In addition to his upcoming 12-show run with the Broadway musical hit Million Dollar Quartet, Lee Rocker has announced a special on-stage jam session during his final performance with the show on Sunday, Jan. 30 at the Nederlander Theatre. While being the bassist/vocalist of his Grammy-nominated band The Stray Cats,…

While most artists worry about penning original lyrics to marry with moving melodies, Girl Talk takes things a few steps further, perfectly content with 10-second sampling rhythms, beats, hooks and verses that traverse decades and even genres. This prodigy of the school of music achieves this lofty goal so utterly…

Classic rock-influenced The Jett Blackk Heart Attack and the alternative band Playing Dead will be sharing the stage at The Bowery Poetry Club on Feb. 3. After working with Keith Moore, Playing Dead will be releasing their first full-length album, In Your Head, that evening. Both bands have extremely catchy…

Lyrics Born, the wordsmith who’s been hammering out hits like “Oh Baby” and “Lies X 3” since 1992, is bringing his blast furnace and anvil to New York. With 18 years of experience on his shoulders, Born’s lyrics have been polished to a shine, and he’s ready to prove…

Powerful, mysterious, deep and sultry; just four words to describe singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins’ voice. The Jersey native is gearing up to release her upcoming album Mondo Amore on Feb. 8. Atkins is touring with her band, The Black Sea, to support the new CD and will be performing at the…

Making their return to North America to support their latest release Everything Remains As It Never Was will be the Swiss folk death metal band Eluveitie. The follow-up to the acoustic Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion charted at No. 23 on the Top New Artist Albums chart. Supporting Eluveitie will…

Brooklyn rockers The Giraffes will play their last show with frontman Aaron Lazar on Feb. 5 at the Mercury Lounge in NYC. Lazar suffered a heart attack in 2005 and will leave the band after 10 years. While auditioning new singers, The Giraffes will release a their final album with…

Spencer Berger, or Auditorium, if you want to call him by his band name, is coming to the East coast to get crowds ready for his debut album, Be Brave.  Having been compared to Fleet Foxes and Of Montreal, Berger and the microphone became fast friends at age nine, when…

Growing up in Jersey, founding members of Quiet Life were highly influenced by local favorite, Bruce Springsteen. His music was the reason that the band got into playing rock. After some time, the band grew away from Springsteen’s influence and began focusing more on folk elements in their music. Their…

In support of their newest release, Life Of Love, the three-piece band, Callers is going on tour. The group is known to mix different genres from jazz to pop to folk elements in their songs. The Brooklyn-based band uses their music in order to combine all of their musical interests.…