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Registration is Open for NJPAC's TD JAZZ FOR TEENS 2025-26 Education Program

(NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the state's anchor cultural institution, celebrates 28 years of offering thousands of high schoolers from Newark and beyond music lessons and performance experiences through its popular TD Jazz for Teens program.

 
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Stevie Van Zandt to present Lifetime Achievement in Music Award to Darlene Love at Monmouth Arts' POP! A Night at the Lanes

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Monmouth Arts is thrilled to announce that Stevie Van Zandt (Little Steven), musician, actor, producer, and longtime creative collaborator with Darlene Love, will present her with the Lifetime Achievement in Music Award at the POP! A Night at the Lanes gala fundraiser on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at the Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park, NJ.

Brian Dunne releases "Max's Kansas City"

NYC-based singer-songwriter Brian Dunne shares "Max's Kansas City," a stream-of-consciousness track about the unseriousness of a serious world. The song comes just before releasing his new album Clams Casino gets released on September 5, 2025 on Missing Piece Records.

John Oates Releases "Oates" – A Groovy + Soul-Infused Return

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, and multiple-time GRAMMY nominee John Oates released Oates— his long-awaited new solo album — on August 29, 2025. The self-titled LP marks a return to the soulful, groove-driven sound that helped define a generation, while introducing a vibrant new chapter in one of music’s most celebrated careers.

United Methodist Communities Foundation Sponsors Free Concert Series at PNC Bank Arts Center

(HOLMDEL, NJ) /PRNewswire/ -- United Methodist Communities Foundation (UMCF) is the Presenting Sponsor of the Garden State Arts Foundation's Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Concert Series at the PNC Bank Arts Center.



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COLUMNS


Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Big Trucks Win" by Chris Vincent

The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Big Trucks Win," the latest single from Jersey-raised, New Orleans-based blues-rocker Chris Vincent.




Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...11/27/25




This Week in Music: Previews for Concerts from November 25 to December 1, 2025




Makin Waves Song of the Week: "Hope" by REDBIRD Flying Solo






 

MORE NEWS

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Princeton Folk Music Society, celebrating its 60th anniversary, presents a double feature on folk music history, with an emphasis on New Jersey on Friday, December 12, 2025 at Christ Congregation Church. The program opens with a presentation by Michael Gabriele, the author of New Jersey Folk Revival Music: History & Tradition (Arcadia Publishing, 2016). New Jersey-based folk musician and Pete Seeger collaborator Spook Handy follows up with a concert in the second half. Showtime is 8:00pm.


Country Artist Jessica Lynn brings her "A Very Merry Classic Christmas" to New Jersey




An Interview with Singer-Songwriter Tim Easton




Neon Nostalgic Presents 80's Music Television at State Theatre




The Vogel presents LaBamba's Holiday Hurrah






 

UPCOMING SHOWS


Broadway Theatre of Pitman presents The Bronx Wanderers

(PITMAN, NJ) -- The Bronx Wanderers return to the Broadway Theatre of Pitman November 28-30, 2025 with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm.


Remembering Frank Sinatra: A Swellegant Celebration to Take Place in Avon




Human Nature presents "CHRISTMAS. MOTOWN. And MORE" at Golden Nugget Atlantic City




Split Level Concerts presents Tim Easton and Quincy Mumford at Jersey Shore Arts Center






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