Consider it a confluence of cool: Downtown Jersey City’s premier promoter putting together a show with five outstanding bands, at the town’s most inviting venue, with food from the city’s hippest bar, all to benefit one of the area’s most deserving causes. Now that’s the way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Nestled on an industrial side street a few hundred yards from the stately Brennan Courthouse, Pearl Studios has long been a sanctuary for rock bands in need of a place to practice. Recently, it’s started renting out its largest studio — which has been outfitted with a stage, lighting, and concert sound equipment — so bands can put on their own shows.
Music, bowling, booze, and good vibes: that’s a recipe for a perfect Saturday night, and when it all helps raise money for two important neighborhood initiatives, it’s easy to see why such an eclectic and excited crowd turned out for the Art Strike benefit at Jersey City’s historic Barrow Mansion on Saturday.
Share/Save Photos: James Damion They used to call themselves “The Hard Luck 5,” but Rye Coalition looked like five – make that six – of the luckiest guys to ever crawl out of basement and start a band as they reunited at a sold out show at Maxwell’s on Saturday, February 19. As lead singer [...]
Rye Coalition — Jersey City’s own bare-knuckled post-punk rock ‘n’ roll combo — will reunite for a show this weekend at Maxwell’s, but not for any of the usual reasons. None of the band’s albums are being reissued, there’s no special anniversary coming up, and no one’s looking for a big pay day to cash in on ‘90s nostalgia. Rye Coalition is getting back together for a birthday wish.
Jingle bells might have been in short supply but around 200 merrymakers still decked the halls for a good cause on Saturday, as the Jersey City Food Co-Op held a fundraising event with bands, beer and bowling at the historic Barrow Mansion in Downtown Jersey City. The event raised over $4,300 for the co-op and collected 75 pounds of canned goods for the food pantry at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church.
Punk bands have been blasting away in sweaty basements and greasy garages since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll, but Laura Foord’s house shows are a bit different. She’s been inviting friends and acquaintances — primarily baby boomers like herself, who saw their first concerts back in the ’60s — to enjoy folk and acoustic acts at leisurely, elegant afternoon socials.
Share/Save Host and organizer Tony Susco introduces a band MORE PHOTOS: About 500 people attended Saturday’s Ghosts of Uncle Joe’s concert and fundraiser at the Historic Jersey City & Harsimus Cemetery, raising $4,000 for the continued restoration of the historic resting place. The costumed revelers in attendance heard local musicians impersonate REM, Neutral Milk Hotel, [...]
Is the Jersey City live music scene dead? Given the hard times many have faced putting together a viable venue in recent years, one might be inclined to think that’s the case. It’s ironic, then, that the two biggest music shows of the month are taking place at a centuries-old cemetery whose occupants include veterans of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
New Brunswick may have the reputation as the mecca of the New Jersey basement show, but Jersey City has its own underground history, which continues today a few blocks from Journal Square in a venue known as The Barracks, where insanely original folk-punk acts yowl in the basement and nobody seems to mind.
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