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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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, ... Read More...
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... Read More...
New Reads: ‘Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm” Sonny Wheldon August 8, 2019 Albums, Reviews Sometime around 7 a.m. on Sunday, August 17, 1969, Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane stepped to the microphone and told some 500,000 attendees in attendance at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, “Ok, fr... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 7, 2019 Albums, Reviews Real Life Tales of the Disenfranchised Singer-songwriter Mark Cline Bates writes profound poetry on King Of The Crows, his self-released all-original manifesto on the philosophical conundrums of trying to m... Read More...
The Regrettes: ‘How Do You Love?’ Debra Kate Schafer July 30, 2019 Albums, Reviews Evert since their angsty, feminism-driven first single, “A Living Human Girl,” there has been something about The Regrettes unforgiving attitude and their riot grrrl, pop, and classic rock musicianship that ha... Read More...
