Shows This Week!

Thursday 1/31:
Boxed Wine / Hilly Eye / Melissa Lucciola / Blud Diamond @ The Lampost - Jersey City 9pm. Free!

Mikey Erg! / Who Needs You / Fox Reactions / City Limits! / Jared Hart of The Scandals @ Paradise Lost 7:30pm - Free!

Friday 2/1:
Emetic / Polyphony / Feudalism / Dead Wurm / Rob Miller / Based On a Novel / All Good Children @The Meatlocker - Montclair 7:30pm  $7

Neur / For Sleeping Or Jumping / Grass Is Green / Sara @ The Court Tavern - New Brunswick 8:30pm. $5

Saturday 2/2:
They Live / Awkward Girls / Eastern Anchors / The Incredible Pits @ Maxwell's - Hoboken 8pm $8

Keep Em Low / Heartstrings / Graveyard State / The Only Way @ Le Grand Fromage - Atlantic City  8pm. Free!

Album Review: Tijuana Bibles - Lies

By: Mike Mucus

NJ's Tijuana Bibles have released a couple digital E.P's over the past year. Lies, the most recent effort by the trio has been a particular standout. It straight up sounds like the Ramones meets The Minutemen. At first listen the songs almost sound like incomplete thoughts, but they say what they intend to say with an economy  of words that suggests you don't need any other frilly bullshit to make a punk rock song. Most tracks clock in under the :90 second mark and are often book ended by audio clips of whacked out conversations. This just adds to the ADD-ness of The Bibles. Their frenzied live show isn't much different, singer/bassist Kopp sweats and spits his way to the mic behind a scowl  but its the hooks of the songs that are the real selling points. They'll catch you and just as you start to nod your head they'll be over. The traditional verse/chorus, verse/chorus song structure gets turned on its head. When Kopp sings "I gotta shitty tattoo on my arm", and you realize that one line is the whole song, it makes you think that sometimes, that's all you fucking need.

Listen to the record for free here

Screaming Females Set To Release Home Recordings

NJ darlings Screaming Females have had to put their grueling touring schedule on hold due to singer/axe shredder Marissa Paternoster's battles with illness. However, the band has put together a set of home recordings for a cassette-only release on Don Giovanni Records called Chalk Tape which will be released on February 10th. You can check out the track "Poison Arrow" on their Soundcloud page.