I’ve mentioned this before; but back in 2010, I was able to score tickets for CoolMom and me to attend The National’s pre-High Violet release show at the Bell House. That show stands as a benchmark for me of what [...]
Marie Wermer isn’t just that nice girl who serves your drunk ass at the Inkwell at 2 a.m. She’s also a dedicated philanthropist (a full-on rapist for you Always Sunny fans), and as of May 16th she can add “successful [...]
Did you know that Burger King makes a bootleg McRib? It tastes like if Yankee Candle introduced a meat-scent and it melted onto the carpeting of cowboy boot shop. I recommend putting onion rings on top. I don’t know why I [...]
Through Sunday’s rain showers and cloud coverage the image of Skate And Surf actually became sharper. The audience, musicians, and tone were more mature. The antics, conversation, and art were more advanced. And the consequences for your actions were more [...]
At some point my child brain has evolved to enjoy adult concerts. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to see a thing like Skate and Surf that supports teenagers who are into very alternative music, but suddenly it’s the last [...]
The question surrounding day one of a reincarnated Skate And Surf Festival was simply: What the hell is this? The exterior of this event revealed it as a teenage wasteland of soggy squid-hat enthusiasts swimming in a concrete ocean of [...]
The Flaming Lips returned to Montclair’s Wellmont Theater last night to a packed audience, a mixture of passionate fans and out-there fanatics dressed in skeleton body suits and Santa Claus outfits, wearing home-made eye ball hats, and donning blood splattered [...]
Last night marked the first evening of the 2013 Spring/Summer season where it was warm enough to walk around Asbury Park in short sleeves. It’s entirely possible that this changeover from Winter was expedited by the arrival of LA trio [...]
I think you have to be careful when you say something like, “This album will be the band’s breakout record.” In this new world where everything is sliced and diced into smaller and smaller sections by cable TV and the [...]
Plato Zorba, the noir-twanged surf rock band from Middletown, and Wakah Chan, the chill jazz-funk collective from Asbury Park, combined their musical powers to play a free, all ages show at the Berkeley Bar in Asbury Park on Friday night. [...]
