• Hurray For The Riff Raff & Greg Mendez – White Eagle Hall (2025-07-23) It’s hard to believe that it’s been 13 years since the first time I got to see Hurray For The Riff Raff back when the band included Sam Doores (from The Deslondes) and multi instrumentalist Yosi Perlstein and was more of a

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  • Dinosaur Jr., Snail Mail & Easy Action Live at The Lena Horne Bandshell (2025-07-17) I’ll be the first to admit that when I heard that J. Mascis, Lou Barlow and Patrick (Murph) Murphy were taking Dinosaur Jr. out on the road for a summer tour I was thrilled.  Then when I heard that they were

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  • The Green River Festival 2025 The Green River Festival has been going strong since 1986, back when it was primarily a hot air balloon festival with roots music as a side note.  Over the last 49 years, it has morphed away from the balloon thing and into a full fledged music festival aimed at the

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  • NOBRO Live at Elsewhere Zone One (2025-06-14) I need to thank Stefan Babcock from PUP for originally turning me on to, not only THE hardest hitting female punk band performing today, but even more so, one of the rockingest punk bands out there, PERIOD! Ever since I first caught their show at Bowery Ballroom back

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  • I Hate New Music – May 2025

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  • I Hate New Music – April 2025

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  • The Beths – “Metal” Happy Freakin’ Monday!!!! My favorite band in recent memory had a whole bunch of announcements this morning and not a single one of them bring failed to bring a smile to my pie hole. First, the Aukland, NZ quartet has signed on to Anti Records which seems like a perfect fit

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  • Lee Bains III Is Done Playing Dead I haven’t had the opportunity to see Lee play live since well before Covid (I’m pretty sure the last time was at Asbury Park’s beloved Saint back in 2018), so I was super stoked when his Done Playing Dead Tour was announced back in February and more importantly

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  • Florry – “First It Was A Movie, Then It Was A Book” Holy shit, this song just might be the best thing I’ve heard from the year 2025. From the moment I heard the distorted guitar chords into that pounding electronic drum beat into the country tinged guitar strum I was hooked. Then Francie Medosch

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  • Beliefs & Thieves – The Kilograms (Rad Girlfriend Records) Sammy Kay, Joe Gittleman and the rest of The Kilograms have been piecing out advanced singles to Beliefs & Thieves for some time now, so it comes as no surprise that this new one is a banger. With a perfect mix of ska, RnR, rocksteady and

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