Live from the Wave Gathering 2009

Shane Cooley from Virginia traveled up to Asbury Park for the second year in a row to perform several gigs at this year's Wave Gathering Festival. Here he is at America's Cup Coffee performing "My Asbury Park."

Rock N Roll Gas Station - Episode 16

A Conversation with Julian Peterson

This week's Rock n Roll Gas Station features singer/songwriter Julian Peterson, our studio guest who talks a bit about his life and music, and performs live for our microphones.

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Rock N Roll Gas Station - Episode 15:
Wave Gathering Preview

Celebrate the Asbury Park music scene on June 19, 20, and 21 as the town's music scene, restaurants, and retailers band together to host dozens of performers from all genres of independent music - folk to pop to punk to metal. For more information, visit www.wavegathering.com. In this episode, we present some of our favorite performers appearing at Wave Gathering 2009.

Milwaukees - "Moonshaker" - American Anthems Vol.1

The Friggs - "Bad Word For A Good Thing" - Bad Word For A Good Thing

Barry & The Penetrators - "Girlfriend" - Tales From Dirty Jersey

Status Green - "Holland Tunnel" - New EP

Anthony Fiumano - "Information Age" - When Strangers Say Hello

April Smith & The Great Picture Show - "Colors" - Live From The Penthouse

Second Dan - "We Can" - We Can

Shane Cooley - "My Asbury Park" - Shane Cooley

Deena - "Gemini Guy" - Somewhere In Blue

Future Future - "Television Glow" - Future Future

Chemtrail - "Blood Bath" - Terminals

Kid With Man Head - "She Won't Sleep With Me" - Cassius Coleman

Planet Janet - "Seventeen" - Nice Socks

Chris Batten & The Woods - "From The Banks of the Old Raritan"

Eryn Shewell - "Anymore" - One Song At A Time

Tommy Strazza - "Goin' Solo" - Welcome To The Rest Of Your Life

Arlan Feiles - "Come Sunday Morning" - Come Sunday Morning

Val Emmich - "No Control" - Demo

Jersey City A' Go Go

Jersey City was all about the rock 'n' roll last night, with a four-band extraganza outside the Grove Street PATH station for the summer kickoff to Groove On Grove (Wednesday nights at 6 pm for the rest of the summer), and shows at Grand Bank (a huge Japanese/Chinese restaurant on Montgomery that books bands the first Friday of the month) and Automata Chino.

Here are some pics of the Milwaukees at Groove on Grove, and Any Day Parade and the Hollies. The Grand Bank show also featured the rockabilly/swing/punk band The Fringe Dwellers and the Motown/garagey Novellas.

Rock N Roll Gas Station - Episode 14

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Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster - The Eternal

Ben Franklin - Ghosts - These Are The Most Delicate Songs

Push-Pull - Wright, Right? - Between Noise & The Indians

Cut Off Your Hands - You & I - Daytrotter session

Bouncing Souls - Mental Bits - Single of the Month

Kim Lenz & The Jaguars - Touch Me - It's All True

Nightmare Of You - I Think I'm Getting Older - Informaniac

Olivia Mancini & The Housewives - Crime Don't Pay - This Kind of Life

Von Hayes - Golden Ted - Quartered For The Umbrella Soldier

Vortis - Tommy Haircut - Demo

Solfege Radio - Jersey - Single

Sweet Surrenders - Die Young - Balcony Cigarettes

The Leftovers - Telephone Operator - Eager To Please

Boss Jim Gettys - Half-Baked - Kitra Vol. 2

Dead Milkmen - Surfing Cow - Death Rides A Pale Cow: The Ultimate Collection

Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine - Josephine

Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps - Surfer Angel - Peter Stampfel & The Bottlecaps

The Great Nostalgic - Young Lovers - The Great Nostalgic


Great Plains -- Hall of Shame - Length Of Growth: Best Of Great Plains 1981-89

Rock N Roll Gas Station - Episode 13

Elvis Costello - "Down Among The Wines & Spirits" - Secret, Profane, And Sugarcane

Ghost Town Trio - "Cold Machine" - Have You Heard

Defiance, OH - "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" - We Just Call It Roulette, Vol. 2

Illinois - "I Am Fine" - www.daytrotter.com

Big Energy - "Winding Way" - "Big Energy" EP

The Side Project - "Kicked Out of the Union" - This Machine Kills Scenecore

Superchunk - "Learned To Surf" - "Leaves In The Gutter" EP

The Legends - "Always The Same" - Over & Over

Rainer Maria - "Catastrophe" - Catastrophe Will Keep Us Together

Mose Giganticus - "Commander!" - "Commander!" EP

Movers & Shakers - "Take Your Time" - Larrabee

Wilco - "Outta Site, Outta Mind" - Being There

Rik Mercaldi - "Home Away From Home" - Rik Mercaldi

The Moths - "Enthusiastic Loser" - Lepid Opera

Roadside Graves - "The Snake & How It Got Its Legs" - My Son's Home

Future Future - "Television Glow" - Future Future

Bouncing Souls - "In Your Face" - The Thorazine Stretch Factor Compilation

Bionic Rhoda - "Chili Dog" - Bionic Rhoda

ROCK N ROLL GAS STATION - Episode 12

Happy Memorial Day

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John Prine - "Sam Stone" - John Prine

Rick Barry - "Courage For A Rainy Day" - Declaration of Codependence

Julian Peterson - "Get On This Train" - Get On This Train

Yung Wu - "Waiting For The Thunder" - A Few Uneven Rhymes - A Tribute to Winter Hours

Golden Bloom - "E.H.M." - Fan The Flames

Lieder - "Doesn't Anybody Care"

Fellaheen - "Air Guitar (With Broken Strings)" - Yours For The Revolution

Super Satellite - "Such A Bore" - Super Satellite

Anthony Fiumano - "Born To Crawl" - When Strangers Say Hello

Bishop Allen - "The Ancient Commonsense of Things" - Grrr

Bear Hands - "Belongings" - Daytrotter Session www.daytrotter.com

The Brooklyn What? - "In-Crowd" - For Boro President

Cage The Elephant - "Tiny Little Robots" - Cage The Elephant

The Fuzzy Lemons - "It's Okay To Be Different" - The Fuzzy Lemons

My Night With A Dead Milkman

So where was everybody? Never book a gig on Memorial Day Weekend. And this was my first Memorial Day Weekend home since 1996, when I started going to W.E. Fest.

The folks in Wilmington NC are no doubt doing just fine without me. I took the year off and spent Friday night at The Record Collector in Bordentown, NJ, performing on a bill with one of my punk rock heroes, Joe Jack Talcum of the Dead Milkmen.

Randy Ellis, aka Randy Now, who booked so many amazing shows at City Gardens during the Eighties and Nineties, has been bringing bands to perform in a small gallery at this mom-and-pop record store for a while now. He's had some big names - Ian McLagan and Graham Parker and Peter Tork - perform there, even though the space can only hold about 50 people. Well, that wasn't a problem last night, since only about ten people actually showed up.

I was fighting the flu and probably should have been home in bed, but I got through the set without a coughing fit. My guitar's pickup died but Joe was nice enough to let me use his Ibanez electric-acoustic, which is a gorgeous guitar. I did have a couple of brain freezes and had to sputter through some missed lyrics, but all in all, I thought it was a pretty good set. I finished up covering a song by my buddy Sal Cannestra's band 13 called "City Gardens" as a shoutout to Randy.

Joe was great, throwing out some old Dead Milkmen favorites (including, of course, "Punk Rock Girl") and mixing them in with a Dylan cover and songs from his Butterfly Joe persona and his split CD with Mischief Brew. His songs teeter somewhere between romantic shmaltz and deadpan ironic jokery, on tracks like "Yesterday I Was Talking To MY Sister" and "What Her Autopsy Revealed." Joe plays acoustic guitar almost like an electric (I'm all strumming, he actually plays leads) and does some nimble harmonica work.

I want to thank Randy for asking me on the bill, and Mr. Talcum for letting me use his guitar. The Dead Milkmen will be performing at Insubordination Festival in June, and I will be there in front of the stage singing my fool middle-aged head off. I hope to see you there.