Asbury Park – Where Music Lives – Rocktography And The Asbury Park Music Storyteller Series

Asbury Park has always been a city of bizarre surprises. The good, the bad and the ugly have all happened here. Like the uncontrollable ebb of the ocean’s tide, Asbury Park momentum has expanded…

I’m as guilty as the next jazz fan of listening mostly to dead guys. Monk, Miles, Mingus, Pops, Diz and Bird rule my roost. This doesn’t exactly perpetuate the future of the music. Be it known there are generations of jazz musicians working at their craft just across the…

Locals, we meet again. Putting a dent into March already, time flies when you’re listening to music I suppose! Every week I try to dedicate this column to up-and-coming musicians, and even acts that have been active for quite some time. As we have seen over the past few…

From out of Brooklyncomes The Vital Might, a fast rising band that is often described by the term “epic art rock.” It’s a sound that emanates from influences such as A Perfect Circle, Muse, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, ISIS, Jeff Buckley, and Mastodon, yet is unique and hard to classify…

One of my bass bros, Doug Odell, who also played with TNA, Ted Poley, and my old singer Ray West, sent me an email a while back to let me know about this new project he’s been working on. For some reason, I never got to it. Recently, I…

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

Warner Brothers 

Rated PG-13 for profanity, sexuality, dangerous stunts and a drug-related incident.

Carrey And Carell Reunite To Make Movie Magic, Literally And Figuratively

Back in 2003, Jim Carrey was upstaged as the title character of Bruce Almighty by a scene-stealing Steve Carell…

Bates Motel

Monday, 10 p.m. (A&E)

One has misgivings about a prequel series based on Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror masterpiece about a misfit’s murderous fixation on his mother. But the eccentric Bates Motel gives you reason for hope, starting with the actress cast as the mother: Vera Farmiga…

Saturday 3/2/13 – 10:46 a.m.

Sick as a dog; strike that, no mammal could possibly endure this strange cocktail of searing throat pain and high fevers and continue to call itself canine. A dog would likely have already dragged its disease-ridden carcass out to the woods and buried itself by…

Chris Dodd, former Democratic senator and supposed crusader against the corruption of Wall Street, cleared a cool $2.4 million in 2011 as head of the Motion Picture Association Of America. To earn his keep, Dodd became the film industry’s DC knee-breaker, twisting arms and greasing wheels in support of legislation…

Last week I did something I don’t usually do and took a snow day. Generally, I’m the guy who trudges through whatever the conditions might be, the mail must get through, etc., but last Friday, waking up to what I fully admit was a lackluster amount of snowfall, it was…