The Gay Blades
The distortion-heavy trash-folk duo play Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) tonight with Kid Is Quall, A Love Like Pi and Gabriel The Marine. Show starts at 8. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Skinlab
The brutal-lic Bay Area brain bruisers, who along with Machine Head have set the standard for left-coast, thrash-metal hell-raising since the early ’90s with traumatic throat gargles and anvil heavy guitars and drums, lead its trail of dead into Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Also for sickos into Sepultura, new-age zombies on speed and egging old ladies on Mischief Night. Show starts at 5 p.m. Sicker Than Most, Exhaling Decay, The Kill Gene and Amica round out the bill. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door. All-ages.
DEMO
The dildo-drumming racket-rock drill team’s “Light Show Part 1” invades The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9 p.m. Madlights (Monique, CJ Young Mush and Bub Luv), Saylawoo, Reckless and Killa Kurt open. DJ Mo Black spins between sets. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
DaddyGreenJeans
The Trenton prog-funksters – think King Crimson scoring a Dead-drubbing video game – get hippy head-y on the Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 10 p.m. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Pistol Monk
Mock rapping and groove-metal-ing have this female-fronted band - playing McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) tomorrow night with Too Much Too Fast Too Soon – lending a bit of its personality to the shape-shifting goofing of Shonen Knife. There’s a chick drummer here, too. Show starts at 9 p.m. Slutty Earth round out the bill. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Paul Plumeri Blues Band
Trenton’s Bishop of Blues has two sets of your daddy’s favorite guitar-grooves on tap for tomorrow night’s headlining gig at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown). The living legend hits the stage at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
Hub City Stompers
City Garden’s sassiest skin-ska exports do their riotous hometown throw down at The Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9 p.m. New York’s TRI STATE Conspiracy and Texas’s Channel One open. Tickets cost $10. 21-plus.
The Doughboys
The Plainfield garage-blues throwbacks hit up The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) tomorrow night with Blue Highways, Resurrextion and Little Jimmy Larowski. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Tube Disasters
The South Jersey punk-core crew’s “Thrash Caravan” – a crass anti-authoritative melt of Murphy’s Law and Municipal Waste – slams into Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday afternoon. Show starts at noon. Octopussy headlines. Gravelight, Atrophia, Ashes of Mortality, Kill The Evidence, Breath Easy and Iodine play, too. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Triggered Impulse
All it takes is four words to get these local speed freaks – headlining the Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Saturday night - going completely loco: “Peanut Butter Jelly Time!” The tatted Trenton tough guy’s vicious retelling of The Buckwheat Boyz ring-tone hit wallops you across the forehead at million miles a minute, but somehow is still easy to shake you ass too. Classic! Show starts at 10 p.m. Michigan’s Guesters, Philly’s Apocry Fiend and Atlantic City’s Jump Ship are the special guests. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Lion Of Ido
The New Yorker’s cutesy piano pop – showing off its spirit fingers at the All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) Saturday night – sparkles with Ben Folds poetic playfulness for fans of high school musicals. Show starts at 9 p.m. 15 Keys play, too. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Kim Richey
The Nashville songbird’s sweet vocal tones – on display at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Saturday night - give off a Sarah McLaughlin vibe. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Will Kimbrough opens. Tickets cost $15 in advance, $18 at the door. All-ages.
The Cretins
The Hamilton teen’s nu-metal makeover – that combo of The Used and Senses Fail – would make for the perfect zombie waltz around Six Flag Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Live & Local stage this Fright Fest season, had the boys been booked after dark on Saturday. They’ll get their chance – among smoke and pyrotechnics – at 10 p.m. Oct. 23. This week they play at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.
Dan Zanes
The Grammy-winning kid-rock connoisseur puts on a happy face at the Paramount Theatre (1300 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) Saturday afternoon. Show starts at 1. Tickets cost between $25 and $55. All-ages.
Tragedy
Zombies take to the streets during day in Asbury Park all day Saturday. And when all the brains are all munched up and the sun sets, nothing screams dance of the dead like a metallic Bee Gees cover band - like these New Yorkers headlining Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) at 8 p.m. Johnny Headband, Dead Elvi and Johnny B. Morbid open. Tickets cost $10 for zombies, $12 for humans. All-ages.
Christine Martucci
The Flemington fem-rock fly-girl flexes her X chromosomes in a man-hating Melissa Etheridge sort of way at Saturday’s “Ladies of Rock and Roll Show” at The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park). Show starts at 7:30 p.m. CC Coletti and Melissa Cahill open. Cathouse plays a late set, too. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
Primordial Gore
Killer name and a lust for blood-splattering death metal like Goatwhore? Doesn’t get any better than that, right? The Cherry Hill bunch open for FLUWID at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Sunday afternoon. Show starts at noon. The club’s regular cast of characters, The Walking Alley, Total Ruination, NoN-STOP! and Triggered Impulse thrash along, too. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
King DJango
Earning rudi royalty status through the New York City ska collective Stubborn All Stars and his tireless work keeping the island rhythms beating in New Jersey with his New Brunswick-based Stubborn Records and Version City studios, Jeff Baker usually covers his roots while jazzing it up at his solo performances – including Sunday’s show at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) with Hub City Stompers. Show starts at 4 p.m. Channel One, Void Union and The Heavy Beat play, too. Tickets cost $8 in advance, $10 at the door. All-ages.
Strike Anywhere
The Virginia hardcore hot-steppers are all hopped-up on the melody-heavy thunder off their buzz-worthy new disc “Iron Front” (Bridge Nine Records) – dropping Tuesday, the same night of their Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) concert. Vocalist Thomas Barnett tells On The Beat, the new material is, “the most bombastic, live-feeling, devastating songs we’ve ever recorded.” For fans of the thinking-man’s punk, Avail and latter Circle Jerks. Show starts at 6 p.m. Polar Bear Club, Crime In Stereo and Ruiner open. Tickets cost $12. All-ages.
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.
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