Photo Credit: Jim Appio (CoolDad Music)In the past few years, Allyson Dwyer has become more and more familiar with the plethora of amazing live music that exists just a car or train ride away. Some of this music comes from [...]
If the Amherst-based California X wasn’t clear about where its influences lie on their acclaimed 2013 self-titled debut – which landed on SIMGE’s Top 50 Releases of 2013 list- the band has returned with a gnarly new fuzz-smothered single titled “Nights [...]
New Jersey veterans Screaming Females need no introduction, but they’ve been pretty active in their home state lately, playing multiple sets to help ease the closing of Maxwell’s in Hoboken. The band will be hanging out in New Jersey a [...]
The latest Don Giovanni Records dynamo that is California X recently announced a series of appearances at the forthcoming SXSW music marathon and arts conference in Austin, TX. Check out the dates below, read SIMGE’s review of the Amherst, MA collective’s excellent [...]
Much like the big rig barreling down the interstate in Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” video before crashing into that child’s bed, California X tango’s with the idea of a dreamscape tormented by pulsating pistons and tumultuous turbines with an additional blanket of [...]
CoolDaughter #1 had another two-day swim meet this weekend. Early warm-ups at Princeton meant that I had to get up before dawn on both days to make the drive. I sadly, therefore, decided against attending any of the Light of [...]
Amongst the mass of sun-baked and surf-soaked Punk-Rock to emerge from the West Coast in the past four years sits veterans of the scene The Audacity, a Fullerton, California based outfit that has gone unrecognized by this outfit for far [...]
Although summer is long gone, California based folk-rockers Great Spirit manage to inspire that warm, fuzzy feeling typically only made possible drinking a beer on your porch in peak heat. The band is readying their new LP, appropriately titled, Front [...]
NJ pop-punk purveyors Major League are currently in the midst of a nationwide tour with Senses Fail behind their recently released Hard Feelings full length. The band has been hard at work out on the road knowing that the light [...]
A while back, Don Giovanni Records head honcho Joe Steinhardt announced plans to bring a wholly independent, alternative music festival to Asbury Park. This festival would be staged as a direct opposite answer to the homogenization of corporately owned and [...]
