Year End Lists 2014: John Muccino (River City Extension, Thanks) Shares His Top 5 Discoveries Le Sacre du Printemps – Igor Stravinsky It took me 22 years of life to discover this piece, and it will take me all the [...]
27. Hot Blood – The EP 26. Dollys – EP1 25. Broken Edge Records Split – Reasons Why I Left Home 24. Farewell Ember – Poet Season 23. Amy Malkoff & The Moonshines – S/T 22. Ether Sunday – S/T [...]
Farewell Ember is Toms River artist Anthony Nastasi. On the Poet Season EP, which was recorded by Jason Portizio in Toms River’s own Ugly Door Studio Nastasi enlists the help of several area artists to create four songs that have a feel [...]
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 [...]
A St. Patrick’s Day party of grandiose local Indie-Rock proportions is upon us, as Jackson, NJ’s lauded four-man string band Thomas Wesley Stern, Hazlet’s own Julian Fulton & The Zombie Gospel, and the Asbury-based Thanks (a keys-laced project featuring River City [...]
Chances are if you’re a local New Jersey musician, you’re familiar with the EightSixteen Music Studio in Ocean County off Route 9 in Bayville. Its hallowed, sound tested halls have housed some of the finest recording sessions the contemporary shore scene [...]
With all of my traveling lately, I hadn’t seen CoolMom in about two weeks. Over the last few months, my efforts to see Thanks, the project of River City Extension’s John Muccino and Mike Costaney, had all ended in failure. [...]
Fresh off an awe inspiring effort last Tuesday opening for the California-based Indie-Pop collective Milo Greene at The Saint, Accidental Seabirds will take flight once again this Friday evening (February 22nd) at The Berkeley-Carteret Hotel’s Dauphin Grille. The performance will include “a [...]
As previously reported, River City Extension’s axe wielder, John Muccino, and drummer, Mike Costaney, have found a way to keep busy during the band’s Winter hibernation and its with a side-project named Thanks. A divergence from the Folk-Rock offerings of the duo’s [...]
In 2012 Mike Costaney quite literally traveled the world with Toms River’s own Indie-Rock collective, turned internationally renowned globe trotter, River City Extension, but not before traveling to Chicago to cut the band’s sophomore LP, Don’t Let The Sun Go [...]
