Underground noisemakers Shellac, aka “What Steve Albini does in his spare time,” will be touring this fall. There’s no word on any new material, but fans can check comic book shops in Europe in the hopes of finding a new single. Their last LP came out in 2007 and a…

Grunge gypsies Wooden Shjips have just put out a compilation of hard to find singles titled Volume II, and are touring to play the songs. Droney and psychedelic, the band could easily be mistaken for a younger Pink Floyd who doesn’t care about things, like melody. Get your slow swaying…

Paramount Sessions is a free event held in Asbury Park on Labor Day weekend. Filled with street musicians, food donations and a concert featuring up and coming local bands, the planners of the event hope this will be one for the history books. The concert is hosted by local music…

Fox in the Henhouse is a quirky, seemingly pretentious musical duo that’s equal parts theatrics and hipster quirk. On their self-titled EP the band manages to come across as amateurs who think they’re in a position to get away with not caring about what their music sounds like. Thoroughly irritating,…

Bob Rea’s Ragged Choir album is a bastardization of modern roots music. Each song is overtly dramatic and full of awful lyrics that make it seem like a comedy album. His cartoonish posturing has put Bob Rea into the discount CD bin right next to Milli Vanilli and Poison.

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Indie darlings Your Youth are back with a small batch of songs on Aloha, an EP that has six strong examples of their sound and songwriting. Lo-fi in it’s own way, the EP is fuzzy sounding, poppy, and overtly indie. There is no posturing or naval gazing on here, and…

Disturbed, are putting out another album that doesn’t have “Down with the Sickness” on it; however, they’re sure to play that song alongside Avenged Sevenfold on the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Fest. Frat boys and kids too young to remember MTV will rock out until the concert is over and…

March of Dimes: Bikers for Babies is an event that will take place on Thurs. Aug. 29 at the Staten Island Mall. The event looks to raise awareness and fight birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. Dee Snider, the national spokesman for Bikers for Babies, will play a set…

The Binary Code writes crushing heavy metal songs that are technical and brutal. It’s as if every riff and scream channels the anger and frustration of a million computer programmers, or worse, a million technical support workers. The band has just released a new EP titled Priest, and they will…

There are few metal bands that can truly create an engaging sound and sustain it throughout an entire album. There are even fewer bands that bring an energy and focus to that sound and give it everything they’ve got. Dystrophy happen to accomplish both admirably and listening to their album,…