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MAKIN WAVES WITH THE OUTCROPS: BAND OF THE YEAR

Bob Makin
December 2, 2020
Columns, Makin' Waves
In this December 2020 edition of Makin Waves, Bob Makin himself crowns this groovy rock group the Band of the Year with an in-depth interview. The Northwest Jersey jam ‘n’ groove band The Outcrops are t... Read More...

Makin Waves: Top 10 NJ Indie Albums of the Year

Bob Makin
November 17, 2020
Columns, Makin' Waves
1. A Halo Called Fred, Go Home Drama You're Drunk and Other Tales of Going through Hell to Escape the Evil Monkeys (Lump’N’Loaf) 2. The Milwaukees, The Calling (Mint 400) 3. Stella Mrowicki, Pine Trees a... Read More...

Makin Waves with Well Wisher: Indie Intimacy

Bob Makin
October 1, 2020
Columns, Makin' Waves
Public Radio (NPR). When a Jersey band gets NPR exposure, it’s a big deal, and that happened this summer for the awesome Asbury Park outfit Well Wisher led by the multi-hyphenated talent of Natalie Newbold, fo... Read More...

MAKIN WAVES WITH THE HAPPY FITS

Bob Makin
September 3, 2020
Columns, Goings-On, Makin' Waves
AQ's Bob Makin basks in the contagious joy of this Clinton, New Jersey trio. Throughout 40 years covering the local music scene, it’s always been fun to watch a band grow up and mature into a really gre... Read More...

MAKIN WAVES WITH FRANK LOMBARDI

Bob Makin
August 5, 2020
Columns, Interviews, Makin' Waves
The New Jersey native spoke earnestly about what Ocean County did for him, his perspective on life, and his musical journey – both before and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Like all artists trying to mo... Read More...

MAKIN WAVES WITH HOUSTON & THE DIRTY RATS

Bob Makin
July 1, 2020
Columns, Interviews, Makin' Waves
Even during a pandemic, this punk rock three-piece are 'Rockin’ the Dirty Jerz.' The Phillipsburg-based punk trio Houston & the Dirty Rats are the epitome of Makin Waves having played 100 shows in a... Read More...

MAKIN WAVES WITH STELLA MROWICKI’S CONTAGIOUS COURAGE

Bob Makin
June 9, 2020
Columns, Makin' Waves
YOUNG & DIY: 21-year-old Jersey Shore-raised Stella Mrowicki is a marvel who writes, performs, and records her songs on a variety of instruments, then produces, mixes, and masters them herself. Stelle M... Read More...

MAKIN’ WAVES WITH DAUGHTER VISION

Bob Makin
April 4, 2020
Columns, Makin' Waves
In an increasingly harrowing reality, Daughter Vision are a female-fronted synth-pop performance-art four-piece from Asbury Park whose audience and material has grown greatly singer a local singer-songwriter n... Read More...

Makin Waves with A Halo Called Fred: The Joys of Not Taking Life So Seriously

Bob Makin
March 3, 2020
Makin' Waves
A long, strange, quirky trip along the space-time continuum, the psycho-geek Tupperware-pop madness of New Brunswick-based indie-rock veterans A Halo Called Fred is back with a new album, Go Home Drama You're ... Read More...

Makin Waves with Solace

Bob Makin
February 4, 2020
Columns, Makin' Waves
When I was a young upstart in the New Jersey music scene during the alternative rock boom of the late eighties/mid-nineties, four bands rattled my spine a bit more than most others: Monster Magnet, Nudeswirl, ... Read More...
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