On Monday SIMGE highlighted Beach Day’s Wonder Bar jaunt with Middletown, NJ natives Plato Zorba as the featured show to see of the evening and the Hollywood, FL-based Surf-Pop purveyors failed to disappoint, rolling through a sweltering set of disheveled jangle guitar [...]
Last Saturday the Annapolis, MD-based Psych-Pop collective that is Sun Club made its first return trip to Asbury Park since the band’s inaugural performance at SIMGE’s showcase at The Saint this past August. The Berkley Hotel’s Dauphin Grille played host to [...]
This past Friday evening Outside The Box packed The Saint for what was billed as the lauded Jersey Shore outfit’s final performance. What ensued was the group’s “final” performance, as the former Stone Pony house band unveiled its new identity as [...]
Eternal Summers began as a musical experiment founded by Nicole Yun and Daniel Cundiff in Roanoke, Virginia. The duo never intended to be a full-time band. After producing two full-length albums and adding bass player Jonathan Woods, though, Eternal Summers [...]
This past weekend SIMGE ventured to Asbury Lanes to experience an amalgamation of takes on the Atmospheric-Rock genre featuring performances by such Garden State favorites as Athletics, Gates, Vasudeva, the recently reformed Penfold, and the Jersey City based Owel (formerly known [...]
On Saturday SIMGE and The Wonder Bar played host to Cheers Elephant and tapped such area outfits as Thee Idea Men, The Antics, and Montclair’s own Bern & The Brights to support the touring outfit. SIMGE’s Chris Rotolo caught up with [...]
In the music industry, it’s not uncommon for a band to change it’s name. More often than not, it’s usually bands finding little success that are the ones to do it. However, every now and then, a band will change [...]
One thing Mike V of The Everymen doesn’t do is pull his punches. That shouldn’t be surprising. The Everymen are a good, old, no nonsense, New Jersey rock and roll band. They bring a passion to their live shows that [...]
Erika Simonian, like me, grew up in Little Silver, NJ. We’re both products of the fine, suburban Little Silver School system; and we both graduated, just two years apart, from Red Bank Regional High School. I eventually came back to [...]
On Valentines Day, SIMGE reported upon a musical compilation to raise funds for V-Day.org and awareness about the abuse of women’s rights titled Punks For Progress. This movement to end violence against women of all cultures and demographics is the [...]
