School Drugs Remember November I wanted to draw your attention to a pair of things that a couple of our Jersey Shore friends put out ...

Dentist plays Happy Mondays at The Wonder Bar tomorrow night. Pre- and Post- Super Stuff New Jersey is hosting today's game, bu...

Last Minute Show At about 6pm last night, Mike over at Speak Into My Good Eye asked if I'd like to accompany him to the Black Rebel...

The Berkeley Bar Prehistoric Forest celebrated the release of their self-titled debut last night at Asbury's Berkeley Bar. Spea...

The Light and The Dark Out on September 17th Quite simply, Lost Romance are a New Brunswick, NJ trio that play rock and roll. Thei...

A Chance to Vote with Your $ So I'm not Pitchfork... ...or Stereogum... ...or SPIN in the music news department. I pretty much t...

BLOWOUT If you think of the summer as the year's weekend, then Labor Day is like the mother of all Sundays. Folks are winding thin...

Asbury Lanes. Tonight. It's been a weird summer here at CoolDad Music HQ. Lots of time spent at  the beach, but not much time spent...

When I Sing, You Sing Harmonies Drummer Matt Uychich was out among the crowd. He stopped to take pictures with fans. He signed tick...

And CoolDaughter #2 And I Finally Got Our Burrito "This is just unacceptable!" That was the 6-year-old CoolDaughter #2 upon...

Hysteria Asbury Lanes has some really excellent shows on their schedule in the coming months, including this weekend's show featuri...

Back to Work Lots of great shows scheduled in Asbury Park for the coming weeks and months. One that comes at just the right time for me --...

Music from the Garden State The family and I are preparing to drive to Richmond, VA tomorrow so that CoolDaughter #1 can participate in ...

Sunday Night Music There was a great bill at Asbury Lanes last night featuring Mississippi's The Weeks along with locals The Black Jes...

First Album Review Here in a While How do you like your punk? It comes in so many forms that the term "punk" itself is kind of...

Keep Supporting Live Music in NJ Tears at a Condo Fucks show. Five encores from The Feelies. The entire club on the stage with The Everyme...

Our Careless Lifestyle, It Was Not So Unwise I've mentioned before that CoolDaughter #1 swims competitively. This past weekend (act...

And I Can't Unsee It The Shock Mommies played their first show in nine years -- and their last show ever -- on Saturday night at The B...

"Locked in a Cage" Things are happening for Toms River's bass / drum / electronic duo of Brick + Mortar. The pair of Brandon...

Click, Click, Click and the Moment's Gone Last night was my last scheduled trip to Maxwell's (I showed amazing restraint when t...