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“Down Payment Blues” by Cavalier Rose NewYork’s True Love was pretty damn eerie as well. Singer Ray Kubian is damn good, almost too good as he grinds out his throat full of crushed glass. This tune blows out good hard rock countermeasures and WED 7/1 throws you far enough into the PUNK NITE! Powerage zone to satisfy fans w/ The Klix • Neglected Youth of raucous vox and dirty good Nondenoms • Death or Glory ALL AGES./ 8pm doors./ $7 cover guitar work. The Now Voyagers kicked a cool off tempo modulator that THUR 7/2 Cavalier Rose— their cut off country cool with DARIA CALI'S 21ST BIRTHDAY SPECTACULAR also saw vocalist Heather LIVE! The nuances of ole’ Waylon and W/ NO COVER, $3 HOUSE LIQUOR DRINKS & SHOTS Christian break out her weird Delancey—NYC— Kristofferson. This is what this & MUCH MORE 8PM DOORS. /18+ little microphone and spook the June 17 type of record really means, audience with her eerie FRI 7/3 interpretations of the originals The Germs I’ve been hearing a lot of good gramophone-toned vocal. with some of your own DNA left The Krum Bums • Psyched to Die about this next band since they Bassist and co-founder Chase on the track. Gritty and raw, ALL AGES til midnight. /8pm doors./ $13 adv,/ $16 door released their EP, Primary McGowan is no nonsense and “Gimme A bullet” rumbles. Colors, a few months back so steady, laying down ominous SAT 7/4 PorroY Los BoBos cranks out after weighing the seductive jazz styled lines like the playing "OH, SAY CAN YOU SCREEN" the riff-laden monster “Riff Raff” SCREEN PRINT ART SHOW OPENING & DANCE PARTY offer of not having to drive into on “Sparrow,” a cut that’s also like a step back into 1978 with W/ DJ JACK THE RIPPER & SWEET SWEEDERSEN the city and unlimited sips of on the EP. DRINK SPECIALS & MORE the sound of Les Pauls and flasked whiskey, I jumped in the This is a young band with a 8PM DOORS./ 18+. /$5 COVER Marshall’s melting tubes. Other Upcoming Lanes shows... car and headed to The Delancey. very bright future. Melding Located right on 160 Delancey highlights were “What’s Next To 7.08.09- PUNK NITE! w/ Post No Bills, The Hand Me Downs, The O>Matics, Tea and Whiskey 7.09.09- Sakes imaginative composition ideas Alive, One Win Choice, Break Even, Black Wine 7.10.09- The Brixton Riot, The Anderson Council, & The The Moon” from New Jerseys Street The East Side bar boasts with individual talent and big Campbell Apartment 7.11.09- Inspector 7, Step2Far, The Obvious, & special guests TBA 7.12.09- own Frankenstein featuring the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Charity Event w/ May Lane & Jeff Pilgrim 7.15.09- PUNK NITE! w/ a cool mixture of rooftop palm presence, Cavalier Rose is a Legitimate Business (Record Release Party), Barnaby Jones, Team Havok, No Risk 7.16.09- Wreckless guitar attacks of Roth and Tafarro Eric & Amy Rigby, String Bean & the Stalkers 7.18.09- Burlesque Night w/ Peek-a-boo Revue 7.19.09- tree hipsters and rock and roll standout group from a city that’s and the rock steady rhythms of Psyched to Die RECORD RELEASE PARTY 7.21.09- The Briggs, Left Alone, & TBA 7.24.09- UNDERDOG, Cold basement dwellers. The staff is gaining worldwide attention in World, Get Real, My Turn to Win 7.25.09- UNDERDOG, Cutlas, Soup Sandwich, Rusted Destruction cool and the drink prices are Gascoyne and Hoagland. It 7.29.09-PUNK NITE! w/ Such Gold, The Great Explainer, Racing Exit 13 8.05.09- PUNK Country HELL NITE! w/ the industry. Their newEP, Scott H Biram, Snake Sustaine, Percocettes 9.02.09- PUNK NITE! w/ Joe Jack Talcum, The Bassturd, doesn’t get much more closer reasonable. Multi floors and low Primary Colors is available for Samuel Locke Ward, & TBA 9.18.09- Youth Brigade, Off With Their Heads, & local TBA to the beast than that. light ambience makes it one of free as a download at their Shawn Mars (Mars Need the top hotspots in NewYork. website. Go check them out over [email protected] Women) lays down a great 18+ w/ ID (unless otherwise noted) Cavalier Rose hails from the at myspace.com/cavalierrose. ultra hipster city of Brooklyn, but version of “Gone Shootin” they are nothing like the generic Main Man’s Tribute reminding me that this guy is a label. Down home friendly, they fairly underrated guitarist (see Live appeal on a wide rock and roll To AC/DC— what happens when you’re the level with their smoky slant on Powerage lead singer) laying down bluesy experimental and blues tinge It’s a bird! it’s a plane! Oh shit! vamps ala Tommy Bolin. He Nation alternative. It’s a pterodactyl and it’s flying doesn’t list the band but whoever The vocal talents of Heather right over my head! The Main they are, they’re seasoned Christian are the front focus here Man Records tribute crew is players. as she moved from microphone back with a CD full of rock and Spin Doctors axe man center to piano, blending the roll damnation and all the way Anthony Krizan, as well as Meat uneasy grace of Beth Gibbons up to their necks in Sin City. Loaf backing vocalist C.C. (Portishead) with the lush vibe Eleven tracks from some Colletti, submitted a smoking of Morcheeba’s Skye Edwards, Jersey’s best down and raunchy interpretation of “Sin City” full and the 1930’s spookiness of rockers, all taking a shot at the of golden sounded Gibson’s and Billy Holiday. Her voice catches Wily Aussie’s fifth studio release old school flavor, showing a you off guard perfectly, like a from 1978. And while there is different side of the “Pocket Full haunted old record player a myriad of angst ridden AC/DC Of Kryptonite” kid as CC Colletti crackling away in some dusty out there to choose from, just lays it down in the rusty vein 7@7 gin parlor. She actually got her those Main Man guys picked of Joan Jett and Janis Joplin. start singing in her father’s blues this latest work out of the tar pits Dennis Dunaway (Alice group when she was a kid, and and resurrected the dinosaurs Cooper) and Dimma track, “It’s she brings that Mississippi with their usual sci-fi flair, pulling A Long Way To The Top” (yeah backwater rasp to life with this in a few cool names along the it wasn’t on the original band in a good way. way. but as Main Man says, “When Co-founder and guitarist Gibbs Track number one features Dennis Dunaway wants to do a Drinon showcased some gritty The Easy Outs with Bruce song, you jump at the chance.”) blues-based prowess on tunes Ferguson (Trench) and Los Featuring lead vocals by like the title track for their new Angeles transplant Bobby (the Icelander Hjalti Omar (Dimma) EP Primary Colors , answering K) Kennedy, guitarist for The I can hear the vintage amps Christian’s growl with Chronic Sick, as well as several cookin’ from brothers Ingo & Silli Stratocaster-fueled fire and old other West Coast debutantes, Geirdal on this one. There’s more school Buddy Guy tone. with their dead ahead version on here but were out of space. Cavalier Rose also features of “Rock And Roll Damnation.” If you’re a fan of those good New Jersey drummer Sarah These self confessed “tea lovers” ole’ days of rock and roll and Tomek, one of the best play sonic rock and roll earned you cant get squeeze enough Every Mon. drummers I know and definitely with years of hard livin’ AC/DC out of your parents’ Open Mic - Free a musician that leads from the experience and it doesn’t get basement, then go get this disc Fri. July 3rd • $8 back, swinging the group into better than that. Guitars, now. Check the site for various St. Sat B • West End Redemption complex signature changes on Marlboro Reds and Marshall performances and purchase Sat. July 4th • $8 tunes like “Kiss Me In Closets,” amps equal good times. info. mainmanrecords.com . The Sex Zombies 121 Brighton Ave, Long Branch, NJ 732-229-9676 myspace.com/thebrightonbar

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