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 [...]
February 10, 2015
Live, Reviews
Long Island fuzz-rockers Nude Beach’s excellent double LP 77 stood out among another impressive year of releases by Don Giovanni Records, but apparently there was another alluring track that failed to make the cut for that essential 2014 collection. Nude Beach resurfaced earlier this week with “Been [...]
After celebrating the past and present with a trio of showcases in Brooklyn in February, NJ label Don Giovanni Records now looks towards the future and expansion. Today comes the announcement that Brooklyn garage-pop trio Nude Beach will be joining [...]
I’m still smiling like a dope from Friday night’s Don Giovanni Records showcase. Nowadays it takes a lot to get me motivated to travel from my suburban sprawl in New Jersey out to Brooklyn, especially in the dead of winter, but [...]
February 10, 2014
Live, Reviews
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 [...]
Joshua Holland, the multitalented figure at the center of Zoo Keys‘ floaty debut EP, Violent Ends, did not self-release this set of six indie-rock summer jams without significant setbacks. The Delran, NJ-based band fell apart in the Fall of 2015, [...]
March 23, 2016
New Music, Reviews
2014; civil unrest, missing planes, Syria, Ukraine, ISIS. There was plenty of anxiety provoking stories and events that dominated not only headlines, but artistic culture at large. The call and response game of where we’ve been and where we’re headed [...]
December 31, 2014
Features
Relationships come and go, but our love for Don Giovanni Records is eternal. 2015 is looking to be another huge one for the NJ indie label as they gear up once more for their annual showcase. Unlike previous years, the [...]
Tuckerton, NJ’s The Everymen had a busy 2012 releasing a brand new full-length release titled New Jersey Hardcore, while fronting an impressive Hurricane Sandy Relief compilation featuring many of the tri-state area’s finest independent underground artists, and dropping a Christmas single [...]
December 31, 2012
Features
“Chuck. Chuck. It’s Marvin! Your cousin, Marvin BERRY. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this.” And with that raucous scene from the iconic film that has become Back To The Future, with visions of Michael [...]