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No other Trenton-based band can say they’ve opened for Green Day. Well, neither can these party rockers. The guys did open for Foxboro Hot Tubs at Don Hill’s in New York City in April and Honah Lee guitarist/wildman Joseph “Dim” Wolstenholme swore to On the Beat at a recent basement show Reverend Strychnine Twitch busted into a full-blown Green Day set midway through. All part of the “Sobered, So Bored!” players’ landmark summer – which included the split “Lick It” EP release with garage-rockers The Plurals and a four-day tour with the Michigan duo starting with a stop at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) tonight and ending with a hometown get-down at The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Sunday night. The songs on the EP have seeped into Trenton’s alt-rock folklore for more than a year now. Tim Hoh, Honah Lee’s pie-eyed singer, said the release – which shows off the band’s sticking-it-to-man convictions, appreciation for The Replacements and the ability to write an intoxicating, head-trapping rock ’n’ roll anthem modern-rock radio needs – is nothing new to local fans. It was used, he said, to initiate a takeover of badger country when touring with The Plurals this past Spring. The Plurals are cool, too. The trio tour Central Jersey quite a bit. Their sound is like a frenzied White Stripes with a gritty, sugar-pop swagger. Tonight’s 18-plus show starts at 8. The Wait and Meet/Pause opens. Tickets cost $7. Tickets to the 21-plus Mill Hill show cost $5. Bravo Utah (ex-Dead Flowers) opens.
The Shades
The rockers’ third annual reunion show hits The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tonight. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
The deep, exhausted, bluesy, vocal range of this Wall Township cutie’s teen scene instructions, “How I Could Just Kill A Man,” helped suck the rage out of the 2008 Van’s Warped Tour - which flipped out a mild-mannered lineup of pop acts including Meg & Dia and Hellogoodbye at that’s summer’s stop at The Englishtown Raceway. The singer – real name Jessica Poland and at the time debuting her Geffen release “Waves And the Both Of Us” – casted out some coffeehouse-pop melodies into the air that day just when the sun-beaten crowd needed a caffeine kick in. It was a nice touch – refreshing and tranquil like her songwriting style. A self-released EP, “Sideways,” hit the scene in May. Expect some of those songs when she headlines the Kat-Tunes2ya.com Presents Song Writer Circle-First Debut event at Grounds For Sculpture (18 Fairgrounds Rd., Hamilton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 7. Shaun Ruymen, Toby Lightman, Tina Shafer, Reed Waddle and Meika Pauley round out the bill. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door. All-ages.
The sick-core behemoths from South Jersey mix up Middle Eastern influences in their black-metal meltdowns in the same vein as Nile but with the fury of Kataklysm. The throat-sore psychos storm into Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 7. Imbala headlines. Amenama and Illumas play, too. Tickets cost $8. All-ages.
The lover-struck former PostMarkTwain singer has been working on a few poetic puckers to unleash on the lovely ladies of tomorrow night’s Singer/Songwriter Shakedown at Café International (214 E. Front St., Trenton). Show starts at 8. The luscious Kelly Carvin hosts. Kelly Zullo, Dan Sufalko, Scott Webster and Sean Popular play, too. Tickets cost $5. All-ages.
The Delta blues-inspired side dish of Doughboy guitarist Gar Francis – think an electrified Muddy Waters, hyper Howlin’ Wolf – gets down and dirty at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tomorrow night. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The trash-funk duo went into its new disc, “Savages,” “unfettered,” according to singer/guitarist James DeanWells - paying homage to Spoon, Passion Pit and MGMT with the horny hip-shifting lead single, “Try To Understand” – available right now as a free download at onthebeatphilly.blogspot.com. The tandem headlines Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Lanes) tomorrow night with this record expected to be full of surprises for fans – including a large contingent of Trentonians who’ve witnessed their road-weary rock-out sessions at McGuinn’s Place and The Mill Hill Basement the last several years. No one really knows what to expect from New York’s next big thing, as The Gay Blades have become infamous for genre morphing from garage to folk to alt-pop and dance-rock. “Luckily, we don’t fit into any one scene or genre, so our fans aren’t small-minded about our sound,” said DeanWells stumping the record’s Oct. 5 release. “One of my idols, Beck, puts out records that couldn’t be more disparate from one another, but because he consistently puts out good-sounding records, people love them all.” Show starts at 8. Cutesy pop wonder kids, The Narrative, and Person L play, too. Tickets cost $12. 18-plus.
The Atco head-shivers hasty-horrific guitar executions and vocal guerrilla tactics sound like a beasty translation of Testament. The metal heads – who bucked the law when posing for their band shots in front of a idle state police cruiser - open for Diecast at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday afternoon. Show starts at 4. Ashes of Your Enemy, Methodical, Endall, Stygian, F***ing Useless and Riddled With Guilt round out the bill. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $14 at the door. All-ages.
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The Upstate New Yorker’s polyphonic Jack & Jill juggles, synth sprinkles and jangle-pop harmonies are so sweet and delectably cute they could jingle for Mister Softee. Sounds like Letters To Cleo mixed with Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer. The quintet is touring in support of its new EP, “Moon Glasses,” with Milwaukee pop punks Direct Hit!. The tour hits The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Saturday night. Show starts at 9. The Timid Roosevelts, Billy Raygun and Georgian round out the bill. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
One half of the Greenwhich Village folk duo The Holy Modal Rounders with Steve Weber, Stampfel’s skippy Americana song style will forever be instilled in the history of U.S. counter-culture cinema as a version of his “Bird Song” is featured in the bad boy ’60s flick “Easy Rider.” A Grammy winner in 1998 for writing the liner notes to the CD reissue of “Anthology of American Folk Music,” Stampfel and Weber went electric when recording their latest in 1998. He’ll appear solo at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Saturday night. Show starts at 7:30. Gerry Thompson (Cigar Box) and Color Of Skies opens. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door. All-ages.
The Burlco brute’s colossal cavern-core spellbinds with its stalking black metal-inspired organ backdrop. Killer doom-metal elements, too, you’d hear in Opeth and Children of Bodem 45s spun at 33. The quintet open for Harrisburg’s An Early Ending Monday afternoon at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton). Show starts at 4. Amarna Reign, Rosaline, From Day to Daybreak and Aeneid Tells play, too. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
Like a living graffiti tag that spits mental poetic pulverizes straight through your skull, this Boston collective’s live hip-hop improvisations, fitful, jazz-injected whacko electronics and asylum rhyme convulsions are a fusion of Lyrics Born, El-P and Live Human. The crew headlines The Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) Tuesday night. Hyawatha, To Live and Die in NJ and The White Rhino round out the bill. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The Long Beach dub-punk dudes from Sublime “Paddles Out” to “Smoke Two Joints” at The Stone Pony Summerstage (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) Wednesday night. Show starts at 5. Tickets cost $35 in advance, $40 at the door. All-ages.
The alt-rockers – think a computer-pop-minded Thrice – return to the beach after opening for 3OH3! last month with a headlining gig at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) Wednesday night. Show starts at 7. A Criminal Risk, Gone By Tomorrow, Opening Day and The Excitement Gang play, too. Tickets cost $10 All-ages.
Scott Frost’s On The Beat concert listing appears in The Trentonian and at www.trentonian.com every Thursday. If your band is playing around town, email the On the Beat web line at djscott111@aol.com.
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