Friday and Saturday at APYC with Dentist, The Battery Electric, Lost Boy ?, Sharkmuffin, and Von Mons, 8/7-8/8/15

The Battery Electric played to a wild APYC on Friday.

To Old Friends and New

CoolMom's baby sister is visiting us this weekend with her family. Our nephew is an 18-month old ball of non-stop energy. He is the cutest kid I've seen in a very long time, super smart, and absolutely 110% at all times. I can only imagine how exhausting it is trying to keep up with him 24x7, so I wasn't surprised when my brother-in-law decided to accompany me on Friday for some music and a few beverages as I headed out to see our friends Dentist and The Battery Electric play together at Asbury Park Yacht Club.

Dentist

The Yacht Club has been packed all summer, and Friday was no different. Dentist played with new drummer, Rudy Meier, for the first time and impressed the big crowd. CoolUncle even asked me to put their album on as we were making dinner the next night. The Battery Electric packed the place with their loyal following, and the incongruous site of crowd surfing at APYC happened again.

On Saturday, I ventured out on my own to catch the local record release from new Little Dickman artist Sharkmuffin at APYC. Lost Boy ?, who joined them when they played the carousel house for us last month, opened in their full-band configuration. Both bands were great, Lost Boy ? delivering their frenetic garage pop and Sharkmuffin's Tarra Thiessen engaging in some significant crowd interaction by singing and dancing among the audience for much of the set. Local garage rock virtuosos, Von Mons, closed things out with two sets of covers and originals.

Lost Boy ?

Sharkmuffin

Von Mons

It was two amazing nights of music. I got to spend time with some good friends, while making some new ones. My brother-in-law got turned onto Dentist and The Battery Electric. Lots of Sharkmuffin's North Jersey and Brooklyn friends came down on Saturday, and I heard a lot of remarks about what a cool thing we have going in Asbury Park. The little guy did wake up super early both mornings after, but he gets a pass. He's cute and will make a great frontman someday if he keeps that energy level.

All the pics I took (messed a lot with flash) from both nights are in the Flickr galleries.