One of the bands that I haven’t been able to stop listening to since I first heard them back in January at a benefit I played in Atlantic City is Massapequa, NY’s Midnight Mob. This group encompasses that old New York sleaze rock sound that we all grew up…
North Jersey Notes: The Infinite Staircase, She Said Fire, Lower The Veil and More!
My boy Smitty was telling me that he ran into Lenny and Jeff Cerzosie of the band The Infinite Staircase a few weeks ago after a Candlebox show in NYC. Now, these guys, Lenny and Jeff, recently did something absolutely amazing and totally cool. They recently collaborated on a…
An Interview with Dirk Verbeuren from Soilwork: Living The Infinite Dream
For those of you unfamiliar with the metallic sounds of Soilwork, consider today your lucky day, because Tim Louie is going to introduce you to one of the best metal acts to come out of Sweden. Singer Björn “Speed” Strid and guitarist Peter Wichers formed Soilwork—whose name means “working…
North Jersey Notes: Coldsteel, Of Earth, The Compulsions and More!
One of my bass bros, Doug Odell, who also played with TNA, Ted Poley, and my old singer Ray West, sent me an email a while back to let me know about this new project he’s been working on. For some reason, I never got to it. Recently, I…
Inked Out: Artisanal Tattoo
I’ve been trying to get up to Somerville, NJ, to visit a little shop called Artisanal Tattoo because my buddy, Kristin Bonafide, has been tattooing there for the past four years. Kristin and I have this ongoing joke that she has the “biggest cock” in New Jersey because she…
North Jersey Notes: Mildly Medicated, Incognito Theory, Division 1.1 and More!
Last summer, I emceed a couple of events at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. At one of the shows, the kids from School Of Rock performed, and they were awesome! I never wrote about them because they just played cover songs. The covers they did play, however, were dead-on.…
North Jersey Notes: Dark Matter, King Kelly, BoundAlive and More!
I recently received an email from a Viaktor Pingin telling me that he thought I was doing a great thing for bands on the scene. For that, I have to say thank you, Viaktor! It always feels good to be appreciated for my 12 years of writing this column.…
North Jersey Notes: Rachel Allyn, Atom Strange, Scarlet Carson and More!
One of my old college buddies from William Paterson, Warren Hibbert, recently reached out to me because he was excited about an artist he was working with. He warned me that it wasn’t the type of music that I usually write about, but I assured him that I listen…
North Jersey Notes: Seconds To Impact, Scars Of Envy, BoundAlive and More!
I was recently turned on to a band out of my neck of the woods that I was totally unaware of. When I say my neck of the woods, I mean my old stomping grounds of Maywood, NJ, and I’m talking about a band called Seconds To Impact. I…
Inked Out: Dynasty Tattoo
A buddy of mine recently showed me his new tattoo at a recent gig that I played with my band BlackOcean in Atlantic City. It was of some sort of evil looking gargoyle, but the detail was amazing, so I had to ask where he got his work done.…
