Best of Rock News – NJ and NY Rock shows – Jan 2014

Best of Rock News – NJ and NY Rock shows – Jan 2014



MUSIC NEWS: We recently started a NJ/NY rock shows page on the Review Stalker music blog ( oh hey that’s us) so we can keep track of everything we get invited to go to on our facebooks and are normally missing out on. This month there’s about 10 shows we think you should check out by Lightouts, Brian Fallon, Man Man, Black Wine,Dave House, Shayfer James,Greg D,Reagan Youth, Social Decay,Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Unbutton, Risk Relay and a whole ton more. Check out the shows page!

Vivian's Girls end the band and break-up
In other rock news this week:
Vivians Girls have decided to call it quits as the cute factor has worn off and their new bands are much better with this whole playing guitar business. They booked two ALL AGES shows as a see ya later as noted on their website. The first will be on February 14th at The Church on York in LA. The second will be on March 1st at Death by Audio in Brooklyn. Now shall begin more in-breeding in brooklyn with more off-shoots and who knows what. Also as FYI if you google Vivian’s girls plural you will get a dominatrix website.

On January 14, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s open internet rules, commonly known as “Net Neutrality” because ISPs are not classified as “common carriers”. This ruling allows ISPs to charge companies for access to its users and charge users for access to certain services. Fewer companies will be able to afford access for innovative ideas and products. Which mean the big media agencies can charge you more for our already sucky bandwidth and choose which website get a faster speeds and connectivity. You should be fucking Pissed about this so help restore Net Neutrality now!

As reported in Guardian/UK Noel Gallager reviewed Oasis videos and guess what? He hates them all! Not a surprise. He’ll be the first rock star to fire himself from his band because of artistic differences I’m sure in future.

BIG TAKEOVER – Heading Towards A Shallow Grave: New York’s Nepotistic Music Scene: New York’s punk scene love itself too much by Cody Conard. There is reason we really don’t know who is who anymore or why bands sorta all sound alike. Cody goes into some details in this rant.

Apparently there was a “Last show” at some place called 285 Kent and Brandon Stosuy from Pitchfork can be heard crying all over the streets of Brooklyn or complaining about people not curbing their dogs. It’s a sad world when a grown man cries for no apparent reason. (as heard on twitter). This is the Yipsters 911.

Just when Vinyl reports record sales because new music lovers are digging the experience of handling the wax. Dr Dre launches beats meusic yet another streaming service! The ironic thing is a lot of hip fans are super into fidelity so is streaming some shitty bit rate gonna cut-it? Check out the article by Brad Wheeler on Why the reports of vinyl’s death are greatly exaggerated.

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NJ/HC Punk Revival at a Strip Club

NJ/HC Punk Revival at a Strip Club

Just the other morning I was thinking about the Double LP compilation Burning Ambitions: A History of Punk because I realized I left off the song “1,2, X U” from the Wire posting this week which seemed like an obvious track to gab about anyway being that even the likes of Dag Nasty had covered it. This 1984 comp is where I first heard of a lot of UK punk bands who seemed old or passe in my youth at the time like the Adverts, X Ray Spex, UK Subz, etc, etc but others who were on still thrill me today like the Fall, Swell Maps and The Stranglers. All were brilliant actually as they really had already made their impression on music history.Here’s the whole playlist. Then shortly there after sometime in the mid 80’s i got wind of the NJ/HC thrash/hardcore band scene with bands like Lethal Aggression, Dirge, Crucial Youth and a few others thanks to Hardcore Sundays at CBGB’s (whole bunch of stories there in the future). I had no clue who Social Decay were as I’m sure there are many all of which Devil Dick talks about on the Demo Tape blog in much greater detail than I’ll ever be able to. Bands like seem to just pop-out of the Jersey devil ridden woods back then and here they are again making new music!

A bunch of these bands will be playing a BYOB show at The Players Rock Lounge at Club XXXV, 7090 Rt 35 N, Sayreville being produced by
DAA Entertainment. I can’t make this shit up. there is actually full on punk/thrash show going to happen at a nudie club with Mcrad w/ Chuck Treece, Social Decay, Lethal Aggression, Jumpship, The Vivid twisted, Fight Back and Casting ships. I’m sure most of the bands will be fronted by a bunch of old guys.

Ghos† Smile MP3 by Fight Back [Free Demo here] This is pretty good hardcore. Lots of variety. Worth checking out for the price.
Kill-or-Die MP3 by Social Decay 1985 demo
Fiend MP3 by McRad from Absence of Sanity (1987)

Others older Punx:
New Face In Hell MP3 by The Fall
Walk On By MP3 by The Stranglers
Girls Don’t Like It MP3 By The Undertones