Rant ‘n’ Roll: The Delines, Dave Rudolph Quartet, Aaron Goldberg, and much more! Mike Greenblatt March 13, 2019 Albums, Reviews The story of the second album of The Delines would make a great movie. In 2014, the Portland, Oregon Americana band with the country-soul female singer made many a Top 10 list with its Colfax debut. With most o...
Album Review: Upstate — ‘Healing’ Debra Kate Schafer March 13, 2019 Albums, Reviews If you have a weakness for harmonies and down to earth instrumentals, this New York-based six-piece is the band for you. In a way, the aptly named Upstate is a mix of Hanson, Dawes, and Lake Street Drive, makin...
Rant ‘n’ Roll: Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, David Dominique, Kalyn Fay, and more! Mike Greenblatt March 6, 2019 Albums, Columns, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews This Glitter Wolf Bites Drummer/composer/educator Allison Miller has been busy. In New York City, she sits in with the band on Late Night with Seth Myers. In Washington D.C., she’s Musical Director for INK a...
Manhattan Beat: Rachael Yamagata, Interpol, Roger Manning, Bronze Radio Return Everynight Charley Crespo March 6, 2019 Concerts, Manhattan Beat, Reviews Rachael Yamagata/City Winery/February 13, 2019 Rachael Yamagata was two years old when her parents divorced. Although she says she is from Arlington, Virginia, she spent a lot of her youth shuffling between ...
Makin’ Waves Record of the Week: Karma Gambit’s This is Probably a Mistake, But… Bob Makin February 27, 2019 Albums, Reviews Karma Gambit’s debut LP, This is Probably a Mistake, But…, is a forceful forging of signature Jack Linden folk-rock with blasts of Beatlesque/Bowie-like power-pop. On Karma Gambit’s debut LP, This is ...
Manhattan Beat: The Rewd Onez, Colin Blunstone, the Cactus Blossoms, and Soulfly Everynight Charley Crespo February 27, 2019 Columns, Concerts, Manhattan Beat, Reviews The Rewd Onez/Sidewalk/February 6, 2019 Historically, the Lower East Side of Manhattan has been a magnet for the most avant-garde among the arts community, and Rew Starr, born in the Bronx and raised in Inte...
Rant ‘n’ Roll: Clifford Lamb, Gurf Morlix, Miho Hazama, Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson, and Andy B. Mike Greenblatt February 27, 2019 Albums, Columns, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews Mash-Up City Blues & Hues (Weber Works Entertainment Group) by San Francisco pianist-composer Clifford Lamb mashes up old and new to ingratiating effect. The brainchild of producer Jeffrey Weber, its eig...
Makin’ Waves Record of the Week: Ezra Caspi’s The Best Is Yet to Come Bob Makin February 22, 2019 Albums, Reviews Ezra Caspi, 17, wrote, produced, recorded and performed a debut full-length, The Best Is Yet to Come, in a way that belies his age. Seventeen-year-old singer-songwriter Ezra Caspi is a retro-rockin’ second-g...
25 Years of the Mercury Lounge Everynight Charley Crespo February 20, 2019 Concerts, Reviews (Above: Richard Barone at the Mercury Lounge, Feb. 4) The Mercury Lounge reached its 25th anniversary, an ancient venue by New York rock club standards. According to New York magazine, "just about ev...
Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt February 20, 2019 Albums, Columns, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews Solo Piano Billy Joel once wrote “And the piano it sounds like a carnival....” Nowhere is that more applicable than on James Fernando’s solo piano debut, his self-released The Lonely Sailor, where he deconst...
