The Johnsonville Press Daily Edition
Today’s Submission by: Brendan McInerney
1. Recommendation of the Day: Benny Goodman Plays Mozart
Today I would like to recommend to you an album; an LP if you are so fortunate. The album of which I speak is titled Benny Goodman plays Mozart. It features the Patriarch of the Clarinet performing the two compositions that Mr. Mozart created for said instrument (a concerto and a quintet) along with the Boston Symphony Swing Quartet. If you are still on this page it probably means that you are a member …

The world is horrid right straight through and so am I…I want to grouch and sulk and rip and snort. I am a pail of milk that has gone sour. (Emily Carr)
There are two art scenes in New Brunswick. There is the art in the galleries, the theaters, and even produced from Mason Gross but then there is the underground. Ironically enough you can find it walking down any street in all the most conspicuous places. The only problem is having the eye to find it. The most popular places …

Rob Drucker is the kind of guy who would participate in the Great International Fall Album Listening Weekend, a weekend organized by fans of the prolific and seminal post-punk band The Fall during which one listens to all twenty-seven (!) of their albums. With a schedule of the events posted on his refrigerator, Drucker is ready to have a great weekend. Another thing to make that weekend great is the release of his band Silent Way’s first full length LP and accompanying CD-R.

Crave no more

Crave to die

Crave it all

Let it be (anywhere, everywhere)

These are the opening lines to Jeffrey Cobbold’s exciting debut album as a solo artist, “Crave No More,” which was released last Friday on his website where the complete album can be downloaded for free until February 5th, 2010.

About two years ago I devised a plan to potentially piss off a large group of people. And not just any group of people, but Tent State people. For those of you who don’t know what Tent State is, let me briefly sum it up: Tent State is an amalgamation of organizations that once served a useful and beneficial purpose at the time of its inception, the protest of rising tuition costs at Rutgers. Since then, it has devolved to the point where it’s just a bunch of confused, quasi-hippie …

People Watching
If you go to Rutgers and spend any significant amount of time on College Ave, you probably have seen Ray Dib, affectionately nicknamed the Mandolin Guy. You might even know him personally. If you don’t know what I am talking about, then you probably just need some time. I have seen him around a lot, and last week I sat down to talk with him.  What unfolded in our conversation was the story of a musician, someone who feels music very personally, and has an intimate relationship with …

Last week, we sat down with Bobby Tarantino (bass), Chase Innis (MC) and Ross Lippencott (lead vocals) of New Brunswick’s own The N Result. The six man ensemble also includes Dan Bascom (lead guitar) and Nate Sankary (percussion), who were sleeping late, and Eitan Levine (keys) who was in Atlantic City at the time, both behavioral traits particularly common in college kids and rock stars. All band members, excepting Chase who graduated from Fordham, are Rutgers affiliated. Talking to these three guys, you really get the impression that they are …

The underground music scene in New Brunswick, I’m sorry to say, is a feature of the city I’m not all that familiar with. Excepting a few momentary and inebriated sidetracks down to basement parties sporting live bands, my experience with that particular underground has been limited at best. Enter the Screaming Females. Over the weekend, I was afforded the opportunity to be educated on the matter by two members of this three-person punk ensemble: Marissa Paternoster and Jarrett Dougherty. Third member King Mike wasn’t able to make it. What follows …

Once a week, the Johnsonville Press staff gets together to drink wine and discuss the business of putting out our little publication. We call it the Johnsonville Symposium. We talk about and critique each others’ articles, work out any technical issues, and keep each other up to date as to the progress we’ve made in our respective capacities. But also, in keeping with the spirit of a traditional Greek symposium, we hold a general discussion on a broad topic, usually towards the end of the night after we’ve all had plenty to drink. During last week’s discussion, I asked my staff members to pick one musical performer, group, or band that everyone should know about, that would be indispensible to you the reader as a fan of music, and to justify that selection. I wrote up my five favorite. Here’s what we came up with:

I sat down to write an email to myself one day recently because something struck me as so… befitting… to nearly every moment that I could imagine. I needed to write it down- elaborate on it for the benefit of my creative memory; and the easiest device at the time was my computer. What struck me brought back those good, old memories, the kind that we can all sometimes dwell on to keep us steadfast and grounded.