Soulful Femme is Stevee Wellons and Cheryl Rinovato. Their Attitude was recorded at Fat Rabbit Studios in Montclair and produced by blues great Albert Castiglia. Another blues great, Tommy Castro, contributes to their scintillating cover of James Brown’s “Talkin’ Loud And Sayin’ Nothing.”

Prof. Roddy Bogawa, who has taught at Jersey City University for the last 31 years, has directed a new documentary, ‘Have You Got It Yet? The Story Of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd.’ It is the first film to delve into the tragic story of Pink Floyd’s original leader, Syd Barrett, who became an acid casualty. Did LSD hamper his vision? Or was he always mentally ill?

The 15th class of inductees to the New Jersey Hall of Fame were announced last week. Among the honorees are singer Tony Orlando (Union City) and singer-songwriter-guitarist Patti Scialfa (Deal) of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. The ceremony will take place in Newark at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on October 29.

The new Steve Conte single, “Fourth Of July,” co-written by Andy Partridge of British rock band XTC, might be a little late for Independence Day but it sure rocks.

Here’s another chapter in the story that just won’t die. DiWulf Publishing House/Total Gavone Publishing is re-releasing Danny Marianino’s 2012 book, ‘Don’t Ever Punch A Rock Star: A Collection of Hate Mail and Other Crazy Rumors,’ with 100 new pages.

On July 28 and August 5, Acute Inflections, the jazzy, bluesy, soulful New York City duo, will perform two free outdoor concerts. With a set list that includes Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday, amidst their own compositions, they pepper their performances with comedy and style.

A new musical based on the life and music of Hoboken’s Frank Sinatra will open at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in Great Britain on September 23 with 20 actors and 17 musicians performing 26 Sinatra classics. Matt Doyle will star.

Morristown swings! Outdoors! For Free! On September 22 and 23, in the downtown Morristown Green, and across the street at Pioneer’s Plaza, Louis Prima, Jr. & The Witnesses will cover such classic songs by his father, the legendary Louie Prima [1910-1978] as “Sing Sing Sing,” “Jump Jive & Wail,” “Just A Gigolo” and “Angelina The Waitress At The Pizzeria.”

Singer-Songwriter-Arranger-Guitarist Marc Ribler, besides being the Musical Director of Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul, and co-producer of the legendary Darlene Love, has a new trio, Story Road, and their first single, “Armageddon,” landed yesterday.

The Mayo Performing Arts Center, has announced the remainder of its 2023 concert season.

New York Times best-selling author Alan Paul will return to his Maplewood home town in Essex County on July 20 at the Words Bookstore—179 Maplewood Avenue—to talk about and sign his latest book, Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Define the ‘70s.

In case you haven’t heard, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band is on tour. Now iconic guitarist-composer-producer-vocalist-arranger-actor-author-label head-disc jockey Stevie Van Zandt is making a limited number of his own private stash of damn good seats for the rest of the tour up for sale and proceeds from all the different package configurations support TeachRock.org.

Jersey City’s Fit For An Autopsy will perform at this year’s annual New England Metal & Hardcore Fest in Worcester Massachusetts on September 16 in a balls-to-the-wall three-stage spectacular headlined by Lamb Of God, Hatebreed and Shadows Fall. The Palladium Outdoors will undergo seismic eruptions what with bands like Parkway Drive, The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus also on the bill.

Patti Smith—from Deptford Township in Gloucester County—will bring her “Words and Music” show to the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton on September 23.

New Jersey will be well represented this year at the most prestigious award show of them all, the 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors held at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC on December 3, and televised before the end of the year. Dionne Warwick from East Orange and Queen Latifah from Newark join fellow honorees Billy Crystal, Barry Gibb and Renee Fleming.

Circle the dates. On September 16 and 17, the fifth annual Sea.Hear.Now Festival will take place on three stages in Asbury Park on the beach with The Killers, Foo Fighters, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, The Beach Boys, Living Color, Sheryl Crow, Greta Van Fleet, Weezer and Quincy Mumford amongst the performing artists.

The 2023 MTV Music Video Awards are returning to downtown Newark at the Prudential Center on September 12 and broadcast to 150 countries.

The Paper Mill Playhouse has announced its 2023 summer cabaret lineup, outside at its Brookside Cabaret, where Broadway regulars, Manhattan cabaret stars and veterans of Paper Mill Playhouse past productions go to do full sets.

Anyone who has frequented the bustling bar scene of the Jersey Show must’ve seen Mike Miz open for Southside Johnny, Jason Isbell, Lukas Nelson or a host of other headliners in and around Asbury Park. But it took leaving to find himself, once he saw Asbury in his rear-view window as he drove south.

‘A Thousand Pebbles’ (One Trick Dog Records), the second album by the Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project (fourth overall), with composer/producer Ben on piano and accordion, backed by an absolutely stunning lineup of surprising syncopation—with Croatian church bells, trumpet, flugelhorn, alto sax, tenor sax, bass clarinet, flute, alto flute, guitar, bass and drums—travels the world-music spectrum.