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Yesterday Bamboozle announced new additions to the 3 day music fest lineup including Jimmy Eat World, the All-American Rejects, Mike Posner, Never Shout Never, The Maine, The Bouncing Souls, DJ Pauly D., and more. Bamboozle 2012 is May 18 to the 20th on the beach in Asbury Park, NJ. 3 Day passes are on sale now and single day passes are available beginning Saturday January 21st at 10am. Here is the lineup by day - we will keep you posted on any chances: MAY 18 Skrillex Incubus [...]

The Bamboozle Festival has gotten a reputation of being a teenagers dream concert over the past 3-4 years. The New Jersey, 3-day festival started back in 2003 in Asbury Park , but relocated to Giants Stadium in 2006. That was the only year I got to attend and it was a solid lineup that included Taking Back Sunday, AFI, H.I.M., Method Man, Fall Out Boy, and a bunch of other bands that I was stoked about at the time. Since, it has grown even larger in terms of the number of acts to perform, even adding a West Coast [...]

This morning the Asbury Park Press officially confirmed the rumors that Bamboozle will return to it's birth place of Asbury Park, NJ in 2012. The headliners for the 10th Anniversary of the Bamboozle Festival will be New Jersey's own Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, and Blink 182! The 3 day festival will kick off on Friday, May 18th and end on Sunday, May 20th. Three Day Passes and VIP Packages Are On Sale Saturday, December 17th, 2011 At 10AM thru TheBamboozle.com , All Ticketmaster Outlets or in Asbury Park at The Stone Pony and [...]

The NJ powerhouse The Gaslight Anthem did a show on the Jersey shore Friday, at Convention Hall in Asbury Park. If you've never been, Convention Hall is on the boardwalk, next to a Howard Johnsons foncy ponts supper club, and is probably as big as your grammar school auditorium with better acoustics. A show there in and of itself would be something. But the boys went one better and, as a holiday gift to fans, brought that other NJ powerhouse up to join them, the one whose Christmas shows at Convention Hall are shows of legend, [...]

Bruce Springsteen hops onstage with hometown boys The Gaslight Anthem last night in Asbury Park to perform "American Slang," the title track from the band's latest excellent effort. The Gaslight Anthem Official Website

Birthwater // Wet Water I really wish I had known that this Birthwater album came out this past summer because the sound that they capture here perfectly encapsulates the feeling of hot, lazy afternoons spent inner tubing down a meandering river. Listening to it I should have guessed that these guys are from New Jersey because their sound is delightfully reminiscent of the Underwater Peoples crew. I definitely feel some Real Estate / Family Portrait /Julian Lynch vibes going on in [...]

It seems as if The Bamboozle Festival will make its return to Asbury Park.

The 19th Annual Asbury Music Awards Presented by The Saint, Home of Live Original Music and The Asbury Music Company in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA will be held Sunday, November 13th at The Stone Pony. FREE admission for ALL 2011 Nominees. A GALA NIGHT of Celebration & Music & A Long Held Tradition for our Music Community, HOSTED this year by 90.5 THE NIGHTs DJ JEFF RASPE, Music Wizard & Host on WBJB-FM Brookdale Public Radio, 90.5 The NIGHT. FEAT. 25 Awards Presentations and LIVE Musical Performances By: MATT O'REE BAND, NO WINE FOR KITTENS, ONLY [...]

Filed under: News Kristian Dowling, Getty Images Last night (Oct. 28), as temperatures continued to dip toward freezing along the New Jersey coastline, things were just heating up in legendary Asbury Park. Hordes of fans aged 18 to 40 -- some already dressed for Halloween -- filled the Wonder Bar and celebrated the one time you could hold a "Pixie Party" without being in danger of receiving any curious stares. The occasion: Equally legendary Boston-born alt-rock pioneers the [...]

The New Brunswick group hit Asbury Park's Convention Hall this December.

[Photo by Jason Persse . Used with permission] The final day of this year's ATP "I'll Be Your Mirror" festival in Asbury Park, NJ found the festival split between a hip-hop dominated Convention Hall (Ultramagnetic MCs and Public Enemy), and the Paramount Theatre across the concourse hosting (along with Jeff Mangum's second set of the weekend) some incredible post-rock performances, including Earth (which we posted recently ) and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra . SMZ (to use the favored shorthand) were the final act that I saw at the festival, and [...]

The New Brunswick group hit Asbury Park's Convention Hall this December.

Editor's Note: There are no pictures of Mangum's performance in this concert review, for two reasons. First, the helpful concert staff threatened confiscation of cell phones or cameras if any shots were taken. Secondly, as I'll hopefully assert in this review, pictures from this show would do an excellent job of watering down the overall experience, putting an inaccurate visual stamp on one of the best two hour spans of my life. A realist painter could not have stroked oil to canvas as beautifully [...]

• Jeff Mangum - Two-Headed Boy

Photo by Christopher Alvarez As an aging, seasoned festival veteran that has become increasingly alienated from and disillusioned with current trends among festivals and popular music in general, the first American installment of I'll Be Your Mirror from All Tomorrow's Parties came as a refreshing change of pace. Corporate sponsorship was nonexistent, and a chiefly older crowd made for a mature, respectfully enthusiastic vibe. I'll Be Your Mirror's lineup focused less on ubiquitous buzz bands and fashionable DJs and more on the esoteric. Performers were generally cult acts or total obscurities that forged their own left-of-center [...]

While it may have been disappointment to some fans, The Horrors' new album Skying certainly took on an entirely new meaning for me after hearing several of its' songs performed live in San Diego several weeks ago. Having never seen the band before, I expected sort of a gloomy, meandering performance, and while it was definitely gloomy, there wasn't a brief second throughout the show that I wasn't absolutely intrigued. Faris Badwan provided probably the least amount of banter I've ever heard from a lead singer, instead opting to let the music speak for itself and that it [...]

The ATP I'll Be Your Mirror Festival featured venues as diverse as the artists who played at them.

It's been a little over 10 years since I first heard Neutral Milk Hotel 's In the Aeroplane over the Sea and it changed my life . It's been over 13 years since the album was originally released on Merge Records, the second album by the band following 1996's On Avery Island . And it's been well over a decade since Jeff Mangum had a self-admitted breakdown after touring extensively between 1999 and 2000 and basically abandoned music completely. So it was with great anticipation that I went to see the creator of the masterpiece [...]

• Neutral Milk Hotel - Naomi
• Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2 (live)

Check out photos from the 3-day Portishead-curated festival.

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin Bonnie 'Prince' Billy For those who experienced and loved ATP America's festivals in Monticello, NY, it may have been difficult to imagine how a change of location, from upstate New York to the New Jersey shore, could possibly improve and enhance the unique and uncanny event that it was known to be. Well, it has. Friday afternoon the fans, followers and leaders of All Tomorrow's Parties arrived in Asbury Park, NY, [...]

* From the first notes I heard of The Album Leaf, it was clear that All Tomorrow's Parties would be offering something rare compared to other music festivals - Supreme sound. Both the Paramount Theatre, a space similar to Cleveland's Agora, where The Album Leaf played at 5:30 on Friday and the adjoining Asbury Park Convention Hall, equal parts ornate and dumpy, comparable to Cleveland's Public Hall, provided crisp, clear and robust sound. Personally, I preferred taking in The Album Leaf's set from the second floor patio where their orchestral pop provided a fitting soundtrack to the exquisite views of [...]