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An Interview with Please Be Careful about their debut album, "Hot Surface"

by Gary Wien - published 2025-11-24
New Jersey Stage regularly receives emails about new albums and bands that defy categorization. Everyone wants to believe they are doing something revolutionary, but generally those are just words designed for marketing a band. A new quartet from North Jersey called Please Be Careful has just released an instrumental record that is actually rather difficult to put in a box. Is it jazz? Experimental? Indie rock? Some parts sound a bit like punk, others have a dash of dark wave or electronic.

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Pop-Punk Trailblazers The Starting Line releases third single from Upcoming Album

(NEW YORK, NY) -- Pop-punk trailblazers The Starting Line return with the release of Eternal Youth, the band's first full-length album in 18 years, available now via their newly launched label, Lineage Recordings. With all original members still intact since their 1999 formation, the record arrives as both a long-awaited comeback and a bold statement of determination, reaffirming the band's position as trailblazers in the genre.

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Please Be Careful releases Debut Album

Please Be Careful is a North Jersey-based instrumental experimental indie rock band formed by longtime collaborators Neil Sabatino (Fairmont, Mint 400 Records Founder) and Christian Kisala (Fairmont, The Bitter Chills). Their first album, Hot Surface, drops on November 28, 2025.

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Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin LIVE! at MPAC

by Spotlight Central - published 2025-11-23
Spotlight Central and Love Imagery have photos and a recap of Marc Cohn and Shawn Colvin at Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) on November 13, 2025.

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Light Of Day Winterfest 2026 to Take Place in Asbury Park, Red Bank, Montclair, NYC, Piermont NY, and New Hope PA

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- The Light of Day Foundation has announced the initial lineups for WinterFest 2026, the annual music festival taking place throughout January in Asbury Park, Red Bank, Montclair, New York City, Piermont, NY and New Hope, PA. The main event - "Bob's Birthday Bash" will take place on Saturday, January 17 at the Count Basie Center for the Arts.

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Bobby Mahoney releases "Smoke and Drive"

(ASBURY PARK, NJ) -- Bobby Mahoney returns with a new single, "Smoke and Drive," paired with a cover of Social Distortion's "Machine Gun Blues." The release finds the Asbury Park songwriter and his band channeling nostalgia, grit, and heart through a rock-and-roll lens that's both timeless and unmistakably Jersey.

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

by Bob Makin - published 2025-11-21
The Makin Waves Song of the Week is "Hope," an anthemic single that fights hate released by REDBIRD Flying Solo, aka Jersey Shore singer-songwriter Danielle Marrone.

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Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites...11/20/25

by Danny Coleman - published 2025-11-20
"I definitely should've changed my name to a showbiz name years ago but it's a little too late for that," laughed guitarist Bruce Wojik as he discussed his latest album called, "The Hard Way," his band The Struggle and more. "Yeah, it came out on October 3 and I'm really excited about it. I'm hoping people will enjoy it, which would be nice but yeah, I'm just excited about it and glad to have it out."

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The 80's New Wave tour Totally Tubular Festival comes to Ocean Casino Resort

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- The 80's New Wave tour Totally Tubular Festival has four East Coast shows to close out 2025, including a stop at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City on Saturday, December 27th with a lineup that includes A Flock Of Seagulls, Men Without Hats, Thomas Dolby, The Romantics, Bow Wow Wow, and Tommy Tutone.

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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.

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