Glen talks about working with Levon Helm at spinner.com
April 17 – “Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting” is released as a second single. Check out Rolling Stone’s exclusive premiere of the video here.
April 16 – A little about how the album cover for Rhythm and Repose came to be at independent.ie
April 5 – Glen’s first single Philander is released as a video at All Songs Considered on NPR Watch here!
April 4 – Solo Record announced. Gigs too! ANTI- Records / Los Angeles Times / AV Club / Broadway.com / Rock Cellar Magazine
March – The Hunger Games Soundtrack released
February 25 – Glen chatted with Hot Press about his upcoming solo record, scheduled for a June release on ANTI-/Plateau.
February 23 – The Hunger Games – Songs From District 12 and Beyond will feature two songs by Glen. He performs one called ‘Take the Heartland’, and he wrote one called ‘Come Away to the Water’ which was recorded by Maroon5. It will be released on 20 March 2012. Reviews: BAM’s Blog / Chicago Tribune / Hitfix / Billboard / The Province / Yahoo music blog review