PHOTOS from The Disco Biscuits at Count Basie Center for the Arts

(RED BANK, NJ) -- The Disco Biscuits performed at Count Basie Center for the Arts on June 15, 2023 and photographer Chris Paul was there to cover the show. The band originally formed as a Phish cover band at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1995.

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The Boxmasters Rock New Jersey

You may know Billy Bob Thornton as an Oscar-winning writer, Oscar-nominated actor, and award-winning director, or maybe you simply know him as "Bad Santa,” but did you know he is also an accomplished singer and songwriter?

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North Jersey Blues Society Seeks to Bring Blues Music Back to the Community

Blues music is an American standard genre dating back decades to the 1890s. Tradition has kept up as many blues artists still have careers today that began many years ago. However, in some areas, blues has not been preserved as well as others. One of those areas is Northern New Jersey, where a new organization strives to put this once-widely regarded genre back into the cities and towns of Morris and other northern counties. This organization is the North Jersey Blues Society, and since its founding in winter 2022, has hosted many events within the North Jersey community seeking to spread awareness of the genre.

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Makin Waves with The Successful Failures: 'Chemistry that Worked Right'

It's very rare that a local musician can run his own label for more than 30 years, but that Mick Chorba has done so as the founder of two successful local bands is something I don't believe I've seen elsewhere in 43 years of writing about the New Jersey music scene and 35 years producing Makin Waves!

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Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Bummer" by the dt's

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Bummer," the latest single from the Central Jersey band the dt's.

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Shemekia Copeland to Perform Two Nights at Lizzie Rose Music Room

(TUCKERTON, NJ) -- Award-winning vocalist Shemekia Copeland will give two live performances at the Lizzie Rose Music Room in Tuckerton on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6, 2026. Copeland possesses one of the most instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music voices of our time. She will have a different supporting act each night.

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Dirty Deeds - The AC/DC Experience returns to The Newton Theatre on October 24th

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State Theatre New Jersey presents The Temptations & The Four Tops

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The Love of Soul Tour comes to Prudential Center on May 22nd

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Wharton Arts Launches 2026–27 Season Under New President & CEO Carol Chickering Burden