North Jersey Notes – Old Currents Tim Louie December 26, 2018 Columns, North Jersey Notes OLD CURRENTS – Glen Rock, NJ As I was looking for a band from North Jersey to feature this week and came across these young chaps from Glen Rock who call themselves Old Currents. I thought I might hav...
20th Annual Makin Waves Awards Bob Makin December 20, 2018 Columns, Makin' Waves The Makin Waves Awards return for their 20thtrip around the sun to honor New Jersey’s best indie and unsigned music acts. For 20 of the past 30 years, Makin Waves has bestowed its Makin Wave...
Shoreworld – King Nectar: “You’re Welcome” John Pfeiffer December 19, 2018 Columns, Shoreworld King Nectar is a high octane, fun-loving, original rock group based in Hoboken, N.J. The members tell me that they met at an Alien Abduction Support Group (AASG) in 2013. Their bio lovingly states that, ...
North Jersey Notes – Updates Tim Louie December 19, 2018 Columns, North Jersey Notes NORTH JERSEY NOTES UPDATES: I love watching bands grow and my buds from Vextion are no different. I remember writing about them when they first came out and loving singer Kate Ortiz’s voice. Well, aft...
North Jersey Notes – Brian Rigby Band Tim Louie December 12, 2018 Columns, North Jersey Notes BRIAN RIGBY BAND – Hoboken, NJ Brian Rigby Band is not the typical band that I would normally write about, but I really liked the music I heard from his Spotify page, and he’s a North Jersey guy...
Makin Waves Record of the Week: The Papers Jets’ “Everyday Forever” Bob Makin December 6, 2018 Columns, Makin' Waves Veteran power-pop outfit The Paper Jets will celebrate the release of their long-awaited “Everyday Forever” LP on Dec. 7 at Asbury Lanes with a little help from their friends Bobby Mahoney and the Seventh Son, ...
Makin Waves Scene Report with Asbury Park Punk Rock Flea Market, Vextion, The Cryptkeeper Five & More Bob Makin December 6, 2018 Columns, Makin' Waves Also featured this week are The Vansaders, The Burns’ What a Wonderful Year 2K18, New Brunswick Cultural Center, New Brunswick City Market, Arroyo Art Studio, Callout, Benefit for ARM, Cold Weather Company, Fir...
North Jersey Notes – Callout Tim Louie December 5, 2018 Columns, North Jersey Notes CALLOUT – Watchung, NJ A great young band has emerged out of Watchung, N.J. who call themselves Callout. They happen to have a CD release party this Saturday night (12/8) at Allstar Music Empire in Fl...
Shoreworld: Lost Boy? – Paranoid Fiction on Little Dickman Records John Pfeiffer November 28, 2018 Columns, Shoreworld Hailing from Long Island, N.Y., Davey Jones created Lost Boy? as a bedroom, 4-track experimental pop recording project. Jones is an exciting character born in Plainview, N.Y. He grew up in Suffolk County, Long ...
North Jersey Notes – The Neverends Tim Louie November 28, 2018 Columns, North Jersey Notes THE NEVERENDS – New Milford, NJ I thought that I might have written about these guys before, but it seems that I haven’t. The name of the band is The Neverends and I saw that they were performing at D...
