Possibly overshadowed by the Live Nation backed grandeur of The Stone Pony’s 40th year of operation is the fact that Asbury Park’s haven for independent music, The Saint, is honoring it’s 20th Anniversary with a much more locally associated celebration [...]
Photos and videos of the hopefully annual Asbury Underground arts and music crawl that recently filled the clubs and galleries of Downtown Asbury Park have begun to surface. However, none were more striking than footage of local Surf-Pop purveyors Dentist, who [...]
The latest edition of the Asbury Underground Art & Music Crawl is scheduled to run from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 18th in the various venues and galleries of downtown Asbury Park and will feature a loaded lineup [...]
Another Monday of the Happy variety rolled through the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, NJ with local luminaries Dentist, Black Flamingos, Pepperwine filling this week’s bill. Staff photographer Phil Shepherd shares his thoughts: “A very chill night and a perfect [...]
After slaying The Saint, the thick as thieves indie-rock tandem of Coastgaard and NJ rising stars Dentist reconvened this time for a quadruple killing joined by hard riffers The Space Merchants and the spacious, shimmering melodies of Toy Cities. The [...]
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 [...]
This review originally appeared at CoolDad Music I like Dentist. I mean, I like them — as people. We’ve had drinks together. We’ve talked about music, bands, coaching rec soccer. They’re one of the bands I write about here with [...]
(by Jim Appio/Cool Dad) During this never ending winter, Dentist was like portable sunshine, rejuvenating darkened bars and spirits with surf-rock light. When they’d play, we were able to pretend for just a little while that we weren’t on a [...]
Back in December the Asbury Park based Indie-Rock purveyor that is Dentist provided listeners the first taste of a forthcoming self-titled debut, which is slated for May 9th release via GoodEye Records, with a sultry morsel titled “No Matter”, and today [...]
Eminent Domain is an ugly operation, one that often takes heralded local haunts long before their faithful patronage is ready to part. Such has been the rumored, and some would say inevitable, fate of Asbury Lanes for the past three years [...]
