Posts by Jeffrey Greenblatt

We have to give credit where credit is do with today’s ‘Tubes selection. Six months back when the HT Staff dropped their favorite albums from the first half of the year, Rupert piqued my interest by touting The Midnight Organ Fight from the curiously named Scottish band Frightened Rabbit. While the album is a bit […]

We are a couple of days late on this, but we wanted to report on the passing of music and civil rights legend Odetta, of heart disease at age 77. Dubbed “The Voice of Civil Rights Movement” and “The Queen Of American Folk Music” by Martin Luther King, Jr., she help to inspire a generation […]

Over the last couple of years, Knitting Factory founder Michael Dorf has put together a string of highly successful tribute concerts honoring Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and other rock legends. The next act that has been lined to receive the same treatment will be Athens’ alt.rock legends R.E.M. The concert is set to […]

Bands and record labels have famously clashed over the commercial viability of their albums on numerous occasions over the years. Quite possibly the most famous was Wilco and Reprise’s well documented feud over Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The latest in band versus label war is the Indianapolis based indie-pop band Margot & The Nuclear So And […]

Thanksgiving around these parts only means one thing: our annual fluffage of arguably the greatest rock movie of all time – Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Roughly 32 years ago on Thanksgiving at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom 5,000 lucky fans were treated to a full turkey dinner at 5 PM, which was followed by Rick, […]

Between watching football, eating yourself into a food coma and dealing with your family thought we’d just give you a quick escape with a lengthy link dump of some music news you may have missed in your rush to get out of work yesterday… Cover Alert: Lambchop tackles Bob Dylan Former Wilco member Jay Bennett […]

Dan Auerbach is best known for being half of the Akron, OH blues-rock duo The Black Keys. The singer/guitarist, who sounds remarkably like Warren Haynes, seems to have found the two-man format a bit cumbersome as he will release his solo debut Keep It Hid on February 10. The album is said to be mixture […]

This Mix Tape was inspired by my trip out to San Francisco this summer. SF just oozes with an energy and feel that makes you understand how the psychedelic rock movement originated and blossomed there. Anyone that has seen a show at The Fillmore can attest to that, that room’s just filled with the ghosts […]

Next month, the Sundance Channel will debut a new 13 episode talk and live performance show hosted by Attractions/Imposters front man Elvis Costello. The hour long show called Spectacle: Elvis Costello with… will feature “the best elements of talk and music television, inviting viewers to enjoy an in-depth conversation between host and his guests, punctuated […]

Last week, soulful guitar slinger Ben Harper sneakily revealed his new band by launching a website for the project called the Relentless Seven. The bare bones website features just the band member’s names, a handful of tour dates along with three streaming songs for your listening pleasure. The tracks on the site include covers of […]

Several years ago, the three piece Brooklyn-via-Dallas psychedelic hard rock act The Secret Machines seemed poised for big things after having released two well received albums, playing an incendiary late-night set at Bonnaroo, completing a co-headlining tour with KoL and an inventive in-the-round tour of their own. A funny thing happened though amongst all the […]

The aughts have been quite the decade for New Jersey’s native son Bruce Springsteen. The Rumson resident is having one of the most creative and prolific periods of his career. Persistent rumors had the E Street Band hanging it up after their world tour came to an end, but it’s looking like ’09 is shaping […]

Yesterday, we brought you the tag team of review of Saturday night’s Benevento/Fishman/Mathis show – a show that a healthy dose of HT’s New York bureau attended. Despite the poor venue choice the music didn’t suffer, as the trio tore through an hour and half of some of the best instrumental rock that these ears […]

This past weekend Van Morrison took the stage at the Hollywood Bowl for a special three-night stand at the historic venue. The legendary singer-songwriter used two of those nights to revisit arguably his most revered album Astral Weeks. Morrison first delivered a short set of career spanning material, before performing the eight track album in […]

It’s been quite the year for former Spencer Davis Group/Traffic/Blind Faith member Steve Winwood – reuniting with Eric Clapton for a string of shows, turning 60, releasing a new solo album and a summer tour with Tom Petty. The B3 playing, guitar slinger is now looking to continue that run into 2009 with a brief […]

Earlier this week, people around the country came out in record numbers to elect Barack Obama the 44th President Of The United States in a landslide. While the President-elect doesn’t get sworn in until January 20 of next year that won’t stop us from celebrating the victory around here. So with that in mind, this […]

After a couple of nights off, former Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh & his Friends will once again hit the stage at the Nokia Theater in NYC tonight for night five of the 2nd Annual Philathon. In his continuing efforts to say thanks to his fans, the bassist released another tasty soundboard recording for […]

With Election Day upon us, I just wanted to use this opportunity to implore everyone to exercise your constitutional right today and go out to the polls and vote in what is probably the most important election of our generation. For me, there’s only one person’s music to turn to on a day like this […]

In May we featured up and coming act The Weather Underground as one of our Blips artists to watch. The L.A. quartet had quite a six-month stretch – a cross country tour, stops at major music festivals including Bonnaroo and High Sierra, as well as holding down the opening slot for a diverse group of […]

For the first time in their long and storied careers two of New Orleans most recognizable acts – Dr. John and The Neville Brothers – will head out together for a US tour. The two acts will hit road starting on January 31 of next year for a cross-country run that brings their brand of […]