Season 2 of Live at Coffee Haus Studios is underway and one of the most recent episodes featured Asbury Park’s own Black Flamingos, the burgeoning and buzzed about outfit whose surf-rock jams have shaked and quaked the Jersey Shore’s various boardwalk [...]
October 26, 2015
Asbury Music, News
Asbury Park’s own collective of eye-patched and peg-legged party-rock pirates, The Jolly Daggers (members of The Battery Electric, Plato Zorba, The Black Flamingos, and more) recently made port with a brand new Surf-Rock anthem aptly titled “Yo Ho”, which will be [...]
Two music scenes, one entrenched underground in basements the other embedded in history. Both a hotbed of talent and incredibly active in supporting their local musicians. When Scenes Collide was the mastermind of Dark City Entertainment, and in association with [...]
March 23, 2015
Live, Reviews
Local Surf-Rock purveyors Black Flamingos (featuring Rob Bukowski of Plato Zorba) are in the process of tracking a debut studio release at Freehold’s own Coffee Haus Studios and while cutting said record apparently decided to take part in a Ben Feld recorded [...]
Splitting time with his other outfit, Black Flamingos, guitarist extraordinaire Rob Butkowski returned to Plato Zorba for a performance at Unsteady Freddy’s Surf Rock Shindig. The bill also featured The Del Rios, Trabants, and El Muchacho. Check out live footage [...]
Like many of us, Vincent Minervino loves Asbury Lanes — “the character, the vibe, the history” — and to prove it, he and his wife Magda had their recent wedding reception there. A real Asbury Park occasion it was, too, [...]
With the Skate & Surf Festival making its return to the shores of Asbury Park in a couple weeks, it looks like there’s room for another surf centric music celebration on the town’s schedule. The 1st Annual Asbury Park Surf [...]
The 2013 Asbury Music Award winning Happy Mondays was supposed to role into the month of February tonight with Dentist, Lovelectric, and Trans Charger Metropolis, however, the weekly free-music series has been canceled to the fresh coat of powder coating our musical [...]
February 3, 2014
Asbury Music, News
A little friendly competition never hurt anyone right? That’s what the organizers behind the initial “The Nothing Show” series figured as representatives from The Drive Home, Harper’s Fellow, I Am The Heat, Plato Zorba, and The Porchistas all took to [...]
Since storming the scene with the heavy, blues rock inspired Weaving Spiders a while back, the trio of The Battery Electric haven’t had much time to celebrate in proper. That all changes on Saturday, June 1st as the band along [...]