When I think of “a rock band’s lead singer and his house,” I imagine a big house in the hills surrounded by other towering houses with a Cadillac parked in the driveway. However, as I pull up to the Kenneys’ place, home of the lead singer of A Clear Blurr, I see no mansions and certainly no hills. Tom Kenney’s house is on a dead end of a street with neighbors whose houses hardly resemble mansions and whose cars all look to have been made before I was born.

The Johnsonville Press Daily Edition
Today’s Submission by: Matia Guardabascio
1. Recommendation of the Day:  Check out “The Wanderer Sessions” from Pollifax. If you want to hear some quality, spur of the moment live music from some local musicians, and from musicians passing through New Brunswick, then you want to hear this shit. I am personally very impressed with the quality of the music and the way in which Kevin frames it in the videos. “The Wanderer Sessions” does a great job showcasing the good, young talent in and around Rutgers and …

Upcoming Events:

March 26, (Friday) – 7pm-11pm – POLLIFAX at Alfa
March 27, (Saturday) – 2pm-4pm – “The Contemporary Relevance of the Renaissance Palette” – a lecture by Michael Price
April 2, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – Vesselin Kourtev – solo exhibition
April 9, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – “Uptown”, a Novel – Book promotion and signing

March 26th, 2010 – “Another Sunny Day” – POLLIFAX at Alfa

Currator: Julianna Ritter
Doors open at 7pm – …

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 …