He came out of West Orange but made his mark in San Francisco. MoMojo Records/MVD Distribution has released Arrival, the sixth album from The Lucky Losers, Phil Berkowitz and Cathy Lemons. They both sing and write the kind of songs that stick to the mind like a tattoo on the brain.

The Director of Music & Worship at the APC Church in Monmouth County has recorded and self-released his sixth album, The Book of Enoch Volume #1, his first in eight years. Pianist Enoch Smith, Jr, bassist Kai Gibson and drummer David Hardy convened at Teaneck Sound in Bergen County. The result is a glorious seven-track master class in how to make traditional and modern hymns swing like crazy.

The Director of Music & Worship at the APC Church in Monmouth County has recorded and self-released his sixth album, The Book of Enoch Volume #1, his first in eight years. Pianist Enoch Smith, Jr, bassist Kai Gibson and drummer David Hardy convened at Teaneck Sound in Bergen County. The result is a glorious seven-track master class in how to make traditional and modern hymns swing like crazy.

Actor-Comedian-Short Guy Danny DeVito (Class of 2010) hosted the 17^th Annual New Jersey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony November 21. Twenty New Jerseyans, from all walks of life, were honored.

By the time iconic folksinger Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie [1912-1967] came to New Jersey in 1956 to live for six years within the walls of the Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris County, he had cemented his reputation. In fact, the opening scene of A Complete Unknown has Dylan visiting him and playing for him a song from his 1962 debut album called “Song To Woody.” Now comes news that 22 of the private 1951 recordings from a stash of 300 songs on 32 tapes will be released by Shamus Records as Woody at Home Volume #1 and #2.

Weird New Jersey magazine once cited New Milford in Bergen County as one strange place. Maybe its vibe nurtured Dream Pop enthusiasts Lips Of Strangers to pursue its highly stylized and synthesized shoegaze nostalgia. Their pop smarts has manifested itself into a second EP, Too Long For Lovers.

There are those who say that Jersey City maestro Al Di Meola is the greatest living guitarist in the world today and who are we to argue? He changed the course of jazz-rock fusion in the 1970s with Chick Corea in Return To Forever. Now comes news that Al will kick off the new year by returning to the stage with his acoustic band in a program called “The Guitarchitect.”

Originally recorded at a plethora of New Jersey, Maryland and Alabama locations, including a vacant office building, Daly’s Paterson abode, Nu Bleu Studio in Garfield, guitarist Scott Van Sickle’s attic, the producer’s basement, pianist Ray Nissen’s home studio, string arranger Chris Opperman’s home studio, with cover art by Alicia Daly, Early Miscellaneous, by Mike Daly’s Lost N’ Found, is an 11-song treasure with Daly on vocals, bass and guitar, the producer on keyboards, bass and conga, Reynolds on lead guitar, drummers Dave Enyart/Rich Stout, Jim Smith on tympani and guitarist Chuck Daly.

Who wants to buy one of Joe Walsh’s guitars? Or some of his stage clothing? On December 16 and 17, the biggest rock star to ever come out of Montclair in Essex County, the man who gave the Eagles some balls, will auction off about two dozen rare items at The Troubadour in West Hollywood (and online). Before that, fans can see the items through Dec. 3 at The Hard Rock Café in New York City.

Last year, Princeton grad and Passaic County resident Pete Muller just wanted “More Time.” This year, on his fourth album, he’s asking for One Last Dance. The singer-songwriter-pianist-producer-philanthropist’s new effort is a gorgeous montage of emotion, reeking with a yearning propensity for true wordsmith smarts.

Our favorite NBA Hall of Famer/Rapper/DJ/entrepreneur Shaquille O’Neal—born in Newark 53 years ago—will host his “Shaq’s Bass All-Stars Festival” in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas at Panther Island Pavilion with 15 acts on two stages March 21.

New Year’s Eve down the shore in Keansburg sounds good to us! The ProgStock folk will be celebrating the new year for the third year in a row at a new venue, Fish & Sips, with a “Concert Extravaganza” starting at 7:00 p.m. (live music at 8:00) and going for the rest of the year on Beachway Avenue where you’ll eat, drink and be merry right on the waterfront until 1:00 a.m.

Guess he was tired of singing in the street for chump change. Sometimes he’d sing to an audience of one, going up to strangers with a question: “can I sing you a song?” He’d play a bass, kick a drum, shake a foot tambourine, and sing his “Life In Jersey” tune. His venues were parking lots, sidewalks and campsites. But now singer-songwriter Gregory McLoughlin has made an album. His self-titled debut comes out December 12.

West Long Branch singer-songwriter-author Francesca Fuentes will be performing and partnering with HIP Video Promo on its 25^th anniversary to spread some good holiday cheer this Sunday, Nov. 16, at a free 2:00 afternoon food drive in Milltown at Revilla Grooves & Gear on North Main Street. Fans are encouraged to bring non-perishable food donations to support local families in need. Jake Thistle and Sam Tunkel will also perform.

The ‘50s Beat Generation preceded ‘60s hippies. Poets Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Newark’s Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder and Gregory Corso are all dead now but they planted the seeds for what became the hippie generation.

After the literary successes of Patti Smith’s 2010 Just Kids, and her 2015 M Train, her brand new third memoir, Bread Of Angels, is enthralling readers with its personalized anecdotes about growing up on the Jersey side of the Pennsylvania border in Gloucester County’s Deptford Township. The first book keyed in on one of the loves of her life, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe [1946-1989]. This third book gets even more personal.

It’s been seven years since Morristown singer-songwriter Ali Auburn released new music. Her new single, “Win Or Lose,” is a beautiful heartfelt ode to finally finding the right person in life.

The Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation will present acclaimed Louisiana singer-songwriter-slide guitarist Chris Vincent back to New Jersey (he grew up in Bayonne) on Dec. 5 at The Chubby Pickle on Bay Avenue in Highlands. The following afternoon he will host a blues-guitar master-class at 2:00 at the Women’s Club of Red Bank on Broad Street.

Deep within Mercer County lies the sleepy hamlet of Hopewell Valley. It’s where alt-folksinger Gabe Parsons is from.  Despite his young age, the locale itself suffuses his sound with a world-weary sophistication. Long Road Traveler is the debut and it is eminently listenable, filled with a longing and yearning intimacy.

Femme Fatale was a band from New Mexico that hit it big in Los Angeles with its one and only self-titled studio album in 1988, opened for Cheap Trick all over the world in 1989 and broke up in 1990. Now they’re back again with Paramus guitarist-composer-producer Steve Brown who brought in New Brunswick guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal.