MAKIN WAVES KEEPS A ‘TIGHT LIP’ WITH SHORE SCENESTER JOY VAY Arts Weekly May 22, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Makin' Waves Jersey Shore outfit Tight Lipped make punk rock with as much attitude as it’s ever had. The four-piece punk group Tight Lipped, led by scene veteran Joy Vay—also of TV Tramps infamy—has a new seven-song EP,...
REALITY CHECK: GET OUT THERE AND SAVE THE DAY, AMERICA. James Campion May 18, 2020 Columns, Reality Check It's time for Americans to risk their lives for the good ol' U.S.A. Hey, America! Here’s how it works now. You need to get back out there and save the economy. If you get sick and die, well… it happens....
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 15, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Rant 'N' Roll Hank Lives In 1951, with just over a year left to live, Hank Williams hosted his own WSM 15-minute weekday radio show, many of which were from pre-recorded transcription discs on vinyl so he could stay on t...
REALITY CHECK: TRUMP IS FAILING LATEST CRISIS TEST, JUST AS HE’S FAILED TIME & TIME AGAIN James Campion April 15, 2020 Columns, Reality Check 1 “I alone can fix it.” Donald J. Trump on the 2016 campaign trail The most pressing national crisis since the 2008 economic collapse and maybe even the 9/11 tragedy and we have a game show host in charge....
MAKIN’ WAVES WITH DAUGHTER VISION Bob Makin April 4, 2020 Columns, Makin' Waves In an increasingly harrowing reality, Daughter Vision are a female-fronted synth-pop performance-art four-piece from Asbury Park whose audience and material has grown greatly singer a local singer-songwriter n...
QUEUED UP feat. ‘HILLARY’; ‘KNIVES OUT’; TEX AVERY SCREWBALL CLASSICS, VOL. 1 Bryan Reesman April 2, 2020 Columns, Queued Up REASSESSING HILLARY For many years, I have often said that I felt that Hillary Clinton should have been President in 2008, followed by Barack Obama in 2016. But change does not always come as expected, and ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt March 26, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Every week, Mike Greenblatt dives deep into the goldmine, finding choice nuggets from every corner of the world! Trippy! Charlotte Greve hates genre-specific labels. The German singer-songwriter/alto...
REALITY CHECK: ISOLATION & HOW MUCH LONGER? James Campion March 25, 2020 Columns, Reality Check We're afraid of everyone Afraid of the sun Isolation The sun will never disappear But the world may not have many years Isolation - John Lennon, “Isola...
Reality Check—Coronavirus: Donald Trump’s Katrina James Campion March 24, 2020 Columns, Reality Check Stop me if you heard this before: Unpopular Republican president that citizens generally view as incompetent is confronted with a crisis and bungles it… badly. Yeah, 2005, August, George W. Bush. Hurricane Kat...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt March 17, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Rescued From The Dust Bin Of Time Before Johnny O’Keefe was poisoned by barbiturates in ’78, he was Australia’s biggest rock star with 50+ singles and 100+ albums. He opens Stroll-A-Rama: Jump and Bump (Ato...
