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New Jersey’s own Gaslight Anthem released their sixth full length album, History Books last year over Halloween weekend and celebrated the release with a three night stand of shows at Jersey City’s White Eagle Hall. But aside from those three pretty intimate shows the band had not played any shows in the States to support…
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July 1960 – Sammy Kay (Sell The Hearts Records) As I’ve previously said on these pages, Sammy Kay is the quintessential New Jersey dude. He lives and dies for “the shore”, pork roll, The Boss, Bon Jovi, The Turnpike and I could go on and on. Its a known fact that his bandmates will often…
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London jazz invaded New York City on Sunday evening as Ezra Collective and Celeste made their way across the pond to dazzle the sun drenched, sweat soaked fans that braved the sweltering heat to visit Rumsey Playfield for the latest installment of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage (in association with The Blue Note Jazz…
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Another blast from the past, as California’s Fishbone took to the stage at Prospect Park’s BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn. Unlike some of the other bands I’ve been seeing of late, The Bone have been around pretty much regularly over the years (most recently I saw them in Bensalem, PA at @brokengobletbrewing for This Is Not Croydon…
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It seems like I’ve been on a roll of late seeing bands and artists who haven’t been around in decades. That trend continued on Thursday night as Scott McCaughey brought his Young Fresh Fellows to New York for the first time in 20 or so years. McCaughey, along with guitarist Kurt Bloch, bassist Jim Sangster…
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Upon first listening to the new single from Glimmer this morning, my initial reaction was, “Holy shit, Jeff Moore, principal songwriter, singer and guitarist for Glimmer is actually an AI Bot!” From the opening choppy guitar strums on, “Homesick” comes off as the dirty grungy child spawned by a drunken illicit tryst between NIrvana and…
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Heavenly Live at Market Hotel (2024-05-31) In early 2023, to the surprise of almost everyone in the indie music community, the Oxford, UK band Heavenly came out of retirement and played what many thought might be just a one-off show in London. It marked the first time that the band had played publicly in the…
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 