Locals, we meet again to chat about some of New Jersey’s hottest musicians. I know we are only apart for a week at a time, but lots of things can happen! I’ve been finding out about some new groups, some cover bands, new material, locals opening up for national…

You’d think she was Alicia Keys the way she starts her album off with that soulful piano intro. You’d think she was Billie Holiday when she starts slurring about “the man is like a drug” and “if this is love what was I thinking” on the startlingly dramatic opening…

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Warner Brothers

Rated PG-13 for PG-13 for epithets, ethnic slurs and mature themes

Jackie Robinson Biopic Recounts Historic Breaking Of Baseball’s Color Barrier

From its formation in the late 19th century until well into the 1940s, Major League Baseball operated in accordance with an unwritten rule that…

Defiance

Monday, 9 p.m. (Syfy)

Syfy boasts that Defiance marks the first conversion of tv and online gaming. The drama will unfold as both a series and a multiplatform videogame, with connections between the two mediums. That’s an intriguing gimmick—but luckily there’s nothing gimmicky about the tv premiere, which…

Mr. Campion,

The drone policy of our government and the absolute powers exhibited by this president, as were the last ones by the previous administration, are the obvious consequences of the way we as citizens allowed the zealous deconstruction of our rights immediately after 9/11. (LIFE (AND DEATH) DURING PERPETUAL…

In a recent column discussing the tragic death of Kimani Gray, the teenager gunned down by plainclothes NYPD officers, I left one important aspect of the story untouched: the fact that Kimani Gray was a young black male. The omission was intentional, an effort not to reduce the tragedy to…

What is it about death that makes us all drop everything and uncritically praise somebody? I’ve never understood that impulse, and so as I read the reactions to the death of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from Britain’s Labour Party, the heralding of her achievements by those who worked…

Mixed martial arts fighter Fallon Fox has gone through more in her life than I could ever imagine. Her story is perplexing, and at the same time, fascinating. A true tale of self-discovery, which has led to the 37-year-old becoming a seemingly content, popular fighter. But after last month’s…

Locals, we meet yet again to bring some awesome Jersey music to the drawing board. Week to week, I try to blow your minds with some bands, solo acts, and music that have become trending on one scale or another. I got a ton of positive feedback on our…

32 pages into his 586-page memoir, The SoundTrack Of My Life (Simon & Schuster), legendary record man Clive Davis admits he never really liked rock ‘n’ roll that much, preferring the music of Dinah Shore, Kay Starr, Bing Crosby and Broadway show albums. He thought of rock ‘n’ roll…