Makin Waves Scene Report with Light of Day Winterfest, Windows of Understanding, The Brighton Bar & More Bob Makin January 10, 2019 Columns, Makin' Waves Also featured are John Ginty, Deal Casino, Big Man’s Birthday Bash, Project REAL, Cold Weather Company and Karma Gambit. Light of Day Winterfest returns to Asbury Park and the metr...
Shoreworld – The Vansaders: “Standstill” John Pfeiffer January 9, 2019 Columns, Shoreworld Doug Zambon and the boys from The Vansaders have been tearing up the scene and generating much interest with their repertoire of punk-tinged music for a while now. And if 2018 was a wild year of music an...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt January 9, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Heady Han Los Angeles pianist/composer Connie Han is barely 23 but her Crime Zone debut (Mack Avenue Records) cannot be ignored. With a sax/trumpet frontline and a blistering drums/bass rhythm section...
Manhattan Beat – Good Old War, Barry Ryan, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo January 9, 2019 Columns, Manhattan Beat Good Old War/The Bowery Ballroom/Dec. 21, 2018 Vocalists/guitarists Keith Goodwin and Tim Arnold grew up in Bucks County, Pa., and recorded several EPs in a band called Days Away. Around 2005, the ban...
North Jersey Notes – Little Vicious Tim Louie January 9, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes LITTLE VICIOUS – Asbury Park, NJ I found this amazing power trio out of Asbury Park, N.J. who call themselves Little Vicious. To be honest, I actually accidentally stumbled across them online and wish...
Kam On Film – “Destroyer” Kam Williams January 9, 2019 Columns, Kam On Film Destroyer Nicole Kidman Stars as Obsessed Detective in Riveting Revenge Thriller Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is a veteran LAPD detective whose partner, Chris (Sebastian Stan), died when his cover was b...
Makin Waves Record of the Week: Jackson Pines’ “Gas Station Blues and Diamond Rings” Bob Makin January 3, 2019 Columns, Makin' Waves Jackson Pines will release a five-song EP, "Gas Station Blues and Diamond Rings," a follow-up and companion piece to last year's EP, "Lost & Found." The two EPs will be combined as an LP later this year.&nb...
Rant’n’Roll – The Best of 2018 Mike Greenblatt January 2, 2019 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The Best of 2018 I’m a list freak. Always kept ‘em. Always will. When I was a little kid, I kept lists of baseball players, professional wrestlers, TV shows, songs, movies, girls who let me kiss them,...
Manhattan Beat – Oz Noy Trio, Billy Joel, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo January 2, 2019 Columns, Manhattan Beat Oz Noy Trio/The Bitter End/Dec. 17, 2018 At age 10 in his native Israel, Oz Noy learned to play Israeli music and Beatles songs on his guitar, gradually exploring and expanding his repertoir...
North Jersey Notes – The Mercury Brothers Tim Louie January 2, 2019 Columns, North Jersey Notes THE MERCURY BROTHERS – Red Bank, NJ The Mercury Brothers sounds like a duo, doesn’t it? Well, no one in the band is named Mercury, which kind of got me curious because they weren’t a duo and there was...
