Mondays continue to be Happy down at the Wonder Bar as hard rockers Mother, Only Living Boy, & Empire Escorts filled this week’s bill. Resident Happy Mondays photographer Phil Shepherd’s thoughts on the evening: “A Rock n Roll night, pure [...]
October 3, 2014
Live, Reviews
As previously reported the 21st Annual Asbury Music Awards is scheduled to take place on December 12th at The Stone Pony and one of the most intriguing questions to ponder leading up to the gala is which luminaries of the scene will [...]
November 27, 2013
Asbury Music, News
On January 4th 95.9 The WRAT’s champion of local music Maria Mar will host Punch Out Cancer, a musical fund raiser to help support cancer research and the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Woods Johnson. As well as having music provided [...]
November 20, 2013
Asbury Music, News
Empire Escorts is back with a new single titled “Keep The Ghosts At Bay” and this treacherous number is less a brutal assault to bang your head too, a developing trademark of the Brick,NJ outfit, but a track that cuts [...]
August 8, 2013
Asbury Music, News
After rocking the inaugural Jersey Shore Music Festival, Empire Escorts are gearing up for a non stop ten day run of the east coast and mid west dubbed the “Empire Expansion Tour”. To ensure that this latest excursion comes to [...]
Earlier this spring the Brick, NJ-based Empire Escorts released a live video to accompany their foot stomping Hard-Rock anthem “Electric Whiskey”. The BlankTV production is composed entirely of clips taken from a recent performance at Asbury Park’s own The Saint; [...]
Quickly becoming one of the wilder, interesting, balls to the walls, beer sloshing events in the area, volume nine of the I Red Bank Rehearsal Studio space once again with a stellar lineup of thrashing talent. This Saturday, May 11th [...]
In October 2012 Brick, NJ’s Empire Escorts dropped a three-track EP of flammable riff-driven Rock tunes titled The Weather EP, with the title track rising to the top as the most incendiary bit of cream in the crop. Later that month, the band [...]
When SIMGE first witnessed Empire Escorts unveil it’s new single, “Time To Move”, the flammable Rock concoction engulfed the storied studio dwelling within the Red Bank Rehearsal Space amid a torrent of twisted limbs and concussive mid-pit collisions. By the reactions of those [...]
Athletic competition isn’t for everyone. Thus, SIMGE’s Third Annual Musical March Madness Tournament (read: promotional tool) has returned as a much needed distraction from the impending round-the-clock college basketball bombardment about to overtake our national media outlets. For those in [...]