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Award-winning New York alt-rockers - who lassoed in RATT’s Stephen Pearcy to sing on their new record and headline Six Flag’s Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage at 1 this afternoon - emit an upbeat Matthew Sweet vibe with a splash of Third Eyed Blind. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
All together now: “Bow wow wow yippy yo yippy yay, Snoop Dogg’s in the mother-effing house!” - and burning fat spliff-ingtons with Slightly Stoopid, Stephen Marley, Mickey Avalon and Beardo at the Stone Pony Summer Stage (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) at 5 tonight. Tickets cost $37.50 in advance, $42 at the door. All-ages.
Marlton new found glories headline The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) at 5 tomorrow night - play synth-saturated mall-punk for their teen sweeties. The Bay State, Media Made and Abandoned Interstate, open. Tickets cost $7. All-ages.
Shore fuzz-core bulldozers, who jam-out muffled, shoegazery Velvet Underground, play The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) with La Violencia and Death Ray Charles at 9 tomorrow night. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Dave Lowerly keeps his depressed bar blues vibe going with the ’90s alternative-radio stalwart’s ninth album, “Land of Milk and Honey.” Check it out, and then see if you can squeeze into their concert at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) at 7:30 tomorrow night. The tracks are not as self-loathing, but still kind of like being low. Tickets cost $35 in advance, $38 at the door. All-ages.
The prog-metal kings – going technical on your behind at Convention Hall (1300 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) at 6 tomorrow night - scientifically build their set lists so that no two shows are alike. Case in point, the group tends to surprise their fans with unrevealed tributes from time-to-time, even blasting a little Hava Nagila for a sold-out crowd in Tel Aviv, Israel this past June 16. Zappa Play Zappa, Big Elf and Scale The Summit, open. Tickets cost $33.75, $49.50, $59.50 and $75. All-ages.
Twin City rude boys shuffle-up classic-era ska – staying maven in R&B rhythms and ’80s island-punk, while paying tribute to the music’s unity ideology on the track “1979,” and the lyrics, “doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, you party everyday.” The gang stars at Six Flag’s Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) “Ska Day” festivities on the Live & Local stage. Across The Aisle, Tsunami Rising, The Sneaky Sea Lions, Case of the Mondays, Last Martyrs of a Lost Cause, The Waffle Stompers and On Display round out the bill. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Prehistoric not only by name, this Skillman bunch – kind of getting high like a Hendrix haze all over Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) at 9 p.m. Saturday – spin sloth-slow, “Paranoid-era” Black Sabbath stoner metal with elements of Nebula and Kyuss. Night headlines. The Elephant and The Girl, Slowburn, Bridgetown and Touched By An Uncle, open. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
Madison’s Taking Back Sunday opens for Seismic Thrust and Starting Over at The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) at 5 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $7. All-ages.
The Chi-town rocker’s blues explosions – tearing down the Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) at 10 p.m. Saturday - can go sonic spacey in a Luna sort of way when not dipping into this curious mixture of country-surf psychedelics. Baltimore hardcore cats, The Marksman, headline the show. Great Society Mind Destroyers, open. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
L.A. singer possesses soul-burning vocal seductions a la Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill. And his band, playing the All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) at 9 p.m. Saturday with Jason Ager and The Brian Stewart Band, follow suit with a festival-fancy soundscape that takes a page out of Kings of Leon’s current area-rock lifeforce. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Close your eyes and you’d think these Bucks County good-old boy’s R&B-treated blues, oldster make-out songs, heart-breaking harmonica solos and ’50s-styled rock ’n’ roll toe tappers were Otis Day the Knights and John Belushi’s man boobs are just about fall out of his toga. Sounds fun, huh? Well, it all goes down at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
Life after Silvertide for Philly’s Walt Lafty – debuting his new work at Fuzzstock 2009 (Union Square, New Hope, Pa.) at 10 a.m. Saturday - consists of spiritual-themed, arena-ready hard rock anthems in the essence of Creed, Daughtry and pre-eyeliner Stone Temple Pilots. The free, all-ages, outdoor concert also features Grape Street Riot, the Paul Green School of Rock All-Star Band, Stolen Rhodes, Better Half, Fooling April, Fosterchild and Dive.
Bayside-blasting Pennsy pop-punks - hitting The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) at 5 p.m. Sunday - get their rocks off on harmony-driven, hard-lined lullabies for teens whose jeans are way too tight and T-shirts are not ironic enough. Grizzley J. Berry, headlines. Pray For Polanski plays, too. Tickets cost $7. All-ages.
Trenton grease-rock attitude adjustors (Ex-Rape Babies) – getting rowdy inside The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) at 10 p.m. Sunday - have a blazin’ new record out, “Fresh N’ Tight,” that flaunts the band’s dangerously intoxicating mix of Motorhead, Supersuckers and the cowboy punk played by that blood-sucking band thrashing the flesh feast from “From Dust Till Dawn.” The Timid Roosevelts, open. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Allenhurst singer-songwriter hits up Six Flag’s Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Hurricane Harbor at 1 p.m. Sunday with fun, frolicking beach-house acoustics built for Jack Johnson fans. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
The babe from “Natural Born Killers” absorbs the spirit of “Bad Reputation” Joan Jett and “Down By The Water” PJ Harvey when going new wave, heroin chic with her band, The Licks, at the Stone Pony Summer Stage (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) at 5 p.m. Sunday. The actress opens for The Pretenders. Cat Power plays, too. Tickets cost $44 in advance, $45 at the door. All-ages.
The Plainfield glam-garage black sheep get hairy with their harmonica at The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) at 10 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Dag-nasty female-fronted Connecticut hardcore hitters – storming The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) at 7 p.m. Monday - will remind Mill Hill Basement regulars of a less-melodic and much angrier Our Time, and metalcore fans of Walls of Jericho. No Harm Done, Settle For Less, Crucial Dudes and Worlds Apart play, too. Tickets cost $7. All-ages.
If you noticed the influence traditional Irish music has had on the last three Green Day albums, you’ll appreciate how these L.A. rockers - headlining The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday – march to the mother-land’s beat. For fans of Black 47 and Wall of Voodoo. Tickets cost $16 in advance, $20 at the door. All-ages.
Boston cut-ups, whose juvenile mock-raps, macho-melodic hooks and pop-punk clap-alongs are reminiscent of Sum 41, headline Six Flag’s Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
The Oakland robot-a-billy weird-ones go aqua-batty on Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) with Re-Volts and The Leftovers at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets cost $8. 18-plus.
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.
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