Bands are always doing incredible, creative things,” he said.
“The Jersey music scene is remarkably resilient. Lustig is now the editor of the invaluable arts website,, which covers the entire New Jersey arts landscape. I talked with Jay Lustig, longtime music critic for The Star-Ledger, a kind of Obi-Wan Kenobi of Jersey rock. I checked out a small cross section of some of the hottest bands from Exit 172 of the GSP on south to get a sense of what kind of noise Jersey will make in 2021 and beyond. This is just a handful of bands sampled from our teeming music scene, which is as lively and jam-packed as bluefish off the Jersey Shore. Most of them can be found and heard on the site Bandcamp, which The New York Times called “one of the greatest underground culture bazaars of our time.” And they can all be found on YouTube. We, the true hipsters, know that there is some exotic combination of toxins and nutrients in the air, soil and sand of our Garden State that breeds world-class musicians. Today, there is a whole new generation of voices and bosses on the scene, waiting out the pandemic and poised to make their distinctive sounds heard in New Jersey and nationally. But we, the true hipsters, know that there is some exotic combination of toxins and nutrients in the air, soil and sand of our Garden State that breeds world-class musicians. The long, long list includes Frank Sinatra (“The Voice”), Bruce Springsteen (“The Boss”) and everybody in between and beyond, including Perth Amboy’s Jon Bon Jovi and Deptford Township’s Patti Smith. Our distinctive blend of ingredients: the Turnpike, the Parkway, the pollution, the cherry blossoms, tomatoes, the Shore, the pizza, the diversity, the volume, the density, the attitude - all these disparate factors have given local artists something to write, sing and shout about. This conceit was concocted by insecure New Yorkers who are now willing to pay double the asking price for your Aunt Mary’s multifamily house in Bloomfield. bands you need to listen to in 2021įor some misguided people, New Jersey is just a dreary stretch of highway between New York City and their preferred destination.
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