River City Extension's Annual Homecoming ShowTonight will be the third annual end-of-tour, homecoming show, "Simple Gifts," for Toms River's River City Extension at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park. Also on the bill are fellow New Jerseyans, The Front Bottoms, whose 2011 self-titled, debut full-length should be considered essential for fans of wordy, humorous punk-pop (as opposed to pop-punk).
River City Extension have added a partnership with Red Bank's RebuildRecover.org to this year's show. RebuildRecover is a non-profit that came together in the days immediately following Sandy to collect donations at Sounds to Go DJs' Front Street office, one of the only places in Red Bank that had electricity following the storm. According to the event page on Facebook, "RebuildRecover will be accepting all forms of donations: monetary, non-perishables and anything else you could fit through the door."
River City Extension's Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger is one of my favorite records of 2012, and I'm sure this will be an excellent and emotional evening.
If you're planning, like me, on ducking out on your visiting relatives and dinner prep this evening to attend the show, come find me. We can enjoy a beverage together and talk about all we have to be thankful for this year while, maybe, giving some other folks something small to be thankful for as well.
See you there man. Really looking forward to this. Front Bottoms LP is a favorite of mine, Brick+Mortar plays an incredible live show, and little has to be explained about the talents of RCE. This will be a great night for a great cause.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing all of these bands live tonight. The rain chased us all from Riverside Gardens Park for RCE's "Songwriters in the Park" show. I hear those who waited got a great acoustic set.
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