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Seiran Come Face To Face With Guilt In New Single “Before It Ends”

Seiran reveal their emotionally heaviest track yet. “Before It Ends” opens with the intense depression-grappling line “Colorless blood is on my hands, God is calling me for what I’ve done to myself,” as vocalist Shin comes face to face with his own guilt and frustration. This banger of a track encompasses dark heart pounding riffs juxtaposed by leads twinkling with optimism and grotesque vocals highlighted by hip-hop style cleans.

 
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Frantic City shares Opening Night Party Lineup

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- The new Atlantic City music festival Frantic City has shared details of the event’s official opening night party on Friday, September 23 at Bourré at 8:00pm. Performers include Samiam, who will also perform the next day at the main event, as well as New Jersey natives The Ergs and Night Birds. The night will be hosted by comedian Natalie Cuomo.

Hawthorne Heights Announces Final Lineups for Festival Dates

(OHIO) -- Platinum selling emo legends, Hawthorne Heights, have announced the final lineup for the Ohio date of their upcoming IS FOR LOVERS FESTIVAL, a multi-city experience set to make three stops in summer 2022 – Wichita, KS (August 27), Denver, CO (August 28) and Cincinnati, OH (September 10) – which features lineups carefully curated by the band themselves. Newly announced acts for the final date include: New Found Glory, Motion City Soundtrack, The Amity Affliction, Silverstein, Real Friends, Holding Absence, Kississippi, Caracara, LURK, Leggy, Tweens, Vacation, The Raging Nathans, and Winona Fighter.

Mayo Performing Arts Center In July

(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) presents a wide range of ticketed and free events in July, featuring a great lineup of summer concerts including Lyle Lovett and Chris Isaak, as well as the return of MPAC’s free Arts in the Community events.

Beach Rats (Ft. members of Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, and Lifetime) to Release Debut Album

Beach Rats is comprised of vocalist Ari Katz from Lifetime, guitarist Pete Steinkopf & bassist Bryan Keinlen from Bouncing Souls, guitarist Brian Baker from Bad Religion & Minor Threat, and Danny Windas from Let It Burn on drums.  The band came to be as each member found themselves settled in the beach community of Asbury Park. After releasing an EP in 2018 and performing a slew of high-energy shows, the global pandemic gave the band a reason to get back to recording. Their debut album Rat Beat, will be released on July 29th via Epitaph Records.



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Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Love & Let Go" by cr0wcallz

My Jersey Shore-raised nephew who goes by the stage name cr0wcallz has been killin' it as a DJ in his new hometown of New Hope, as well as his future hometown of Brooklyn.




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This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts from October 22-29, 2024






 

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(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey presents Scotty McCreery – Fall of Summer Tour on Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 7:30pm. McCreery has been a household name for nearly half his life, ever since making history in 2011 as both the first country artist and the youngest male artist of any genre to debut his first studio album, the Platinum-certified Clear as Day, at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.


IJS & Greg Burrus Present HWM Harlem Nights Across the Hudson featuring Lee Odom & Michael Gray on October 30th




American Brass Quintet Comes to Sewell on November 10th




Albert Music Hall presents 2nd Annual Jersey Devil Show






 

UPCOMING SHOWS


Rod Wave - Last Lap Tour comes to Prudential Center in December

(NEWARK, NJ) -- This Fall, AG Touring and Mammoth, Inc. proudly present the Rod Wave - Last Lap Tour. This large-scale multi-city outing will feature Rod Wave headlining 36 of North America's top arenas coast-to-coast. The tour will kick off on October 19 at Desert Diamond Arena in Phoenix, AZ visiting major markets across the country, including Newark’s Prudential Center on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 with special guests Moneybagg Yo, Toosii, Lil Poppa, Dess Dior and Eelmatic.


The Newton Theatre presents The Jayhawks




Outpost in the Burbs presents Robyn Hitchcock




Count Basie Center for the Arts presents Remember Jones: Bat Out Of Hell Live






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