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...
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...
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...
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...
The Rolling Stones — ‘Bridges to Bremen’ Dan Alleva July 17, 2019 Albums, Reviews The presence and power of the Rolling Stones is undeniable, regardless of what era of their illustrious career is placed under the microscope by means of archival releases or feature-length documentaries. But,...
METZ — ‘Automat’ (Sub Pop) Gregg McQueen July 16, 2019 Albums, Reviews METZ has been producing a mighty big racket for more than a decade now. To celebrate, the Toronto noise-punk merchants have released Automat, a collection of B-sides, rarities, and non-album singles datin...
Tacocat — ‘This Mess Is a Place’ (Sub Pop) Debra Kate Schafer July 16, 2019 Albums, Reviews Bands that come out of Seattle have always had a certain sound to them. For Tacocat, it is always one that is uniquely indie rock and unabashedly themselves. On This Mess Is a Place (Sub Pop), which is their f...
