North Jersey Notes: Lethal Affection, The Compulsions, Black Flag and More! Tim Louie May 21, 2014 NJ/NY 1 One of the bands that performed at last weekend’s Jersey Shore Festival in Seaside Heights was New Brunswick’s own Lethal Affection. Where the hell have these guys been hiding? Musically, they are awesome! ...
North Jersey Notes: Spoonfed, A Clean Getaway, The Compulsions and More! Tim Louie December 2, 2011 NJ/NY 1 SPOONFED—Cliffside Park, NJ I recently received an email from former Apathy bassist John Titkamason asking me to give his new project, Spoonfed, a listen. I logged onto spoonfednj.com, where I heard some...
North Jersey Notes: Sky Picnic, BoundAlive, Atom Strange And More! Tim Louie May 25, 2011 NJ/NY 1 SKY PICNIC—New York City I always find it funny how musicians or bands would drop into my life at the weirdest times. For instance, a couple of weeks ago, our floor guy introduced me to his nephew’s band...
North Jersey Notes: A Clean Getaway, The Compulsions, Will Killmore And More! Tim Louie March 9, 2011 NJ/NY 1 A CLEAN GETAWAY—Edison, NJ I came across a pretty cool band out of Edison, NJ that really tickled my fancy. As I listened to each of the tracks from their EP, Grounded, I felt like I heard a hit with every s...
North Jersey Notes: Passing Planets, Apefight, The Compulsions and more Tim Louie January 13, 2011 NJ/NY 1 PASSING PLANETS—Nyack, NY A young band from Nyack, NY recently came across my plate via theaquarian.com. Yes, we do actually read those! Anyway, the name of the band was Passing Planets, so I decided to log ...
North Jersey Notes: Sweet Cyanide, Trixter, The Compulsions & More! Tim Louie January 5, 2011 NJ/NY SWEET CYANIDE—New York City I was recently turned onto another great band out of New York City that really, really tickled my fancy! They’re also becoming very popular on the newly rejuvenated NYC music scen...
North Jersey Notes: Hands On The Stereo, The Compulsions, Piston Driven and more! Tim Louie December 1, 2010 NJ/NY HANDS ON THE STEREO—Maywood, NJ Now, you can’t get any more North Jersey than Maywood, NJ, and when I came across Hands On The Stereo on ReverbNation, I felt that they would be a perfect fit for this col...
North Jersey Notes: THE KNACK MASTERING—Ringwood, NJ Tim Louie December 29, 2009 NJ/NY 1 Usually in this section of my column I feature a music artist who performs on the North Jersey music scene. Now, when I say music scene, I don’t only mean the music artists that we see performing week in and we...
North Jersey Notes: KrashKarma Tim Louie October 1, 2009 NJ/NY Last year I wrote about a band from Long Island called Chiba-Ken, and it turns out, these guys ended up doing exactly what I’ve dreamed about doing—moving my band to Los Angeles and becoming part of their music...
North Jersey Notes: Tragically Yours: Wayne, NJ Tim Louie September 11, 2009 NJ/NY 2 Tragically Yours bassist Doug Hoekstra recently sent me an email through the brand new Aquarian website and he wanted me to give his band a listen. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m always a little...
