As with previous years, let me make the following comments before you see my list:

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New Brunswick/Asbury Park singer/songwriter and frequent sideman Tommy Strazza starts his new album off with an old-timey novelty song and ends it with a classic rock ballad that sounds like it’s being sung in an arena in front of 50,000 cigarette lighters held aloft and waving in time to the track’s anthemic whoa-oh-oh chorus.

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Tommy Strazza combines melodic pop sensibilities with genuine guitar-oriented rock and roll. It’s kind of like having your cake and eating it, too. Strazzas newest disk titled, The Model Citizen LP shows a matured writer that leaves no influential stone unturned in his enthusiastic quest for fresh, stand apart from the crowd, sounds.

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Listening to Tommy Strazza is like listening to a history lesson of rock &roll. It kinda sounds like what rock music would have been if the money grubbing corporations hadn’t gotten their hands all over it. No, this ain’t indie or alternative or anything like that. It’s plain old rock &roll. The album starts out with “You’re Not the Only Show,” a real swingin’ tune that sounds like it could have come out an early rock band from the 50s in the south, with a real rockabilly flare. “SensoryOverload” is more modern, sounding sort of like an 80s Elvis Costello pop tune up…

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October 8th – Asbury Lanes, Asbury Park, NJ
w/ The Sunday Blues, The Amboys, and WUPA.
8pm/ALL AGES!!! More info to follow!!!

For more info, visit the shows page.