Posts by Jeffrey Greenblatt

This video just seemed so appropriate for today… Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s – Tall As Cliffs

As has become par for the course in recent years, reunion-mania is sweeping the music world. The latest group that to join the fold is ’70s glam-rockers Mott The Hoople – whose biggest hit was the David Bowie-penned All The Young Dudes, a song which Bowie also contributed backing vocals to. The band will celebrate […]

Once in a while we get some good perks for running HT. Last Monday, I was invited out to see Erika Wennerstrom – the force behind the Heartless Bastards – for a private showcase at New York City’s Mercury Lounge. The diminutive and slightly nervous Wennerstrom stepped up to the bare stage with an acoustic […]

While rumors that The Boss and Phish will headline Bonnaroo in June have been swirling around for weeks, we won’t get an official announcement until February 3. Just as he did last year, Radio Bonnaroo’s DJ JD Farmhound is playing the part of The Riddler by dropping some cryptic clues on this year’s performers via […]

Anyone that has been a fan of Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice will undoubtedly be familiar with the name Lisa Hannigan – who provided the gorgeously sexy vocal accompaniment on his two albums. After releasing his sophomore effort 9, Rice decided to part ways with the singer saying that he felt their partnership had run its creative […]

The second season of HBO’s comedy series Flight Of The Conchords premieres this Sunday at 10 PM. If the new season is anything like season one it will be filled with Bret and Jemaine’s hilarious struggles in the big city as they try to make it as a band. For those of you who found that they couldn’t get their songs out of their heads, you’re in luck as you’ll now be able to download a new song each week via iTunes the day after the show airs.

The comedic duo will also release their yet untitled sophomore album on Sub Pop on April 14 consisting of ten songs from the show and five brand new ones. As an added bonus, you can currently watch the season two premiere for free, click through and enjoy…

• List Time: Nine Great Songs About Roads
• WNEW’s Forgotten Favorites features Stephen Stills’ Manassas
• Cover Alert: The Avett Brothers tackle Aretha Franklin
• Lost In The 70s takes a look at The Sugar Bears
• Grateful Breed kicks down one of Janis Joplin’s last shows
• Hard Rock Park has filed for bankruptcy after just one year

Finally, iconic pop-rockers Cheap Trick are close to finalizing a deal that would give them their own headlining show in Las Vegas and would feature the band performing The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album in its entirety backed by a full orchestra. The exclusive deal with the Las Vegas Hilton is said to start this Spring and run through 2009.

Head to Rolling Stone’s Rock Daily for the full scoop on Capitol/EMI’s reissues of the first three Radiohead albums including 1997’s OK Computer.

Around this time last year I kicked off my semi-regular Better Than Noodling column with a post on on the Grateful Dead meets Pavement stylings of Blitzen Trapper. The band, who seemingly toured like a jamband in ’08, released their new album- Furr – this fall which is chocked full of their backwoods-indie-psychedelia containing a […]

READ ON for P4K’s story on a possible Pavement reunion at Coachella…

[youtube]xatZgEZ62fU[/youtube] Mr. Rogers Meets A B-Boy

With the Inauguration a week away a veritable who’s who of the music industry will descend upon our nation’s capital to help celebrate the swearing in of our 44th president Barack Obama. As part of the variety of planned events a free concert is set to take place this Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial that […]

READ ON to find out what HT Faves Fleet Foxes will play on SNL…

Back in mid-November Van Morrison scheduled a special three-night run at the Hollywood Bowl in California with the promise of a full performance of arguably his best work, Astral Weeks. As we reported, those memorable concerts were captured on film for a DVD to be released later this year. But for those of you who […]

[youtube]qM4px25reiA[/youtube] Frightened Rabbit – I Feel Better

[youtube]8aBgJrtfyQs[/youtube] Fake Plastic Trees – 7 Worlds Collide with Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway, Jeff Tweedy & Johnny Marr

Bonnaroo To Launch Bonnaroo 365 On January 11 With A Set From The Raconteurs. READ ON for the full scoop on Bonnaroo 365…

With 2008 in the books we can start looking ahead to all the new music that will be hitting the shelves in 2009. Among the releases that I’m getting excited about is Middle Cyclone – the new solo disc from alt.country chanteuse and New Pornographers vocalist Neko Case – who may give Warren Haynes a […]

With the imminent return of Phish in March it makes sense that there would be some late-night shows popping up in the area to cash in on the scores of people that will be descending upon the greater Hampton, VA area. The first act to recognize this opportunity is guitar-slinger Steve Kimock who will play […]

As we previously declared 2009 is shaping up to be The Year Of The Boss – with his latest E Street Band backed album – Working on a Dream – hitting stores later this month, a Super Bowl halftime performance in Tampa as well as possible inauguration and Bonnaroo appearances in the works. With the […]

Among all the surprises that My Morning Jacket unleashed at their instantly epic New Year’s show at Madison Square Garden was a pair of duets that lead singer Jim James performed with indie-pop singer Nicole Atkins. The duo teamed up for a covers of Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye’s You’re All I Need and simply […]