Eddie's Garage will perform at Pinestock II in Mays Landing on Saturday.

The Pinestock II Music Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 4, from 2pm-2am at the Watering Hole Café in Mays Landing. Admission to the festival is free and open to all ages until 9pm, at which time a nominal cover charge will apply and guests must be 21 years of age or older to stay later.  

Pinestock was put together by members of the band Eddie’s Garage and was the brainchild of band member Billy Zane, percussionist and vocalist. Zane’s motivation behind creating the festival was to thank fans who have supported Eddie’s Garage and other local musicians throughout year, while showcasing the home-grown talented musicians and bands.

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The Sweet Soul and Rock 'n' Roll Concert in Wildwood has been canceled.

Event organizer Carver Entertainment Group, citing the pending adverse weather conditions brought on by Hurricane Earl, has canceled the Sweet Soul and Rock & Roll Concert Series — to have taken place this Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Wildwoods Convention Centerr — and plans to reschedule at a later date. No date has been announced as of this time.

Three legendary groups from the Motown era were scheduled to perform at in the inaugural event — The Spinners, Little Anthony and the Imperials (pictured), and The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards. Celebrity impersonator Linda Axelrod was to host the show, performing at Joan Rivers.

For more information contact the Carver Entertainment Group at 570-646-2643. For information about the Wildwoods, go here or call 609-729-9000.

Nice work folks! (Click to read the Brooklyn Vegan post:)

Thanks for the shout out, Brooklyn Vegan.

Here’s the rest of Iggy & the Stooges coverage, including a preview, concert review, and photo gallery from the concert at the House of Blues at Showboat, Atlantic City, Aug. 27, 2010.

Atlantic City Weekly has learned that the Experience Hendrix tour is coming back to Atlantic City this November. Among the just-announced set of fall dates for the tour — which crisscrossed the country earlier this year — is a Nov. 13 date at Caesars Atlantic City.

The line-up of the tour this time out, includes the late Hendrix’s long-time friend and musical partner Billy Cox, along with an impressive list of blues-rockers, including Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph, Jonny Lang, Steve Vai, Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, Eric Johnson, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Chris Layton of Double Trouble and The Slide Brothers.

According to a news release sent to the media today, “For the first time in its history, Experience Hendrix, the concert tour that has wowed audiences revisiting the music and inspiration of Jimi Hendrix featuring an all-star line up of music greats will be re-launched within a single calendar year. The Experience Hendrix tour crisscrossed the country this past March for a string of sold-out concerts and will return with a new set of U.S. and — for the first time — Canadian dates this October and November.”

Click here for more information on the tour series.

Tickets are on sale now for the Experience Hendrix Fall 2010 dates, which are:

Oct. 26 – Pittsburgh – Benedum Theater
28 – Toronto, ON – Sony Center
29 – Quebec City, QUE – Grand Theatre
30 – Montreal, QUE – Place des Arts
Nov. 2 – Buffalo, NY – Center for the Arts
3 – Morristown, NJ – Community Theatre
4 – Mashantucket, CT – MGM Grand @ Foxwoods
6 – Albany, NY – Palace Theater
7 – Boston, MA -  Orpheum Theater
9 – Hershey, PA – Hershey Theatre
10 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
11 – Baltimore, MD – Hippodrome
12 – Richmond, VA – Landmark Theater
13 – Atlantic City, NJ – Caesars Casino
16 – Columbus, OH- Palace Theater
17 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theater
18 – Detroit, MI – Fox Theater
19 – Merrilville, IN – Star Plaza Theater
20 – Indianapolis – Murat Theatre

One of the smaller participants in last year's Roar to the Shore motorcycle event in the Wildwoods. (photo from roartotheshoreonline.com)

If you need a quick “roar” fix between the recently completed “Thunder Over the Boardwalk” air show and the upcoming revival of Atlantic City’s “Feel the Power” offshore powerboat races on Sept. 19, then head down to Wildwood for the annual “Roar to the Shore” motorcycle rally taking place Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 9-12.

Thousands of bikers will roll into the Wildwoods for this 15^th annual event featuring specialized vendors and demonstrations, live entertainment and more. The vast vendor areas will feature hundreds of top-of-the-line merchants. It will be open each of the four days from 9am, and include everything from pin-striping, accessories, leather goods, helmets, eye protection, fine cigars and (drum roll please) … a mobile Jack Daniels museum. Merchants will be spread across five separate vending areas sited at the Wildwoods Convention Center (WCC)’s parking lot, and all along Oak and Atlantic avenues in downtown Wildwood.

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As reported by Spinner.com, the band Phish has announced a fall tour, including three dates in Atlantic City at Boardwalk Hall. The dates are Oct. 29, 30 & 31. As most Phish fans know, the band typically does something very special for its Halloween gigs.

As spinner.com has it:

“The Atlantic City shows are of particular note because they will be the backdrop for the band’s annual Halloween tradition. Every year on the holiday, Phish perform a three-set show, including one set in which they don a “musical costume” and cover an album in its entirety. Last year’s nominees included discs by MGMT, Michael Jackson and Led Zeppelin, with the winner being the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street.”

Another interesting note: The band’s Trey Anastasio recorded the 2008 album Original Boardwalk Style: Live in Atlantic City, which was recorded during his New Year’s Eve sets at the House of Blues at Showboat in 2006-2007.

Roy Goldberg with the Hooters' Eric Bazilian

On Sunday, Aug. 22, the Gold Foundation hosted its sixth annual Margate Rock Festival, a free summer blockbuster concert presented by Harrah’s Entertainment. The live concert featured The Hooters, whose show was followed by a fireworks display over the Margate bayfront sponsored by Tomatoe’s Restaurant.
The Hooters hit the club scene in 1980 and skyrocketed to national prominence with hit songs like “Day By Day,” “And We Danced,” “Where do the Children Go,” “All You Zombies,” “Hanging on a Heartbeat,” “Can’t Get Blood from a Stone” and others. Original band members Eric Bazilian, Rob Hyman and Dave Uosikkinen were later joined by Fran Smith and John Lilley, and that combination has remained intact for over 20 years.

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The Atlantic City Free Public Library’s International Night performance scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 18, featuring Island Jam (pictured left) has been canceled due to inclement weather.
This performance will not be rescheduled as part of the International Night series, however Island Jam is tentatively scheduled to perform at the library’s Family Fun Festival on Saturday, Sept. 25 (on Tennessee Avenue next to the library, 11am-4pm).
The International Night Series finale (at Kennedy Plaza on the Boardwalk) is slated for 7pm Wednesday, Aug. 25, and will feature Bollywood Axion (pictured right).
For more information, call 345-2269, ext. 3112 or go here.

What sad news I came across while reading the New York Times online on Sunday.

One of my favorite singers and songwriters has passed away.

Abbey Lincoln, at 80, died Saturday as most jazz fans know by now. And most of Abbey’s fans know the details of her vivacious life. Her lounge singing start in the 1950s, her supreme acting in important roles in the 1960s films Nothing But a Man (1964) and For Love of Ivy (1968), both of which came after her 1962 marriage to jazz drummer and bandleader Max Roach.

Her personal and musical relationship with Roach would play an important part in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s as well as in Lincoln’s own musical career. She branched out from supper-club singer to jazz singer and songwriter, collaborating with a multitude of jazz giants over the course of her long career, including pairings with Archie Shepp, Eric Dolphy and Sonny Rollins, and, of course, Roach.

In the past two decades, Lincoln’s songwriting really hit its stride, with a string of fantastic, critically acclaimed albums starting with 1991’s The World Is Falling Down, 1993’s The Devil Got Your Tongue, 1994’s perfect A Turtle’s Dream and 2007’s ambitious Abbey Sings Abbey. There are a bunch of great albums in between too.

My favorite Abbey tune is “Throw it Away,” from A Turtle’s Dream. In memory of one of the coolest chicks that ever came out of the American jazz scene, here are a few passages from the song:

Throw it away

Throw it away

Give your love, live your life

Each and every day

And keep your hand wide open

‘Let the sun shine through

‘Cause you can never lose a thing

If it belongs to you

You can also listen to NPR’s “Fresh Air” tribute to Lincoln, including interviews with the late singer from 1986 and 1996.

Keep your hand wide open, Abbey.

Manilow and Slater (from usmagazine.com)

The former Jet Blue flight attendant who has been in the news since quitting his job prior to an Aug. 9 flight met Barry Manilow after the singer’s Aug. 14 appearance in Atlantic City and got this pic taken with him.

Read more here.