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Speaking Out: Jay Sakong Of Owel At Asbury Lanes

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 [...]

April 23, 2013 Features, Interviews
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Instant Nostalgia: RIP Storm Thorgerson, Album Art King

Last week, at around 4:30 am est, I was fully engaged in the Boston Bomber manhunt. I had the Boston Police scanner, Reddit, and several Twitter feeds open. This was going my generation’s White Bronco, and I was going to [...]

April 22, 2013 Exclusive Content, Features
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SIMGE Stream: Modern Chemistry – We’ll Grow Out Of This (Exclusive)

Modern Chemistry’s debut EP, We’ll Grow Out Of This, sees the New Brunswick outfit delve into the uncertain confines of jagged Rock artistry built upon Pop infused foundations.  One pretentious move and the structure can crumble into territories traversed by the likes [...]

April 22, 2013 Features
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SIMGE Stream: Only Living Boy – Cool Collected Headcase EP

After sharing the title track to their latest short form release a little over a week ago, NJ rockers Only Living Boy have unveiled the Cool Collected Headcase EP in full. The 5 track EP expands upon Only Living Boy’s [...]

April 18, 2013 Features
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SIMGE Stream: Ghost Pal – God Save MCFK EP

Produced in Brooklyn DIY studio Mama Coco’s Funky Kitchen, the immediate pop-psych left-jab that opens Ghost Pal’s God Save MCFK EP conjures images of the six member group indulging in their own personal Abbey Road. The latest short form offering [...]

April 16, 2013 Features
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SIMGE On The Scene With: Bern & The Brights At The Wonder Bar

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 [...]

April 16, 2013 Features, Interviews
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Breaking Rad: Airhead (Rob McAndrews) Crawls Out From Behind James Blake Into His Own Emotional State

Five years ago Rob McAndrews, better known by his stage monicker Airhead, planted himself next to a speaker that spewed Dub Step and Future Bass concoctions into the Leeds, England basement session in which he was immersed.  The murmuring reverb [...]

April 16, 2013 Breaking Rad, Features
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Breaking Rad: Johnny Wore Black (Feat. Megadeath’s David Ellefson) Drops New Single “Noise”

  In 2011 John Coen returned to his Brighton, England home from tour…not as a musical road warrior in search of fame and fortune, but from the Royal Marine Corp where the singer/songwriter helped defend the free world from terrorist [...]

April 15, 2013 Breaking Rad, Features
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Breaking Rad: Coma Cinema – The Devil Went Down To Spartansburg, South Carolina

We’re all well versed about how the devil once traversed the highways and byways for a fiddle fight in Georgia.  However, the tale that’s not nearly as well recounted is how Lucifer took up residence in Spartansburg, SC and transformed [...]

April 12, 2013 Breaking Rad, Features
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Read & Listen Along As Wayne Coyne Explains The Flaming Lips’ The Terror

With The Flaming Lips’ The Terror set for an official US release next Tuesday, April 16th, freaky front man Wayne Coyne took to Twitter last night to host an advance listening party. The fake baby coddling singer went in depth [...]

April 11, 2013 Features