New Jersey

PREMIERE: Jewels Gold shares live performance of ‘Royalty/Life is Meant to Be Lived’ to celebrate debut EP release
Sometimes, the true test of an artist’s abilities is when they have to prove themselves as a performer, and we’re of the opinion that New Jersey’s Jewels Gold has got what it takes. Evidently, so does she: Gold sat on her debut EP for close to a year until shooting live videos for the whole …

PREMIERE: New Jersey’s Rubber Band Gun wrestles with self-doubt on propulsive new single ‘Like That’
Self-doubt can be a real struggle sometimes; prolific New Jersey artist Rubber Band Gun knows that more than most – you don’t release 25 albums in a single year on a whim, as he did in 2019. Kevin Basko’s been at the helm of this project for a while, and he announced a new Rubber …

PREMIERE: New Jersey’s Cold Weather Company share the snappy ‘Movement’ from forthcoming new record ‘Coalescence’
We premiered the lead single from New Jersey trio Cold Weather Company‘s new record toward the end of June, to head up the release of their Coalescence, Pt. 1 primer EP, and are equally pleased to premiere the next cut from it; and we mean ‘cut’ in the most literal sense. A self-contained track in …

PREMIERE: Rubber Band Gun puts it all on black in video for freewheeling new track ‘My Time’, announces new album for November
If you know New Jersey workhorse Kevin Basko, then you know he doesn’t do things by halves. He’s spent much of the previous decade as the main creative force behind Rubber Band Gun, and put out a fully-fledged album pretty much fortnightly under this name in 2019. All 25 of those records are on his …

Premiere: Cold Weather Company announce new album ‘Coalescence’ and unveil ‘Golden Hour’ video
Last heard from in 2019 with the release of their third album Find Light, New Jersey indie trio Cold Weather Company return today with ‘Golden Hour’. We’re premiering the video for the lead track from their Coalescence, Pt. 1 EP, which is due out tomorrow. You can have a look and listen to that below. …

Album Review: Screaming Females – All At Once
Screaming Females are back. For those unaware of the band, they are a three-piece independent rock/punk band from New Jersey. Made up of Marissa Paternoster (vocals + guitar), Mike Abbate (bass) and Jarrett Dougherty (drums), their new album All At Once is out February 23rd on Don Giovanni Records. Their previous album Rose Mountain was …

See: Bitter’s Kiss reveal new video for My God
“My God is my reaction to the irony in religious conflict” says New Jersey singer-songwriter Bitter’s Kiss, aka Chloe Baker of her new single, “Religious beliefs are most often promoted as ways to make us better people, but can also be used to justify violence against others, with both sides believing that God is on …

See: Nadus reveals new video for NXWXRK
Nadus, the Newark, New Jersey producer has announced an expanded Deluxe Edition of his Broke City EP, out on October 16th via Plican Fly / Thread / Moodswing / RPM MSC. It features the five tracks from the original EP, with the addition of five new remixes from DJ Sliink, Gutta, Samename & Richelle, and …

Track: Hey Anna – Island
New Jersey / Brooklyn based quintet Hey Anna, aka sisters Anna (vocals), Erin (guitar) and Katie Rauch-Sassen (keyboard), along with Matthew Langner and Jamie DiTringo, are preparing for the release of their new long-player Run KoKo later on in the year, and have released a single, Island, as something of a teaser of whats to …

Track: Ahmen – Headphones
If its escapism your looking for this Monday morning, yu might not need to go any further than Ahmen. The New Jersey based rapper, the son of Sri Lankan immigrants, has a new single Headphones which deals with such issues. As Ahmen himself explains “Far too often, our potential is limited by society’s pressures: generational …