Makin Waves with A Halo Called Fred: The Joys of Not Taking Life So Seriously Bob Makin March 3, 2020 Makin' Waves A long, strange, quirky trip along the space-time continuum, the psycho-geek Tupperware-pop madness of New Brunswick-based indie-rock veterans A Halo Called Fred is back with a new album, Go Home Drama You're ...
Reality Check–Reader Responses James Campion March 3, 2020 Reality Check I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you again to all the people who reached out to send condolences and kind words about my late father, James Vincent Campion, who died last October. When I began wr...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt March 3, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll Pushing The Poetry Forward For his sixth album, Cody Diekhoff, who records under the name of Chicago Farmer, dabbles in what he calls Flyover Country. Self-released, self-produced, he wrote it all too (with...
North Jersey Notes Tim Louie March 3, 2020 North Jersey Notes THE DONNER PARTY – Bloomfield, NJ One of the most insane bands I’ve seen in quite a while actually comes from Bloomfield, NJ, yet I’ve never written about them. Not that I can recall, anyway. The name of th...
Queued Up: Exploring the World of Bong Joon-Ho (‘Parasite’), plus ‘Doctor Sleep,’ ‘The Siren,’ ‘Scandalous,’ ‘Untouchable,’ and more. Bryan Reesman February 24, 2020 Queued Up THE FANTASTIC CINEMA OF BONG JOON-HO With Parasite (2019) having just won six Oscars and becoming the first subtitled film to win Best Picture, everyone is talking about writer/director Bong Joon-ho and his...
Reality Check–FASCISM 101: The Swift Erosion of Democracy in Living Color James Campion February 24, 2020 Reality Check “Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy.” —Wikipedia ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt February 24, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll Bringing Bach to Temple Israeli singer-songwriter Noa will bring her Letters To Bach to New York City’s Temple Emanu-el on March 18. Quincy Jones produced the album in which she wrote—in a series of well-cr...
North Jersey Notes Tim Louie February 24, 2020 North Jersey Notes HOSTILE RAGE – Hewitt, NJ I recently received an email from Kevin Cupo, singer of the band Hostile Rage, letting me know about the band’s new double album and music video for On The Rampage. I have to admit...
Reality Check–THE BERNIE PROBLEM? Democratic Primaries Kick Off with Chaos & Fear James Campion February 18, 2020 Reality Check The shit show that is the Iowa Caucuses draped a pall of calamity on the start of the 2020 election season. After three years of a mentally-challenged racist goofball in the White House, sixty-percent of the n...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt February 18, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll The Smithereens Celebrate 40 Years It was 1979 when guitarist Jim Babjak, drummer Dennis Diken, and bassist Mike Mesarus of Carteret knew they had to get a lead singer, so they put an ad in the classified s...
