Visual Sound: Issue 32

Written By Mike Greenblatt

Elk City
“Pathaway”

Elk City is a trippy artsy pop band out of Montclair who can hypnotize with their droning dreamscapes. “Pathaway” comes from their seventh album, Undertow. (They also recently re-released their 2022 Above The Water album on colored vinyl.) The use of the Manhattan skyline as background beautifully encapsulates a Jersey mindset.

 

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
“Ghost Busters”

For the first show since the Asbury Park Sea. Hear. Now festival, on Halloween, in Montreal, guess what 1984 song the band covered for the first time?

 
 

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The Cynz
“Woman Child”

The Power Pop aesthetic of The Cynz is irresistible, catchy, delicious and jet-propelled. This East Brunswick band, for the last 13 years, has been putting out one-two punches of dynamic sledge-hammer pop’n’roll as if they were scraped off the bathrooms of CBGB. “Woman Child” is no exception.

 

Danzig
“Mother”

Sure, we all kinda dug the punked-out Misfits from ’77 to ’83 as well as the horror/demonic vibe of Samhain from ’84 to ’87 but it was only after lead singer Glenn Danzig—who graduated from Lodi High—went solo did we latch on to his blossoming charisma as the second coming of Jim Morrison. “Mother,” particularly, epitomized the essence of his appeal. And he even sacrificed a chicken, pouring blood on the belly of a babe which we all thought was pretty cool at the time. 

Mike Greenblatt

MIKE GREENBLATT has been writing for Goldmine magazine and New Jersey's Aquarian Weekly for more than 35 years. His writing subjects fill the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's interviewed Joe Cocker, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Johnny Cash, and members of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. He was 18 when he attended Woodstock in 1969.

In addition to writing about music, Greenblatt has worked on publicity campaigns for The Animals, Pat Benatar, Johnny Winter, Tommy James and Richard Branson, among others. He is currently the editor of The Jersey Sound.

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