It isn’t often a life changing experience reveals itself so vividly, flaunting its gravity before you while caked in cool shades of neon florescence. But when it does, when the theatrics of it all captivate one in a whirlwind, equal [...]
Thirty years ago today one of the most influential and enigmatic voices in modern music criticism was silenced forever after a toxic cocktail of Valium and Nyquil claimed the life of Lester Bangs. Since the subject here had no issue [...]
For the past five years, come the holiday season, The Bouncing Souls have sold out four consecutive nights at the Jersey Shore’s most storied music haunt, the Stone Pony, to adoring fans who are honored merely to share a mosh pit with [...]
Between releases, every song writer, or group of musicians, there’s a period of growth, of maturation, a development of fresh view points and outlook, and new ideas about how to present these messages. Whether or not the public is receptive [...]
On Saturday, March 24th Elevator Art will headline a show at Monmouth County’s newest house of local music, The Lucky Seven in Union Beach (Keyport), titled An Epic Evening of Irregular Art and Audio. Alongside Elevator Art will be the Hazlet, NJ Hard-Rock collective Ladykiller (fronted [...]
Monsters of Folk will descend upon our fair city of Holmdel on Friday September 23rd in the form of the Gypsy-Rock four-piece, Devotchka, and the mighty headliner The Avett Brothers. On Monday local Folk-Punk collective, River City Extension, made the [...]
