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
Jersey City’s own purveyors of xylophone infused folk-punk, Crazy & The Brains, very quietly returned on December 30th with a follow up to the outfit’s excellent 2013 LP Let Me Go by unveiling a new six track EP titled Good Lord. The record, which [...]
Spring in Asbury Park got off to a hot start last Saturday night as one of the most beautiful days of the year turned into a rollicking night at Asbury Lanes. A mass gathering of eager music fans swarmed the [...]
April 15, 2014
Live, Reviews
Shellshag @ MHOW The eclectic indie duo Shellshag released a new music video Thursday to go along with their track “Medley”, off the Shellshag Forever LP. The three-minute song is a mix of covers from a colorful group of artists. The [...]
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
This review originally appeared at CoolDad Music Click, Click, Click and the Moment’s GoneLast night was my last scheduled trip to Maxwell’s (I showed amazing restraint when the two Mission of Burma shows were announced for today). I talked with [...]
After celebrating the release of their latest LP Shellshag Forever at Maxwell’s with a front to back playing a few weeks back, the Don Giovanni rock duo Shellshag are hitting the road. Although perhaps not in the way you would [...]
Last Saturday I met up with CoolDad Music to take in an evening of amazing music at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ. Screaming Females, Swearin’, Hilly Eye, Great Thunder comprised a stacked undercard to Shellshag’s record release party as the duo of [...]
April 24, 2013
Music Videos, News
A lot of people aren’t necessarily where they want to be in life. They haven’t yet found the right person. Maybe the job they have doesn’t leave them enough time to do what they really love. Maybe they just haven’t [...]
“Face To Face” is latest offering from longtime Brooklyn Punk duo, beloved cult member of the DIY underground, and Don Giovanni Records product Shellshag, and is one of the most revelatory pieces of music the outfit has unveiled to date…or at [...]