BlowUpRadio.com Newsletter 5/5/25
Hi Everyone,
Rock Against Hate Volumes 5 & 6 are out now!
Volume 5 benefits Planned Parenthood: https://rahpp.bandcamp.com
Volume 6 benefits Kids In Need of Defense (KIND): https://rahkind.bandcamp.com
More info at https://rockagainsthate.org
Rock Against Hate 7 & 8, benefiting No More Dysphoria, and The Trevor Project, will be released on June 6th.
And work has begun for Banding Together benefit for the Spondylitis Association of America, which will also celebrate BlowUpRadio.com's 25th Anniversary!
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Lazlo will be broadcasting live with the following special programming:
BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music - Monday @ 7pm ET (see playlist below)
Lazlo's Den Presents New Music - Tuesday @ 7pm ET (see playlist below)
Plus:
BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music: Remix - Everyday @ Noon & 9pm ET (an hour of songs recently on BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music)
Live @ Five - Everyday @ 5pm ET (a full hour of live recordings from New Jersey artists)
Listen here: http://player.live365.com/a42405?l
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Every other Monday read a new BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music: on New Jersey Stage: https://www.newjerseystage.com/content/author/lazlo
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Latest Updates on BlowUpRadio.com
MUSIC VIDEO: Indeyevid - "Red Dye 40" (NJ)
MUSIC VIDEO: Those Looks - "Passing Through" (NJ)
BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music: 4/28/25 (read it on New Jersey Stage)
(feat: Zachary West & The Good Grief; Roadside Graves; jpeck; Danello, The Sad Surfer; Monda; Cyborg Amok;
Above the Moon; Arlan Feiles; and Ali Zanders
Plus a look back at The Successful Failures)
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Lazlo's Corner
I have to admit, I'm a little shaken this week by the loss of Mike Peters of The Alarm on Tuesday from cancer, followed by the loss Thursday of Jill Sobule from a house fire. While neither artist is from New Jersey, I have been a fan of both for a long time, and lucky enough to have seen both perform live (though I'm disappointed that just last month I was unable to see Jill Sobule when she played in New Jersey).
People like to talk about what is and isn't punk rock. I'd like to argue here that both of these artists were punk rock in their own way.
Jill Sobule, as has been in pretty much every article I have seen about her this week, is widely considered the first artist to have a song with openly-gay themes to crack the Top 20 on the charts. She did so with a cheekily subversive song, and an even more subversive video that Fabio (at the height of his popularity) appeared in. What's more punk rock than that? That many only know her for "I Kissed A Girl", and "Supermodel", a song she didn't write, is a crime.
Mike Peters, and his band The Alarm, is often reduced to being known for "Rain In The Summertime" and "Sixty Eight Guns", but for over forty they put out amazing rock songs, and in one of the most punk acts (in my mind) of the 21st century, when European DJ's didn't want to play their 2004 single "45 RPM", saying that the band was too old to still be making good music, they hired a young local band to become "The Poppy Fields", a fake new band that released the single which quickly entered Britain's Top 30 charts and garnered a lot of positive press. When The Alarm finally came forward about The Poppy Fields being a hoax, it really highlighted ageism in the music industry (sadly here we 21 years later and ageism is still as big a problem as ever in music).
I've been listening to both artists a lot this weekend and realizing how much I will miss them both.
#SupportGoodMusic
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This week on BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music we have new music from:
Night Windows - " Baseball Cards " from " Nonsense "
Zachary West & The Good Grief - " New Idea, Not Great " from " Intrusive Thoughts "
Above The Moon - " Never Changes " from " There Is No Arrival - Vol. 1 "
Gina Royale feat. Thomas Monaco - " Treading " from " Treading [single] "
Ali Zanders - " common ground " from " Class of 2021 "
Arlan Feiles - " Leo Frank (Hang 'Im High) " from " Diaspora "
furiousBall - " Shuriken " from " I'll Be Your Arsonist "
Phoneboy - " Talking to Heads " from " Heartbreak Designer "
A.J. Vega - " Funny Twigs " from " BUNNYSTAR / Funny Twigs "
Those Looks - " In Tongues " from " Passing Through [EP] "
The Nightly Noodle - " Donburi " from " Donburi [single] "
Million Year Picnic - " Pointless Conversations " from " Dinosaur "
madipao - " Nowhere Now " from " Nowhere Now [single] "
Ian Matthew Keller - " where I stand " from " 61 "
BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music airs Monday @ 7pm ET
Listen here: http://player.live365.com/a42405?l
See playlist (with links to all the acts) here: https://blowupradio.com/den/2025/050525.html
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This week on Lazlo's Den Presents New Music we have new music from:
The Briefs - " Hospital Elevator " from " Hospital Elevator [single] "
Bat Boy - " Brave " from " Split EP "
The Happy Fits - " Everything You Do " from " Lovesick "
Sean Marshall - " Begging for a Change " from " Begging for a Change [single] "
Stereophonics - " Make It On Your Own " from " Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait "
Long A - " Dissolve (feat Tanya Donelly) " from " Dissolve (feat Tanya Donelly) [single] "
Lance Cowan - " Ragged Edge of Nothing " from " Against The Grain "
Jensen McRae - " Praying For Your Downfall " from " I Don't Know How But They Found Me! "
Luke Spiller - " If This Isn't Love " from " If This Isn't Love [single] "
The Airport 77s - " 1999 " from " Don't Let Go "
Far Caspian - " First Day " from " Auto-Fiction "
Pomegranate County Irregulars - " Cold Pomegranate 64 (Amateurs) " from " Cold Pomegranate 64 (Amateurs) [single] "
Esha Tewari - " million times " from " wraith [EP] "
The Toxhards - " Beatrice " from " Your Neighborhood "
Tabloid Nation - " Spring " from " Spring [single] "
Off-Leash - " Lying Down " from " Lying Down [single] "
Lazlo's Den Presents New Music airs Tuesday @ 7pm
Listen here: http://player.live365.com/a42405?l
See playlist (with links to all the acts) here: https://blowupradio.com/den/2025/050625.html
#SupportGoodMusic
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That's all for this week folks.
Peace,
Lazlo
www.BlowUpRadio.com
www.WhereNJRockLives.com
Rock Against Hate Volumes 5 & 6 are out now!
Volume 5 benefits Planned Parenthood: https://rahpp.bandcamp.com
Volume 6 benefits Kids In Need of Defense (KIND): https://rahkind.bandcamp.com
More info at https://rockagainsthate.org
Rock Against Hate 7 & 8, benefiting No More Dysphoria, and The Trevor Project, will be released on June 6th.
And work has begun for Banding Together benefit for the Spondylitis Association of America, which will also celebrate BlowUpRadio.com's 25th Anniversary!
~~~
Lazlo will be broadcasting live with the following special programming:
BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music - Monday @ 7pm ET (see playlist below)
Lazlo's Den Presents New Music - Tuesday @ 7pm ET (see playlist below)
Plus:
BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music: Remix - Everyday @ Noon & 9pm ET (an hour of songs recently on BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music)
Live @ Five - Everyday @ 5pm ET (a full hour of live recordings from New Jersey artists)
Listen here: http://player.live365.com/a42405?l
~~~
Every other Monday read a new BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music: on New Jersey Stage: https://www.newjerseystage.com/content/author/lazlo
~~~
Latest Updates on BlowUpRadio.com
MUSIC VIDEO: Indeyevid - "Red Dye 40" (NJ)
MUSIC VIDEO: Those Looks - "Passing Through" (NJ)
BlowUpRadio.com's New & Notable NJ Music: 4/28/25 (read it on New Jersey Stage)
(feat: Zachary West & The Good Grief; Roadside Graves; jpeck; Danello, The Sad Surfer; Monda; Cyborg Amok;
Above the Moon; Arlan Feiles; and Ali Zanders
Plus a look back at The Successful Failures)
~~~
Lazlo's Corner
I have to admit, I'm a little shaken this week by the loss of Mike Peters of The Alarm on Tuesday from cancer, followed by the loss Thursday of Jill Sobule from a house fire. While neither artist is from New Jersey, I have been a fan of both for a long time, and lucky enough to have seen both perform live (though I'm disappointed that just last month I was unable to see Jill Sobule when she played in New Jersey).
People like to talk about what is and isn't punk rock. I'd like to argue here that both of these artists were punk rock in their own way.
Jill Sobule, as has been in pretty much every article I have seen about her this week, is widely considered the first artist to have a song with openly-gay themes to crack the Top 20 on the charts. She did so with a cheekily subversive song, and an even more subversive video that Fabio (at the height of his popularity) appeared in. What's more punk rock than that? That many only know her for "I Kissed A Girl", and "Supermodel", a song she didn't write, is a crime.
Mike Peters, and his band The Alarm, is often reduced to being known for "Rain In The Summertime" and "Sixty Eight Guns", but for over forty they put out amazing rock songs, and in one of the most punk acts (in my mind) of the 21st century, when European DJ's didn't want to play their 2004 single "45 RPM", saying that the band was too old to still be making good music, they hired a young local band to become "The Poppy Fields", a fake new band that released the single which quickly entered Britain's Top 30 charts and garnered a lot of positive press. When The Alarm finally came forward about The Poppy Fields being a hoax, it really highlighted ageism in the music industry (sadly here we 21 years later and ageism is still as big a problem as ever in music).
I've been listening to both artists a lot this weekend and realizing how much I will miss them both.
#SupportGoodMusic
~~~
This week on BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music we have new music from:
Night Windows - " Baseball Cards " from " Nonsense "
Zachary West & The Good Grief - " New Idea, Not Great " from " Intrusive Thoughts "
Above The Moon - " Never Changes " from " There Is No Arrival - Vol. 1 "
Gina Royale feat. Thomas Monaco - " Treading " from " Treading [single] "
Ali Zanders - " common ground " from " Class of 2021 "
Arlan Feiles - " Leo Frank (Hang 'Im High) " from " Diaspora "
furiousBall - " Shuriken " from " I'll Be Your Arsonist "
Phoneboy - " Talking to Heads " from " Heartbreak Designer "
A.J. Vega - " Funny Twigs " from " BUNNYSTAR / Funny Twigs "
Those Looks - " In Tongues " from " Passing Through [EP] "
The Nightly Noodle - " Donburi " from " Donburi [single] "
Million Year Picnic - " Pointless Conversations " from " Dinosaur "
madipao - " Nowhere Now " from " Nowhere Now [single] "
Ian Matthew Keller - " where I stand " from " 61 "
BlowUpRadio.com Presents New NJ Music airs Monday @ 7pm ET
Listen here: http://player.live365.com/a42405?l
See playlist (with links to all the acts) here: https://blowupradio.com/den/2025/050525.html
~~~
This week on Lazlo's Den Presents New Music we have new music from:
The Briefs - " Hospital Elevator " from " Hospital Elevator [single] "
Bat Boy - " Brave " from " Split EP "
The Happy Fits - " Everything You Do " from " Lovesick "
Sean Marshall - " Begging for a Change " from " Begging for a Change [single] "
Stereophonics - " Make It On Your Own " from " Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait "
Long A - " Dissolve (feat Tanya Donelly) " from " Dissolve (feat Tanya Donelly) [single] "
Lance Cowan - " Ragged Edge of Nothing " from " Against The Grain "
Jensen McRae - " Praying For Your Downfall " from " I Don't Know How But They Found Me! "
Luke Spiller - " If This Isn't Love " from " If This Isn't Love [single] "
The Airport 77s - " 1999 " from " Don't Let Go "
Far Caspian - " First Day " from " Auto-Fiction "
Pomegranate County Irregulars - " Cold Pomegranate 64 (Amateurs) " from " Cold Pomegranate 64 (Amateurs) [single] "
Esha Tewari - " million times " from " wraith [EP] "
The Toxhards - " Beatrice " from " Your Neighborhood "
Tabloid Nation - " Spring " from " Spring [single] "
Off-Leash - " Lying Down " from " Lying Down [single] "
Lazlo's Den Presents New Music airs Tuesday @ 7pm
Listen here: http://player.live365.com/a42405?l
See playlist (with links to all the acts) here: https://blowupradio.com/den/2025/050625.html
#SupportGoodMusic
------------------------------
That's all for this week folks.
Peace,
Lazlo
www.BlowUpRadio.com
www.WhereNJRockLives.com
