I was recently introduced to the dark and eerie world of artist Chet Zar at the Visionary Arts Tattoo Festival in Asbury Park. After interviewing the festival’s promoter, Naomi Fabricant, last month, I couldn’t wait to see Chet’s work in person and he didn’t let me down. Chet’s artwork is…

After a recent gig at The Continental in the East Village of New York City, my girlfriend and I decided to take a walk down to Saint Marks Place to find a tobacco pipe for….well, tobacco! What else? Anyway, we found a smoke shop that was also a tattoo and…

Since the love of my life landed a job in South Jersey, I was driving her to work every day for a while. She found a job in a small town called Hammonton, NJ, also known as “The Blueberry Capital of the World.” Well, I said it before, since I…

I was recently contacted via email to visit a shop down in Linden, NJ. Now, to local musicians like me, Linden, NJ, is known as the home of The Cup Entertainment Complex because we’ve all played there at one time or another. Well, this would be the first time that…

Recently, I started cold calling a few tattoo shops down in the South Jersey area to schedule some interviews for Inked Out. When I called Big Brad’s Tattoo Shop in South River, NJ, I got more than an earful about the business today from Big Brad himself. While I was…

Since I started writing this tattoo column that we call Inked Out, I have to admit that 2009 was the craziest of all the past years. I originally took on this column in hopes to find the perfect place to get my next tattoo and I’ve visited some pretty cool…

A few months back when my girlfriend and I were looking for a house, we looked in the Eastern Pennsylvania area. When our realtor drove us around I noticed a handful of tattoo shops on our travels. While we were in historical Bethlehem, PA, which is known for their steel,…

Back in September, my band, Mean Venus was asked to play a benefit show to remember the late Anthony DiGrigorio over at Tiki Stadium in Keansburg, NJ. This is where I met Tattoo Tony, who was one of the organizers of the very successful event. Who is Tattoo Tony you…

I recently took a ride up to Dutchess County in upstate New York to check out Graceland Tattoo on a tip that I received through an email. Graceland Tattoo is located in Wappingers Falls to be exact, and is owned by artist Adam Lauricella, whom I got to sit down…

I swear that ever since I took this column over, tattoo shops keep popping up from out of nowhere. On this day, I was about to play a gig at Mulcahy’s out in Wantagh, Long Island, opening for Big Noize featuring New Jersey’s own Joe Lynn Turner, when I noticed…