Reviews & Newsletters Newsletter 2/28/12 Newsletter 2/21/12 San Cisco - "awkward" Album Profile by Ira Rinn Newsletter 2/14/12 The Cryptkeeper Five - "the unbeatable cry" Album Profile by Jay Ingstrup double-breasted - "suit yourself" Album Profile by Jay Ingstrup Newsletter 2/7/12 Newsletter 1/31/12 Guided By Voices - "Let's Go Eat The Factory" Album Profile by Jay Ingstrup Review of Alejandro Escovedo - Live at Freehold JCC, NJ 1-22-12 by Jay Ingstrup Johnny Winter - "roots" Album Profile by Jay Ingstrup Newsletter 1/24/12 The Campbell Apartment - "in" Album Profile by Ira Rinn Newsletter 1/17/12 Jon Caspi & The First Gun - "the little ones" Album Profile by Jay Ingstrup Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "The End of the Beginning" Tall Days - "battling the elements" Album Profile by Ira Rinn Newsletter 1/10/12 Newsletter 1/3/12 Review of Johnny Winter @ Stanhope House 12/15/11 by Matt Colligan Newsletter 12/27/11 Jay Ingstrup's Top 11 Albums of 2011 Lazlo's Top 100 Albums Of 2011 Newsletter 12/20/11 Lisa Bianco - "momentum" Album Profile by Lazlo Tom Waits - "Bad As Me" Album Profile by Jay Ingstrup Dum Dum Girls - "only in dreams" Album Profile by Jay Ingstrup Newsletter 11/29/11 Tegan And Sara - "get along" Album Profile by Lazlo Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "An Offering for the Emperor's Children" R.E.M. - "part lies part heart part truth part garbage 1982-2011" Album Profile by Lazlo Review of Goo Goo Dolls, Ryan Star @ Wellmont Theatre 11/11/11 Review by Matt Colligan Jon Caspi & The First Gun, The X-Men @ Brighton Bar 11/19/11 Photos by Lazlo Newsletter 11/15/11 Danzig Live At Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC 10-29-11: Just Like Your Crazy Ex Review by Jay (Mazeffect) Ingstrup Newsletter 11/8/11 Duran Duran Live At MSG, NYC 10-25-11: Union Of The (Garden) Snake Review by Jay (Mazeffect) Ingstrup Lou Reed & Metallica - "lulu" Album Profile by Jay (Mazeffect) Ingstrup Cosmo Jarvis - "is the world strange or am I strange?" Album Profile by Matt Colligan Newsletter 11/1/11 Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "Hope, Exile And An Out Of Tune 12 String Guitar" Newsletter 10/25/11 The Monacchio's, George Wirth @ Espresso Joe's 10/21/11 Review by Lazlo (10/21/11) Newsletter 10/18/11 R.Y.E. - "R.Y.E." Album Profile by Lazlo (10/16/11) Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "The Diary of Gullible’s Travels (Part II)" Newsletter 10/11/11 Collective Soul @ Union County Music Fest 9/16/11 Review by Matt Colligan (10/10/11) Tucker & Dale Vs Evil Movie Profile by Lazlo (10/9/11) Not The Bees! - "knees" Album Profile by Joseph Regal (10/8/11) The Bangles Live At The Stone Pony 10-5-11: So What If It's A School Night?? Review by Jay Mazeffect (10/7/11) Newsletter 10/4/11 The Humans - "sugar rush" Album Profile by Lazlo (10/2/11) Larry And His Flask Live At Asbury Lanes 9-25-11: Beards Are Rock and Roll, Motherfucker! Review by Jay Mazeffect (9/29/11) X Live At The Stone Pony 9-25-11: Los Angeles By Way Of Asbury Park, NJ Review by Jay Mazeffect (9/28/11) Newsletter 9/27/11 Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "The Diary of Gullible’s Travels (Part I)" The Union County Music Festival 2011 - Necessary Roughness Review by Jay Mazeffect (9/24/11) Newsletter 9/20/11 D Generation at The Wonder Bar, Asbury Park, NJ 9-15-11 Review by Lazlo (9/16/11) various artists - "rave on Buddy Holly" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (9/14/11) Newsletter 9/13/11 Duncan Sheik - "covers 80s" Album Profile by Lazlo (9/10/11) Mat McHugh (of The Beautiful Girls) at The Wonder Bar, Asbury Park, NJ 9-2-11 Review by Jay Mazeffect (9/7/11) Newsletter 9/6/11 Sleeping In The Aviary - "you & me, ghost" Album Profile by Lazlo (9/6/11) The Accelerators - "punk rock revolution" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (8/30/11) Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "Rites of Passage through the screaming fans...sorry, I meant emotional abbatoire" Kenny Wayne Shepherd - "how I go" Album Profile by Matt Colligan (8/27/11) Notar - "devil's playground" Album Profile by Lazlo (8/25/11) Dramarama, Wyldlife @ Bowery Electric, NYC 8/20/11 Review by Scoop McCoy (8/24/11) Larry And His Flask - "all that we know" Album Profile by Lazlo (8/23/11) Clay Melton - "Clay Melton EP" Album Profile by Lazlo (8/22/11) M.O.T.O. - "pack your troubles in dreams" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (8/18/11) The New Rochelles - "it's new" Album Profile by Lazlo (8/15/11) Urge Overkill - "rock&roll submarine" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (8/12/11) Anthony Walker - "this city won't sleep" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (8/10/11) Newsletter 8/9/11 Deidre - "curious parcel" Album Profile by Lazlo (8/8/11) Photos from BlowUpRadio.com Free Concert Series: Joshua Van Ness & MOR, The Heshers, Zigman Bird 8/6/11 (8/7/11) Still The Greatest Show On Earth: KISS at Mt. Laurel Poconos Performing Arts Center,PA Review by Jay Mazeffect (8/5/11) Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "The Existential Dilemma of Playing Tori Amos at a Ski Lodge" Weezer And The Flaming Lips at PNC Bank Arts Center: Beyond Thunderdome Review by Jay Mazeffect (8/3/11) Newsletter 8/2/11 Weezer And The Flaming Lips at PNC Bank Arts Center: Beyond Thunderdome Review by Jay Mazeffect (8/3/11) Fountains Of Wayne - "sky full of holes" Album Profile by Lazlo (8/2/11) Scott Cook - "moonlit rambles" Album Profile by Lazlo (8/1/11) Shonen Knife - "Osaka Ramones" Album Profile by Lazlo (7/31/11) Jay Mazeffect - "horseshoes revisited" Album Profile by Lazlo (7/30/11) Dropkick Murphys, The Tossers, The Turbo AC's @ the Wellmont Theatre 7/28/11 Review by Joseph Regal (7/29/11) Joan Jett At The Seaside Summer Concert Series, Coney Island: The Atlantic Ocean's Hit List Review by Jay Mazeffect (7/27/11) Newsletter 7/26/11 Warped Tour @ Monmouth Park Racetrack 7/24/11 Review by Lazlo (7/26/11) Fountains Of Wayne, Marah, West The Defender, The Jersey Syndicate @ Stone Pony 7/23/11 Review by Lazlo (7/25/11) Jeanne O'Neill - "impossible" Album Profile by Matt Colligan (7/21/11) Newsletter 7/19/11 Outside The Box with Eryn Shewell @ Keyport Harbor 7/14/11 Review by Lazlo (7/14/11) Mike Kovacs: Not The Yearbook You Expected - "Ink, Skin, Music, Death, Art, Memory, ..........and an Open Mic with Bob Fosse" Newsletter 7/12/11 Kasey Chambers @ Bowery Ballroom 7/8/11 Review by Jay Mazeffect (7/11/11) Photos from BlowUpRadio.com Free Concert Series: O'Neill & Martin, Matt Colligan, Happy Joe 7/9/11 (7/10/11) The Trews - "hope & ruin" Album Profile by Matt Colligan (7/7/11) Newsletter 7/5/11 Night Birds, Black Wine, Big Eyes, Shark Teeth @ Asbury Lanes 7/2/11 Review by Lazlo (7/3/11) Banquets/Mayflower - "split" Album Profile by Joseph Regal (6/29/11) Newsletter 6/28/11 Guided By Voices @ McCarren Park 6/18/11 Review by Jay Mazeffect (6/25/11) Rammstein @ Izod Center 5/5/11 Review by Jay Mazeffect (6/23/11) Newsletter 6/21/11 Robert Pollard - "lord of the birdcage" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (6/18/11) Newsletter 6/14/11 Photos from BlowUpRadio.com Free Concert Series: Jay Mazeffect, Foggy Otis, Tony Tedesco & Jay Montanga 6/11/11 (6/12/11) CJ Ramone, The Graveyard School @ Brighton Bar 6/3/11 Review by Jay Mazeffect (6/10/11) Face to Face - "laugh now, laugh later" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (6/9/11) Newsletter 6/7/11 Band Of Beards - "fuerteventura" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (6/4/11) Band Of Beards - "fuerteventura" Album Profile by Joseph Regal (6/4/11) Newsletter 5/31/11 Face To Face, Strung Out, The Darlings @ Starland Ballroom 5/20/11 Review by Matt Colligan (5/24/11) Newsletter 5/24/11 Joshua Van Ness - "discovering the universe" Album Profile by Matt Colligan (5/23/11) Newsletter 5/17/11 Elbow - "build a rocket boys!" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (5/16/11) Pepper Rabbit - "beauregard" Album Profile by Matt Colligan (5/14/11) Newsletter 5/10/11 Newsletter 5/3/11 PJ Bond - 22 April: Vienna, Austria" Album Profile by Joseph Regal (5/2/11) Newsletter 4/26/11 Lazlo's Review of Local H, The Dig @ Brighton Bar 4/23/11 (4/24/11) Hotels & Highways - "lost river" Album Profile by Matt Colligan (4/23/11) Newsletter 4/19/11 Jeff Daniels - "keep it right here" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (4/18/11) Mike Ferraro & The Young Republicans - "what's yours is mine" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (4/17/11) Newsletter 4/12/11 Newsletter 4/5/11 Newsletter 3/29/11 Newsletter 3/22/11 Sun Puddles - "demo" Album Profile by Jay Mazeffect (3/15/11) Newsletter 3/15/11 Jay Mazeffect's Review of Motorhead @ Starland Ballroom 3/3/11 (3/13/11) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Readymade Breakup - "Readymade Breakup" (3/12/11) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Particle Zoo - "into the fray" (3/9/11) Newsletter 2/21/11 Newsletter 2/14/11 Newsletter 1/24/11 Newsletter 1/17/11 ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Fairmont - "destruction creation" (1/16/11) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Jon Caspi And The First Gun - "strange situation" (1/14/11) Newsletter 1/3/11 Jay Mazeffect's Top 10 Rock 'N' Roll Moments of 2010 (12/27/10) Lazlo's Top 80 Albums Of 2010 (12/20/10) Newsletter 12/13/10 DVD PROFILE: "Todd P Goes To Austin" (12/12/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Bad Religion - "the dissent of man" (11/28/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Fran Healy - "wreckorder" (11/27/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: The Posies - "blood/candy" (11/25/10) Newsletter 11/15/10 Newsletter 11/8/10 Newsletter 11/1/10 Live Review of Bad Religion @ Starland Ballroom 10/22/10 by Jay Mazeffect (10/26/10) Newsletter 10/11/10 Newsletter 10/4/10 Live Review of Union County Music Fest 9/11/10 by Jay Mazeffect (9/17/10) Newsletter 9/13/10 Live Photos of Union County Music Fest 9/11/10 (9/12/10) Newsletter 9/6/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: The Drums - "The Drums" (9/5/10) Live Review of The Paramount Sessions @ Asbury Park 9/5/10 (9/5/10) Newsletter 8/30/10 ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: The Young Leaves - "life underneath" (8/27/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Jimmy Gnecco - "the heart" (8/26/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: The Famous - "come home to me" (8/24/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: Vagabond Opera - "the zeitgeist beckons" (8/18/10) Newsletter 8/16/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Timmy Sean - "songs from & inspired by noisewater" (8/15/10) LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Big Head Todd & The Monsters - "rocksteady" (8/8/10) Jay Mazeffect's Live Review of Bastards Of Melody, The Tea & Whiskey, The Successful Failures @ Buddie's Tavern 7/24/10 (8/8/10) LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Bern & The Brights - "swing shift maisies" (8/1/10) Jay Mazeffect's Live Review of Warped Tour @ Monmouth Racetrack 7/18/10 (7/27/10) Lazlo's Live Review of Warped Tour @ Monmouth Racetrack 7/18/10 (7/24/10) Newsletter 7/19/10 ALBUM PROFILE: Unkle - "where did the night fall" (7/19/10) Live Review of Modsbury Park 4: Mods vs. Rockers - Dr. Void & The Death Machines, Mod Fun, The Brixton Riot @ Asbury Lanes 7/9/10 (7/15/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: In The Cinema - "for the struggle" (7/15/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Carole King & James Taylor - "live at the Troubador" (7/13/10) ALBUM PROFILES BY JAY MAZEFFECT: The Public Good - "a varied program of stereo dynamics for your wild nights alone" (7/12/10) Newsletter 7/12/10 Newsletter 7/5/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Happy Joe - "big mouth" (7/4/10) Newsletter 6/28/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Anthony Walker - "the sea goes on forever" (6/20/10) LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: various artists - "sing me to sleep: indie lullabies" (6/6/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Femurs - "honeymoon" (6/2/10) Newsletter 5/31/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Sage Francis - "li(f)e" (5/30/10) LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Downshallow - "the new fashion" (5/16/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Rosewood Ghosts - "Rosewood Ghosts" (5/15/10) ALBUM PROFILE: The Undead - "I want you dead" (5/14/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Cymbals Eat Guitars - "why there are mountains" (5/13/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Sweet Apple - "love & desperation" (5/12/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Hole - "nobody's daughter" (5/11/10) Newsletter 5/10/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: The Successful Failures - "three nights" (5/9/10) Newsletter 5/3/10 Review: Rod Picott, Joe Whyte @ The Strand Theater 5/1/10 (5/2/10) LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Freelance Whales - "weathervanes" (5/2/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Zoe Lewis - "a cure for the hiccups" (5/1/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Billy Manzik - "all together now" (4/29/10) Newsletter 4/26/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Wiser Time - "beggars and thieves" (4/25/10) Newsletter 4/19/10 Newsletter 4/12/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: No One Knows About Persian Cats soundtrack (4/11/10) Newsletter 4/5/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Brett Harris - "man of few words" (4/4/10) Review: The Winter Sounds, Faceheads, Among Trees @ Bordz Skatepark 4/2/10 (4/4/10) Newsletter 3/29/10 ALBUM PROFILE: Wallace - "playing with fire" (3/23/10) Newsletter 3/22/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Status Green - "cheap sunglasses" (3/21/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Darynyck - "the sasquatch sessions 2001-2005" (3/18/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Mod Fun - "futurepresent" (3/17/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Every Boy - "the last lala's" (3/16/10) Newsletter 3/15/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: The Amboys - "everything between the moon & the sun" (3/14/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Savoir Adore - "in the wooded forest" (3/14/10) ALBUM PROFILE: Sing SOS - "songs of the spectrum" (3/14/10) LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Paul Rosevear - "broken nosed poetry" (3/7/10) Newsletter 3/1/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Keith Monacchio - "the long evening" (2/28/10) Newsletter 2/22/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: The Break Evens - "when if you can..." (2/21/10) Newsletter 2/15/10 LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Red Flag Fleet - "magnetic variation" (2/15/10) LAZLO'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Allison Moorer - "crows" Newsletter 1/25/10 Lazlo's top 60 albums of 2009 Review: Found Footage Fest @ Asbury Lanes 11/14/09 (11/22/09) Review: The Successful Failures @ The Record Collector 9/4/09 (9/6/09) Review: Counting Crows, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Augustana @ Borgata 8/28/09 (8/30/09) Review: The Warped Tour..Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Bad Religion (7/28/09) by Jay Mazeffect Review: Wapred Tour '09 @ Monmounth Racetrack 7/19/09 (7/23/09) Review: The English Beat @ Starland Ballroom 7/11/09 (7/14/09) Review: Wave Gathering 2009 (6/25/09) Hear Beloved Binge Recorded Live @ Lazlo's Den An Open Letter To The NHL (4/02/09) 552 & 702...Two Great Numbers! (3/17/09) Music You should Check Out (3/16/09) TV/DVD Reviews: Reaper, Dollhouse, Futurama (3/2/09) What I've Enjoyed Since The Last What I've Enjoyed (2/22/09) FilmGo.net (part 1) What I Enjoyed This Week 1/25/09 Simple, haunting, and beautiful. I love this song! R.I.P. WHTG Social Crutch Blogging About Neko Case To Help Abused Animals Honorable Mention Lazlo's top 50 CDs of 2008 Jon Bon Jovi Needs Fans Money? Readymade Breakup Anthony Fiumano The Undead New Order: Live In Glasgow Indy 4 / Wall-E / Dark Knight Wave Gathering 2008 Wave Gathering 2008 Preview The Heshers Valient Thorr Kaiser Cartel J.J. Appleton The Orb Logs In The Mainstream Paul Sanchez The Groucho Marxists Thing One "Once" "The Name Of The Band Is Cowboy Mouth" The Polyjesters R.E.M. Second Dan BoDeans P. Hux Echofission Nerve Tonic Brian Vander Ark Divine Sign Switches "The King Of Kong" "Cloverfield" Mazeffect Vicky Emerson Lazlo's top 25 CDs of 2007 The Go Queensryche Kosmic Daydream James Dalton The Successful Failures The Crayons The Future Kings Of Nowhere Critical Me West Indian Girl VHS Or Beta Arlan Feiles, The Milwaukees - 11/11/07 This Is Not a CMJ 2007 Review Squeeze, Will Hoge - 8/6/07 Warped Tour - 8/5/07 Paul Sanchez Band - 7/26/07 Colin Hay Band, Lazlo Bane - 7/14/07 Paul Sanchez Brian Setzer Orchestra Office Halford Lifeguard Nights Citizens Band Radio Beatallica @ Asbury Lanes - 7/8/07 School Of Rock Fest - 6/24/07 The Winter Sounds, The Successful Failures, After The Fall @ McGuinn's - 6/15/07 Mod Fun @ The Clash Bar 6/9/07 W.E. Fest 2007 - Monday W.E. Fest 2007 - Sunday W.E. Fest 2007 - Saturday W.E. Fest 2007 - Friday W.E. Fest 2007 - Thursday Wave Gathering 2007 They Might Be Giants - 5/11/07 The Celebrities @ Starland Ballroom 4/7/07 George Stanford Basic Rock Outfit This Is Sander Kleinenberg Warm In The Wake Zydepunks Kabuki Killers The Red Romance Lillian Axe Milwaukees Lexington Down The Commons Slo-Mo The Winter Sounds Flickerstick Caté BR549 Fountains Of Wayne Noah Gittell Mike June & The Dirty Doves Fixer Army Of Me The Mother Hips Hotel De Ville Full Minute Of Mercury Backyard Tire Fire Drew & The Medicinal Pen The Crusher Chow Nasty Gary Paul Hermus Mason Dixon Kate Hart The Ratchets Citizens Band Radio Lazlo's top 20 CDs of 2006 Fastlane 1/27/07 (Readymade Breakup, Hero Pattern, Chris Brown, Rick Barry/Days Awake) Alex Brumel @ The Saint 11/25/06 Will Hoge / Backyard Tire Fire - 11/15/06 Asbury Music Awards 2006 Jeff Daniels - Monmouth U. 11/11/06 CMJ Music Marathon (Day 5) CMJ Music Marathon (Day 4) CMJ Music Marathon (Day 3) what's in the CMJ Swag Bag? CMJ Music Marathon (Day 1) Evil Dead: The Musical Mod Fun & The Anderson Council @ Asbury Lanes 10/14/06 Bouncing Souls & more @ Starland Ballroom 10/13/06 Writers In The Raw weekend 9/29 & 9/30 Warped Tour 8/3/06 Camden, NJ Brian Vander Ark / Luke Brindley 7/29/06 Curt Kirkwood @ Mercury Lounge 7/20/06