Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Big Trouble" by Colossal Street Jam
by Bob Makin - published 2024-08-02
The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Big Trouble," the forthcoming single from the upcoming reissue of Colossal Street Jam's "No Way to Live" LP on Fretbar Records.
New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 08-02-24
Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!
An Interview with Christopher McKittrick about "Howling to the Moonlight on a Hot Summer Night: The Tale of the Stray Cats"
by Gary Wien - published 2024-08-01
Christopher McKittrick has written books on ZZ Top's Billy F. Gibbons, The Rolling Stones, and Tom Petty. Originally from Long Island, his latest book takes a look at a band that came from his hometown area - The Stray Cats.
Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...8/1/24
by Danny Coleman - published 2024-08-01
"It's a one-off thing; I'm not exaggerating, every weekend we are doing multiple shows and by the end of the year we'll probably wind up doing about 68 one-offs and plus we're doing a seven week tour that's 35 shows so we'll be right around 100 shows for the year. This show is a one-off, we're flying in just for this show. We're working more than any band I know, I talk to other bands and they are like, man, you guys are awesome, you're killing it and I say, we're trying to, we're killin' something, hopefully not ourselves," laughed Everclear's main man Art Alexakis as he talked about their most recent release "Live at the Whisky A Go Go," the music industry and their upcoming August 8 show at Camden's Cooper River Park.
New Brunswick Heart Festival Shows the Pulse of Middlesex County Arts
by Zachary Klein, JerseyArts.com - published 2024-08-01
The fifth annual New Brunswick Heart Festival, which is co-presented by Middlesex County arts entities including State Theatre New Jersey, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC), New Brunswick Cultural Center, and I Am D. Muse, returns to downtown New Brunswick on Saturday, August 10. The free outdoor arts festival is open to the public and will surely celebrate the rich and vibrant history of the city and county in which it occurs.
First Look Review - "Detained"
by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-08-01
The success of Reservoir Dogs gave rise to a slew of '90s indie thrillers based around unscrupulous characters turning on one another in a single location as they attempt to unravel a mystery. Set entirely within a police precinct and centred on the questioning of a suspect, the post-Reservoir Dogs thriller director Felipe Mucci's Detained most resembles is Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects, right down to the inclusion of a mythical underworld figure.
New Jersey Stage: Daily Edition 08-01-24
Here is the morning update from New Jersey's arts newswire. We regularly publish between 8-15 new articles and news reports each day. Nobody covers the Arts throughout the Garden State like New Jersey Stage!
First Look Review - "Starve Acre"
by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com - published 2024-07-31
The current crop of cinematic folk-horror hasn't yielded much of a harvest in terms of quality. Perhaps the 21st century just isn't a good fit for this sub-genre, which had its heyday (or hay day) in the '70s, particularly in Britain. The cream of this crop amounts to a handful of movies and TV shows made in the UK in that post-flower-power decade that saw many turn away from the progress of the modern world and embrace "the old ways." As such, folk-horror has become inextricably linked with beige and corduroy.
5th Annual New Brunswick HEART Festival
(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey, New Brunswick Cultural Center, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC), and I Am D.Muse present the 5th Annual New Brunswick HEART Festival on Saturday, August 10, 2024 from 2:00pm-6:00pm; hosted by New Jersey Radio Hall of Famer Bert Baron and Founder of TSO Productions, Sharon Gordon. This free family-friendly festival celebrates the vibrant arts and history of New Brunswick and Middlesex County, featuring live music and dance performances; free dance classes for kids; food, craft, and art vendors; arts and crafts for kids; free face painting, Henna, caricatures, and balloon animals; and more. The festival will take place in downtown New Brunswick on Livingston Ave (Monument Square, 2 Livingston Ave).
