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Hard Rock in Atlantic City will showcase NJ artists in Garden State Live! series

3 days ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

1 Starting in August, The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, in conjunction with the North to Shore Festival, will showcase New Jersey artists in a monthly series titled Garden State Live!The series will take place at the Hard Rock’s Sound Waves theater and, according to the North to Shore website, it will showcase “some of the best artists on the music scene with a focus on southern and central Jersey.
New Jersey Symphony will play mix of Beethoven and ... Beyoncé

4 days ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

1 gComposer and conductor Steve Hackman will present his “Beethoven X Beyoncé” concert with New Jersey Symphony, plus guest singers and instrumentalists, Oct. 24 at Prudential Hall at NJPAC in Newark. Tickets will go on sale June 27 at 10 a.m.; visit njsymphony.org.
Brotherly love: Isley Brothers, Jonas Brothers will be among 2025 NJ Hall of Fame inductees

4 days ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

1 The Isley Brothers, The Jonas Brothers, Bon Jovi keyboardist (and Tony-winning composer) David Bryan and Michael Uslan (producer or co-producer of many Batman movies) will be the four New Jersey Hall of Fame inductees this year, in the Performing Arts & Entertainment category. The ceremony will take place Nov. 21 at The Rink @ The Arena (whose ice can be covered for non-skating events) at American Dream mall in East Rutherford, with Danny DeVito tentatively scheduled to host.
Documentary turns focus on Jule Campbell, NJ woman behind Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

4 days ago | njarts.net | Stephen Whitty

2 For more than 60 years, Sports Illustrated has had a swimsuit issue. Somewhere along the way, though, they realized they had a swimsuit issue. Wasn’t this a pretty obvious way to boost sales by marketing sexy pictures to horny men? Wasn’t the whole project just perhaps the most perfect example of “the male gaze,” the way that images in popular culture typically demean and objectify women? The first answer is, yes, absolutely.
Bruce Springsteen's 'Perfect World' (ALBUM REVIEW)

5 days ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

1 (Note: This is the seventh and last post in a series in which I have reviewed all the albums in Bruce Springsteen’s “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” boxed set, separately. The set will come out on June 27.)Tracks II: The Lost Albums should really be called The Lost Albums Plus ‘Perfect World.” Because this album, unlike the six others, was never lost.
Prequels, sequels and reboots: Big summer movies are usually part of something bigger now

5 days ago | njarts.net | Stephen Whitty

1 School’s out for summer. Unless you’re going to the movies. Instead of offering an escape, these days too many would-be warm-weather blockbusters are assigning serious homework. New chapters in never-ending narratives, stories that require a deep-dive knowledge not only of the original franchise but all its other spinoffs … these pictures demand that you study. Because there will be a quiz.
Bruce Springsteen's 'Twilight Hours' (ALBUM REVIEW)

6 days ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

1 (Note: This is the sixth post in a series in which I am reviewing the seven albums in Bruce Springsteen’s “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” boxed set, separately. The set will come out on June 27.)In 2021, Stephen Colbert asked Bruce Springsteen an interesting question on “The Late Show”: “You have one song to listen to for the rest of your life. What is it?”Would The Boss respond with something by Elvis? The Beatles? Chuck Berry? No, no and no. “One? Whoa,” he replied.
Bruce Springsteen's 'Inyo' (ALBUM REVIEW)

1 week ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

1 (Note: This is the fifth post in a series in which I am reviewing the seven albums in Bruce Springsteen’s “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” boxed set, separately. The set will come out on June 27.)Bruce Springsteen fans will remember that “Adelita” — the song from the Tracks II album Inyo that was released as a single last month — features mariachi musicians. So does another Inyo song, “The Last Charro,” and this one is even more musically lush and lyrically melodramatic.
Bruce Springsteen's 'Somewhere North of Nashville' (ALBUM REVIEW)

1 week ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

2 (Note: This is the fourth post in a series in which I will review the seven albums in Bruce Springsteen’s “Tracks II: The Lost Albums” boxed set, separately. The set will come out on June 27.)Bruce Springsteen is so prolific that in his spare time, while recording his The Ghost of Tom Joad album in 1995, he made a second album as well: Somewhere North of Nashville, which is now part of the Tracks II: The Lost Albums boxed set.
The Lost Albums' moves to larger venue

1 week ago | njarts.net | Jay Lustig

1 At 7 p.m. June 26, the night before Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II: The Lost Albums is released, The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch will offer a two-hour advance listening session for selections from the set, at the university’s Pollak Theatre. (The event was originally planned for the university’s smaller Lauren K.