Rock and Roll Globe

ALBUMS: Dar Williams Promises to Meet Us There

October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, BMG, Cold Spring, Dar Williams, folk, I'll Meet You Here, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Renew Records, Upstate NY

It’s a rendezvous well worth the wait

Art Pop New Wave Post-Punk Remembrance

New York Musicians Pay Homage To Dee Pop

October 14, 2021October 15, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bush Tetras, CBGB, Cynthia Sley, Dee Pop, James Keepnews, Michael Imperioli, Mike Edison, Mike Pride, New York City, Pat Place, William Parker

Several friends and collaborators from the the city’s punk and jazz scenes took to social media to bid farewell to the influential Bush Tetras drummer

Hard Rock Heavy Metal New Wave

Quadruple Your Pleasure: Technical Ecstasy Gets An Overdue Upgrade

October 14, 2021October 19, 2021 Nathan Carson 0 Comments 1976, 2021, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Box Set, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Rhino Records, Super Deluxe, Technical Ecstasy, Tony Iommi, Vertigo Records

Black Sabbath’s maligned seventh album deserves the super deluxe treatment

African Pop

A Queens Boy Under African Skies: Paul Simon Is 80

October 13, 2021October 20, 2021 Ron Hart 1 Comment 1986, 80th birthday, Ali Farka Toure, Dollar Brand, Fela Kuti, Graceland, Johnny Clegg & Savuka, King Sunny Ade, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Orchestra Baobab, Paul Simon, Warner Bros.

How Graceland helped guide me to a lifelong love for global music

Music Journalism

Le Tigre v. Barry Mann: Who Owns the Bomp?

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Barry Mann, Bomp! Records, Deceptacon, Frankie Lymon, Gerry Goffin, Greg Shaw, Jesse Winchester, Le Tigre, Legal, Who Put The Bomp

A new court case aims to settle who holds proprietorship over the most defining example of rock ‘n’ roll onomatopoeia in pop history

Art Pop Experimental Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Punk Rock Docs

The Velvet Goldmine of Todd Haynes

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, Apple TV+, documentary, John Cale, Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, Sterling Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes

The acclaimed director talks with Rock & Roll Globe about his upcoming Velvet Underground documentary premiering on Apple TV+

jazz Latin Soul

Mongo Santamaria’s Summer Of Soul

October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 Michael A. Gonzales 0 Comments Donald Byrd, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Harlem, Herbie Hancock, Hubert Laws, Johnny Pacheco, Mongo Santamaria, Nina Simone, Questlove, Ray Barretto, Summer of Soul, Tito Puente, Willie Bobo

As Questlove’s hit documentary comes to HULU, the Cuban percussion giant’s performance at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival merits a deeper look into his extensive catalog

Hip Hop

The Future?: To Whom It May Concern… at 30

October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A Tribe Called Quest, Aceyalone, De La Soul, Dr. Dre, Flying Lotus, Freestyle Fellowship, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Kamasi Washington, Kendrick Lamar, Myka 9, Open Mic Eagle, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter, Snoop Dogg, To Whom It May Concern

It was three decades ago today when Freestyle Fellowship took rap music to its threshold of enlightenment with influential debut

Folk

Judy Collins Spends an “Evening” in the Volunteer State

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment Bob Dylan, folk, In Concert, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Maryville College, Roger McGuinn, Tennessee

The folk legend brings a beguiling blend of classics and conversation in Tennessee

Indie Rock

WATCH: Arizona Rockers Juarez and Others Honor Homicide Survivors 10 Years After the Tucson Gun Massacre

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Acorn Bcorn, Amos Lee, Calexico, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dr. Dog, Gabriel Naïm Amor, Gabrielle Giffords, Hannah Yeun, Juarez, L'Orange, La Luz de Vida, La Luz de Vida II, Mark Kelly, Soda Sun, The Resonars, Tracy Shedd, Tucson, XIXA

The Rock & Roll Globe is proud to premiere the latest single from the forthcoming benefit album, which also includes material from Calexico, Dr. Dog, Amos Lee and more

Indie Rock Pop

Video Premiere: Clandestine Capers are Kept Undercover in Ward White’s “Dirty Clouds”

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 Jim Allen 1 Comment 2021, Donald Fagen, Karate Dentist, Randy Newman, The Tender Age, VF14 Records, Video, Ward White

Get the lowdown on the entirety of The Tender Age’s seamless subversion

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 24: October 2021

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 9 to 5 (Morning Train), Beck, Bill Million, Famous Quotes, Jim Sullivan, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Sheena Easton, The Feelies

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

Electronic New Wave Pop

The ODD Side of Information Society

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 2021, Hakatak International, Husker Du, Information Society, James Cassidy, Kurt Larson, Minneapolis, ODDfellows, Paul Robb, The Replacements, THX Spatial Audio

Minneapolis synth wizard Paul Robb talks about his longtime group’s excellent new album and their roots at the intersection of New Wave and House

New Wave Rock

Superstar Without Portfolio: Bob Geldof at 70

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 70th Birthday, Atlantic Records, Bob Geldof, Brenda Spencer, British Empire, I Don't Like Mondays, Live Aid, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Queen Elizabeth II, The Boomtown Rats, The Vegetarians of Love

Jim Sullivan revisits his 1990 interview with the Irish rock great, New Wave pioneer and co-founder of Live Aid

Punk

Shiftless When Idle: 40 Years of Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash

October 4, 2021October 13, 2021 Matt Hanson 0 Comments 1981, 40th Anniversary, Bob Stinson, Chris Mars, Husker Du, Paul Westerberg, Rhino, Sorry Ma Forgot To Take Out The Trash, The Replacements, Tommy Stinson, Twin/Tone

With an expanded box set of their scrappy debut coming out this month via Rhino Records, the Rock & Roll Globe celebrates The Replacements at their rawest