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...
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... Read More...
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... 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...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat Everynight Charley Crespo September 18, 2019 Columns, Concerts, Manhattan Beat, Reviews King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard/Summerstage at Rumsey Playfield/August 28, 2019 Seven musicians started jamming together in 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. Lead vocalist Stu Mackenzie wanted to call the ... 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...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat: Deerhoof, Kiss, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Orange Goblin Everynight Charley Crespo September 11, 2019 Concerts, Reviews Deerhoof/The DiMenna Center for Classical Music/August 18, 2019 Deerhoof began as an improvisational and experimental noise band in 1994 in San Francisco, California. Drummer Greg Saunier was an original me... Read More...
Everynight Charley’s Manhattan Beat Everynight Charley Crespo September 4, 2019 Concerts, Reviews SYZYGYX/Mercury Lounge/August 10, 2019 Based outside of Washington, D.C., Josh Clark is a musician and audio engineer formerly known as DJ Impulse in two bands, Corrupt Souls and Sinthetix. Clark and vocali... 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...
