The Aquarian
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The Aquarian is 50 years old weekly for rock music. It publishes news, reviews, articles, interviews, and more about the rock music of the state of New Jersey.
The Aquarian
18h ago
Last week, King Diamond took to Kings Theatre to close out October in such a royally rock and roll way that we just had to share the experience. And what better way to do that than with an exhilarating heavy metal gallery? Spooky theatrics, doll sacrifice, Gen Alpha guests, gargoyles, rich music, electric shredding, and more were captured on October 30th, perfectly emulating what us New Jerseyans know as Mischief Night, setting the stage (literally and figuratively) for high-energy Halloween.
Thanks to Ehud Lazin for photographing and giving us all a chance to live vicariously through him, his ..read more
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18h ago
robbietheused, as a project, is a sort of a re-introduction to Bert McCracken… without forgoing all of what we already know and love him for. It’s pretty damn exciting.
The Used delivered an absolutely stellar performance at When We Were Young Festival not even a month ago. There were tens of thousands of people all tightly packed into the Las Vegas festival grounds where the band (and many other bands) played iconic albums in full; for these guys, it was In Love and Death from start to finish. Fire exploded, literally and figuratively, during instrumental breakdowns and the mos ..read more
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1d ago
On the night of January 28, 1985, when he was tasked to gather luminaries from across the pop music spectrum to record “We Are the World,” a song written and proposed as relief to African famine, Quincy Jones was arguably the industry’s most powerful and influential producer. He was nearing his fifty-second birthday and had already built an incomparable career as a musician, performer, arranger, conductor, and composer of film scores and pop/jazz songs, and, of course, producer that spanned 37 years. Eight years earlier, he was the first African American to be nominated for an Oscar for s ..read more
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There’s something about “KISS & TELL,” “SATANIC PANIC,” AND “DOWNSIDE” that just tickles our fancy and makes us not only want, but need, to experience this era of this artist live.
IDKHOW is I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, the edgy, pop-adjacent electronic rock band that is the sort of amalgamation of each corner of the brain’s creativity. And that brain is housed in the head of singer-songwriter-producer Dallon Weekes.
Weekes, the founder and frontman of IDKHOW, is also a multi-instrumentalist whose textured musicianship and independent nature allow him to mix and match sounds, styles ..read more
The Aquarian
2d ago
Strange vibes from the final hours of the 2024 Presidential Election.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The Ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats, ‘Second Coming’
I’m not going to question how we got here, because I was there. I lived it. I covered it. I tried as I might to make sense of it. I failed ..read more
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3d ago
The cast and creator of Cross discuss digging deep into the world of their characters.
The upcoming Prime Video show Cross stars Aldis Hodge as D.C. Detective Alex Cross who is also a forensic psychologist and deeply devoted to his job. He dives intensely into the minds of victims and killers alike to solve crimes – there’s a twisted one at the start of this series – while trying to balance life as a good father and family man. He is also grieving the loss of his wife from a year earlier. Cross has been on the big screen ..read more
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3d ago
Everynight Charley recommends the following 70+ concerts in New York City this week. Contact the venue or the artists’ social media to confirm ticket availability, show times, location and directions, age restrictions, COVID compliance, and other updates.
Monday, November 4
David Gilmour at Madison Square Garden
Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Margaret Glaspy, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams at the Town Hall
Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith and friends at Joe’s Pub
Tinashe, Raveena at the Brooklyn Paramount
Pedro Capo at Irving Plaza
robbietheused at the Gramercy Theatre
Emily Kinney, Me ..read more
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3d ago
Waltzing into Hammerstein Ballroom on October 26 were the sleek indie rockers that make up COIN – the three-piece band behind hits like “Talk Too Much,” “Problem,” and “Crash My Car.” These are bandmates that work together to shine as a unit and are entertainers with ease. The music is vibrant, teetering wonderfully on the edge of modern alternative, and their performances are seeped in their true friendship. As a trio, COIN succeeds at filling a room not just with fans, but with robust and concise soundscapes. This 23-song setlist at this very show in New York City that we ..read more
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3d ago
On this Farewell Tour, the girl just wants to have fun – time after time.
Three days after former president Donald Trump held a controversial campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Cyndi Lauper brought her own campaign to the same stage. Lauper, who has publicly supported Kamala Harris for the U.S. presidency, was headlining the arena on her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour. The pop singer came prepared to bring a warmer and more fun-filled experience to New York City.
Earlier in the evening, the pop icon posted on social media an eight-second video of her dancing ..read more
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3d ago
Duff McKagan, if you had to define him, is a man who loves his wife, rocks out on stage, and is conscious about taking in his surroundings.
On November 6, Duff McKagan will bring his “Lighthouse Tour ’24” to New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge. “I’m super curious about the venue I’m playing,” he says during a recent call from his Seattle home. “I’ve never been inside of it, so I’m looking forward to that. And I saw everybody who’s played there in the past is super cool – I love that kind of history of venues. Like, who’s been ..read more