Bern & the Brights to celebrate Record Store Day in Hoboken, releasing 7'' single

Celebrate Record Store Day with one of New Jersey's finest, Bern & the Brights. Tomorrow, they release their single "Starchild." Listen to the tune here and catch them at Tunes or Maxwell's or heck both tomorrow.

The Naked Heroes played Rockbar, released vinyl picture disc (live review + album remarks)

Brooklyn's The Naked Heroes know how to boogey. With their '80s rock 'n roll influenced hardrock style you can't help but want to shake, headbang, and raise your fist while listening to these ferocious gems on 99 Diamond  Guitarist and vocalist George Michael Jackson (what a name) and drummer Merica Lee are a great combination of goodness to get you groovin'. The band performed at gay club, Rockbar at the edge of NYC's Christopher Street. Opening the evening was drag-queen Devin Stone, who did a little dance on the pool table and introduced the band.

After, the show was underway with the beginning of "99 Diamond." The anthemic nature of the song calls for you to sing "99 Diamond. Yeah." The sexy harmonica playing was greeted with cheers from the crowd. "Black Dress" also had that '80s hardrock flair to it. There were a few technical difficulties but the band stuck through it and improvised and the show carried on fairly smoothly after the sound issues diminished. "Sheila" was also a groovin' and driving number that. During the band's last song they played in the crowd, something that always makes me happy. I remember seeing Monotonix for the first time at Bowery Ballroom playing on the floor and thought that more bands should do that.

Record Store Day 2009 Events

Stores across New Jersey and New York will celebrate Record Store Day with a number of performances.

Stores that are participating in New Jersey are:

CD Exchange(Northfield, NJ)
Curmudgeon Records (Somerville, NJ)
Eyeconik Records & Apparel (Franklin, NJ)
ez2collect (Fair Lawn, NJ)
Grooveground (Collingswood, NJ
Jack's Music Shoppe (Red Bank, NJ)
Princeton Record Exchange (Princeton, NJ)
RECORD CITY (PATERSON, NJ)
RECORD KING (HACKENSACK, NJ)
Scotti's Record Shops (3) (Summit, NJ)
Sound City (Bayonne, NJ)
Sound of Trenton (TRENTON, NJ)
Sound Station (Westfield, NJ)
The Record Collector (Bordentown, NJ)
The Record Store (Howell, NJ)
Tunes(Marlton , NJ)
Tunes(Hoboken, NJ)
Tunes(Voorhees, NJ)
Tunes(Turnersville, NJ)
Vintage Vinyl (Fords, NJ)
ZIG ZAG (Atlantic Highlands, NJ)

Check "read more" for schedule of performance at Vintage Vinyl, Generation Records, and Looney Tunes.

Vintage Vinyl
New Jersey's legendary Vintage Vinyl in Fords will have an all day instore event for Record Store Day on April 18. Currently, 5 artists are set to perform. The store will also have copies of exlusive music releases from various artists.

Record Store Day Schedule:

12pm: William Fitzsimmons- Performance
1pm: he Color Fred- Performance
2pm: illie Nile- Performing and signing his new CD "House of a Thousand Guitars"
3pm: Mayday Parade- Acoustic Performance
3:30pm Titus Andronicus- Performance
Others TBA

Generation Records

Generation Records is proud to announce that New Jersey's favorite punk band, The Bouncing Souls will be playing a special, acoustic in-store on April 18th, in celebration of Record Store Day.

All you need to do to get in is buy a copy of the Souls' "20th Anniversary Volume 1" 7-inch from us on the day of the show. We will have the solid maroon pressing (only 1000 made!) for sale. The 7-inch will be $5. We will NOT be selling the 7-inch before the 18th, only the day of the show.

The show will start at 2 P.M. Space will be extremely limited so spots will only be available on a first come, first serve basis. Anyone that's been to our in-stores in the past knows it gets pretty packed in our basement, so we'd recommend getting here early.

For further updates, keep checking Generation Records' Myspace (myspace.com/generationrecordsnyc)

Looney Tunes
12pm: The Gay Blades (performance)
1pm: Brian Bonz (performance)
2pm: Kevin Devine (performance)
3pm: Dan Nelson from Anthrax (autograh signing)
TBA: S.I.G.H (performance)

Kevin Devine's performance will be taped for a live at Looney Cd release. Pre-order Kevin's new cd "Brother's Blood," that's out on April 28th and receive a free bootleg cd copy of this show at 5pm.

More information here.