Jack Silbert
Aquarium Playlist, 6/11/19
EPISODE #334: HEY The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Little Richard — “Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey”Karyn Kuhl Band — “Hey Kid”Basic Bitches — “Hey Kid”Alvvays — “Hey”OutKast — “Hey Ya!”Rocketship — “Hey, Hey Girl”Louis Prima & Keely Smith — “Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl!”Eels — “Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living)”Luna — “Hey Sister”Bruce Springsteen — “Hey […]
Review: ‘Hey Kid’ by the Karyn Kuhl Band
The new EP by Hoboken’s own Karyn Kuhl Band, Hey Kid, will be released on June 21, but is available for pre-order now. I wrote a review for hMAG.
Movie Review: Godzilla — King of the Monsters
4 out of 5 stars As the very beginning flashes back to 2014, I wondered if I was watching a sequel to some Godzilla movie I’d never seen. Later, when David Strathairn shows up as a serious military dude, I thought, “Hmm, I do vaguely remember him as a serious military dude,” and worried that […]
Aquarium Playlist, 6/4/19
EPISODE #333: HALF DEVIL The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Sputnik — “333”The Rolling Stones — “Sympathy for the Devil”Robert Plant — “Angel Dance”INXS — “Devil Inside”The Mighty Lemon Drops — “Like an Angel” (original 7″ version)Steve Earle — “The Devil’s Right Hand”Rogue’s March — “If I Was an Angel”The Beatles — “Devil in Her Heart”k.d. […]
Movie Review: The Souvenir
3.5 stars out of 5 Two generations of Swintons? Count me in! Tilda has a relatively small role in this, but it’s all about her daughter Honor Swinton Byrne. She plays 24-year-old Julie who wants to make films. Ah, but not about her relatively comfortable existence; she’d rather focus on a boy in the northern […]
Aquarium, 5/28/19
EPISODE #332: CIGARETTES The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Benny Spellman — “Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette)”Karyn Kuhl — “Cigarette Song”Karl Hendricks Trio — “Some Girls Like Cigarettes”Spoon — “My Little Japanese Cigarette Case”The Insomniacs — “The Long Cigarette”Hefner — “The Hymn for the Cigarettes”My Bloody Valentine — “Cigarette in Your Bed”The Minus 5 — “Cigarettes […]
Movie Review: Asbury Park—Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘n Roll
4 stars out of 5The story goes that, a couple of years ago, Mr. Bruce Springsteen saw a rough cut of this documentary and said, “I should be in this.” His ample included commentary in the finished version certainly lends the film some legitimacy and authority, but the story presented here is worth telling regardless. […]
In Real Life w/ Kimzilla & Emily: Happy Jack
What an honor to be interviewed on the great WFMU program In Real Life about my disability, recovery, and more. An extended podcast version is available here.
Aquarium Playlist, 5/21/19
EPISODE #331: ABORTION RIGHTS The A’s — “A Woman’s Got the Power” [ALTERNATE THEME]Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five — “I’m Alabama Bound”Warren Zevon — “Play It All Night Long”Neil Young — “Southern Man”Screaming Females — “My Body”Nick Lowe — “Born a Woman”Alice Cooper — “Only Women Bleed”Sleater-Kinney — “Call the Doctor”Cinema Cinema — “Lady […]
Rest Ashore at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
I wrote this preview article for hMAG of the exciting young Hoboken-based band Rest Ashore’s appearance at the Spring Arts & Music Festival. The piece also serves as a review of their recent EP Annihilation.
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