What is it about the sea that inspires such tales of tragedy and betrayal? The various oceans and rivers of the world have served as inspiration for countless songs and seem to be arenas for all different examples of human [...]
SIMGEssential We all know the feeling well. The time when the anger becomes uncontrollable. The time when your emotions take over, and someone who you didn’t even know existed rears his or her ugly head. We all know what it [...]
Bad Case Of Big Mouth, an Experimental-Punk outfit from South Plainfield, isn’t timid when it comes to operating unconventionally, in fact, areas of eccentricity is this seven-piece collective’s comfort zone…and they thrive in it. While effortlessly transitioning between aggressive chunking [...]
SIMGEssential Lost In Society’s half of a split EP with the New York-based Ska-Punk collective American Pinup in February produced five setlist staples and a riotous single, “Not Afraid,” that continues to have Punks flipping the bird in the pit [...]
SIMGEssential Sitting on chair that had seen more famous asses than my own in the steamy surroundings of the Bonnaroo press compound nearly one year ago, River City Extension’s Joe Michelini assured this inquisitor the new record he and the [...]
SIMGEssential This afternoon the Garden State’s own Clark Westfield (James Wells) and Puppy Mills (Quinn English), better known as The Gay Blades, dropped a brand new slef-titled EP four songs in length. The collection includes the hollowed out, distortion-laden single [...]
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 [...]
