Everymen stopped by to headline Happy Mondays this week in support of their new release “May Ashes Have Stories to Tell”. Coming up from Florida for a tour of the northeast, the five-piece act adds a punk attitude into some [...]
May 10, 2017
Live, Reviews
The folks over at Jersey Rock and The WRAT held their second showcase of the winter at the Wonder Bar. It was great to back and catch up with a bunch of familiar faces many of whom were constants at [...]
February 17, 2017
Live, Reviews
Asbury Unplugged is back! I always look forward to these intimate affairs for the chilled out and laid back atmosphere they bring and the Wonder Bar and Dark City always add a little extra cozy touch to the seating arrangements. [...]
September 18, 2015
Live, Reviews
New Jersey’s own little slice of Brooklyn is making its way to the shore with the inaugural edition of Asbury Park Night Bazaar slated to hit the Convention Hall on Saturday, June 6th. This opening event marks the first of [...]
Asbury Unplugged, a monthly convergence of acoustic performances held at the Wonder Bar and brought together by Dark City Entertainment went down on December 26th. This month’s soloists included Tim Walsh, Chris Brown, Sal Boyd, Colton Kayser, Doug Zambon, Jimmy [...]
Little Dickman Records and CoolDad Music sponsored a holiday benefit show to benefit the Mercy Center of Asbury Park and the Food bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Held at SixTen Bangs in Asbury Park, the all ages event featured [...]
December 17, 2014
Live, Reviews
Asbury Park songsmith Chris Brown has long been an acoustic guitar toting penman of the beach comber sea shanty. However, beneath his emotional folk-pop exterior beats the heart of a true Punk, evidenced by his recent recording session with Pete Steinkopf [...]
November 13, 2014
Asbury Music, News
The aggressive Folk-Rock tidings of EdTang & The Chops were too powerful to ignore last year when the group’s Goodbye, Zen5, Sushi Dinner crashed and controlled the SIMGE listening party, and eventually landed on our Top 50 Albums of the Year list. In [...]
July 18, 2014
Asbury Music, News
Where are the teenaged punks and emo-kids of yesteryear? In many cases they’re still right here – they’ve traded their boxy, rectangular glasses for Buddy Holly wayfarers; their black t-shirts for plaid flannels; their HXC for PBR, and their skinny [...]
July 14, 2014
New Music, Reviews
Asbury Park’s residential Acoustic-Punk, Chris Brown, has mastered the mug-rattling sea-shanty while starring in our musical hub’s various late night watering holes, but has recently stepped away from the live arena and into the recording studio with The Bouncing Souls’ [...]
February 24, 2014
Asbury Music, News