North Jersey Notes: Ixion Lux, Killcode, Life Without Warning and More! Tim Louie July 18, 2012 NJ/NY One band that really caught my attention at Raceway Park’s Summer Jam was a band called Ixion Lux. I’ve never heard of these guys before, and they rocked my socks off! Singer John Mosher unleashed these scr...
North Jersey Notes: Scars Of Envy, Killcode, Negative Sky and More! Tim Louie June 27, 2012 NJ/NY One band that really impressed the hell out of me at Summer Jam in Englishtown, NJ a couple of weeks ago was a band out of Bayonne called Scars Of Envy. I’ve seen these guys on a bunch of bills on the scene...
North Jersey Notes: Robbin’ Pain, Cashmier, Killcode and More! Tim Louie February 22, 2012 NJ/NY ROBBIN’ PAIN—Midland Park, NJ Robbin’ Pain guitarist Rick DalCortivo recently reached out to me letting me know about his band’s debut CD, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things. When you listen to this C...
North Jersey Notes: Farehaven, Killcode, Wildstreet and more! Tim Louie February 17, 2012 Columns FAREHAVEN--Cincinnati, OH Yes, I know, I know! Cincinnati, Ohio is nowhere near North Jersey, but my lawyer recently sent me a press kit of a new band he’s working with, and I actually thought they were ...
North Jersey Notes: Updates Tim Louie May 18, 2011 NJ/NY My bros from Killcode are still hard at work on their first full-length CD with producer Stacey O’Dell. According to Killcode singer Tom Morrissey, the band is about nine songs in, and as he put it: “So far...
North Jersey Notes: Viking Viking Viking, Killcode, Saint Caine, Facelift And More! Tim Louie March 2, 2011 NJ/NY 1 VIKING VIKING VIKING—New Milford, NJ I scoured the Internet for a North Jersey band to feature this week, and I came across five young bucks out of New Milford, NJ who call themselves Viking Viking Vikin...
North Jersey Notes: Updates Tim Louie January 26, 2011 NJ/NY I haven’t heard from the boys of Killcode in a little while. Well, until now, that is! The boys rocked the Highline Ballroom in NYC last week for the first time, but most importantly, my bro and singer Tom ...
North Jersey Notes: Killing The Messenger, Passaic Park, NJ Tim Louie August 3, 2010 NJ/NY 1 I was forwarded this band out of Passaic Park, NJ, called Killing the Messenger. These guys are as local as local comes, but their sound is much larger than local. That was my assessment upon hearing songs like...
Cycle Of Pain / Black Water Rising @ The Brighton Bar Tim Louie July 13, 2010 Concerts 1 LONG BRANCH, NJ—I’ve been writing North Jersey Notes for almost nine years now, which I still find pretty nutty, but when a show with a lineup like this comes to the Jersey Shore, you can bet your ass that I wa...
North Jersey Notes: Ninth Paradigm, Northern NJ Tim Louie June 8, 2010 NJ/NY 1 My bro, Adam Hirschman of the band Kosmic Daydream, sent me an email last week to tell me about this great new band that the Kosmic ones recently performed with at The Clash Bar in Clifton. The name of the band...
