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Montclair musical mad scientists – headlining Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage today - creep like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” touring a haunted carnival. Show starts at 2 p.m. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
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Percussion-pounding noisemakers – shaking the memorials off the wall of The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) tomorrow night - sound like Animal Collective bashing aliens critters with a sack of nails. For fans of The Melvins and Rob Zombie murder flicks, too. Show starts at 9 p.m. Suicide Project, Slutty Earth and Omnious Black round out the bill. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Lawrence madcap meanies – playing McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) tomorrow night - fuse No Doubt ska-pop with Aquabats silliness. Show starts at 9 p.m. To Live Or Die in NJ, Shape and Cap City, open. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Epic emo-core preachers deliver a sermon of prog-prodding Coheed and Cambria theatrics at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9 p.m. Deluxe Thumps, Calm & Reprose and Amskray play, too. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
Synth-sonic Philly jam-head’s rockin’-and-ravin’ blends and mind-spinning trance struts – set to headline the two-day Stir Fry Music Revival festival at Snipes Farm (890 W. Bridge St., Morrisville, Pa.) this weekend - run electro crazy without swaying too far from its hard-driving improvisational cycle. For fans of the New Deal, Disco Biscuits and Splintered Sunlight, who incidentally headline Friday night. Brothers Past play Saturday with bluegrass, funk and hip-hop outfits Steel Breeze, Dirty White Boys, Pete Kranz & WEMB, Sage, the Dirk Quinn Band, The Godniez Brothers, Si Senorita, Strange Sun, American Babies, Old Blotter, Turbine, The Hustle, Psychedelphia and deejay sets from Fish and Friends and DJ Fro. Friday’s lineup includes Newtown Creek, Tin Bird Choir, the Mantawny Creek Ramblers, two sets from Frog Holler, The Coyotes and late-night deejay sets from Re:Build and Smokey. Tomorrow’s events begins at 4:20 p.m. Saturday’s show begins at noon and runs through 3 a.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $40 in advance, $50 at the door. All-ages.
The melody-perfect Warped Tour headliners every-single teenybopper can’t help to bop to survive on sugar-happy pop hooks that made Midtown infamous and Fall Out Boy famous. The MTV wonder kids headline Six Flag Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Northern Star Arena Show tomorrow evening. Show starts at 5 p.m. The White Tie Affair open. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Lumberton alt-rock romantics – hitting up Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage tomorrow afternoon – get sappy Oasis dramatics. Shows start at 2 p.m. Man On Earth plays, too. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Brooklyn hep-cat swinger’s Royal Crown revving runs wild on The Wonder Bar (1213 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $5. All-ages.
Jersey death-core brute’s metallic head-shakers and In-Flaming Swedish thrash headlines Day 1 of Championships Sports Bar and Grill’s (931 Chambers St., Trenton) End of the Summer Bash Saturday afternoon. Show starts at noon. Echoes of Dead Gods, Scissors in a Cupcake, Crushed Beneath, Beauty in the Breakdown, Taking the Tide, The Mad Spatter, Beyond the View, Abserdo and Sella Turcica round out the bill. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
East Rutherford piss-core powers-of-pain pound out punishing tech-metal daggers slice like Ion Dissonance at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday night. Show starts at 9 p.m. Saturday. Night headlines. Crawl 2 Chaos, Panopticon, World Lost and Dichotomy open. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
Not to plug cover material, but the singer’s heart-melting remake of Peter Gabriel’s “In You Eyes” still gets the girlies’ knees weak. Captain cool, who single-handedly gave man-hating singer-songwriting sex appeal, headlines The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) on Saturday night. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 in advance, $20 at the door. All-ages.
Many expect the G-Unit-founder’s thug-rap “In Da Club” party machine – firing up Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Saturday night – to include the first taste of the gangsta’s upcoming “Before I Self Destruct,” LP. Set to drop in November, the record’s been in the works for over two years, and was described by Mr. Curtis in an MTV interview as a “darker,” more “aggressive” than his previous work. Show starts at 7 p.m. Redrum opens. Tickets cost $20. All-ages.
Eyeliner-metal melody-melters mix up Senses Fail/Atreyu – headline Day 2 of Championships Sports Bar and Grill’s (931 Chambers St., Trenton) End of the Summer Bash Sunday afternoon. Show starts at noon. A Little Affair, C.F.C., Panopticon, Araena, Paul Kartelias, Four Our Lifetime, Ugly Girls Crying, Morbid Visions, What Lies Beneath and Home Court play, too. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
David Bowie’s high school classmate and Humble Pie guitarist - who sold $6 million copies of his 1976 “… Comes Alive!” record, only to find it for sale at any flea market for $1 – saw his career in decline after appearing with the Bee Gees in the failed rock opera “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band.” The never-say-die Brit – who headlines the Stone Pony Summer Stage (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) on Sunday – has found success in his ’60s, winning a Grammy in 2007 for Best Pop Instrumental Album. Show starts at 5 p.m. Tickets cost $42 in advance, $45 at the door. 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.
