Liam Gallagher—Why Me? Why Not. (Warner Records) Dan Alleva October 16, 2019 Albums, Reviews Liam Gallagher weighs in leaner and meaner on his second LP, Why Me? Why Not. The album is the follow-up to 2017’s commendable, As You Were, which was Gallagher’s first proper solo album after the disbandment ...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat Everynight Charley Crespo October 16, 2019 Concerts, Reviews Nick Cave/The Town Hall/September 23, 2019 Nick Cave was born in Warracknabeal, a small country town in the Australian state of Victoria. When he was a child, his family moved to Wangaratta in rural Victori...
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — ‘Infest the Rats’ Nest’ (ATO Records) Dan Alleva October 15, 2019 Albums, Reviews On their latest album, Infest the Rats’ Nest, the Australian seven-piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have put forth an unabashed homage to heavy metal and thrash—undoubtedly making this fifteenth rele...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat Everynight Charley Crespo October 9, 2019 Concerts, Reviews Angels & Airwaves/The PlayStation Theater/September 17, 2019 Tom DeLonge received his first guitar as a Christmas present while in the sixth grade in the suburbs of Poway, California. While in high scho...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt October 9, 2019 Albums, Rant 'N' Roll, Reviews Jazz Album Of The Year? Long Waves (Unit Records), by the Franco Ambrosetti Quintet, has it all. It has the legendary Jack DeJohnette on drums who interacts, pushes, pokes, and prods his bandmates into rhyt...
Rant ‘N’ Roll–Svetlana Superstar Mike Greenblatt October 2, 2019 Albums, Reviews There is a scene in the 2015 movie Brooklyn wherein an immigrant named Ellis Lacey (played by Saoirse Ronan) steps off the boat from Ireland in her new world of New York City. Her eyes are filled with wonder a...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat Everynight Charley Crespo October 2, 2019 Concerts, Reviews Dina Regine/Lola/September 13, 2019 Dina Regine discovered her passion for rock music as a New York City teenager and began taking photographs at the concerts she attended. She fell into a singing career, f...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman October 2, 2019 Columns, Queued Up, Reviews IMAGINE THERE ARE NO BEATLES What if the Fab Four had never been? That's the conceit of the recent film written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle of Slumdog Millionaire fame. A struggling singer...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt September 25, 2019 Albums, Reviews Get Your Kicks You don’t have to be on Route 66 to get your Kicks (Thirty Tigers Records) on the new Rickie Lee Jones. She’s as iconoclastic, idiosyncratic, and deliciously oddball as she always was. Her vo...
Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt September 18, 2019 Albums, Reviews A Place To Be The 14th Annual Aiken & Friends Festival will take place September 26, 27, and 28 at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg with concerts (both free and ticketed), songwriting work...
