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Pirate-Metal Mauraders Swashbuckle play its hometown throwdown in Trenton on Saturday.
The Canadian hardcore hate-breeders advocate strife and the type of metallic-melting musical spectrum Warzone, Earth Crisis and Snapcase bullied into your skull more than a decade ago. The former A Stained Glass Romance lays the hammer on Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tonight. Show starts at 5. Tomorrow Never Dies, Open Denile, Taking The Tide, An Open Ended Sky, Burn Your Bridges and Night of Malice open. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. 21-plus.
The Trenton hip-hop crew hit up The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Put on your Yamaca …. it’s time to celebrate Hanukkah … with an evening of Eastern European Yiddish folk music and milk chocolate disguised as money at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tonight. Maybe if you’ve been a good boy for Hanukkah Harry, the tsimbl player will share his recipe for potato latkas. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The lady-led Bucks crew jams stony groove metal and lecture-delivered, almost rapping vocal jabs into a concoction sounding like a less-punk-more-rock L7. The trio headlines Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9. As Opposed to Dead, Before the Accident Happens, Foul-Play! and Sex With Rollercoasters play, too. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
A former cadet, who recognized her vocal potential while stationed in Korea, Paris’ style swings between radio pop and coffee house blues. For fans of Suzzanne Vega and Melissa Etheridge, as well. The blonde celebrates the holidays with some Christmas tunage on tap for tomorrow’s holiday party at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown). Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Todd Ellis opens. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The Trenton pirate metallers – according to a recent statement – promise there will be plenty of space at their hometown thrown-down at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday afternoon for “whirlpits and waves of death.” There will be no plank to walk, but the booty-looting buccaneers said the “is going to be a panty dropping, mom-raping, father-punching, friend-f***in awesome party.” The band’s high-sailing, hardcore antics are good for a chuckle, but are taken pretty seriously in Europe where mythological heavy music is worshiped. In fact, Swashbuckle - who recently bunked with Vader – begin the Euro-leg of the Darkness Over Xmas Tour with Heaven Shall Burn and Dark Tranquility, Christmas Day in Germany. What that means, is that these guys argh going places, matey. By the way, YouTube clips prove the guys have traded their inflatable ship for a guy in a killer shark suit. Show starts at 2. Weekend warriors Triggered Impulse, Sicker Than Most, NoN-SToP!, Esquilax, Kill The Evidence, Slutty Earth and We All Have Day Jobs open. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The snot-pop punk rockers Saves the Day with their Lawrence Arms Saturday night at The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing). Show starts at 9. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Jed Steadson & The Kumas
Advertised as an ’80s group reforming for its final show Saturday night in the Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) – it sounds like a scam or at best a super group hiding behind an alter-ego. Feeling here is that the Jac guys are behind it. Of course, in the basement anything can happen and it usually rocks. Show starts at 11. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The bong-blasting panty raiders spike the eggnog when ho-ho-hoing-it-up at the NYC’s hardcore heathen’s annual Xmas booze-beat-down at John & Peter’s (96 S. Main St., New Hope, Pa.) Saturday night. Show starts at 9. Tickets cost $15. 21-plus.
The husband and wife folk and bluegrass duo star at the Fez Head’s Holiday Party at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Saturday night. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The Jersey City rockers’ slow-diving guitar flutters atmospheric ambience resonates like a weightless Hum mashed up with a mellowed Sunny Day Real Estate and drifting Modest Mouse. The five-piece, which played The Warped Tour in ’07 and South By Southwest in ’08, is about to drop its third record, “If Anything Should Happen.” They’ll headline The Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) Saturday night. Show starts at 8:30. (Damn) This Desert Air, Last Days of Empire and A Version open. Tickets cost $10. 21-plus.
The barking debates about race relations and self-described “neo-revolutionary musical statements” off these Long Islander metal truth speaker’s 2005 debut “Children of God’s Fire” further proved hardcore fellowship will always cross tribal boundaries. Case in point: hip-hop visionary MF Doom’s versatile vaudeville vocal prose sounded pretty tight over the crew’s crashing guitars and drums on “Verse Vs. The Virus.” The guys – whose venomous wordplay puts a spin on typical tough-core idioms – open for Death Do Us Part at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Sunday afternoon. Show starts at 1. Down the Block, Back and Forth, The Goodnight Armada, Pullin Me Back, Heartbeat Still, Remember My Face and Double Or Nothing round out the bill. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Often picked to support Blink 182 or Less Than Jake through the better part of the ’90s, the Bethlehem bunch made a few transformations in 11 years – shifting from its early juvenile pop-punk stage to a more mature, indie-rock sound reminiscent of The Pixies in the time before their break up in 1999. Known at the beginning for their goofy in-between song banter and because the bass player often hit the stage in a karate gi, Weston booked a few reunion shows in 2006 - releasing a live album recorded in 2008 at Maxwell’s in Hoboken. On Sunday night, they’ll return to the Trenton area – headlining The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) with Husker Du’s Grant Hart. Show starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The city rock legend and an all-squad of the area’s top musical talents celebrate its 10th year helping “Trenton’s helpless and neediest” with his annual Christmas benefit concert at the Trenton War Memorial’s Patriot Theatre (1 Memorial Dr., Trenton) Wednesday night. Local rock luminaries including Lisa Bouchelle, Paul Plumeri, John Bushnell and Joe Zook often show up at this events. Show starts at 7. Tickets cost $20 for adults, $10 for children under 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 web line at djscott111@aol.com.
