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MAKIN WAVES WITH BRIAN ERICKSON: BIRDS OF FREEDOM

February 12, 2021

One of the 2020 Makin Waves Dirty Jersey Dozen of the Garden State music acts who made the most waves and the 2018 Makin Waves Vocalist of the Year, Asbury Park singer-songwriter Brian Erickson is a very b... Read More...

MAKIN’ WAVES WITH FAIRMONT: JERSEY 101

Bob Makin

February 10, 2021

Columns, Makin' Waves

Charter Mint 400 recording act Fairmont have been celebrating their 20th anniversary together with their 11th album, Liminal Spaces. Founding singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer-videographer-graphic artist Ne... Read More...

Reality Check: THE GREAT VOTER MIGRATION & The Future of Southern Politics

James Campion

February 10, 2021

Columns, Reality Check

To celebrate Black History Month, I dedicate a column this week to a brilliantly prescient account of the present and future political climate in the United States as proffered by African American journalist, ... Read More...

Reality Check: AND SUDDENLY… THE NEW GUY

James Campion

January 27, 2021

Columns, Reality Check

Joe Biden’s Bid to Exorcise Bad Faith Politics Who had the over/under on the word “unity” in Joe Biden’s inauguration address? Many, definitely Fox News’s Chris Wallace, heard all this talk of unity ... Read More...

Reality Check: TO PURGE OR NOT TO PURGE

James Campion

January 20, 2021

Columns, Goings-On, Reality Check

This is Mitch McConnell’s Dilemma Let’s do some math. Donald J. Trump, fast working his way into history as one of the worst humans to ever occupy the presidency of the United States, is compiling so... Read More...

Reality Check: TREASON, MOB RULES & THE FINAL DAYS OF DONALD TRUMP

James Campion

January 13, 2021

Columns, Reality Check

When history records this, it will come to one conclusion: Donald Trump was the most effective anti-American terrorist ever. No one, not Osama bin Laden, has done the kind of lasting damage to the foundation o... Read More...

Reality Check: LEGAL WEED NEW JERSEY

James Campion

December 23, 2020

Columns, Reality Check

This year sucked. Sure, we were decimated with a pandemic, faced with systemic racial reckoning, and run, for a few more days at least, by a dangerous idiot, but what 2020 really did was take my eye off the pr... Read More...

ROCK READS: A Holiday Gift Guide For the School of Rock Laureate

James Campion

December 16, 2020

Columns, Features, Goings-On, Reality Check, Reviews

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Looking for a celebration of music in words to stuff the stockings of the rock fan in your life? We've got you covered! Let Love Rule – Lenny Kravitz with David Ritz (2020) Fusion funk-rocker Len... Read More...

REALITY CHECK: EXPLAINING THE TRUMP COUP & GOP POLITICAL TERRORISM

James Campion

December 16, 2020

Columns, Goings-On, Reality Check

This is an account of an actual event that is happening in the United States of America, today, as I write this – not Venezuela or Cuba or Russia or Iran or North Korea, or Germany in 1933. America. Now. ... Read More...

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...

The Allman Betts Band—Keep On Growing

Not Expository, But Clearly Evocative – Matt Easton Talks The Jenny Thing In 2021

STYX, Coincidentally, Made The Most Meaningful Post-Pandemic Album Before The Pandemic Even Hit

Wild Pink Visits ‘Sunshine Spotlight’

HOT ROCKS: New Releases from Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Liam Gallagher, DIO, and Sepultura

To The Tune of “Everlong” – Foo Fighters Breathe Life Back Into Madison Square Garden / June 20, 2021

H.E.R. Depicts Genre Defiance On “Back Of My Mind”

The Thematic, Theatrical High Note That Is MARINA’s “Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land”

Queued Up: Exploring the World of Bong Joon-Ho ('Parasite'), plus 'Doctor Sleep,' 'The Siren,' 'Scandalous,' 'Untouchable,' and more.

Rocking Without Restrictions: How NYC Music Clubs Responded to New Freedoms

Reality Check: THE JOE BIDEN BIPARTISAN FANTASY

Not Even an ‘American Idol’ Can Perform in a Park Without a Permit

MAKIN WAVES WITH BRIAN ERICKSON: BIRDS OF FREEDOM

MAKIN’ WAVES WITH FAIRMONT: JERSEY 101

Reality Check: THE GREAT VOTER MIGRATION & The Future of Southern Politics

Reality Check: AND SUDDENLY… THE NEW GUY

Reality Check: TO PURGE OR NOT TO PURGE

Reality Check: TREASON, MOB RULES & THE FINAL DAYS OF DONALD TRUMP

Reality Check: LEGAL WEED NEW JERSEY

ROCK READS: A Holiday Gift Guide For the School of Rock Laureate

REALITY CHECK: EXPLAINING THE TRUMP COUP & GOP POLITICAL TERRORISM

MAKIN WAVES WITH THE OUTCROPS: BAND OF THE YEAR

#THROWBACK: R.E.M., OCTOBER 14, 1987

The End Of An Era – Vintage Vinyl Is Closing It’s Doors

SPOTLIGHT: Rick Wakeman To Bring Music (and Grumpiness) Back On Tour

To The Tune of “Everlong” – Foo Fighters Breathe Life Back Into Madison Square Garden / June 20, 2021

H.E.R. Depicts Genre Defiance On “Back Of My Mind”

SPOTLIGHTS: Celebrate the ’80s With Weiss Week

The End Of An Era – Vintage Vinyl Is Closing It’s Doors

SPOTLIGHT: Rick Wakeman To Bring Music (and Grumpiness) Back On Tour

To The Tune of “Everlong” – Foo Fighters Breathe Life Back Into Madison Square Garden / June 20, 2021

H.E.R. Depicts Genre Defiance On “Back Of My Mind”

SPOTLIGHTS: Celebrate the ’80s With Weiss Week