The Goldhawk Bar & Lounge in Hoboken - for
years the epicenter of Hoboken's local music scene
- has announced it will be closing on July 11.
The Goldhawk, with its weekly open mic and low-key
acoustic showcases, offered a place where local
bands could meet, experiment, and polish their
craft. Its presence will be sorely missed, and
we extend our best hopes and heartfelt thanks
to Fran Azzarto and the staff for all they've
done for local music over the past six years.
There will be several farewell performances to
say good-bye to the venue:
Tuesday July 7 - The Fave
Wednesday July 8 - Val Emmich
Thursday July 9 - Marc Gionnotti/ Rob Nicholas/
Dave Calamoneri and Karyn Kuhl
Friday July 10– Skanatra
The Goldhawk is located at 936 Park Ave. at 10th
Street in Hoboken.
From
Pop Punk Geek To Nerdy Movie Star: The Strange
Journey of Egghead's John Ross Bowie
Joe Evans III catches up with John
Ross Bowie, who you might recognize from TV sitcoms,
feature films, and television commercials. But
long before his face started showing up on screen,
you could find him playing in the brainy, catchy
and sadly out-of-fashion pop-punk trio Egghead.
This particularly worm has turned though; not
only is Bowie finding success in his new career,
but his old pop-punk band is suddenly in demand
again, and will be performing Wednesday, June
24th at the Lit Lounge in Manhattan before heading
down to Baltimore to play at the 2009 Insubordination
Festival. Read
Joe Evans III's interview here...
YOUR
FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS
by Tris McCall
Tris asks the questions that few critics want
to face about When I Hit The Ground,
the debut album by Ace Enders & A Million
Different People, and finds some surprising answers.
Is it emo? Irrelevant. Is it brilliant? Undoubtedly.
And do grownups need to pay attention to the Bard
of Hammonton, NJ? What do you think? Read
Tris' review here...
ACE
ENDERS:
Post-Emo But Still Emoting
Ace Enders, former
frontman of Jersey emo pioneers The Early November,
returns with Ace Enders & A Million Different
People, a brilliant collection of captivating
anthems that replace emo's whining nihilism with
the fresh new perspective of hope.
10 FOR $10 TOUR:
Hardcore Bands Fight The Recession With A Return
To The Sunday Harcore Matinee
The 10 For $10 Tour brings together
hardcore bands like Madball, Poison The Well,
Vision, Terror, Bane, and Death Before Dishonor
for a bargain night of non-stop moshing.
Ten bands at every stop, and every ticket only
$10. Of course, band-aids and splints are extra.
Steven DiLodovico provides an intimate
and in-depth interview with Jordan Cooper, the
man who started Revelation Records and spearheaded
a revolution in the American punk subculture.
This 5-part interview tells the story of how a
small DIY label helped change the face and sound
of Hardcore - the business, the bands, the venues,
the moshpits, and the music.
JERSEY BEAT VIDEO:
Cymbals Eat Guitars - "Cold Spring"
Live at Music Hall of Williamsburg - 6/13/09
ALKALINE
TRIO:
Complete Control
Deb Draisin catches up with drummer
Derek Grant of Chicago punk icons Alkaline Trio
and talks about their relationship with their
major label, the current state of punk, and how
these 12-year veterans of the punk rock wars keep
finding new sources of inspiration.
Album of the Year... Or Flop of the New Millennium?
We thought Green Day's 21st Century
Breakdown was important enough to get more than
one opinion... so we elicited reviews from three
generations of Green Day fans - midwestern veteran
punker chris Mattern, Jersey college student Tim
Norek, and editor Jim Testa.
Deb Draisin talks to Montclair's Bern & The
Brights, described as a female-fronted Radiohead
for their intelligent and elegant and elegant soundscapes.
Read
Deb's interview here...
Steve Rainone steps on the Jersey Beat soapbox
and asks what's wrong with a few wrinkles or gray
hairs. With so many aby boomer icons still rocking
stadiums this summer, isn't it time we stopped asking
how old a performer is, and just look at the performance?
POISONED HEART: I Married A Ramone
by Vera King (Phoenix Books)
Chris Mattern plods through this
biography of the most misunderstood Ramone written
by his ex-wife Vera, which Chris says is filled
with self-serving and contradictatory views of
the couple's tumutuous relationship, and very
few new facts about our favorite punk band. Read Chris' review
here
THE
ANTLERS - Hospice (myspace.com/theantlers)
Staggeringly beautiful, heartbreakingly
sad, the Antlers' Hospice takes the lush
layered production of classic shoegaze and brings
it into the 21st Century, with one of the most
moving albums of 2009.
Sonic Youth's return to indiedom also marks a return
to the ethereal soundscapes of their early career
- not ambient, insists Paul Silver, but intense
soundscapes that still showcase the band's fascination
with dissonance and unique tunings. But this time
around, you can lay back and unwind to it.
ELVIS
COSTELLO - Secret, Profane, Sugarcane (Hear Music)
The versatile Elvis Costello takes
on country/bluegrass on his latest album and Noah
WK says it's a complete success, beautifully flavored
with banjo, mandolin, and other string instruments
but still infused with Costello's impeccable vocal
phrasings.
Read Noah's review here...
SUMMER
READING: A Tortured Life, and A Sonic Scene
Phil Rainone reviews A Pure
Drop - The Life of Jeff Buckley, a no holds
barred account of the singer's tragically short
life, and Sonic Boom: The History of Northwest
Rock, which traces garage and punk rock from
"Louie Louie" through "Feels Like
Teen Spirit."
Vinyl!!! Noah checks out a cool new 7-inch compilation
from the new indie label Merman Records
with cuts by Fear of Lipstick, The Roman
Line, Regal Beagle, and Neutron
Bombs. He also checks out the debut 7
inch EP from Barrakuda McMurder,
the new project featuring the Steinways' Grath
Madden, and an Album of the Year contender with
Dream Homes from the pop-punk supergroupd Dear
Landlord.
Read Noah's column here...
THE QUINLAN CHRONICLES
by Rich Quinlan
Bam! Pow! Rich gets a double punch of classic
hardcore from the legendary L.A. band Flipper
with the live album Fight bristling with
past hits and the new studio album Love,
both records Rich says you need to hear. He also
reviews the twangy, southern-fried rock'n'roll
of Terry Anderson and the Olympic Ass-Kicking
Team and a breakout 7inch from Neckties
Make Me Nervous. Read
Rich's column here...
THE
WORLD ACCORDING TO WAWZYRNIAK - by Joe Wawzyrniak
Weehawken singer/songwriter Julian Peterson
gets things off to a rousing start with the sweet
and soulful funk of his debut solo album. Joe
also grooves to new albums from Jason
Lytle, Sean Bones, and Annabel.
Things stay local with strong releases from Hoboken's
Hudson Rail Company and Jersey
City's Copacetic, and the column
finishes up with energized pop-rock from Synthetic
Elements and Drug Rug.
Paul Silver delivers a mammoth dose of pop, punk,
metal, and whatever with this month's column, including
new releases by Brian Bond, the Broomstars,
Chairlift, Detournement, Goes Cube, The Great Unwashed,
Hoots & Hellmouth, The Magik Markers, Rik Mercaldi,
Money/Paper/Hearts, The Oranges Band, Player/ Kommander,
Push-Pull, R00K, and Sharon Von
Etten.Read
Paul's column here...
MATTERN OF FACT: By Chris Mattern
Chris is fascinated by the early emo stylings
of Hot Water Music on the reissue
of their classic No Division CD, then
enjoys some new music from beguiling industrial
rockers Fashion Bomb, beer-swillin'
boot-stompin' country/rock hybrids Yesterday's
Ring, Detroit hardcore punks Forced
Anger, and a new punk compilation of
Chicago bands from Johann's Face.
Johnny raves about the new release from old friends
NoFX, has some doubts about the first solo effort
from Hot Water Music's Chris Wollard, and hails
In The Red's new release a real breakthrough.
Dan raves about the new release from Mastodon,
calling it both the band's most accessible and
yet most ambitious release to date. Dan also reviews
new releases from the Earache label including
Cauldron, The Haunted, Insect Warfare,
and The Boy Will Drown.
Richard raves about the debut CD from NJ's One
Short Falls, saying it "could easily provide
the perfect punk rock party soundtrack, donning
the structures of ska, surf, New York snot, micro
ballad and momentary acoustic sweetness while
maintaining their seemingly innate frenetic tendencies
throughout." He also raves about the debut
7 inch EP from NJ superground Psyched To Die,
featuring ex-members of the Ergs!, For Science,
and Hunchback.
Read Richard's column here...
POP
VULTURE by Phil Rainone
The freaked out rockabilly of Los Straightjackets
gets Phil twistin' and shoutin', as do New Jersey's
Young Werewolves. Phil also dives
into three releases from the punk label Dead Beat
Records: The old-school politically barbed punk
of Le Face, the post-Industrial
drone of Mac Blackout, and the
raunchy German punk of Lights Out.
Phil reviews the new "Sessions" EP from
Mimi Nowak and talks about her
participation in the South Amboy music scene centered
around The Blue Moon Cafe. Read
Phil's column here...
THE
QUIET CORNER
by Robert Barry Francos
Robert Francos's Spring round up includes releases
by Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band,
Andy Bilinski,Dominick
Carino, Caterpillar Book, Cobra Verde, Shane Cooley,
James Dalton, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Jeremy Jay,
Nashville Pussy, the Situationists, Kurt Vile,
and lots more.
We welcome Rick Kutner and Wowie Zowie, which
brings you the best in psychedelia, power-pop,
and glam. In this column, Rick reviews new releases
by Anoraak, The Hellacopters, Gil Mantera's Party
Dream, MGMT, Old Ghost, the Sales Brothers, and
Zombi.
Dave Dillon likes the new EP from Dead
To Me, which features ex-members of One
Man Army and Western Addiction. And he really
likes the demo from NJ hardcore-punks Psyched
To Die, featuring members of such local
faves as the Ergs, For Science, and Hunchback.
He also reviews the new 7-inch from midwest punks
Be My Doppelganger, and a CD
from Massachusetts' Fake Boys.Read
Dave's column here...
THE
LIFE OF RILEY:
Reviews by Mike Riley
Mike Riley has nothing nice to say about Lagwagon
- "utterly generic and uninspired,"
for starters - but he does like the solo debut
of frontman Joey Cape. Mike also sounds on the
reissue of Earth Crisis' seminal
Breed The Killers, and new CDs from La
Vieja Guardia, The Welch Boys, and Virgins.
Read Mike's column here...
DAVE
RUN IT REVIEWS
Longtime Jersey Beat contributor Dave Run It hands
down his judgment on releases by Static
Radio NJ, The Safes, and The Offramps.
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From
Pop Punk Geek To Nerdy Movie Star: The Strange
Journey of Egghead's John Ross Bowie
YOUR
FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS 
ACE
ENDERS:
10 FOR $10 TOUR:
THE
REVELATION RECORDS STORY:
ALKALINE
TRIO:
GREEN
DAY
GUEST
EDITORIAL: Too Old To Rock N Roll?
THE
ANTLERS - Hospice (myspace.com/theantlers)
SONIC
YOUTH - The Eternal (Matador)
ELVIS
COSTELLO - Secret, Profane, Sugarcane (Hear Music)
SUMMER
READING: A Tortured Life, and A Sonic Scene
LET'S
PARTY WITH NOAH WK
THE QUINLAN CHRONICLES 
THE
WORLD ACCORDING TO WAWZYRNIAK - by Joe Wawzyrniak
THE
SILVER LINING by Paul Silver
MATTERN OF FACT: By Chris Mattern
JOHNNY
PUKE SAYS SO...
METAL
AS ALL HELL by Dan Siano
PUNK OR NOTHING by Richard Allsop
POP
VULTURE by Phil Rainone
THE
QUIET CORNER 
WOWIE
ZOWIE: Psychedelia & Beyond
POP
PUNK!
THE
LIFE OF RILEY: 
DAVE
RUN IT REVIEWS
