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Live Review: Radio Moscow and The Dirty Streets in Jersey, 07.16.12
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of shows at Long Branch’s Brighton Bar: Late shows and really late shows. The club has for a long time now famously supported its local scene, and that’s great,...
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Live Review: Halfway to Gone in Jersey, 07.21.12
There are some bands who seeing them on stage at the Brighton Bar is like seeing an animal in its natural habitat, and Halfway to Gone is one of them. Originally, the newly formed Electrikill was set...
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The Atomic Bitchwax Announce Full US Tour with Mos Generator and Against the...
Some shows are a no-brainer, and if NJ riff-winders The Atomic Bitchwax are coming through your town with Mos Generator and/or Against the Grain on the bill, that’s pretty much a night you can mark...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: The Atomic Bitchwax, 3
The Atomic Bitchwax, 3 (2005) I guess after closing out last week with Truckfighters, my head got to thinking about heavy rock from that same year and that same era in general. A decade isn’t an...
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Monster Magnet to Release Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux) Oct. 9
When the planes fall from the sky, we’ll understand. Or probably not. Either way, as they approach a quarter-century from the release of their first album, New Jersey’s Monster Magnet continue to...
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The Atomic Bitchwax Post New Video for “No Way Man”
Having a rough afternoon? Perhaps you’re dug deep into the usual post-weekend every-decision-I’ve-ever-made-is-wrong blues? Well, The Atomic Bitchwax are here for you. The winding NJ heavy rock power...
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Monster Magnet Interview with Dave Wyndorf: “An Interesting World”
I had been looking forward all week to talking to Monster Magnet‘s Dave Wyndorf for the simple reason that, of anyone you might talk to on any given day, chances are he’s the guy who’s going to have...
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Monster Magnet, Cobras and Fire: The Best Hallucinations
Cobras and Fire is the second Monster Magnet release of its kind. In 2014, the stalwart New Jersey outfit, very much led by frontman Dave Wyndorf, issued Milking the Stars (review here), a collection...
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The Atomic Bitchwax Winter European Tour Announced
New Jersey’s finest riffspinners The Atomic Bitchwax will head north for the coming winter. Northern Europe, anyway. Later this month, the perennial kickers of ass will fly over for a round of shows...
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The Atomic Bitchwax Premiere “It’s Alright” Video
It’s been a busy year for New Jersey’s primo twisters of riff The Atomic Bitchwax. In addition to releasing their sixth full-length, Gravitron (review here), on Tee Pee Records, the Garden State trio...
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The Atomic Bitchwax Post Video for “Ice Age”
True, The Atomic Bitchwax‘s sixth album, 2015’s Gravitron (review here), hit really hard. A lot of it was all-out, full-on, other-hyphenated-phrases-that-mean-really-fast winding riffage, the New...
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The Atomic Bitchwax, Lo-Pan & The Dirty Streets Announce Coast-to-Coast Tour
A couple months ago, while out on a run with The Obsessed and Karma to Burn — Tone Deaf is killing it with the package tours this year — bassist/vocalist Chris Kosnik of The Atomic Bitchwax sustained...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Core, Revival
Core, Revival (1996) Released some 20 years ago, Core‘s debut, Revival, is one of a whole league of records from its time and its place begging for a reissue. The mid-’90s were a strange time. I mean...
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Six Sigma Unveil Preorders and Cover Art for Tuxedo Brown
It’s pretty rare an album can legitimately claim to be 15 years in the making, but Six Sigma‘s Tuxedo Brown is now available to preorder after beginning its life in 2001. The New Jersey-based heavy...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Solace, 13
Solace, 13 (2003) None more Jersey. With the not-always-underlying current of hardcore punk in their sound, their ‘Die Drunk’ mantra, the sheer force of their delivery, and the absolute dogshit luck...
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The Atomic Bitchwax Announce South American Tour
Whatever else you can say about long-running New Jersey heavy rockers The Atomic Bitchwax — great band, nice guys, one of the most powerful power trios in heavy rock, tight-as-hell live act, going on...
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The Obelisk Radio Adds: Evil Acidhead, Gypsy Sun Revival, Albinö Rhino,...
My going motto for this site, which basically I repeat to myself like a mantra, is to do as much as I can when I can. Obviously that fluctuates, and I think that’s a good thing on many levels, but...
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Six Sigma, Tuxedo Brown: Long Time Coming
As part of the long-established New Jersey Shore region’s heavy rock underground centered around acts like Solace, The Atomic Bitchwax, Halfway to Gone and a slew of others in the post-Monster Magnet...
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Six Dumb Questions with Six Sigma
One imagines that, to a band coming back after a 15-year absence, there are few words as gratifying as ‘Funded.’ New Jersey trio Six Sigma, who entered the fray of a busy post-Monster Magnet scene in...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Halfway to Gone, Second Season
Halfway to Gone, Second Season (2002) A full 15 years since Halfway to Gone put out Second Season? Just over, actually. The sophomore full-length from the New Jersey outfit arrived in March 2002 via...
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