My bud and former manager, Andrew Gelardi, recently hit me up on Facebook IM to tell me about some band of 11-year-olds that he saw performing in the streets of New York City. Yes, the streets! Not a club or a bar because they’re only 11 years old. Normally, I like to write about my Jersey bands, but after I got to check out some of their video footage and a couple of their songs via ReverbNation, these kids are worth letting you know about here in North Jersey Notes. I’m absolutely blown away! Granted, the songs that I heard, “Take Control” and “Breakthrough,” weren’t Grammy Award-winning material, but these kids are 11! I don’t think that they have a singer, but the songs on ReverbNation did have vocals. Disregard those vocals and listen to the chops on these kids.

Like I said, Unlocking The Truth are an extremely young hard rock band out of Brooklyn who formed in 2007 under the name Tears Of Blood by guitarist Malcolm Brickhouse and drummer Jarad Dawkins. Both members are still in sixth grade, making this story even more amazing. Brickhouse and Dawkins write everything on their own. As Unlocking The Truth,…