A few days before Kentucky and Syracuse lead a field of limber hopefuls into the NCAA basketball tournament, I perused Central Jersey’s northernmost shoreline in search of newfangled brews from three trusted brewpubs and one freshly sprouted microbrewery—though I’d have to accomplish this feat on two separate days.

But first,…

Two new books made their way to my eyeballs and both were worth the read.

Where The Action Is! (Publish America) by Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon and Mark Bego (with an introduction by Dick Clark) is a first-person chronicle of Cannon’s life as a pre-Beatle pop star and beyond. The…

Last week, I began the arduous process of going through the Aquarian’s photo file.

I’ve had more than my fair share of experience in those looming filing cabinets over the years. The walls of the editorial office have old press shots taped up of everyone from Napalm Death to Count…

The race for the presidency has been one of the dirtiest we’ve seen, and the battle against the incumbent, between the two power parties, has not even begun. Not above the obvious mudslinging and endorsement power plays, the underlying platform of each of the now more than distinguishable politicians on…

It has been a foregone conclusion that Mitt Romney is going to end up as the Republican candidate for President. But his stiffest challenge is coming from a surprising source. A social conservative, who has made social issues a major part of his rhetoric, is actually mounting a strong campaign…

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

—H.L. Mencken

Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton.

Old times there are not forgotten.

Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.

—Daniel Decatur…

The New York Jets have plenty of holes to fill going into next season. For starters, they’ve presumably lost wide receiver Plaxico Burress and running back LaDainian Tomlinson to free agency. Sure, these guys aren’t what they used to be at this point in their careers, but they were…

I was recently contacted via Twitter to check out this band out of Hoboken, NJ, who call themselves Midnight Mosaic, and I have to tell you, I still have no verdict on this band—even after listening to a few songs on their site (reverbnation.com/midnightmosaic). I had the opportunity to…

Overkill singer Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth tells the best stories. Whether he’s sharing a story about his career, the New York Mets or singing his lyrics in one of his thrashtacular songs, Ellsworth knows how to fire up his audience. With Overkill’s brand new album, The Electric Age, a successful…

Rebuilding the music industry may be as easy as the rebuilding of one band or at least one small step is being made towards this goal by rock band The Used. Having recently split with their label of 10 years, the direction they took was to start a company…