Kelly Carvin is a superb singer-songwriter from Trenton. She's huge in the community and is known for her string, soulful voice. Well, the cutie's in a giving mood this holiday season. Carvin's offered up a free download of her new Yule Tide treat, "Mistletoe," for all you On The Beat fans.
You can stream and download it here: "Mistletoe."
And if you're not busy next Tuesday, Dec. 14, Ms. Carvin will be headlining The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) and probably playing a few Christmas number for y'all.
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December 9, 2010
Kelly Carvin - Santa's Baby
Kelly Carvin is a superb singer-songwriter from Trenton. She's huge in the community and is known for her string, soulful voice. Well, the cutie's in a giving mood this holiday season. Carvin's offered up a free download of her new Yule Tide treat, "Mistletoe," for all you On The Beat fans.
You can stream and download it here: "Mistletoe."
And if you're not busy next Tuesday, Dec. 14, Ms. Carvin will be headlining The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) and probably playing a few Christmas number for y'all.
On The Beat Dec. 9-15
Under the bold headline “The Best Dylan since 1968,” Rolling Stone tagged both this songwriter and Bruce Springsteen with the “New Dylan” tag when the mag reviewed Murphy’s 1973 debut “Aquashow” in the same piece with Springsteen’s “The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.” 2010’s self-titled CD marks the singer’s 26th recording. And if you never heard of him, or the 1964 No. 1 smash hit “Navy Blue” he co-wrote, you’re not Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Shawn Colvin or The Violent Femmes – all of which have appeared on Murphy’s recordings. A long-time friend of Springsteen, Murphy will jam with The Boss when his tours run through Paris, where he lives with his rock ’n’ roll son, Gaspard of The Dukes. The 61-year-old Murphy hits up The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tonight. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door. All-ages.
The Trenton rockers join the hot-rod dance off that is an Eddie Spaghetti show at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) tonight. They open for The Supersucker along with Philly’s American Speedway and Brooklyn’s The High Irons play. Show starts at 8. Call the Asbury Lanes for ticket prices. 18-plus.
The Philly glam-stars claim no homage’s in their music, only “a monochrome world … hit with Technicolor, glitter and raw power at 140 db’s.” What’s that mean? Well, their speedier songs sound like The Stooges wigging out at a cocaine party with Stone Temple Pilots, D Generation and Buckcherry. The slower balled-type songs – “Ma Lawd” for example - will remind you of Collective Soul, Shinedown and quieter Guns N’ Roses. The five piece headline the Backstage at Championship Bar (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 7. The Miscreants, The Earaches and Level 1 play, too. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
The Queens garage rockers - who in 1987 made an appearance on the final episode of Andy Warhol’s “Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes” TV program – get their Yule-tide rock ’n’ roll fever on at the Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tomorrow night. The rock legends will perform two sets: their Christmas album, “Stocking Stuffer,” in its entirety and a collection of their hits. The Fleshtones have more than 20 albums in their discography and were a major influence to bands like The Strokes. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $15 in advance, $18 at the door. All-ages.
“Take It Back,” our favorite track from the Philly rockers’ MySpace, blurs the line between metallic funk and vintage Cali beach punk that sounds similar to the erratic time signatures and frantic vocal spitting of classic Red Hot Chili Peppers. Think “Fight Like a Brave”-era Chili Peppers meshed with fIREHOSE. They play Jackie Maggot and Adrock’s Super Awesome Bash Your Brains Out Party at The Backstage at Championships Bar (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday afternoon. Show starts at 4. Local Demise, Keys To The Cadillac, Massively Ill, Triggered Impulse, Karma Bat, Onderrock and Horror Biz round out the bill. Tickets cost $8. All-ages.
The complexity in the instrumentation, angular melodies and erratic rhythm patterns from this upstart New Brunswick band’s untitled EP portrays a sound that’s part avant-punk, part math-core and part post-rock with influences flowing between jazz, emo-core and heavy metal. Gets sort of Dillinger Escape Plan-y in the spastic throw-down parts, but not as severe or to the extent of that band’s ferocity. It’s like Cap’n Jazz in parts, too, with Don Caballero-type builds and the atmospheric fluff of a Sunny Day Real Estate if Jeff Buckley were singing. It’s strong in the melodic department, which is a nice departure from the groups past projects - three members were in Hightstown’s Free Yon, two in A Lesser Evil. They’ll make their Mercer County debut at The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Saturday night. Show starts at 10. Dan Maxwell & The Turnpike Sailors and The Sirs play, too. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The Hamilton rockers catch fire with their own brand of nu metal prog-punk. For fans of AFI and Coheed and Cambria. They headline McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) Saturday night. Show starts at 9. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The gangster folk icon behind the modern rock hits “The Devil In Me” and “The Person You Are” headlines The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Saturday night. Show starts at 7:30. Jesse Ruben opens. Tickets cost $20 in advance, $25 at the door. All-ages.
Few ever recorded with The Beatles for their Apple Records. But somehow this Trenton rocker did in 1971 when, as a guest of George Harrison, he laid down an LPs worth of songs in London’s Abbey Road Studios for international release on Apple. Ringo Starr even showed up to session in some drum work. Van Eaton, whose band headlines The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Sunday night, remained in touch with Starr over the years – appearing in four of Starr’s solo albums all of which included recordings The Beatles’ drummer did with John, George and Paul after their breakup. A ballad, “Sweet Music” he recorded with his brother Derrek in those early Abbey Road recordings, appears on the 17-disc Apple box set alongside tracks by James Taylor and Billy Preston. Sunday’s show will be Van Easton’s first live performance in nearly 40 years. He now lives in Denver. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $20. All-ages.
The Trenton singer got all her friends to pucker up when shooting a video last week at KatManDu. Carvin captured her buds smooching under the mistletoe in the video for her new Christmas single “Mistletoe.” A holiday treat that showcases the country-pop-meets-coffee-house song sensibilities that’s made her songs a popular fixture in the city singer-songwriter scene, the ballad is a shimmering and seasonable delight that’ll warm you heart. It also makes for the perfect audio Christmas card and should be played over and over again as you and your lady – I’m talking to you guys – are all curled up in you’re brand new his-and-her Snuggies, sitting by the fire, sipping hot coco. Or you can get into the spirit of the holidays early by attending Carvin’s headlining gig At The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Tuesday night. Show starts at 10. Jennings and Johnny J & Amazing Amy open. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The Bay area joksters feature this song on their MySpace called “Skin Cancer.” It’s hysterical social satire about the depletion of the ozone layer and a pretty bleak account, too, if you believe them and see us all burning to death from the Sun someday. “The apocalypse, just like revolution, is not an event but a process, and it’s hilarious,” is the band’s motto. Their music consists of lyrics they describe as “outlandish and shocking truths” blended into a package of dark folk and evil commercial jingles. For fans of They Might Be Giants, Pee Wee Herman and The Aquabats. The trio headline The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Wednesday night. Show starts at 10. Michigan rockers Day In Day Out, Cali punks All Ages and Captive (ex A Lesser Evil) round out the bill. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
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.
October 14, 2010
On the Beat: Oct. 14-20
"Brand New Key" singer Melanie (above circa 1971, below circa 2006) performs at The Record Collector in Bordentown on Wednesday, Oct. 20, and Thursday, Oct. 21. Over the years, she's established herself as one of the most memorable folk singers of the early 1970s.
“The Exodus of Autonomy” is this North Carolina metal-scene screamer’s Victory Record debut. The record, and its thrash mechanicals “hints at what other bands do,” guitarist Steven Funderbunk says without mentioning any names but winking at his ground’s morbid sound relations with roster-mates Darkest Hour and Between The Buried and Me. “It’s our own interpretation of this certain type of metal,” he said. It’s brutish and unforgiving with whirl-winning guitars - and makes for a sickly-satisfying companion to your Halloween circle-pitting. The furious five headline Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) this afternoon. Show starts at 4. Antagonist, Hadean Reign, Unhallowed, In Wake Of the Plague and A Call To Arms round out the bill. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The blind jazz pianist, Hurricane Katrina survivor and – get this – superstar photographer - headlines The Trenton War Memorial (1 Memorial Dr., Trenton) tonight. An eight-time W.C. Handy Best Instrumentalist for Piano award nominee, “the pride of New Orleans” according to Dr. John, “and a visionistical down home cat,” Butler told The Trentonian in 2008 that the flood was so catastrophic the black keys off his 1925 Mason & Hamlin piano became unglued from the white ones. He still stayed positive that his town would recover and has returned to star in local pubs since the massive storm. “Man, for days and weeks there were episodes where I’d just cry,” he told On The Beat, the flood still fresh in his mind. “(But) with devastation there’s always something on the horizon or something greater.” He might have been talking about a Super Bowl win for the Saints. Maybe? Show starts at 7. Tickets cost $25. All-ages.
The “Siberian Surf Rock” foursome get Chris Isaak slinky with “Night Butterfly” – the California band’s most spun track off their MySpace page. The band just completed their second Russia tour last month and is now on a two-month Fall tour, which hits up The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tonight. Show starts at 7:30. Kingabilly opens. Tickets cost $22 in advance, $25 at the door. All-ages.
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Modern rock radio - which has been more than just listenable this days – just aren’t giving the “After Hours” guys a break. “Barbara” – the New York band’s fourth album – features the shimmering pop goodness and catchy tunage 104.5 has more than enough space to squeeze in-between regular spins of MGMT, Muse and Phoenix if they just cut the overdose of Foo Fighters rotations in half and drop U2 altogether. Or take We Are Scientists’ own advise from “Rules Don’t Stop”: “Although it may seem unconventional sometimes/indiscretion is worth a try/if you just play along I promise we’ll be fine.” A great live band, too, the trio, whose youthful musical jump lines up with bands like Franz Ferdinand, slide into The Wonder Bar (1213 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) tonight. Show starts at 7. The Static Jacks and Rewards open. Tickets cost $13 in advance, $15 at the door. 18-plus.
The Long Beach surf-rockers describe their music as “beach goth.” It sounds like Ricky Nelson pop-ti-fying Luna for a slow ride over the cliffs of the North Coast Highway. The band headline Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) tonight. Show starts at 8. The Amboys and TV Tramp open. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
The Trenton band – featuring singers See Wise and Ja-Tun Thomas – consists of a full rhythm section and sax player, and when they get down, they blend up top 40, swing, soul, Latin, pop, funk, R&B and reggae so that everyone gets up and dances. The eight-piece plays The Trenton Marriott (1 W. Lafayette St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 7. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Candye Kane
The brazen, busty, bi-sexual blues singer - who for a time trademarked her natural H-cups on the covers of “Hustler,” “Juggs,” “Floppers” and on X-Rated greeting cards – models her seductive country gospel on the works of Etta James and Bessie Smith. A larger-than-life figure and Cancer survivor, Kane is retired from porn, and instead has become a prime-time player in the Gay pride community and at blues festivals around the world. She played for the President of Italy at the French Embassy in Rome and at the Cannes Film Festival. And in her native San Diego, the memoirs of her turbulent life were transformed into a popular stage play, “The Toughest Girl Alive.” Kane headlines The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tomorrow night. Show starts at 7:30. Show starts at 8. Tickets cost $17.50 in advance, $20 at the door. All-ages.
Jason Beebout was one of those rare singers from the late ’90s underground punk scene who just couldn’t write a tune that didn’t fire a pulse right into your soul. Hardly the most popular band to leap from the Berkley scene, Samiam were everything you needed from a band of that era: tight musicianship, edge, addictive melodies and passionate lyrics conjured so tightly they can be recited right back into Beebout’s face at live shows. Their later records were more hardcore based, but the songs remained harmonious and gut-wrench-ly powerful compared to the lame-ass pop punk that swarmed the Warped Tour scene after Samiam and into the millennium. They’ve just started touring again after a sad break-up in the late ’90s – landing in The Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) tomorrow night. Show starts at 8. The Casting Out (ex-Boy Sets Fire), Communication Redlight and Let Me Run round out the bill. Tickets cost $10. 21-plus.
The New Brunswick ska-core killjoys say goodbye to guitarist Matty Glock with a party at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) tomorrow night. Show starts at 8. Miland and the Sour Goat open. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
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The Soup Kitchen singers crown Mercer County’s Cultural and Heritage Commission’s Eyes on Mercer Weekend with a free show at Artworks (19 Everett Alley, Trenton) Saturday afternoon. Show starts at 1. All-ages.
Electro dream pop a la Zero 7 and jammy melodic rock with piano-jazz coloring has these North Carolina natives reaching out to Muse and Snow Patrol for potential tour slots. It’s not the typical rage-rock you get from Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday afternoon shows. It’ll be soothing, actually, and a little tranquil, too. Show starts at noon. Devolver, After Chidori, Meet/Pause, In Musth, The Gurchick Tree, Amongst The Brave, No Such Noise! and Ruins of Akora play, too. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
The Trenton alt-rocker released a 12-song debut LP “Sudden Instant Dance Syndrome” in March. Need to hear it in its entirety. Snippets we’ve heard reveal a post-grunge, Seattle-now sound, with the instrumentations reminding us of darker Minus The Bear with dashes of early At The Drive-In, Jawbox and A Perfect Circle. The four piece headline The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Saturday night. Show starts at 10. (Damn) This Desert Air and Communication Redlight open. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The Trenton blues-rock legends roll-out two sets 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 British-born singer has been stalking us on Facebook. Wants On The Beat to mention how he’s “trying to bring back the peaceful messages and meaning to music, like John Lennon did.” Mentioned his “improvised, unusual and memorable performances” are always “humorous,” free and in family environments like the Beanwood Coffee (222 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) where he encourages children to attend on Saturday night because they’ll “love it,” Elipsus said. He sings like Ryan Adams with “American Idol” aspirations and makes his own videos – where he uses images of “Twilight” vamp teens and Rachel McAdams make-out scenes to suck in the listener. Show starts at 7. All-ages.
Buck County’s top tour draw have done a great job recycling a lot of their influences – “White Pony”-era Deftones, Sunny Day Real Estate, Glassjaw and Mars Volta - into an aggressive-rock hybrid that appeals to alt-rock, punk, emo and hardcore fans alike. And with wordsmith Anthony Green overlapping that edgy landscape with the type of poetic calmness and ease that keeps our web-investigating teens forever searching for spiritual meaning within his lyrics, and recent success on mainstream radio, don’t be surprised if Circa Survive spits out those same influences to future garage bands looking for a bit of class to their rough beginnings for decades to come. Another super live band, the guys – which feature Neshaminy High and Hamilton High alums – headline The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) Saturday night. Show starts at 7:30. Codeseven and Animals As Leaders open. Tickets cost $17.50 in advance, $20 at the door. All-ages.
The Japanese electro duo’s like an Anime rendition of 3OH3!, but with the bad rap replaced by battery-charged dance rock with a Stereo MCs flavor. The Wonder Bar (1213 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) Saturday night. Show starts at 6. Tickets cost $15 in advance, $20 at the door. 16-plus.
Produced by Josh Wilbur and Lamb Of God’s Chris Adler, “Haunt What’s Life” - this Lancaster nu metaler’s debut – has the same crushing instrumentation at Lamb Of God, but with melodic sways in the choruses that have this Linkin Park feeling. A pretty brutal banger nonetheless, it’ll be the featured attraction of the “Over The Limit” tour slamming into Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Sunday afternoon. Show starts at 2. Texas In July, Where the Ocean Meets The Sky, The World Ends With You, A Tragedy Foreseen, Morgan’s Accident, Through The Flood, Years After Life, Deception Theory, Embracing Disaster and We Were Once Heroes round out the bill. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $14 at the door. All-ages.
Even with a tour with Despised Icon now in the distance, the B-More death grinders are back on their death roll – spinning their own brand of chaos-conjured slam-core onto Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Monday afternoon. Show starts at 4. Sus Domesticus, Legionary, Korotory and Pound For Pound play, too. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The grunge-punks – think Shellac mixed with The Melvins and Pats!e - open for Local Demise at The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) Tuesday night. Show starts at 10. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
Time-machine me back to 1971 and I’d be all about getting my brand new key into this singer’s “new pair of roller skates.” She was a cute little thang back when “Brand New Key” was tearing up pop radio and reaching the top of the Billboard charts. Hmmm … Maybe it’s that the song got Roller Girl in the mood to test out Marky Mark’s bloated member, in that tantalizing scene from “Boogie Nights,” that brings on the erotic sweats? Man, that song’s sexy! Melanie, now 63, has become a folk icon since going gold with “Brand New Key,” with a recent press quotes out of England stating it’s “hard to disagree that Melanie has earned her place alongside Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell and Marianne Faithful in the pantheon of iconic female singers.” In a rare, up-close and personal showcase for Trenton-area folk fans, Melanie is slated to headline two shows at The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) this Wednesday and next Thursday night. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $30. All-ages. Wednesday’s show was added after tickets to next Thursday’s show nearly sold out. Only general admission spots left for the Oct. 21 show.
Fitting smack dap in the center of that indie rock spectrum popular among underground bands these days that runs from country folk to Whisky-bred punk comes “Rebellion” (Paper + Plastick) – the road-tested new offering from these Richmond rockers. The record shows off the band’s Social Distortion influences – especially in the real-to-life lyrics of singer Brett Adams – and sounds like Gaslight Anthem and Let Me Run mixed with Good Riddance and Avail. Good stuff. Their “Dive Bars & Burritos Fall Tour” crashes into Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) Wednesday night. Show starts at 8. Red City Radio and Trenton’s The Great Explainer 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.
October 7, 2010
On The Beat: Oct. 7-13
The Trenton foursome’s funk-fusion futuristics is an interstellar webbing of Lotus and The New Deal that seems to stray more toward live electronica then typically jazzy and guitar-centered jam-band stuff. It’s a musical head-spin, and it’s being offered up for free at the B.T. Bistro (3499 U.S. Highway 1, Princeton) tonight. Show starts at 9:30. 21-plus.
The San Diego pulp-rock surf head’s Old-West-crusted voodoo-billy freak-downs mosey into Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) tonight. Their sloth-y-surf sound slithers through your veins like the venom from a snake-bite. It’s cold and methodical atmospheric “Wall of Thunder” (double bass) sound-scape creeps through your body in a hallucinogenic state until your pulse goes numb by singer Harley Davidson’s dusty trail talk. Cool stuff for fans of The Reverend Horton Heat, Johnny Cash’s dying breath and Murder By Death. Show starts at 8. The Young Werewolves and Motopipe play, too. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 18-plus.
The L.A. thrash slayers’ fiendish speed-metal shows no mercy - yet remains brutal enough to tame Kenny Powers and sell cheap-ass batteries. Early Man’s “Death Is The Answer To My Prayers” was played in the debut episode of HBO’s “Eastbound & Down” and in a TV ad for RadioShack. Their newest, “Death Potion,” was heavily influenced by early Metallica and Megadeth and hit the streets over the summer. They’ll shack-shake-up Championships Sport Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) tomorrow afternoon. Show starts at 4. Evile, Bonded By Blood, Orion, Assayer, Vulcan and On Top play, too. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $14 at the door. All-ages.
“It’s Poop Again,” a song off the Trenton band’s demo, is an aggro buffet that serves a haymaker of Pennywise’s thrash-punk spirit, the metallic mental crack up of GWAR and stone-rock vigor and death walk mind-set of Clutch. Their live show is loud, rowdy and humorous, too, so they fit well among the city underground. They’ll play the Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 10. The Wait and The Excitement Gang round out the bill. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
DJ Diem
The Hamilton deejay “Lets It Rage” again – with head-rushing Euro-trance of the Deamau5 variety sexed-up with classic hip-hop sedatives – at McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) tomorrow night. Sets start at 10. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The ex-Dear Liza singer/guitarist headlines a free show at the B.T. Bistro (3499 U.S. Highway 1, Princeton) tomorrow night. Show starts at 9:30. 21-plus.
The rockin’ R&B and jump-jiving blues band bust out T-Bone Walker and Marvin Gaye covers to a spirited audience they hope wouldn’t mind being captured behind the eye of a video crew. Gypsies’ head master and harp maestro Guy DeRosa announced the other day that tomorrow’s free performance at Amalfi’s (146 Lawrenceville-Pennington Road, Lawrence) would be videotaped. There’s also great pizza on the menu. Show starts at 8.
Marshall Tucker’s favorite opening act headlines The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) tomorrow night. A road warrior opening for the likes of Johnny Winter and B.B. King, the Lambertville singer says he focuses on his “roots” in “blues and R&B-based music” when rolling solo. “Music Mountain,” Kline’s soulful and mostly acoustically maintained new disc features a photo of the famous Lambertville Music Circus, where as a kid he dreamed of one day sharing that stage with Paul Butterfield and a young Stevie Wonder. Show starts at 7:30. Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door. All-ages.
Clutch From its swamp boggie to its psycho blues and down-by-the-bayou groove-to-funk-metal musical momentums, “Strange Cousins From the West” – the Maryland hard rocker’s ninth album – is about as complete a Clutch album that you can find. It’s fun to dance to, also, if you model your moves on ’80s WWE icons, The Bushwackers. Last month Neil Fallon and his crew released a reissue of its classic “Robot Hive/Exodus” CD with a bonus live DVD. Very cool stuff. They’re also on the road, slamming through Convention Hall (1300 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) tomorrow night. Show starts at 6:30. Black Label Society headlines. Children of Bodem and 2Cents open. Tickets cost $37.50 in advance, $45 at the door. All-ages.
Eighties Tom Petty and Elvis Costello will easily pop in your mind when hearing snippets of this Asbury singer’s rock ’n’ rolling “Model Citizen” LP. He’ll celebrate the release with a party hosted by Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) tomorrow night. Show starts at 8. The Sunday Blues, The Amboys and WUPA round out the bill. Tickets cost $5. All-ages.
The Trenton horror-punk chief roccas play a creature double feature – that’s two sets, in punk-a-billy talk – at McGuinn’s Place (1781 Brunswick Pike, Lawrence) Saturday night. Show starts at 9. Keys To The Cadillac and Amazing Amy play, too. Tickets cost $5. 21-plus.
The stoney Chi-town rock ’n’ rollers’ fuzzy trash-rock has a Queens of the Stone Age charge to it with a prickly, Sex Pistol mix down. Also for fans of The Murder City Devils and Wolfmother. The foursome’s tour of its “Of Gossip” EP lands at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday night. Show starts at 9. The Tragics open. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The 14 Points lead singer dubs up the B.T. Bistro (3499 U.S. Highway 1, Princeton) with a free show Saturday night. Show starts at 9:30. 21-plus.
Earning the namesake of The First Lady of Rockabilly, the 72-year-old 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee made waves in the mid-’50s when she toured and dated Elvis Presley – scoring a Top 20 hit with “I Gotta Know” in 1956. Quite the raven-haired hottie with sass, spunk and tons of attitude for her time, Jackson was quite the looker in the early stages of television - flaunting fringe dresses, long earrings and high heels on live country music programs like “Ozank Jubilee.” She claims to be the first female to put “glamour into country music” and keeps that vintage rockabilly sound alive touring the nation these days with the likes of Bill Haley and His Comets and Jerry Lee Lewis - strolling into The Record Collector (358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown) Saturday night. Show starts at 7:30. The Lustre Kings open. Tickets cost $35 in advance, $40 at the door. All-ages.
It’s easy to get smitten by this all-girl Oakland cuddle-corers’ jangling harmonies and adorably cute songstyle. Sounds like Lookout! twee-poppers Cub and Go Sailor with melodies that shimmer under the rainbow of vintage, ’60s beach pop and classic doo-wop. Would perfectly fit on the soundtrack to “Juno 2.” Also for fans of The Timid Roosevelts, Kostars and The Pipettes. The gals are touring in support of “Get Your Heart On” (Asian Man Records) - breaking hearts and drinking up all the whiskey Saturday night at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park). Show starts at 8. Laura Stevenson and the Cans headline. Imaginary War and Communipaw play, too. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
The Fright Fest regulars tend to get into the haunting mood by rolling out a shivering rendition of “Dead Souls” – leaning toward the spine-chilling industrialized Trent Reznor, “Crow” soundtrack version as opposed to the original done by Joy Division. The Tom’s River hard rockers play Six Flag’s Great Adventure’s (1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson) Dead & Local stage Saturday night. Show starts at 7:15. Scarlet Carson headline. SPIN opens. Free with paid admission to the park. All-ages.
The Newport, NY, alt-rock one-hit-wonders still get a lot of play out of their 2000 hit, “Teenage Dirtbag.” Heard it the other morning on 104.5 FM. Catchy? Yes. The song still, however, screams cheesy, frat-boy mosh-pit wannabes who circle-it-up at Maroon 5 shows to impress their jailbait girlfriends. Was featured in the Hollywood flopper “Loser,” and should make for a nice little sing along for the chaps heading to Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Monday afternoon. Also for fans of Harvey Danger. Show starts at 4. Sex With Rollercoasters, Ruckus At The Zoo and Man Up Houston open up. Tickets cost $10 in advance, $12 at the door. All-ages.
The Motor City singer’s club hit “Cooler Than Me” is one of these T.U.S.H. (Totally Ubiquitous Summer Hit) that might actually stick – in your head at least through the Autumn. A bit of a hybrid between pop R&B, nu-disco and electro, “Cooler Than Me” appeals to a mixed audience that can bounce to 3OH!3 and The Black Eyed Peas, slide between the sheets next to their own Beyonce, get jiggy at a wedding reception and space-rap battle with Kid Cudi. Posner, whose debut, “30 Minutes To Take Off,” debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard charts in August, headlines The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) Wednesday night. Show starts at 6:30. Far East Movement, 2AM Club, Bad Rabbits, XV and Stephen Jerzak round out the bill. Tickets cost $25 in advance, $27 at the door. All-ages.
Scott Frost’s On The Beat concert listing appears in The Trentonian every Thursday and at www.trentonian.com. If your band is playing around town, make sure to hit up the On the Beat web line at djscott111@aol.com.
October 5, 2010
August 26, 2010
On The Beat: Aug. 26-Aug. 31
Garden State ska blazers, the Hub City Stompers, headline The Record Collector in Bordentown, NJ, Friday night, Aug. 27.
The Long Island newfound glory boys have been busy spreading their bouncy, cool-kids-table-type pop-punk across the nation with stints on the Warped Tour and opening gigs with Gym Class Heroes and Bowling For Soup. They’ll drop a new record on Sept 14. The vacation-begging lead single, “I’m Not Alone,” - which is a few spins away from 1,500 on their MySpace - is an anthem-worthy slice of teen melodrama the scene used to get from Sum 41 and Good Charlotte. There will be no emo-screaming allowed when the gang headlines The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) tomorrow night, and that’s promising. Show starts at 7. Stay opens. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
With Travis “Rev. T Sinister” Nelson’s City Gardens upbringing and survival tactics after the flash-in-pan ska-boom of the 1990s, there isn’t much that can keep the singer away from a stage these days. The riot-rousing rank-n-filers have long been considered one of the top rudies in the state since rising from the ashes of Inspector 7’s 2001 break-up - using longevity, a style that springs from island traditions, 2Tone side-kicks, metal guitar and an Oi!-landish punk temper and middle-finger-popping position to keep the band’s drive alive and ska fans on their toes. A supportive fan base that’s swung their arms and circle-pitted with the gang when flying solo or playing alongside The Toasters and The Voodoo Glow Skulls for nearly a decade now is also in tow. But the thinking here is that that notion by too many that ska should have been dead and buried when the scene moved into the millennium, is probably the major motivation to The Stompers’ durability and everlasting shelf life. For fans of Madness, Bad Manners and Fishbone. The slap-happy skins play two sets 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 lethargic, low-fi indie-rock strolling found on the New Brunswick band’s “It Shouldn’t Be That Hard” – its most-spun MySpace track – feels like Spoon or Luna playing cowboy and Indians with Lou Reed. The foursome hit up their hometown watering hole - The Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) - tomorrow night. Show starts at 7. Jac, When I was 12 and The Proud Flesh open. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The cavernous “Die With You” – which was recorded at Philly’s Trocadero Threatre - is the type of sludgy, Black Sabbath-inspired rock ’n’ roll that has these Riverside kiddie crash-corers thinking rock opera. According to their MySpace page, a rock opera remains on the back burner as the teens continue to record their first full length. The idea of a rock opera seems to represents the band’s pendulum-style musical thinking - as they swing from arcane metal to emotional indie. The fresh-faced foursome headline Championships Sports Bar and Grill’s (931 Chambers St., Trenton) 2nd Annual End of Summer Bash Saturday afternoon. Show starts at 2. Massively Ill, The August Infinity, Jack The King, Far Off Topic, The Second Coming Of Angry Beard and Man Up Houston round out the bill. Tickets cost $10. All-ages.
Malcontent with the state of the New Jersey loud rock scene, these head bangers sought out to be “one of the hardest, most aggressive metal bands” around. And they deliver with a brute-tallic pounce that meshes Pantera-styled thrash and the twisting guitar master stroke of Iron Maiden with the harmonious choruses of Shadows Fall. It’s “American metal,” said God Forbid’s Doc Coyle, who’s quoted as being “impressed” by the screamers EP, “Malice To Alice.” “Modern American Metal has heaviness, groove, and intensity,” he said. “(Saint Avarice) have a certain technical ability that they strive for and it's present in the music. American Metal has a little more grit to it, it’s a little more closer to the ground, a little more working class and I think that’s where (Saint Avarice) are coming from.” They break-it-down with tracks off their yet-to-be-released full-length “The Disease You Breed” at Championships Sports Bar and Grill (931 Chambers St., Trenton) Saturday night. Show starts at 9. The KMX Band, Power Theory, Sinister Realm and Betrayus play, too. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The exhausted lead-singing wail, down-tuned guitar buzz-sawing and feathered female vocal harmonies this Keansburg post-punk trio churn out has this messy, Pixies feel to it perfect for left-of-the-dial programming. College rock circa 1995 – nice! Sounds like Dinosaur Jr., Husker Du and Throwing Muses, too. They’ll headline The Court Tavern (124 Church St., New Brunswick) Saturday night. Show starts at 7. The Gazelle, Little Mike, Joe Wilson & His Band and Small Town Scoundrels round out the bill. Tickets cost $8. 21-plus.
The former McCarter Theatre tech-head honed his superior seven-string shreds sound-checking for Bruce Springsteen and the Beach Boys in the ’70s and ’80s – eventually landing a sponsorship deal with Ibanez and ads in Guitar World where the mop-top virtuoso was photographed in 1982 defining gravity. His work back then in Bricks Mortar was more R&B-ish new wave Doobie Brothers and psychedelic than blues, but that’s where his musical standing sits now. A music teacher at the Pennington School, Bushnell now ranks among the top blues-guitar talents in the tri-states and a legend around Trenton. He’ll headline 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.
Without Sebastian Bach at the helm, what’s the point, right? Guessing any band – especially the pride of Toms River - that toured in its heyday with Gun ’N Roses is worth seeing 30 years later. Maybe you’ll also fit in those cheetah-printed leather pants again? No new music since 2006. Still coked-up and heavy-as-hell glam-rock-type stuff you can beat your old lady to. And the ’80s were a blur anyway. So it wouldn’t be too sad to spend your beer money at The Stone Pony (913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park) Saturday night where Skid Row is headlining. Show starts at 7:30. Frankenstein 3000 and Scarlet Carson open. Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 at the door. All-ages.
The greased-up monster-mashing rock ’n’ rollers from Trenton open for Canada’s The Brains at Asbury Lanes (209 4th Ave., Asbury Park) Sunday night. Show starts at 8. Tickets cost $8. 18-plus.
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.
August 22, 2010
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Breaking Barriers Again!
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones return to the Trocadero Theatre in Philly on Monday night, Aug. 22, 2010. The ska-lords have a new disc out, "Pin Points and Gin Joints."
Was thinking how funny it's going to be to have all us grey-haired rude boys skanking it up again to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at The Trocadero in Philly Monday night.
It's been a while since the Boston Rascal Kings set their sights on on a Troc show. I can't remember the exact date, but there was this one time in I think 1995 when the guys were set to headline the the former Burlesque mecca, but had to move the show to the Theatre of Living Arts when there was a ceiling collapse at the aging Chinatown venue.
I had seen the Bosstones a couple times before that at the Troc and every time - even when that dude from The Goats poured a bus-boy tray of rain water on me when I finally squeezed my way to the stage - they rocked the house.
By 1997 - with the commercial success of "The Impression That I Get" and national ska-boom - it be became harder and harder to see the band play a mid-sized venue like the Trocadero. And that seemed to anger frontman Dickie Barrett a bit.
He hated that that show moved to the TLA. At least that was the impression that I got (no pun intended) - saying something in the effect of, "nice barriers," referring to the iron wall that separated the crowd.
"I miss The Trocadero. The Stone Pony. Trenton City Gardens," I remember Dickie saying.
The Troc at the time had no wall separating the band from the crowd and it made for landmark punk rock and ska experiences of the day when fans could and would jump on stage to dance along with the band during the ska shows and take a leap of faith back into the crowd during punk shows. Saw bands like The Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Suicide Machines, CIV, Queers, Skakin Pickle, Goldfinger and Spring Heeled Jack during those times.
The shows were wild, uninhibited and fun. And the interaction with the band had never been matched since venues started putting up these iron steel curtains. I blame the grunge era, the influx of jock moshers and kiddie crowd surfers. One fell on his head, sued a venue and Bosstones shows from then on never had that same sort of closeness to them.
I had the Bosstones' people ask Dickie about how he felt about his now return to the Troc on Monday. This is what is said.
"From a Bostonian to The Trentonian, we honestly could not be happier to back in the area, we have fond memories of the Troc," Dickie tells On The Beat. "Please come out and see us create some new memories and hear classic Bosstones tracks."
See you then, Dickie - with my silver maine and achy 34-year-old body ready to head-bang and flail my arms in celebration of one more Bosstones shows at The Troc. Not like I'd have the energy to get my plump frame on the stage anyway. So you can keep your barriers in place.
"Kinder Words" is my favorite Mighty Mighty Bosstones video. I first heard it on a CMJ sampler and remember its MTV debut on "120 Minutes." It was my first introduction to the band. Several concerts followed - maybe saw them in total six times. Probably one of the best live bands I've ever seen.
Found this on YouTube, too. It's a trailer of sorts to the '90s flick, "Clueless," which featured The Mighty Mighty Bosstones in the movie playing "Where Did You Go?" and "Someday I Suppose" at a frat party or something in the film.
Here's the official release about The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' tour. The Irving Plaza show is sold out.
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES
GET SET FOR A TREK OF AUGUST TOUR DATES
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have stuck more pins in the map and pulled more Gin from taps than they care to remember. Over the years they’ve earned the reputation as one of the hardest touring bands in rock. Now they about to hit the road for a trek of summer dates to support with their first full length studio release in seven years, featuring 14 new songs “Pin Points and Gin Joints” produced by BossTones Dicky Barrett, Joe Gittleman and producer Ted Hutt (Flogging Molly, Street Dogs, Gaslight Anthem) out now on the BossTones Big Rig Records.
With Pin Points and Gin Joints the BossTones have taken their trademark power chord, driving horns, wicked backbeat sound back to the barroom for another round of shots.
Don’t miss the fun:
August 23 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero Theatre
with Teenage Bottlerocket & The Flatliners
August 24 - New York, NY- Irving Plaza
with Teenage Bottlerocket & The Flatliners
August 26 - Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom
with Teenage Bottlerocket & The Flatliners
August 27 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall
with Teenage Bottlerocket & The Flatliners
August 28 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave/Eagles Club
with Teenage Bottlerocket & The Flatliners
www.BosstonesMusic.com
August 20, 2010
B.o.B. - Playing Kids For The Kids
Photos by SCOTT FROST
Rapper B.o.B. performs at Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson, NJ, on Aug. 18, 2010.
By SCOTT FROST
JACKSON – Rap fans today aren’t looking for a spiritual leader or an artist with a political message. They’re looking strictly for originality, hip-hop baby face B.o.B. tells The Trentonian.
“I think kids look for the same thing in a hip-hop artist they would look in for a rock artist or pop artist. I think what they’re looking for is something original,” B.o.B. said in an exclusive 
interview after Wednesday night’s show at Six Flags Great Adventure’s North Star Arena.
“They want an artist with a sense of self and not necessarily a sense of job,” the 21-year-old Southern star said – cooling down from an electric hour-long set of songs featured on his hit album, “B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray.”
“They don’t want to listen to an artist who feels like they’re listening to someone who’s just doing their job or recording something because they’re just in the studio and are told to just record it.”
B.o.B – real name Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. – is the new face of hip-hop.
His crossover hit “Airplanes” – featuring Paramore’s Hayley Williams - has been burning up multiple radio formats since the spring. It recently won the Hook Up Song of The Year at Fox’s Teen Choice of Awards and was up for a ton of MTV Video Music Awards Sept. 12.
And even in a time when MTV finds little room for actually music coverage between exploitive Guido and 
slutty teen mom “reality” programming, B.o.B. has found his niche with the mainstream giant.
“It’s been a really busy day,” he told the capacity Six Flags crowd. “Was just up in New York recoding my ‘MTV Unplugged’.”
Signed to T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records, B.o.B. has found success by staying clear of rap’s thuggish modern makeup. His style is more Outcast and Lupe Fiasco than 50 Cent – a rapper that plays guitar while throwing-back of sorts to ’80s R&B and classic soul and rock ’n’ roll along the way.
The mix of young faces – from brace-faced Latinos to screechy suburban girlies and slick-sneaker-sporting African American backpackers, all recording the rappers every move on their Blackberry - that braved pouring rain Wednesday night to witness his radio hits live proves this guy’s career is boundless.
Further proof of his crossover appeal came at the conclusion of the show when he turned out a rousing rendition of the now-way hit “Kids” by MGMT.
“Control yourself … take only what you need from it,” the lyrics go.
Well, B.o.B.’s in control of his destiny. And the world is what he’s going to take over.
August 19, 2010
On the Beat - Aug. 19-26
Upstate New Yorkers The Tattle Tales play The Mill Hill Basement (300 S. Broad St., Trenton) on Saturday night.
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.
Tattle Tales - Insub Fest 2010 from Marc Gärtner on Vimeo.
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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