What an iced coffee at Cafe Volan in Asbury Park couldn’t do, the folk-punk gut punch that is Coffee Coffee Anarchy! provided by the New York City based Modern Trigger certainly accomplished. Dreary-eyed and sluggish after a long night of work, a [...]
William Elliott Whitmore @ The Stone Pony (Photo: C. Rotolo) Iowa’s favorite banjo toting purveyor of punk, William Elliott Whitmore, has resurfaced with a new animated video for his cut “Civilizations”, a sparse but fiery don’t-tread-on-my-existence type tale of survival [...]
Over the past few years the folk-rock offerings of Alex Bleeker And The Freaks have received rave reviews, but never without making mention to the frontman’s ties to Ridgewood, NJ’s own fuzz-pop purveyors Real Estate. Though it’s true Bleeker pops the [...]
It’s rather conceited to believe that the only intelligent life (and for the most part unintelligent life, this penman included) to call the universe home resides on this particular space rock. And London’s Quiet Quiet Band is here to remind us that when [...]
River City Extension’s forthcoming LP3 Deliverance will undoubtedly be a step outside the aggressive Folk-Punk archetype set in place by frontman Joe Michelini way back in 2009 with Nautical Sabbatical and furthered by the Toms River-based outfit’s 2010 follow up The Unmistakable Man. In fact ,this upcoming [...]
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 [...]
Ben Stalets resides in Toldeo, Ohio, a town inhabited by industry, fashioned by its factory ties, and shaped by its place upon the Maumee River. These industrial and geographical traits don’t just mold the locale but seep into the souls of [...]
Typefighter’s 2014 LP The End of Everything was an alluring intersection of Freak-Folk offerings and Weezer-esque Power-Pop that presented revealing lyricism by frontman Ryan McLaughlin if you took a minute to quit churning it up the pit and listen. Earlier this week [...]
Asbury Park’s own Ed Tang & The Chops recently resurfaced with a new music video for “Pualei”, a deeper cut plucked from the band’s excellent 2013 LP Goodbye, Zen5, Sushi Dinner. The grainy selection of sepia-filtered footage from an era of early [...]
Luke Henderiks wears a lot of hats. As a local songwriter, founder of Broken Edge Records, and lead promoter with booking collective The Clef, his schedule is stacked. Bus Buddies and Loser Year are a couple of his more notable projects, but [...]
