The Bongos

Power Pop Rock 

The Shroud of Touring: The Bongos’ Lost Live Album is a Secret No More

June 27, 2025June 27, 2025 Jim Allen 0 Comments 2025, Hoboken, JEM Records, New Jersey, Richard Barone, The Bongos, The Shroud of Touring: Live in 1985

The 1985 concert recording expands the power pop heroes’ legacy

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Alternative Rock Post-Punk Power Pop Punk Rock 

Pylon Reenactment Society to Tour with Richard Barone

June 4, 2025June 5, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2025, Athens, Georgia, Hoboken, Pylon Reenactment Society, Richard Barone, The Bongos, Tour, Vanessa Briscoe Hay

The week-long trek kicks off June 14 in Nashville

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Indie Rock Pop Rock 

The Cucumbers: Dancing in Old Shoes

July 19, 2023July 19, 2023 j. poet 0 Comments 40th Anniversary, Deena Shoshkes, Hoboken, John Fried, New Jersey, Old Shoes, The Bongos, The Cucumbers, The Feelies

Why the New Jersey originals remain brilliantly quirky after all these years

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Alternative Rock Rock 

WATCH: Love Tractor Shares Lyric Video for “J.E.B. Pharoahs”

July 11, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 10000 Maniacs, 1983, 40th Anniversary, Alex Chilton, Around The Bend, Athens, Dream Syndicate, Georgia, Husker Du, Indigo Girls, Love Tractor, Meat Puppets, Propeller Sound Recordings, Robyn Hitchcock, The Bongos, The dB's, The Feelies, The Gun Club, The Replacements, Violent Femmes

The celebrated Athens, GA, band is reissuing their 1983 sophomore LP Around The Bend on September 1st

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Folk Music Journalism 

It Takes a Village: Richard Barone on Writing Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Jim Allen 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Fred Neil, John Sebastian, Maria Muldaur, Melanie, Music + Evolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Phil Ochs, Richard Barone, The Bongos

A rocker captures the feel of the folk explosion in prose

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Punk 

Misfits Or Martians: Walk Among Us Turns 40

March 29, 2022August 29, 2023 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 20 Eyes, Blue Oyster Cult, Danzig, Doyle, Glen Danzig, Jerry Only, Klaus Nomi, Misfits, The Bongos, The Contortions, The Misfits, the Offs, The Raybeats, the Speedies, the Student Teachers, Tina Peel, Walk Among Us

The debut LP from Lodi, NJ’s horror punk kings has been out of print for years; does it deserve a resurrection?

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