Kearny cowpunk outfit Secret Country has returned with their first release in two years, a 7-inch single titled Seven Days A Week, which is out today (May 22nd) on Killing Horse Records. The first notes of the title track smack in you [...]
“Dude…what if…what if, like, Weezer got real high and became a stoner-rock band? What would that sound like, man?” This very well may have been how the conversation went that gave birth to the Toms River trio of tokers known [...]
Southern New Jersey’s Coming Clean has returned with its sophomore effort Drive Safe, the follow up to its 2011 debut Trying, and a collection that focuses on the trials and tribulations of a relationship. With the first line of this [...]
At Bay has thrown its hat into the post-hardcore/alternative ring with their latest effort, Anchors. The six-track EP finds the group exploring the boundaries of the two genres and blending them seamlessly. From the opening track, “Near-Life Experience,” the outfit’s multi-dimensional [...]
The cliche goes that you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression, and when a band puts out a three track EP that checks in at less than ten minutes, the window of opportunity to influence the [...]
Have you ever wondered what it might be like to sit side-by-side with your significant other and pour your collective hearts and thoughts out into an album? Indie-Folk duo Jenna Murphy and Thomas Louis, better known as Just Us, have [...]
SIMGEssential “It’s always been my business/To try and spill my guts/But this whiskey tongue is so damn loose/Can’t keep it all locked up.” It is with these opening lines to the song “Don’t Tell Me I’m Wrong” that folk/punk singer-songwriter [...]
SIMGEssential Freehold-based pop-punk outfit Batten Down The Hatches have returned with their latest EP, Beginnings, released on Meadowbrook Records. The five-piece has turned in another quality piece of work, combining punk sensibilities with pop sentiments. The result is four tracks that rock [...]
SIMGEssential Alison Clancy is not your average singer-songwriter. She is a woman of many talents and has a number of other gigs outside of her music, such as being a Wilhelmina Model and a “dream-thrash” dancer who has performed with [...]
SIMGEssential If you’ve ever been stroking your beard, pondering your existence and the music that is its soundtrack, and stumbled onto the sudden conclusion that, “This song, and my entire reality, lacks the appropriate amount of bass,” then stop what [...]
