Asbury Underground’s Downtown Art & Music Crawl is set for Oct. 17th and the fall festival will fill a multitude of downtown venues with some of the most revered songwriters of the local scene. Though more further details about set [...]
October 2, 2015
Asbury Music, News
It was a picturesque July day in Brooklyn Last Saturday as the beautiful, sunny weather was juxtaposed against streams of revelers lined up outside the Prospect Park Bandshell clad in black shirts that read “Bad Seed”. These fans were in [...]
July 29, 2014
Live, Reviews
Earlier this year, the Asbury Park based podcast series Song Story, hosted by area rocker Eric Ginsberg, debuted as a show featuring songwriters telling the true story behind their original songs. As they gear up for their debut season, Song [...]
You may have seen songwriter Eytan Oren down in the NJ scene on the keys for Asbury Park luminary Nicole Atkins. The soul man is now picking up his piano and shuffling out on his own as Eytan and The [...]
Jackson, NJ Folk-Rock maestros Thomas Wesley Stern are prepping a new live album to be independently released via the collective’s bandcamp page on a date to be named later. With that Thomas Wesley Stern has given us a taste of what’s [...]
March 4, 2014
Asbury Music, News
After all the hard work and build up to the release of her crowd-funded new album Slow Phaser, Nicole Atkins’ national tour begins this week. Wednesday night she played a surprise warm up show at The Saint, which included support from [...]
February 14, 2014
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Neptune City’s own Nicole Atkins has been busy of late with radio appearances, sit down interviews with SIMGE, and performances alongside Bruce Springsteen at the Light Of Day Festival, but recently found time to sit in with musical compatriot and lauded [...]
February 10, 2014
Asbury Music, News
I’m going to admit to something here. Every time I heard or read Nicole Atkins describe her upcoming album, Slow Phaser, as disco prog rock, I got a little nervous. The description conjured images of organs and flutes, danceable beats, and [...]
As a former member of The Low Anthem, Jocie Adams played a pivotal role in penning one of my favorite songs of 2011 in “Boeing 747″, and with it the outfit’s most commercially successful collection Smart Flesh…then she bailed. Backed [...]
Donning the cover of this years 14th Annual Light Of Day Festival (LOD), a week-long musical initiative to raise funds and awareness about the fight against Parkinson’s Disease, is a caped super hero soaring through the atmosphere in all his [...]
January 19, 2014
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