Rap queens Salt-N-Pepa headline tonight's Back to the Old School concert at Trenton's Sovereign Bank Arena.
Salt-N-Pepa
The condom-pushing rap queens bettered hip-hop’s public image with its controversial call-to-arms, “Lets Talk About Sex.” But lets not forget Hurby “Love Bug” formed the crew to kick up the party with his bouncy beats. And that’s what always happens to this day – 20 years later - when a deejay drops “Push It” on an unsuspecting crowd of old school heads. Maybe they’ll have their matching cardigans, skin-tight bodysuits and ginormous fake gold earrings on when headlining the “Back to the Old School” concert at the Sovereign Bank Arena (81 Hamilton Ave., Trenton) on Saturday night. Talk about a dance party: the show also features club classics from Rob Base “It Takes Two,” Snap “Power,” C&C Music Factory (“Gonna Make You Sweat”), Too Live Crew (“Me So Horny”), Tone Loc “Wild Thang,” Coolio (“Fantastic Voyage”) and Naughty By Nature (“Hip-Hop Hooray”). The Dynamic 3 plays, too. Show starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $28, $38 and $58.
Isyou
The Trenton mayhem music-molders buzz saw through the Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) on Saturday night with a sickening brand of machine-gun metal that’s as technically mind screwing as it’s punishing to the central nervous system. Show starts at 9 p.m. Earth’s Final Sunset are also on the bill. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Social Decay
The Jersey skate-core cats – headlining an all-day punk fest at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday – came from the ’80s so they used to wear painter caps and modeled their musical furies after both the NYC and L.A. hardcore scene of that era with classic slime-rock audio terrors closely resembling Murphy’s Law, Leeway and Suicidal Tendencies. It was announced on the band’s MySpace page in March the original lineup from 1985-87 was officially back intact with Dave Guiterezz returning on bass. Social Decay has “a few new songs … written” and had been “jamming a bunch of old stuff” for a select few shows. Saturday’s show is the only concert on the table now, the web site reads. Show starts at noon. Ash Monday, Down the Block, Kids Carry Germs and Shade Vision open. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
The Kennedys
New York husband-wife team’s folk and pop Americana – enlisting new members at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Saturday night – conjures up memories of Joan Osborne’s and Sheryl Crow’s early records. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 in advance, $18 at the door. All-ages.
Stryper
In another of God’s many mysteries: these O.C. Christ-metal devil-slayers from the eighties remain a huge draw in New Jersey. So big, it was the Garden State that hosted the first “Stryper Expo” in 2000. The guys probably won’t have the giant glowing cross from their “To Hell With the Devil” tour hanging overhead when the O.C. dudes headline The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) on Saturday night. Just hope they forgot the ungodly leather-metal makeup of their “Against the Law” album. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $30. All-ages.
Rose Funeral
Demonic Buckeye deathcore speed-dealer’s fear-inducing vocal haymakers and brain-straining guitar shreds – making a collision course for Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chamber St., Trenton) Sunday - plow into your dome with a spleen-damaging temper comparable to The Black Dahlia Murder. Show starts at noon. Sedna, Sicker Than Most, Grimus, Ender, Total Ruination, In Wake of the Plague, OLMEC, Crushed Beneath, The Grieving Process, Beyond Dishonor and The Doomsday Prophecy round out the bill. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
DJ Pat Money
Why? Because as a college student its your God-give rite to get wasted and naked with those boozed-up co-eds that get sloppy to the house beat dealer’s hip-hop mashups and pop electro every Tuesday night at The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing). Sets start at 9 p.m. Free. 21-plus.
Scott Frost’s On The Beat concert listing appears in The Trentonian every Thursday. If your band is playing around town, email the On the Beat webline at djscott111@aol.com. And for more local news click over to www.trentonian.com.
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