Tagged rant &#8216;n&#8217; roll

March 26, 2020

Every week, Mike Greenblatt dives deep into the goldmine, finding choice nuggets from every corner of the world! Trippy! Charlotte Greve hates genre-specific labels. The German singer-songwriter/alto... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll

March 17, 2020

Rescued From The Dust Bin Of Time Before Johnny O’Keefe was poisoned by barbiturates in ’78, he was Australia’s biggest rock star with 50+ singles and 100+ albums. He opens Stroll-A-Rama: Jump and Bump (Ato... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll

March 10, 2020

All-Purpose String Wonder Woman Growing up in Woodstock, NY, Cindy Cashdollar attracted the local denizens like Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band, Bob Dylan (she’s on his 1997 Time Out Of Mind), blues l... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll

March 3, 2020

Pushing The Poetry Forward For his sixth album, Cody Diekhoff, who records under the name of Chicago Farmer, dabbles in what he calls Flyover Country. Self-released, self-produced, he wrote it all too (with... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll

February 24, 2020

Bringing Bach to Temple Israeli singer-songwriter Noa will bring her Letters To Bach to New York City’s Temple Emanu-el on March 18. Quincy Jones produced the album in which she wrote—in a series of well-cr... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll

February 18, 2020

The Smithereens Celebrate 40 Years It was 1979 when guitarist Jim Babjak, drummer Dennis Diken, and bassist Mike Mesarus of Carteret knew they had to get a lead singer, so they put an ad in the classified s... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll–A One-On-One with Actor Artie Pasquale of The Sopranos

February 10, 2020

So how was Sopranos-Con at the Meadowlands Expo last November? It’s hard to describe to people. It was absolutely fabulous. I was a minor player, basically, compared to some of the heavy-hitters, but the pe... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll

January 29, 2020

STOMP At The State It’s in-your-face loud. It’s a whirling dervish of constant hyperactivity. Between its kinetic nature and hard-working cast of dancers and percolating percussionists (non-stop banging bro... Read More...

Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll

January 15, 2020