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Wayne rap-jam-jolt’s nice-guy rhyme schemes hitting Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage at 2 this afternoon encompass 311 hip-pop and a Jack Johnson, beach bon-fire feel. Vapor Child play, too. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Former Luzers – playing a rare local gig at McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) at 9 tomorrow night - bang out Beach Boys-inspired, sugar-pops and harmony-heavy toe-tappers with melodies reminded of Ok Go and Superdrag. The L.A.-based foursome has shared stages with The Strokes and Beach Boys, and is slated to contribute tracks for tribute records to Jellyfish and Ricky Nelson. 14 Points open. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Too sloppy for pop-punk labeling, these New Yorkers - smashing through Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) at 9 tomorrow night with Post No Bills and house band, FreeDoom – weave mile-a-minute, SoCal-inspired punk like NoFX and Lagwagon without the pompous zings and coherent bitching. Come Out Swinging and As Summer Fades round out the bill. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
Blackwood pre-teens not under the tutelage of Paul Green rock first, learn instrumentation later, and then show off its live muscle between the Log Flume and Runaway Train at Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage on a hot Friday afternoon. Déjà vu, indeed. Fun starts at 1 p.m. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
The Trenton rock ’n’ blues celebs’ traditional blazing guitar solos come in an unplugged tandem at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) at 7:30 tomorrow night. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
Bergen County death-metal mystery men hit up Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) at noon Saturday with A Red Sky in Mourning, Ollipeist, MRSA, A Dream Worth Dying For, Open Denile, Mythology, Tomorrow Never Dies, Monstro and What Lies Beneath. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Ewing’s pimp-daddy rhymesayer, who’s headlining the TerraCycle Graffiti Jam after party at The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) at 8 p.m. Saturday, has a flow similar to Murs and Everlast, lives the “Gangsta Gangsta” mind frame that “life ain’t nothin’ but bitches and money.” Holla! One Dae will also take the mic. The Dream deejays. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Funk-spun dance-core has these New Yorkers raving like Faith No More high on a Prong E-pill at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) at 9 p.m. Saturday with Night, Decades Lost and Taxidermy. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The Lost Patrol (pictured above)
Shoegazing New York new-wavers – headlining The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) at 7:30 p.m. Saturday - feature “Clueless” director Amy Heckerling’s daughter singing and a sound that’s painfully surfy, heavy on the distortion and ghostly on the vocals as if the Cocteau Twins attempted to revamp the “Crow” soundtrack with more Smiths sorrows. The Beat Rats open. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
Point Pleasant powerless-popsters sport Thundercats belt buckles, Jonas Brothers vests and mellifluous teen-rock twee headline Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd, Jackson) Live & Local stage at 2 p.m. Saturday. Joshua Louis is also on the bill. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Lifetime husband and wife team, who play cheeky, synth-silly, hip-shake-disco alternatives like The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Rapture, dance-it-up at The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) with River City Extension at 7 p.m. Saturday. Scott Liss & the Sixty Six, Brick and Mortar, Montagna and the Mouth to Mouth and Future Future play, too. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
Sassy, strong-minded, singer song-writing Jersey girl - and one of Randy Now’s favorite on-air guests – plays Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Exploration Station at 1 p.m. Saturday. Free with admission to the Wild Animal Safari. All-ages.
Former Break Away pop-punks handle the opening duties for Ritter’s final show at The Khyber (56 S. 2nd St., Philadelphia) at 9 p.m. Saturday. Answer For Everything and St. James Hotel play, too. Tickets cost $10. 21-plus.
Philly rockers mesh of “Roots Radical” oi!, gutter and snot punk – and a needed understanding the influence the ’80s California hardcore scene and bands like Social Distortion and Circle Jerks had in cultivating East Coast’s own rock snarl – could make these guys, headlining Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) at 2 p.m. Sunday, the next Rancid. It’s what the Warped Tour used to sound like before All Time Low T-Shirts became all the fad. Yuck! Keys to the Cadillac, Vegas-N-Space, Death to Surprise, C.F.C., Smoker and the Rollers, Might Makes Right, Hard Way, Off 537 and Triple Shot round out the bill. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Trenton pop-rockers hit up Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage at 2 p.m. Sunday with Coldplay-type harmonies and retro song-styles reminiscent of The Police. Their “Cashmere” cover’s quite nice, too. The August Infinity and Redshift open. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Philly hardcore hatebreeders – reuniting for the first time in at least five years at Maennerchor Field (3650 Cold Spring Creamery Road, Doylestown, Pa.) at 5 p.m. Sunday – were cut from the same cloth as Korn and Life of Agony, usually mixing hardline effects, brutal breakdowns and monster melodies with progressive beauty. Bucks County pissed-core players Burdens open. Tickets cost $12. All-ages.
The former Checker’s white-collar punking comes with a super-sized live show Hot Water Music fans would find impossible to deny. The Hamilton-based band hits Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) at 8 p.m. Wednesday with Jettison and Fire First. Tickets cost $7. 18-plus.
Soul-swinging rudies from Pethouse’s Bob Guccione’s old stomping grounds headline Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage at 2 p.m. Wednesday - shift from party-time ska, cool-cat Royal Crown revving and Everlast rock-hop. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Scott Frost’s On The Beat concert listing appears in The Trentonian every Thursday. If your band is playing around town, hit up the On the Beat webline at djscott111@aol.com. And for further entertainment news, go to Trentonian.com.
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