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‘Lovin’ On’ Cary Brothers; Recruiting Ex-Cops

Jon Chattman April 6, 2015

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It’s hard to believe Zach Braff’s outstanding coming-of-age flick Garden State is approaching its 11th anniversary. This A) makes me — probably you — feel old but B) makes me gleam from ear-to-ear because the film as well as its classic soundtrack still hold up and carries the same weight it did in 2004. Among […]

DEPLOYING THE BELLE BRIGADE AND UNLEASHING THE INAUGURAL FIVE FOR FIGHTING WITH FIVE FOR FIGHTING

Jon Chattman December 8, 2014

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2014 is winding down, but The Belle Brigade will likely feel it, love it, and live it long after the ball drops in Time Square. The folky-rock duo of Barbara Gruska and her younger brother Ethan released their new album Just Because, which plays with a ton more excitement than the passive title suggests, and […]

GET TO KNOW THE VAMPS (BEFORE EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER DOES)

Jon Chattman July 3, 2014

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Earlier this month, I attended my 20th year high school reunion and it was a nostalgic blast. It was great to reconnect with so many people, retrace steps on memory lane together, and to catch up on two decades CliffsNotes style. Personally, I was elated to find out that several former classmates had actually purchased […]

G-PUNKERS NEW BEAT FUND RETURN; POP CULTURE AWARDS SET, AND CHERUB TOPS “DELVE”

Jon Chattman February 26, 2014

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It has something to do with a piggy bank. That’s about all I could take away from the online bio for California’s New Beat Fund, and that’s totally fine. A band isn’t defined by their biography. It’s all about the music, and that’s why G-Punk superstars New Beat Fund find themselves back on A-Sides just a […]

WHITE PLAINS A-SIDES SHOOT: MATT WHITE’S “GOT” IT ALL; JODI GOOD WON’T BE A “STRANGER” LONG

Jon Chattman September 30, 2013

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As a kid, I used to have a stuffed animal bear with suction cups on its hands. On the buttocks of the teddy, which I stuck on the window in my bedroom, was a button that stated in big bold letters: “Mondays are a bear.” For years, I had no idea what that expression meant, […]

“Get There” with The Turnback; Throwback with The Vagabondz

Jon Chattman October 20, 2015

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Eclectic is a great word. For today’s post, I’m going to showcase two bands that have no business sharing a post. That, by the way, can be argued. You’re talking to someone who can listen to Roxette and Drake seconds apart from one another. Anyway, The Turnback is a power pop/rock band out of Brooklyn, […]

Yoko Ono Discusses New Album, Bowie, and the Message of “Love & Understanding”

Jon Chattman February 17, 2016

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Photo/Scott Rudd (containing image by Karl Lagerfeld) How do you even try to come up with a worthy opening sentence about Yoko Ono? Well, you don’t. You just plug her latest project, and hope and pray that millennials know who she is, what’s she’s done, and just how significance her life has been. With that, […]

A-Sides with Jon Chattman: My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel Goes it Alone; Crave some Gabe Dixon

Jon Chattman June 27, 2016

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All videos by Alye Bea Carlevero Approximately 38 seconds into meeting Carl Broemel at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY (more on that later), he offers me a cup of coffee which he brewed himself. How can you turn down a morning cup of coffee with the guitarist of My Morning Jacket? The coolness […]

A Very Red-Nosed NYC – Talking ‘Rudolph the Musical’ with Sarah Errington

Jon Chattman November 15, 2016

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It wouldn’t be the holiday season without watching the classic specials by Bass and Rankin. It’s a tradition as rich as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. One show, in particular, always seems to resonate more in my household than the others. It involves a skinny Santa whose wife insists he “eat papa eat!” and an […]

The ‘Shape’ of Oscar: Another Dude Predicting the Oscar Noms

Jon Chattman January 19, 2018

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Predicting the Oscar nominees is a little like guessing which tattoo your drunken friend is going to get on the Sunset Strip at 3 a.m. Is it going to be predictable – something that matches with their other “inkage” – or is it going to be something totally random like Skeletor sipping Mai Tais on […]