Walter Trout’s 31st album, ‘Broken,’ will be released by the Mascot Label Group in March. It’s a star-studded affair. Beth Hart sings the title track like there’s no tomorrow.

It happened November 30 when Darlene Love performed her annual “Love For The Holidays” show at Town Hall in New York City. Out came Bruce with a special mission: to present the legendary singer with a platinum album for sales in excess of one million copies for the 1963 pioneering ‘A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector’ which introduced her “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Beatles coming to America on February 3.

For its 23rd year of its ongoing effort to defeat Parkinson’s Disease, ALS and PSP (Progressive Supranuclear Palsy), the Light of Day Foundation has announced its 2024 lineup

They might have started Stone Temple Pilots in California but brothers Dean and Robert DeLeo are Jersey Boys who graduated Point Pleasant High School in Ocean County. They have now announced their participation in the High Voltage Rock’n’Roll Fantasy Camp February 15-18 in Los Angeles with Nancy Wilson of Heart and Chris Slade of AC/DC.

There’s a new rock’n’roll Christmas song out there that rivals Chuck Berry’s great “Run Run Rudolph.” Tommy Byrne is a singer-songwriter from Woodbridge in Middlesex County and his “Coal For Christmas” rocks bigtime.

Recorded in a Nashville church, “Christmas Isn’t Christmas” is the first new music from Bon Jovi since the release of the band’s 15th album ‘2020.’

The Weeklings will be leaving their Asbury Park home base to travel south as they were invited to participate in the “International Beatles On The Beach Classic Rock Festival” January 24-28 on Delray Beach, Florida.

‘Free To Be Naked’ (Goliath Publishing) is the new book by Brooklyn photographer Ellen Stagg, and she will be signing, smiling and posing for pictures with readers who buy the book at the Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park on Sunday December 16 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Trixter’s Steve Brown has been in the studio co-producing Ace Frehley’s ‘10,000 Volts’ with the ex-KISS guitarist (not due until February 23.) The title track single, which he co-wrote, is out now.

Last month, metal historian Eddie Trunk hosted “Bowl For Ronnie,” a celebrity bowling party to benefit the Ronnie James Dio “Stand Up And Shout” cancer fund. It raised over $80 grand.

Livingston-born singer-songwriter-guitarist Marco Benevento can be heard on the new ‘Benefit Concert Volume #20,’ due December 8 from Evil Teen Records/Mascot Label Group.

“Xmas Eve On Venice Beach,” by Andy B.AND SoulFolk, is the latest from one of Central Jersey’s longest-lasting characters, Andy Bernstein, a.k.a. Andy B, a singer-songwriter-percussionist. He was, is, and likely will forever be, a member of Roots Rockers The VooDUDES. He labels his current sound "Garageband Americana," likening it to the summers he saw Levon & The Hawks (later The Band) down the shore.

Singer-Songwriter-Drummer-Guitarist-Pianist-Producer Rachel Ana Dobken, from Asbury Park, is having “Just A Dream,” the first single off her forthcoming ‘Acceptance’ album, co-produced with Paul Ritchie of The Parlor Mob and Erik Romero of The Front Bottoms.

The 43rd annual John Lennon Tribute concert will take place at Town Hall in New York City on December 2 with Graham Nash, Judy Collins, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Willie Nile and Lisa Fischer. But we’re most excited about Soul Goddess Bettye LaVette adding her royal presence to the festivities.

South Plainfield’s Jem Records has re-released ‘Under The Influence Of Christmas’ by The Grip Weeds with guests Jim Babjek and Pat Dinizio [1955-2017] of The Smithereens as guests. The 11 tracks have psychedelic flair amid sumptuous harmony.

Jessie Wagner asks that musical question, “Are You Scared” in her new single featuring Scott Martin. The back-up Disciple of Soul singer has also sung on stages with Lenny Kravitz, Chic and Duran Duran besides fronting her own Army of the Underdog.

Watch Stevie Van Zandt on ‘60 Minutes’ November 19, 2023

They called him Funky. George Brown started Kool & The Gang in 1964 Jersey City with brothers Ronald and Robert “Kool” Bell and neighborhood friends Spike Mickens, Dee Tee Thomas, Ricky Westfield and Charles Smith, as a jazz-pop-funk-soul collective. By the time of their 1969 self-titled debut album, they were opening shows for Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby. Brown passed away November 16 in Los Angeles at the age of 74.

Bruce Springsteen has been nominated for a Grammy Award for the 51st time. (He’s won 20.) His album ‘Only The Strong Survive’ will compete as “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album” against ‘Sondheim Unplugged (The NYC Sessions)’ by Various Artists, ‘Holidays Around The World’ by Pentatonix, ‘Bewitched’ by Lauley, ‘Pieces Of Treasure’ by Rickie Lee Jones and ‘To Steve With Love: Liz Calloway Celebrates Sondheim.’