Upon my many back and forth trips to Pennsylvania while my lady friend and I search for our new residence, we saw this pretty neat tattoo shop while we were driving around Stroudsburg looking for a Starbucks. At first we had no idea that it was even a tattoo shop.…

So, last May when I was in Las Vegas, I featured a tattoo parlor called Pussykat Tattoo. This past May, I made my yearly jaunt back to the City of Sin and made a pit stop into Vince Neil Ink, which is located right on the Vegas strip across from…

As I get to know my new neighborhood of Queens, NY, my girlfriend and I tend to take daytrips around the area just driving around aimlessly. Sometimes that’s good to help your sense of direction in unfamiliar territory. Anyway, on one of these aimless trips, I happened to pass a…

One thing that I love about New York City is the plethora of tattoo shops per square mile. Believe it or not, I have yet to walk into a shop that is dirty either! I’m not saying that I’ve visited dirty shops in New Jersey, but there was one or…

Before a gig one night with my band Hostel Inc. in downtown Manhattan, my girlfriend and I decided to take a walk around Alphabet City, which is near the venue we were playing at. During our walk, we stumbled across a pretty rugged looking tattoo shop on the corner of…

My lady friend and I were having dinner in Brooklyn, NY one night, and as we were driving home, we both noticed a tattoo shop on Seventh Avenue. The name of the shop is what caught our eye, though! It was called Hand of Glory Tattoo! We loved the name,…

I recently went house hunting in West Babylon, Long Island, when my girlfriend and I stumbled across a cool little tattoo shop right on Sunrise Highway. The name of the shop is Tattoo Lou’s Tattoo And Body Piercing. Upon entering, we learned that the shop is actually one of four…

As of late, I’ve been noticing some incredible ink on some of my friend’s arms, legs, backs, etc. And one name that seemed to be constantly coming out of their mouths when I asked them who did it was Paula Higgins-Clark from Ground Zero Tattoo Studios in Haledon, NJ. Paula…

Under the advisement of a few friends, I decided to check out this new tattoo shop that just opened its doors in West Nyack, NY, just last February. The shop is called Body INKorporated and owner Rick Payne is no stranger to the area. In fact, Rick used to own…

As I drove through Jersey City, which I am familiar with through my day job, I was thinking to myself, “Where the hell did The Aquarian send me to and who the hell did I piss off?” Little did I know that there was a diamond in the rough, or…