Ron Hart

New Jersey

Writer at Freelance

Editor at Rock and Roll Globe

Father, husband, editor, writer.

Articles

LISTEN: Peter Donovan Shares ‘Everything in Between’

1 week ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

You may have heard about Peter Donovan from his years creating music as All The Real Girls and as part of The Rose Petals with Elijah Ocean. Yet as a solo act, the Seattle singer-songwriter is really letting his imagination fly with his new album Community Theatre — an ambitious concept album with potential for off-broadway immortality.
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1 week ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

If you never listened to the Wicked Whispers from Liverpool, England, you are missing out one of the most talented psych-pop bands to emerge from the UK in the 2010s. Now the band’s former frontman, Michael Robert Murphy, is branching out on his own with an anticipated solo debut, Chaos Magick, which will be released on June 20th with a special album release party at Future Yard in the English town of Birkenhead. “I’m thrilled to be hosting the album launch show at Future Yard,” says Murphy.
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2 weeks ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

You don’t get much more New England than a band named the Molly Maguires. Since their formation in 2019, founding members JJ Sorensen and Meghan Earle have been — who met in 2010 while attending school at Framingham State University — have put together a band that illuminates the Northeast Irish spirit of the group’s music as they are joined by guitarist Jesse Coppa, multi-instrumentalist Jason G. Taylor, bassist Nathan Johnson III and drummer Sean Scro for their most formidable lineup yet.
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2 weeks ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

You don’t get much more New England than a band named Molly Maguires. Since their formation in 2019, founding members JJ Sorensen and Meghan Earle have been — who met in 2010 while attending school at Framingham State University — have put together a band that illuminates the Northeast Irish spirit of the group’s music as they are joined by guitarist Jesse Coppa, multi-instrumentalist Jason G. Taylor, bassist Nathan Johnson III and drummer Sean Scro for their most formidable lineup yet.
Out of the Blue: Dew Claw Return with New Album

2 weeks ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

Dew Claw is back and ready to release their highly anticipated new album, E.L.F., on May 9 via Dromedary Records. For over 20 years, Stephen Hunking (Grand Union, Hynolovewheel, XL Kings) has been creating music as Dew Claw, releasing four albums and several EPs and singles under the name, largely as a solo project.
SPIN RSD 2025

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Ron Hart

There’s 334 different titles on hand for this year’s Record Store Day, which usually falls on the third Saturday of April but thanks to Easter it will be here a week earlier. There’s a lot of good stuff, too. Last year’s RSD might have boasted more of a selection. But the 2025 list, in all its glory, teems with a cache of quality titles aimed at getting folks to line up at the door of their local mom-and-pop despite the deficit in volume.
Chicago's Half Gringa Releases Cosmovisión - Rock and Roll Globe

3 weeks ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

This past Friday saw the release of the fantastic third album from Half Gringa, the solo project of Chicago-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Isabel Olive. Entitied Cosmovisión, it’s an album that finds Olive expressing herself in both English and Spanish across a vibrant, musically adventurous set of songs recorded in Chicago by veteran Califone, Modest Mouse and Iron & Wine producer Brian Deck.
Bartees Strange Guitarist Daniel Kleederman Releases Single

3 weeks ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

As the guitarist for Bartees Strange, Daniel Kleederman has been helping redefine the sound of indie rock for the 2020s. But in his quieter moments, Kleederman has been working up to his own full-length release, co-produced with longtime musical partner, Chris Connors (Bartees Strange, Holy Hive) called Another Life, which is coming out Friday, April 4 via Grand Kid Records.
LISTEN: Mark Fredson is a ‘Company Man’

4 weeks ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

Mark Fredson is perhaps best known for his time as frontman for the Pacific Northwest indie pop outfit The Lonely H. Or maybe you know him from his songwriting credit with Margo Price’s outlaw country tune “Hurtin (On The Bottle),” which he co-penned with Price, Jeremy Ivey and Caitlin Rose for Margo’s 2016 debut Midwest Farmer’s Daughter.
WATCH: Absolight Shares ‘Fiction’ - Rock and Roll Globe

4 weeks ago | rockandrollglobe.com | Ron Hart

Here at Rock & Roll Globe, we love Canada with all our hearts. And one of the reasons we stand by our neighbors up north is because they’ve consistently blessed us with some of the best music to ever emerge from the continent. Quebec City’s Absolight have a bit of a ways to go before they reach the level of Rush and The Tragically Hip.