Posts by Jeffrey Greenblatt

If you’ve been a fan of HT for awhile you know about our love for the National Pastime. With spring in the air (although it did snow in NYC the other day) and the baseball season getting underway this week, we thought it would be appropriate to offer up a mix of baseball tunes for […]

Fiona Apple – Not About Love

In what seems to be the hot thing to do among indie acts these days (for examples see Jenny Lewis and Arcade Fire) – Conor Oberst is set to release a documentary called One Of My Kind. The 60 minute film focuses on the last year and a half of Oberst leading his Mystic Valley […]

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North Carolina based indie-label Merge Records has a big 2009 planned to celebrate their 20th anniversary. The label, which is home to acts like Neutral Milk Hotel, She & Him, Arcade Fire and Spoon, is rolling out a box set of material that includes 14 curated compilation CDs, a remix album and a covers comp […]

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After years of waiting and suffering through sub par version of their albums on CD, the entire Beatles catalog will finally get remastered. All 12 albums, plus two new Beatles box set collections, will hit stores on September 9 – the same day as The Beatles: Rock Band video game arrives.

(Photo Courtesy Of: © Apple Corps Ltd, 2009)

READ ON for the full details of what’s sure to be a historic day…

Last month, wild-haired guitarist Jack White debuted his latest project The Dead Weather to a small crowd of family, friends and industry folk in Nashville with a short five tune set. The band, which features White on drums along with bassist Jack Lawrence (the Greenhornes/The Raconteurs), singer Alison Mosshart (The Kills) and guitarist Dean Fertita […]

When the names Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr both appeared on the bill for the last night’s Change Begins Within benefit at Radio City Music Hall those who had plunked down money for the all-star bill – that included Ben Harper, MMJ’s Jim James, Eddie Vedder, Donovan and Sheryl Crow – were hoping that the […]

Up until about a few weeks ago I hadn’t heard the amazing story of the husband and wife act Amadou & Mariam. The duo, who are both blind – Amadou since contracting a congenital cataract as a teenager and Mariam whom become blind at the age of 5 – met and feel in love some […]

[youtube]hfcHgk10rbg[/youtube] 13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me

With the Summer Of Jam continuing to take shape, today comes news of the initial lineup for the Disco Biscuits’ eighth installment of Camp Bisco. Camp Bisco VIII takes place July 16 – 18 at the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, NY. The untz-tastic jam act will headline each night of the festie and […]

With five years between his last two studios albums it came as a bit of a surprise to most that Bob Dylan slyly announced the release of the follow up to Modern Times to be released later this month – causing music pundits to anoint this as another “creative period” for the legendary singer-songwriter. Dylan’s […]

Otis Redding – Can’t Turn You Loose

Hot the on heels of wrapping up their historic guest-laden 15 night run at the Beacon Theater, the originators of Southern-jam – Allman Brothers Band will partner with the contemporary torchbearers of the genre Widespread Panic for a 17-date shed tour that will kick off August 21st in Camden, NJ and run sporadically through October. […]

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The ever adorable Jenny Lewis will once again hit the road for a lengthy solo tour that finds the former child actor and Rilo Kiley front woman hitting a mix of festivals and clubs across the country. Joining Ms. Lewis throughout the run will be The Sadies, Deer Tick and Heartless Bastards whom will all […]

Later this week, I’m going to get to all the bands that I caught down at SXSW – a little late on that, but I do hold down a real day job too. Before I divulge that list wanted to share the music of one of the bands that I had circled on my schedule […]

In anticipation of this summer’s Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails joint amphitheater tour, the two powerhouse alternative rock acts have launched a brand new website to get their fans ready for action. The sightly sparse site, which includes links to all the band’s social networking sub-sites, also features a free six song EP that contains the studio debut of two Jane’s tracks that Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor produced – Whores and Chip Away – both of which originally appeared on their 1987 self-titled live album.

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• Elvis Costello teams up with T. Bone Burnett for his new solo album
• Cover Alert: Eels tackle Prince
• Twitter was once again huge at this year’s SXSW
• Move over Rock Band and Guitar Hero, as DJ Hero is on its way
• Joost launches a Phish live video channel

Finally, we don’t often talk about movie trailers around these parts, but there have been two very cool ones that have surfaced over the last couple of days that we wanted to share. The first is for the highly anticipated, Spike Jonze directed adaptation of the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are – which features the music of Arcade Fire and is set to have a soundtrack from YYY’s frontwoman Karen O. The second, is for Ang Lee’s adaptation of Elliot Tibor’s memoir Taking Woodstock – which tells the behind the scenes story of how the festival ended up at Yasgur’s Farm.

READ ON to see the trailers for both of these films…

The Avett Brothers – Murder In The City