Rock and Roll Globe

ALBUMS: Attaining A Greater Understanding of Roy Brooks

July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2021, Carlos Garnett, Cecil McBee, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Harold Mabern, Reel to Real, Roy Brooks, Understanding, Woody Shaw, Yusef Lateef

A scorching, previously unreleased 1970 live recording shines an overdue spotlight on the revered jazz drummer for such icons as Horace Silver and Charles Mingus

Indie Rock

The Something Brothers Gonna Work It Out

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Ron Hart 1 Comment Bloomington, Flak, Meat Puppets, Prairie Rock, Soul Asylum, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Something Brothers, Uncle Tupelo

These Prairie Rock veterans resurface with a massive 60-song album called FLAK

Experimental New Wave Pop

Goodbye Sadness: Season Of Glass at 40

July 13, 2021July 20, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1981, Geffen, John Lennon, MTV, Season of Glass, The Beatles, Walking on Thin Ice, Yoko Ono

The most accessible Yoko Ono album was made in the immediacy of her heartbreak over John Lennon’s murder

Blues Rock Rockabilly Roots

Lara Hope and The Ark-Tones: Rocking Through the Pandemic with the Rockabilly Rebels from Upstate New York

July 12, 2021July 14, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, COVID-19, Eddie Rion, Here To Tell The Tale, Jeremy Boniello, Kingston, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones, Matt Goldpaugh, New York, pandemic, Sower Records, Upstate NY

How this talented husband-and-wife-led band are making Kingston the modern-day capital of New York Rock

Music Journalism Records

LISTEN: The 28 Best Albums Of 2021 So Far

July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 Ron Hart 2 Comments 2021, Albums, Armand Hammer, Chris Church, Floating Points, Garbage, James Brandon Lewis, Juliana Hatfield, Kaidi Tatham, L'Rain, Mammoth WVH, María Grand, Olivia Rodrigo, Ours, Paul Weller, Pharoah Sanders, Pupil Slicer, SAULT, The Alchemist, Too Much Joy, Weezer

The Rock & Roll Globe midyear report looks back at the best albums of the last six months

Pop

Another Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren at 50

July 9, 2021July 14, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1971, Bearsville Records, Hunt Sales, Runt, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, The Nazz, Todd Rundgren, Tony Sales Jr., Woodstock

Why Todd’s most obscure ’70s album remains one of his very best

Music Journalism Radio Records

LISTEN: I Got a Pride, You Got a Pride, Everybody Got a Pride (But This One’s Mine)

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Thomas Inskeep 1 Comment Diana Ross, Dog Park Dissidents, Erasure, Katy Perry, LGBTQ, Maxine Feldman, Nile Rodgers, Pride, Riot Grrl, RuPaul

A personal LGBTQ playlist for Pride Month 2021 – and beyond

Rock

John Hall: The Congressman Reclaims His Time

July 7, 2021July 13, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Andrea Zonn, Congress, Dan Dugmore, Dar Williams, Jackson Browne, John Cowan, John Hall, New York, No Nukes, Orleans, Reclaiming My Time, Steve Wariner, Still The One, United States Congress

With his first solo album in more than 15 years, the Orleans guitar great mines his muse

Blues Festivals Funk Gospel jazz Soul World

“Are You Ready, Black People?”: Summer Of Soul Takes Us Higher

July 6, 2021July 15, 2021 James Porter 2 Comments Chuck Jackson, David Ruffin, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Harlem Cultural Festival, Questlove, Sly & the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Summer of Soul, The Chambers Brothers, The Fifth Dimension, The Roots

In his directorial debut, Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson celebrates the great lost music festival of 1969

Indie Rock Soul

J Hacha De Zola: John Steinbeck, James Dean and Me

July 6, 2021July 5, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments Doo Wop, East of Eden, J Hacha De Zola, James Dean, Jerry Ramos, Jersey City, John Steinbeck, The Coasters

On East of Eden, the Jersey City Songwriter tips his hat to the past while facing our troubling present

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. XXI: July 2021

July 5, 2021July 5, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Famous Quotes, Huey Lewis, Joan Jett, Lux Interior, Mike Scott, Poison Ivy, Robyn Hitchcock, The Cramps, The Waterboys, William Butler Yeats

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

Remembrance Rock

50 Years Without Jim Morrison

July 4, 2021July 19, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Jim Morrison, John Cale, John Densmore, Nico, Oliver Stone, Ray Manzerek, Robbie Krieger, Robby Krieger, The Doors, The Velvet Underground

How a lifetime of listening to The Doors helped me appreciate the Lizard King despite his multitude of flaws

Alternative Rock Hard Rock

Keep Your Hand On The Gospel Plow: 25 Years of Dust

July 2, 2021July 15, 2021 Jason Perri 0 Comments 1996, 25th Anniversary, All I Know, Barrett Martin, Dust, Epic Records, Gary Lee Conner, MARK LANEGAN, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Van Conner

The final Screaming Trees studio LP was the culmination of what the band had been yearning for since their humble beginnings

Post-Punk Rock

Cat Popper Breathes New Life Into A Pere Ubu Classic

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Cat Popper, Catherine Popper, Jack White, Jesse Malin, Levon Helm, Norah Jones, Pere Ubu, Puss N Boots, Ryan Adams, Sasha Dobson, Willie Nelson

Hanging out in the salt marshes of New York City with the bassist extraordinaire

Funk jazz Pop Soul

Aaron Neville: Warming Hearts In Crescent City

June 30, 2021July 14, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A&M Records, Aaron Neville, Bo Diddley, Bobby Blue BLand, Everybody Plays The Fool, Fats Domino, Linda Ronstadt, New Orleans, Roy Orbison, Tipitina’s, Warm Your Heart

Looking back at the New Orleans icon’s epic 1991