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Chicky pop-rock band Sick of Sarah play with Killola at The Record Collector in Bordentown on Wednesday.
The alt-rockers hangover will be uncorked – actually unplugged – at a free acoustic performance tonight at the Hot Topic at the Quaker Bridge Mall (Route 1 at Quakerbridge Road, Lawrence). Show starts at 7. All-ages.
Known for his guitar work in the Moody Blues and as Sir. Paul and Linda McCartney’s right-hand man in Wings, the starred in tabloid pages of the British press more enough since he was married to and had two children with ’70s model Jo Jo Laine. In 2006 and at 53 years old, Jo Jo – who’d been known for her escapades with Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Rod Stewart, too - died from a fatal fall in her “House on Pooh Corner” homestead where A.A. Milne was said to have written Winnie the Pooh. As for Denny – headlining The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tonight - he played with Wings through 1980, then went solo and reportedly went bankrupt when he sold his co-publishing rights to his Beatle friend. A regular at Beatles conventions, Laine tours extensively these days, playing a lot of those songs he co-write with Paul during that nearly decade-long stint with Wings. Show starts at 7:30. The Cryers open. Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 at the door. All-ages.
The Hub City mod-pop power-players’ simplistic mesh of Monkees melodies and college indie-rock bite a la The Lemonheads/Pixies return home to the Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) tonight. Show starts at 9. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
Lesion
Once described as “bombastic camp-metal,” these German “rock und rollers” are know for their wild stage show, which apparently includes guitarist Piss Promise shredding in a diaper. Sounds kind of like Electric Frankenstein doing the waltz with The Cramps and The Supersuckers at a creepy costume ball. The Essen weirdoes headline McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9. DEMO and Satellite Hearts play, too. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The fuzz-rock revelers – think Elbow or Decemberists – headline Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9. Apex, Sam and the Sea, Tango Machine and When East Meets West play, too. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The Westbury skate-punks shred a fast, in-your-face and wildly incoherent type of hardcore that made CBGBs the Mecca for abrasive music in the ’80s. With a dash of thrash intermixed with boot-stomping punk, it’s easy to hear the “Best Wishes”-era Cro-Mags influences in their music. They play The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9. Ska-rap-jammers Heroes Anonymous headline. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
DJ DCypher & DJ Kortez
A “live mash-up performance” of pounding, pounding techno music with live art is on the slate for tomorrow night’s Art Spin showcase in the basement of Joe’s Mill Hill Saloon (300 S. Broad St., Trenton). Sets starts at 10. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The folk singer - who’s considered an integral part of the New England singer-songwriter scene - makes his Burlco return tomorrow night at the Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown). Born in Willingboro, Gilbert’s blend of jazz, Americana, urban poetry and racial-minded lyrical tone sets him apart from your typical singer-songwriter. According to Internet reports, he tends to express his views on being one of the rare Black men in the folk scene during those sometimes awkward pauses in-between songs. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door. All-ages.
The Hillsborough hate-breeders headline Championships Sports Bar and Grill’s (931 Chambers St., Trenton) metal matinee Saturday afternoon. Show starts at noon. Embedded, Life In Ancient Seas, Alustrium and Regalia round out the bill. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
The Aussie arena-rock revivalists hit up The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) for a free show Saturday afternoon while in the area recording a new record. With a classic hard rock sound – glam-induced melodies, psychedelic guitar breakdowns and liquor-induced musical rumbles – it shouldn’t be too shocking to hear the guys are supporting Deep Purple on their April-May Australia tour. For fans of Bad Company and AC/DC. The show – their only concert in the U.S. - starts at 1. All-ages.
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Nearly a year after “Slay(ing) the Beast Within” with a new CD, the Tullytown heavy-metalers make their triumphant return to Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday night. Old school in a Judas Priest-arm-wrestling-James Dio sort of way, you can tell the guys are metal because that’s what their songs are about. For instance, “Insane (Metal’s Part Of My Brain)!” squeals the lyrics “I don’t care what they say, this feeling never goes away, insane is part of my brain, heavy-metal flows through my veins.” For fans of Iron Maiden, ’80s Black Sabbath and Dokken. Show starts at 9. Cover Her Face, Exit and Horrifier play, too. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The alt-metal, melody-mending Hamiltonians – think Coheed & Cambria’s harmonic progressions with gruff, crash-core alienation in the lyrical flow – headline McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) Saturday night. Show starts at 9. Monroe’s A Clever Con, who played locally with BJ in December, open here again. They’ve just release their “Order The Robot” EP and were called by Wildy’s World, “... the best new thing on the New Jersey rock scene since Bon Jovi.” Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Cajun-fried rhythm and blues and New Orleans-based swing is the specialty for this Philly group headlining 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 foursome beat-up-the-beat Middlesex-style with techno-driven, trance-punk hyper-crushes for glow-sticking dance pits. For fans of Panic! At the Disco remixes, Brokencyde beats and Cobra Starship neon-pop. The group rave-up The Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) Saturday night. Show starts at 8. The Front Bottoms and Nigel Silverthorn play, too. Tickets cost $10. 21-plus.
No band quite pushes the vulgarity of extreme music to the limits than this Massachusetts spazz-core legends headlining Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) on Sunday. Uttering the band’s booty-vulva namesake alone makes people squeamish. Their music, too, this audio raunch of seething and heavily distorted guitar, monstrous verbal gargles and mile-a-minute drumming attack your ears fast enough to damage your soul within 40 seconds - the length of most of their songs often packaged in a 40-song CD – and to the point where your whole nervous system starts to convulse. Well, it’s not that terrifying, but the music is pretty ugly and filtered with satirical attacks on pop culture and the less fortunate. Madlib-style song titles – with some albums having a majority of the songs ending in “gay” or “sucks” like in the tunes “The Internet Is Gay,” “You Went To See Dishwalla and Everclear (You’re Gay)” and “311 Sucks” - have made the band infamous. And the themes in off-color song naming like “Your Kid Is Deformed,” “You Look Adopted” and “I Sent Concentration Camp Footage to ‘America’s Funniest Home Video’” are never clearly portrayed since the songs are so bombastically noisy, loud and musically disheveled there’s no tuneful clarity to absorb. So why do metal heads love them? For the comedy of course and because Seth Putnam and his crew say all the things we wish we can say out loud without getting punched in the face. For fans of EyeHateGod, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Pig Destroyer. Show starts at 4 p.m. Ash Monday, The Necrophiliac Yacht Club, FreeDoom, Dead Womb, Awjita and Last [Red] Ember play, too. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $14 at the door. All-ages.
With the right entrepreneuril approach, the bubbly pop-rock and boy-badgering lyrics found in this all-female Minnesota band’s self-titled debut full-length would make for the perfect Noxzema commercial. And that’s because the music is clean and full of life. It sucks that’s the only thing edgy about the girls in their multi-colored hairdos and nose piercing, unless you think Disney Channel pop and Ingrid Michaelson lays on the fringe of counter-culture. The new CD, which does show signs of riot grrrl influences from Joan Jett and Sleater-Kinney, often teeters between candy-punk and coffeehouse acoustics with most of the song’s themes centering on dudes who were too stupid to realize these girls were hot and ready to trot. Silly boys, tricks are for you! The girls open for Killola at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Wednesday night. Show starts at 7. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 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, email the On the Beat web line at djscott111@aol.com.
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