Nicky Gianatiempo first impacted the SIMGE staff last summer, when we were introduced to his infectious guitar licks as heard on the Toms River based Prehistoric Forest’s debut self-titled LP. The album made such an impression that we were moved to [...]
The 2013 Asbury Music Award winning Happy Mondays was supposed to role into the month of February tonight with Dentist, Lovelectric, and Trans Charger Metropolis, however, the weekly free-music series has been canceled to the fresh coat of powder coating our musical [...]
I’ve always kind of identified more with the Italian half of my heritage than the Irish half. The Italian side are much more recent (20th century) immigrants to the U.S.; and the only grandparent I ever had, after the age [...]
Last night Jersey City trio Overlake continued their local summer tour as they continue to road test and tease material from their forthcoming full length debut. Underground Brooklyn venue Don Pedro featured the up and coming fuzz-rock, shoegaze outfit as [...]
I came a little late to the Rick Barry party. My first encounter with the Asbury Park-based singer songwriter was through his work with No Wine For Kittens. The band’s Not Ready Yet EP featured some nods to 1990s indie pop with its [...]
Thomas Wesley Stern surfaced from its Southwestern, NJ abode to unveil the lead single, “Shake It Out”, from a forthcoming self-titled LP and follow up to 2012’s lauded long form offering American Pain, which landed on SIMGE’s Top 50 Releases Of 2012 [...]
I know what you’re thinking. How could tonight’s showcase featuring Paper Streets, The Everymen, Thomas Wesley Stern, Mad Feather Group, and Dentist possibly get any better? Two words; Tarmac Adam. Who is Tarmac Adam you ask? Well first, you have [...]
In the opening moments of Stephen Chopek’s debut LP, a dominant theme arises in “a well kept secret, is worth a thousand words.” As a member of the Tiny Giant Artist Collective, and the drummer in The Everymen, the multi-talented [...]
I’m just going to go ahead and call it; summer is officially here and the continuing Happy Mondays series is set to kick things off in grand style. For their Memorial Day shin dig, the collected roster of talent set [...]
Undoubtedly one of the hardest working bands in the emerging New Jersey scene, the skronk-rock mega-group The Everymen now share the follow up to their stellar New Jersey Hardcore record which is barely eight months old. The passionate soul collective [...]
