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Makin Waves Top 10 Jersey Indie Albums
by Bob Makin
published 2024-12-22

Here are the top 10 albums by New Jersey indie artists for 2024, according to Makin Waves.




 

WBGO presents the return of the All That Jazz series to the Hamilton Stage with smooth jazz musicians Brian Simpson and Jackiem Joyner

(RAHWAY, NJ) -- WBGO presents the return of the All That Jazz series to the Hamilton Stage at Union County Performing Arts Center. This is a unique concert series showcasing some of the genre's most talented and respected performers via a partnership between UCPAC and Smooth Jazz NJ. On Friday, January 17, 2025, the series features smooth jazz musicians Brian Simpson and Jackiem Joyner. Showtime is 8:00pm.



Makin Waves Dirty Jersey Dozen

by Bob Makin
published 2024-12-21

​​​​​​​Each year, Makin Waves picks the 12 independent New Jersey bands who made the most waves. That means extensive touring in support of a new LP or EP, preferably internationally; professional quality narrative videos; singles that garnered broadcast and online radio play (since Spotify rips artists off, I don't really care about streams); national press, and other awards. Note that the Dirty Jersey Dozen are presented in alphabetical order. To get a sense of pecking order, please check out the 26th Annual Makin Waves Awards, as well as the Makin Waves Top 10 Jersey Indie Albums and Makin Waves Top 10 Jersey Indie Songs.



26th Annual Makin Waves Awards

by Bob Makin
published 2024-12-20

​​​​​​​Makin Waves' annual holiday gift to the New Jersey music scene turns 26 this year with a bevy of goodness, particularly for top winners Jackson Pines, Rachel Ana Dobken, and Emerson Woolf, who each won two. And here we go...



State Theatre New Jersey presents Freestyle Flashback

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- State Theatre New Jersey and Fever Records present Freestyle Flashback 2025, featuring freestyle artists from the '80s and '90s on Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 8:00pm.





Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...12/19/24

by Danny Coleman
published 2024-12-19

They come from all walks of life and music genres but the most important thing is; they've come together to form a Blues band that is original, solid and different from the rest and what makes them so unique is a combination of experience and backgrounds.



Xian Zhang to conduct Holst's 'The Planets' with New Jersey Symphony in New Brunswick, Newark, and Morristown

(NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Symphony presents Holst's The Planets—An HD Odyssey with Music Director Xian Zhang conducting. Four performances will take place from January 30 through February 2, 2025 in New Brunswick, Newark, and Morristown.



Lizzie Rose Music Room presents The Rachel Z Trio featuring Omar Hakim on February 8th

(TUCKERTON, NJ) -- Lizzie Rose Music Room presents The Rachel Z Trio featuring Omar Hakim on Saturday, February 8, 2025. Rachel Z is a keyboardist with a long history of award-winning performances in the worlds of jazz and rock. Omar Hakim is widely known as a rock and pop, jazz and jazz fusion drummer / producer / composer and arranger. Doors are at 7:00pm, showtime is 7:30pm.



Makin Waves Song of the Year: "My God" by James Mastro

by Bob Makin
published 2024-12-18

The poignant, engaging "My God" not only sets the tone of Hoboken legend James Mastro's long-awaited solo debut LP, "Dawn of a New Error," it also is the Makin Waves Song of the Year.



Mandy Gonzalez is "Home for the Holidays" LIVE! at SOPAC

by Spotlight Central
published 2024-12-18

Musical theater fans inside South Orange, NJ's SOPAC auditorium this Sunday, December 8, 2024 evening ready themselves for a Home for the Holidays performance by Broadway star and South Orange resident, Mandy Gonzalez.


 

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