Deejay Non-Chalant: Meatballs 5: Calm Down

Deejay Non-Chalant - Meatballs 5: Calm Down

The Meatballs series keeps on getting heavier. This time around we got some cool remixes of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, La Roux and Major Lazer. The end of the mix will show again in our Halloween mix expected to drop real soon. Enjoy.

Invasions – Spells of Deception (Boy 8-Bit Remix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (Digiraatii Dance Till You’re Dead Remix)
Rapture – WAYUH (SMD Remix)
La Roux – Bulletproof (Boo To A Goose Remix)
Crookers feat. Kardinal Offishall and Carla-Marie – Put Your Hands On Me
Major Lazer – Pon De Floor (Mansion Push Pon It Riddim)
Switch – Mash Up De Place Boy
8-Bit – Greenmoneys Baltic Porn Bootleg
SPINSTYLES – Rip Shit Up
Serial Chillers – Jiggy Wit It (Getting Tricky Wit It Remix)
Fake Blood – Mars (Boy 8-Bit Cover)
Mini K – Pump Up the Volume
50 Cent – In Da Club (Disco Villains Remix)
2Pac – California Love (Deadmau5 Edit)
Felix De Houscat – Elivi$ (2ManyDJs Edit)
Dre Skull – I Want You (AC Slater Remix)
Black Holes – War Drums
Hot Pink Delorean – Paganini
Chewy Chocolate Cookies – It Was Only A Kiss
Electrixx – Tetris
Harvard Bass – Cake
Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden – Bonkers (As Heard On Radio Soulwax Edit)
Hagenaar & Albrecht vs. Prodigy – Everybody In The Place (Witch Doctor Mash Up)
Felix Cartel – Skelton (The Pants Party Remix)
The Doors – People Are Strange (Star Killers, Avicii and Austin Leeds Remix)
Designer Drugs – ZOMBIES! (The Hot Pink Delorean Thillernight Remix)
Ludacris – Move Bitch (Disco Villains Remix)
DJ Morgoth – Ace of Spades Feels Good (Gorillaz Vs. Moterhead)
AC Slater – Calm Down
John Carpenter – Halloween Theme

On the Beat: Oct. 15-Oct. 21

Stephaniesid hit up The Record Collector in Bordentown Friday night.

Should be a good show.

Jenny Owen Youngs plays Asbury Lanes with Tim Barry (Avail)

and Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music) on Sunday night.

The Red Elvises

The California surf-a-billy Soviets, doing the Gorbachev shuffle at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown tonight, “groove to the Moscow beat” – this campy, ’60s drive-in type of garage-rock hybrid spun like if a Vodka-drunk Dick Dale suddenly busted out the “Monster Mash.” Their 11^th and latest album, “Drinking With Jesus,” and the by-the-beach love song, “Me & My Baby,” has a “Pulp Fiction” soundtrack quality to it. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Philly’s horror-rock stylistics, The Young Werewolves, open. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $23 at the door. All-ages.

Montagna & The Mouth-To-Mouths

The Asbury Park roots-rock collective - who sound like Jeff Tweedy leading The Arcade Fire - headline Asbury Lanes (209 4^th Ave., Asbury Park) tonight. Fans of Black Mountain would dig these guys, too. Show starts at 9 p.m. The Obvious, The Invincible Gods and Frank Bressi and The Chilling Details play, too. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.

Astorian Stigmata

The fuzz-heavy Western Pennsylvania post-grunge weirdoes - opening for Dinosaur Eyelids at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night - get moody on twisting melodies pulled right out of Pavement’s indie cookbook. Show starts at 9 p.m. The Amboys and The Fearless round out the bill. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.

Selkow

The rock-pop storytellers headline McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9 p.m. Chattahoochee Payload opens. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.

Stephaniesid

The North Carolina sun-shining shoegazers bring its trip-pop mix of Mates of State, Massive Attack and Band of Horses to The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tomorrow night. Pretty girl on breathy vocal leads also brings to mind The Duke Spirit and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Winterpills open. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.

The Steve Morse Band

The Dixie Dregs guitar magician – whose complex chord structures made him the best possible replacement for Ritchie Blackmore, and later, Joe Satriani, on four Deep Purple records through the ’90s – headlines The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) tomorrow night. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Ghost Dance and Valhalla, open. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door. All-ages.

The Brains

The zombie-a-billy Canadian trio – haunting Asbury Lanes (209 4^th Ave., Asbury Park) tomorrow night – get psycho-silly on a horror-punk elixir of Rocket From The Crypt, No Doubt and AFI. Pretty scary stuff and they get into the Halloween spirit. The Brains tour with a stand-up bass that’s sculpted to look like a coffin. Show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $10. 21-plus.

Kansas

The prog-rock legends carry on their wayward son with The Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra at The Patriots Threatre (1 Memorial Dr., Trenton) Saturday night. And watch out for the one oldster in the crew sporting a pirate eye patch. Arrggghhh!! Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $35, $55, $66, $70 and $75. All-ages.

DJ Dawn

The local selector spins you round like a record, baby, right round, round round – to raise money for breast cancer at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) on Saturday night. Sets start at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $5. Proceeds benefit Fight For The Cure. 21-plus.

Full Blown Cherry

The Philly rockabilly high rollers – think The Atomic Fireballs or Stray Cats – gamble on revved-up cowboy punk and Old West flips of Ramones songs at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Saturday night. Also fun for fans of Ricky Nelson and Roy Rogers happy meals. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Unloved plays, too. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.

Killed By The Bull

Former hardcore experimentalists in The Banner and Judas Factor – a pair of majorly underappreciated Jersey/NY fear-core outfits in the same league as Deadguy – hit up The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Sunday night with fresh musical theories that dodges past aggro effects for a fresh-faced, theatrical mixture of surf-a-billy punk seen in The Cramps and The Misfits. Show starts at 10 p.m. Chambers and Magnus Magnus round out a stellar bill. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.

Jenny Owen Youngs

The Brooklyn babe - who strums classical-chick-centric acoustic pop under a blanket of coffeehouse jazz a la Norah Jones and Jolie Holland - joins Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music) and Tim Barry (Avail) for a night of unplugged folk-punk at Asbury Lanes (209 4^th Ave., Asbury Park) Sunday. Show starts at 7 p.m. Jim Ward (At The Drive-In, Sparta) plays, too. Tickets cost $13 in advance, $15 at the door. All-ages.

Australian Pink Floyd

Band practice for these Aussie prog copycats – headlining The Paramount Theatre (1300 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) Wednesday night - probably goes like this: “Good day, mates. When we head to America in October, lets play our ‘Greatest Hits.’ Well, they’re not our greatest hits, but David Gilmore and Roger Waters won’t stop hating each other, Syd Barrett is dead and no one can tells the difference with their eyes blinded by all these psychedelic lights. We can even charge stoner fossils $60 to watch. And then we can buy heaps of Vegemite. Americans as dumb as a dingo caught in a kangaroo trap.” Show starts at 6:45 p.m. Tickets cost between $35 and $60. 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.

Anna Ternheim: Swedish Sultress

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ANNA TERNHEIM - LET IT RAIN

So there was this cute blonde that appeared on stage with Peter Bjorn & John at Coachella Festival last April. Anna Ternheim - playing Saturday, Oct. 17, at Johnny Brenda's in Philly with Asobi Seksu - wasn't her. But it could have been. You see, the Swedish songstress' new album, "Leaving On Mayday," was produced by Bjorn Yttling. And you can hear his influence - in particular the minimalistic percussion on "Let It Rain" (which opens the album).

And in PB&J news --- the guys return to Philly Nov. 9, and I'll be there taking photos. Say hi.

La Roux: Roux-ling the World

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LA ROUX - I'M NOT A TOY

Euro synth-pop queen La Roux finally saw the stateside release of her stellar debut a few weeks back ... and it's crazy, sexy, cool. The girl's huge in Europe and with the help of the blog universe and her sweet-yet-whipsmart melodies sliding into live sets from superstar deejays like Philly's Diplo - and our own local spinster Deejay Non-Chalant's Meatballs series - so it won't be too long before the now waver becomes a U.S. sensation. La Roux already sold out her New York show this month at the Highline Ballroom. I'll take bets she plays Coachella this Apil.

"I'm Not A Toy" is not one of the hits, however, a remix of the track found its way on Deejay Non-Chalant's mix tape (available for download above). But I think it's important to finally hear from no mixed versions of La Roux's songs so you can feel the real sultry essence of her voice.

Deadmau5 - Mau5-ing Around

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DEADMAU5 - LIVE SET FROM ELECTRIC ZOO FESTIVAL

The promoters of the Electric Zoo Festival at Randall's Island last month really missed the boat as far as picking groups to headline the event. We're talking about a mega techno party in the city that never sleeps and the best they could good was cookie-cutter Euro trance deejays like Armin Van Boring. Sorry guys, but a Hot Chip deejay set is just not gonna cut it. Now, if you got Soulwax, Justice or for Christ sake a live Hot Chip performance to headline one of the stages, maybe I'd buy a ticket.

Now while there was no way I'd hit up this event, Deadmau5's set from that weekend was pretty kick ass. A download of his performances was aired live on XM radio and recently found it way into the blog universe. Techno the way it's supposed to be spun, Deadmau5 tosses in a few surprises in the mix, including the theme to the old NES game "The Legend of Zelda" and that infamous "Fuck It! Do It Live" rant from Bill O'Reilly. Good stuff ... and dance your ass off.

Leonard Cohen: Massive Converge

Saw Leonard Cohen howel shuffling between N.A.S.A. and Peanut Butter Wolf at April's Coachella Festival. Spooky stuff. Must have rubbed on a couple bands that just released new material.

It's been forever since Massive Attack recorded anything new. Well, the "Splitting the Atom" EP - out last Tuesday - isn't that much music, but it does have "Prayer For Rain." It's trip-hop, but with a shivering Cohen influences on the vocals. Tricky would be proud.

Salem slammers Converge went extra brutal on, "Axe To Fall" - out Oct. 20. But somehow Cohen inflected singer Jacob Bannon with the gloom ooze when recording "Cruel Bloom."

Joss Stone: Half-Time

Joss Stone feat. Nas - Governmentalist

Joss Stone's new album Colour Me Free comes out Oct. 20. Nas is on the track "Governmentalist." And of course the spits are sick. Great sounding record, too.

The Sharkskins (left) headline The Record Collector in Bordentown this weekend. Chaos In Gothem (bottom left) takes on Trenton's Championships Sports Bar and Grill Friday night. Both look to be good shows.

SiriOm and Friends

The Trenton spiritualist – getting lifted at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tonight - strums two sets percussion-groovy Afro-centric folklore. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.

The James Popik Trio

The guitar virtuoso from Hopewell – doing a free gig at the Trenton Marriott (1 W. Lafayette St., Trenton) tomorrow evening - finds salvation in Eric Clapton-fused jazz-rock. Show runs from 5 to 9. All-ages.

Chaos In Gotham

The South Carolina smart-core shakers - headlining Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night - use melodic breakdowns, poetic squeals and random spoken word rants to get the message out that Boy Sets Fire, At The Drive In and Avail did their job influencing punk’s new young and the restless. Fans of The Refused and Texas Is the Reason should also take note. Show starts qt 9 p.m. Paths 2 Glory and The Mad Splatter, open. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.

The Undead

As legend has it, the pro-pot former Misfit guitarist’s (Bobby Steele) spook-punk outfit re-constructed the lost Misfits record, “12 Hits From Hell,” in Halloween 2007, in spite of Glen Danzig and Jerry Only, who 30 years before scraped the record – and the future horror-core classics “Ghouls Night Out” and “I Turned Into A Martian” – after kicking Steele to the curb in exchange for Jerry Only’s little brother, Doyle. Well, that’s only punk rock folklore and history now. The Undead – headlining The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tomorrow night – have survived a postmortem of Steele’s past soured relationships (and three dead members) since the infamous exit from The Misfits, and many consider his band the driving force behind the notoriously raucous East Village hardcore scene of the early ’80s. Future Halloween classics will be the menu for tomorrow’s show, and promoters said a new CD would be available for purchase at the concert. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.

The Cryptkeeper Five

The iconic Trenton will get the zombie nation hip shaking to ’50s-style pulp-punk on Six Flags Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Dead and Local stage tomorrow night. Show starts at 7. Divinity Destroyed and The Vivid Twisted play too. Free with admission to the park. All-ages.

DJ Randy Now

Who keeps Regan-era music alive? Randy! Randy! Who throws their own birthday parties? Well … I do. But so does … Randy! Randy! The fez-sporting radio icon celebrates 53 at Jester’s Café (233 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tomorrow night by mixing it up as if skinny ties were in style. Sets start at 10. Free. 21-plus.

Kate Voegele

The Cleveland cutie-pie’s acoustic-pop melodies – on tap for tomorrow night’s hyped showcase at The Wonder Bar (1213 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) - are often heard as the drama calms on the superficial teen TV show, “One Tree Hill.” Remember Vanessa Carlton? No? Well, that’s what Voegele sounds like – minus the piano tickling. Show starts at 5. Green River Ordinance and Matt Koziol, open. Tickets cost $16 in advance, $18 at the door. All-ages.

This City Is Monster Free!

It’s impossible to resist sugary-sweet, chorus cuddles like, “Staying with someone to nowhere fast. Just a couple Skittles on the side walk,” found of the Hamilton pop rocker’s rumpus revenge track, “Voldemort Ain’t Got S*** On Me.” Somewhere Green Jello metal meltdowns seep into the Discount-delivered powder-puff girl-punk, but there’s never been another Tilt, and that’s a good enough reason to hit up these guys at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday afternoon. Show starts at noon. The Worst Is Yet To Come, A Lesser Evil, Floral Terrace, The Spin Room and Reckless round out the bill. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.

DaddyGreenJeans

The prog-funk flyer’s mesmerizing jam-boree slides into McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) on Saturday night. That’s three-hour of dancing, bra. Show starts at 10. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.

The Royal Blues

The female-fronted Hopewell band – headlining The All Call Inn (214 Weber Ave., Ewing) Saturday night – play moody, Memphis-style rhythm and blues that’s as inspired by Bessie Smith as it is by Janis Joplin. Show starts at 9. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.

The Sharkskins

The Philly “beach bingo beatniks,” opening for The Rip Chords at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) on Saturday night, play slick surf music a la The Bomboras and Los Straightjackets. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $14 in advance, $16 at the door. All-ages.

VentanA

The masked industrial-metal minions of Mushroom Head drop into Championships Sports and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Sunday afternoon with an angry – and ear-mutilating - new record, “American Survival Guide Vol. 1.” The combo of sinister synths, anvil-crushing percussion and horror-film sound effects gives off a Ramstein, Nine Inch Nails and Slipnot vibe. Show starts at 1 p.m. Helltrash, Triggered Impulse, Ashes of Your Enemy, Circle Down, The Kill Gene, Last (Red) Ember, Generation Empty, NoN-SToP! and Among the Forgotten open. 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 webline at djscott111@aol.com.

Eastern State Pen: Ghouls Night Out

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia hosts the country's

top haunted house.

Don't know if this ghoul is a girl or a boy, but boy did it

scare the hell out of me!

Thankfully, the bars protected me

from this monster!

Says our host:

"No, Flash Photography, or I'll Eat Your Brains!"

Talk about zombie pit stains! Geeezzzz!

Eastern State Penitentiary, a 180 year old prison a few blocks from the Philadelphia Art Museum in downtown Philly, gets its Halloween makeover every Halloween. Terror Behind the Walls - considered by AOL.com as the best Haunted House in America - transforms the already documented ghost house into a zombie infested psycho ward. The extinct prison has become notorious over the years for it's numerous ghost sightings and as a place where Chicago gangster Al Capone spent eight months locked up in 1929-30, but around the City of Brotherly Love, the now museum has become a must-see stop for people looking to get the shit scared out of them when it matter much - around Halloween.

Last Friday, On the Beat got to experience the fright fest for the first time. And, let just say, that place is scary enough, even with the added special effects. This is not you brother's haunted hayride. It's a half-hour tour - split up into a few sections, including a haunted infirmary and prison where caged spooks in pitch black conditions makes for a scary walk through. The highlight remains the 3D hallways where the walls come alive right before you eyes and the dark and dusty halls where a trusty flashlight - you must give back, damn - are no match to the monsters that seem to pop out behind every walls.

It's worth the admission price of between $20 and $30.

Ewwwww .... puss man, cometh!

Deejay Non-Chalant: Get Psyched Mix Tape

On the Beat resident spin master, Deejay Non-Chalant, just completed his the fourth installment of his "Meatballs" mix tape series with a straight-up electro head banga! Pretty heavy from minute one to minute 61. On it includes new tracks from Basement Jaxx, Wolfmother, Stanton Warriors and Simian Mobile Disco (shocker there) and some club flips of a few '90s hip-hop staples! Track listing is below. Enjoy!

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Deejay Non-Chalant - Meatballs 4: My Own Personal Get Psyched

Mix Tape

Barney’s Get Psyched Intro

Franz & Shape – Lump (Joe & Will Ask Remix)

Basement Jaxx Feat. Yo! Majesty - Twerk

J-WOW Feat. Aloe Blacc – Off With Ya Head

Enur – Calabria (The Hot Pink Delorean Remix)

Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize (Cold Blank Remix)

WZRDZ – Smells Like Teen Spirit (WZRDZ Remix)

Proxy – Think First (Jaxxs & Soda Edit)

Acidkids – Mitch

The Toxic Avenger – Toxic Is Dead

AB/DC – This Feelin (Boy 8-Bit Grindhouse Mix)

Skeelo – I Wish (Audiostalkers Remix)

Dolby Anol – Heather, I’m Dry (AC Slater Remix)

Rico Tubbs – Boom Riddim (The Sharkslayer Remix)

Get Em Mommies – When You See Us (Thunderbird Juice Boxx B-More Remix)

Run DMC – My Adidas (direct Priest Remix)

Erol Alkan & Boys Noize – Death Suite Bobermann Remix)

Simian Mobile Disco (Feat. Young Fathers) – Turn Up The Dial

Jokers Of The Scene – Baggy Bottom Boys (DZ Remix)

Stanton Warriors – Precinct (Plump DJs Remix)

The Hives – Main Offender (Mustard Pimp Remix)

U2 – Get On Your Boots (Crookers Remix)

Franz Ferdinand – Watch You Came For (Drums of Death Remix)

Wolfmother – New Moon Rising (YACHT Remix)

The Specials – Message To You Rudy (Dunno’s Random Adventure)

On the Beat: Oct. 1-Oct. 7

Virginia punk rockers Strike Anywhere will have their new record, "Iron Front," in tow when headlining Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, NJ, Tuesday night. The album drops that day, Oct. 6.

The Gay Blades

The distortion-heavy trash-folk duo play Asbury Lanes (209 4^th 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 4^th 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 4^th 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 4^th 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.

DJ Spooky: Subliminal Thinking

Trip-Hop spinster DJ Spooky hits up Philly's Northstar Bar on Oct. 8. His new album, "The Secret Song," drops two days earlier.

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DJ Spooky - Azadi (The New Complexity)

Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, is an innovative chap. Last time he hit the Philly area, Spooky did a live reconstruction of KKK propaganda film, "Birth of a Nation." That was pretty sick stuff - a crazy multi-media extravaganza where Spooky spun his own brand of electro madness, while manipulating clips from the century-old movie and adding computer-generated special effects.

On Oct. 6, Spooky will release his new record, "The Secret Song." The sound of it so far, sees Spooky mixes all brands of electronic music for fans of jungle, avant garde urban rhythms, world beat and turntablism. The disc also features wordplay from The Jungle Brothers and The Coup, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and scratch battling from The X-Ecutioner Rob Swift.