HOW LONG, FOOTBALL? – The Decline in American Youth Football is Real and Increasing James Campion September 11, 2019 Columns, Reality Check The short answer to the above question is probably forever. But the long answer is not in any form you can recognize, and that part has already begun. It is because of this march towards whatever the game i...
North Jersey Notes Tim Louie September 11, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes In Spite Of – Marlboro, NJ I could have sworn I wrote about these guys many, many years ago. And I know this because I believe this is how I came to know my bass brother Raj Narayanan, whom I’ve known for m...
North Jersey Notes Tim Louie September 4, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes CONCRETE DREAM – Hoboken, NJ I wrote about these guys back in April 2018, but I never gave them a proper feature. The name of the band is Concrete Dream and they recently released their self-titled record t...
Makin’ Waves with Levy & the Oaks: In Your Face! Bob Makin September 4, 2019 Columns, Makin' Waves Levy & the Oaks are a relatively new band featuring four well-established veterans of the New Jersey music scene. Front man Levy Okun and bassist Lou Panico were in Drive-Thru recording act Socratic, and g...
Queued Up Bryan Reesman August 28, 2019 Columns, Queued Up 1 A WILD ROCKET RIDE I've got to admit that I've never been an Elton John fan. I was never drawn to his music nor flamboyant stage persona. However, Rocketman has ignited interest from me. Dexter Fletcher's f...
North Jersey Notes Tim Louie August 28, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes RACHEL ANA DOBKEN – Asbury Park, NJ I came across an interesting artist a bit more south of our North Jersey parts, but she’s making some big noise on the music scene. Her name is Rachel Ana Dobken. After l...
Reality Check: HATRED ON PARADE: The Rise of White Nationalism & The Ongoing Threat of Domestic Terrorism James Campion August 21, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Remember when we were all afraid of ISIS killing us in the streets a few years back? Oh, those were the salad days. We were so much happier then. Foreign religious maniacs, we kind of get. White guys with a gr...
North Jersey Notes Tim Louie August 21, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes ALL IN MOMENT – Staten Island, NY This week, I came across a pretty heavy band out of Staten Island who call themselves All In Moment. I had no idea that Staten Island could produce hard and heavy music lik...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt August 21, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Bad-Ass Piano-Playing Hipster The 11 originals that constitute the free-flowing multi-genre solo piano of Baltimore hipster Lafayette Gilchrist’s self-released Dark Matter range from jazz, go-go, blues, pop...
New Dark Age: Castle Party Doktor John August 14, 2019 Columns, New Dark Age Castle Party July 11 – 14, 2019 Bolkow, Poland Castle Party is a four-day festival of dark, independent music that takes place every summer in the ruins of a 13th Century castle in the small town of ...
