Neil Young with Crazy Horse—Colorado (Reprise Records) Dan Alleva October 30, 2019 Albums, Reviews Colorado, the latest album from Neil Young with Crazy Horse, is a tour de force and return to form for Young. The album marks his first album in seven years with the garage rock/proto-grunge group that Young f...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt September 11, 2019 Albums, Reviews The Dance of Love Tango music is sensuous. Originating in 1800s Argentina and Uruguay, and originally performed only on solo guitar, its staccato phrasing, dramatic swoops and glides, and, especially, the a...
Mike Greenbatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt September 4, 2019 Albums, Reviews Ultra-Rare Elvis Covers Forget that bloated Las Vegas lounge singer who died on the toilet. That wasn’t Elvis. All his Elvis-ness had drained out of him by then. Still, we should not forget how incendiary, ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 28, 2019 Albums, Reviews This Rhythm Method Works It’s As Live As It Gets on the self-released, self-produced fifth album from Seattle’s Polly O’Keary & The Rhythm Method, a hard-charging, blues-busting power trio from the grea...
