Tag: Bar/None

Queen City Sounds Podcast S6E20: Glenn Morrow

Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help, photo by Mike Sansevere

Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help released its new album Our Final Album – Vol. 1 July 17, 2026 on 12” vinyl, CD, digital download and streaming via the great indie label Bar/None which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2026. Band leader Morrow was in the first group, “a,” to play the storied underground rock club Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey when it opened its doors in the late 70s and reformed some of his old bands to play the closing night of the club on July 31, 2013. And thus the current band was formed from veterans of the Hoboken scene. The new record may bring to mind comparisons to Scott Walker, Elvis Costello, The Dream Syndicate and even the New York Dolls with exquisite songwriting and energized yet focused performances. Like power pop polished ever so slightly and informed by literary storytelling. It’s a record that has the moods of transitional seasons and because of that it feels like it’s in motion into the future while reassessing the past. The band makes expert use of melody and dissonance and creative rhythms at times incorporating musical ideas from Bossa Nova. Morrow was once a partner in Bar/None but handed over the reigns to Emmy Black in early 2026 but that gives him more time to focus on music that allows him and the band to create songs that can only come from a lifetime of development beyond the early impulses of adolescence.

Listen to our interview with Glenn Morrow on Bandcamp and follow Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help at the links below.

Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help on Instagram

Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help on Facebook

Queen City Sounds Podcast S6E19: Bob Bert

Bob Bert, photo by Buzz Osborne

Bob Bert finally released his debut solo album Beach Bongo Bloodbath on June 12, 2026 via Bar/None on 12” vinyl LP, CD, digital download and streaming. Bert is perhaps best known as an in demand drummer since the early 80s and as a member of Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and many other outfits since that time including more recently Lydia Lunch Retrovirus and Jon Spencer’s HITmakers. His CV is indeed one of the most storied in modern left field music. The record feels like a piece of schlock science fiction cinema with interludes and reworks of classic songs to fit the mood of the album. Where else are you going to hear a beat-driven version of “Mississippi Queen” by Mountain, a surreal percussion heavy cover of “Love Comes in Spurts” originally performed by Richard Hell and the Voidoids, a spectral, haunted garage interpretation of Modern Lovers’ “Pablo Picasso,” a Tiki bar New Wave rework of The Barbarians’ “Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl?” like something that should have come out on K Records. The album closes with possibly the best version of “Foggy Notion” by The Velvet Underground not performed by the original artists. It’s the kind of experimental pop record we would hope to hear but pretty much never get from an artist who has added so much to his other bands as a percussionist but on Beach Bongo Bloodbath, Bob Bert showcases his versatility as a player as well as his broad, creative imagination.

Listen to our interview with Bob Bert on Bandcamp and follow Bob Bert at the links below.

Bob Bert on Instagram