THE OFFICIAL STONE PONY CALENDAR

“Aloha Irators,
While we have all been patiently waiting to see if we would be able to go on our Coastin’ headline tour this summer, it seems as though it will be impossible for us to execute the tour in its entirety as we had planned and sincerely hoped to be able to do. So, we will be canceling the 2021 Coastin’ summer tour dates. Refunds will be issued in the coming days to all current ticket holders, please reach out to your point-of-purchase with any questions or issues.  We miss our fans and can’t wait to be back together, especially on those summer nights, and share these new songs with you. We look forward to playing for all the Irators nationwide soon!  Please stay tuned for updates on future plans.  

Mahalo, Iration”

Asbury Park Music Foundation 10-Year Anniversary presents Bobby Bandiera’s Time Machine with an All Star Band
This is a seated event
21 and up admitted

Tickets: $39 and up (plus applicable surcharges)
Song Requests: $250 each

All events may be affected by inclement weather. High-touch surface areas will be cleaned and disinfected throughout the performance. Hand sanitizing stations will be located onsite. Ticketmaster is the only authorized ticket seller for this event. Tickets purchased from other outlets may not be honored. Tables cannot be split and resold. Patrons holding resold tickets will be denied entry and refunds will not be offered. If you are unvaccinated please wear a mask and practice social distancing, If you are vaccinated but still want to wear a mask please feel free to do so. Patrons are asked to self-screen for any of the CDC-recognized COVID-19 symptoms and refrain from attending if necessary. A refund will be issued. Lawn chairs, blankets, pets, outside food or beverages are strictly prohibited. Smoking is prohibited, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars, pipes, e-cigarettes or any other vaping devices.

Rumours
A Fleetwood Mac Tribute

21 AND OVER EVENT
Tables are positioned 6 feet apart with the front row of tables 10 feet from performers. Tickets will be sold in tables of 2 or up to 5 configurations only. Patrons must remain seated at their purchased table. Dancing and/or standing at tables is prohibited. All events may be affected by inclement weather. High-touch surface areas will be cleaned and disinfected throughout the performance. Hand sanitizing stations will be located onsite. Ticketmaster is the only authorized ticket seller for this event. Tickets purchased from other outlets may not be honored. Tables cannot be split and resold. Patrons holding resold tickets will be denied entry and refunds will not be offered.

Joe Baracata Band
Two-set show with surprise theme set
Doors at 7, showtime 7:30
Tickets: $20 plus applicable surcharges
21+ admitted

Joe Baracata is one of central NJ’s hottest cover bands tearing up every bar, club, venue and party on the Shore for more than 15 years. Join us for JBB’s first headline appearance at The Stone Pony. They always bring the party with amazing energy and a deep song list guaranteed to get you singing and clapping along. The Joe Baracata Band has spent the last 15 years building its reputation as one of New Jersey’s best cover bands. Known for its strong vocals, great fun time song selection and top notch musicianship, they are quickly becoming one of the most sought-after wedding/corporate bands in the tri-state area. JBB covers it all from pop to rock, country to swing, standards to your favorite classic oldies! Ticketing is general admission with service at the bars. Table seating is by first-come basis.

Rise Against
Nowhere Generation Tour
with Descendents
Tickets: $42.50 in advance (plus applicable surcharges)

On their new album, Nowhere Generation, due out June 4 (Loma Vista Recordings), the multi-Gold and Platinum band RISE AGAINST draws a line in the sand with its blazing and aggressive punk rock and lyrics that shine a spotlight on the social and economical deck that has been stacked against our younger generations’ pursuit of The American Dream.

“There’s this idea that we all are raised on, believing that your generation will be a continuance of your parents’ generation — if not even a more fruitful era,” said singer/guitarist/lyricist Tim McIlrath. “And it seems like the American Dream isn’t turning out the way it’s supposed to for a lot of people. Young people aren’t quite climbing that ladder the way they were in the past. I feel for this generation and think it’s something that should be recognized.” Lyrically, much of the band’s upcoming ninth studio album was inspired by listening to his young daughters and a community of fans, seeing firsthand the generation gap growing quicker than ever before while mired in chronic social, economic, and political instability. “Our hope on this record,” continues McIlrath, “is to jostle people awake, even if it makes you uncomfortable.”

The band — McIlrath, Joe Principe (bass), Brandon Barnes (drums), and Zach Blair (lead guitar) — sounds those alarms on Nowhere Generation’s unabashedly outspoken songs that speak to a sea of disenchanted youth about both the struggles and the solutions, while sonically continuing to blur the lines between astute punk rock and melodic-driven pop. In addition to the communal call to arms embedded in the aggressive title track, there’s the fast and furious anti-establishment manifesto “Broken Dreams, Inc.,” the moody ballad “Forfeit,” and the surprise pop candor in “Talking To Ourselves,” a standout song about wanting to be heard and wondering if anyone is listening. “It describes a lot of what Rise Against does,” says McIlrath, “to speak and scream when we feel there are things that are happening that aren’t being addressed. And I think that’s a lot of what our fans feel too — the people in that front row all over the world want to be heard and listened to. I wanted to tap into that sentiment.”

BILLY STRINGS
Tickets: $39.50 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $45 at the gate

Acclaimed singer, songwriter and musician Billy Strings won Best Bluegrass Album at the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards for his critically acclaimed record, HOME. Released on Rounder Records, HOME was produced by Glenn Brown and furthers Strings’ reputation as “one of string music’s most dynamic young stars” (Rolling Stone). Of the album, Associated Press proclaims, “it is his creative musical storytelling, paired with solid vocals on Home that should seal the deal, pleasing fans of the genre and creating some new ones…the perfect blend of pure talent and pluck,” while The Wall Street Journal declares, “Billy Strings has clearly emerged as a premier guitar flatpicker of this era.” Moreover, Strings and the album topped Billboard’s 2020 year-end chart in both Bluegrass categories: Top Bluegrass Artists and Top Bluegrass Albums Titles.

Michigan-born and now Nashville-based, Strings arrived on the music scene as one of the most compelling new artists with the release of his 2017 debut LP, Turmoil & Tinfoil. Since his debut, Strings has been awarded Guitar Player of the Year and New Artist of the Year at the 2019 International Bluegrass Music Awards, selected as one of Rolling Stone’s 2017 “New Country Artists to Know” and performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and PBS’ “Bluegrass Underground.” Often playing over 200 shows per year, he has also become known as an electric live performer, keeping the improvisational tradition of bluegrass alive while incorporating elements of several diverse genres. WXPN’s World Café declares, “a bona fide phenom…with his virtuosic guitar playing front and center, Strings fuses bluegrass to psych rock, country and jam music, without fussing over what bluegrass should be.”

The Struts
Strange Days Are Over Tour
The Glorious Sons
JJ Wilde
Tickets: $29.50 and up in advance (plus applicable surcharges)

The third full-length from British rock band The Struts, Strange Days came to life over the course of a charmed and frenzied burst of creativity last spring. After getting tested for COVID-19, singer Luke Spiller, guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott, and drummer Gethin Davies all moved into the Los Angeles home of Jon Levine, a producer who worked extensively on their acclaimed sophomore effort YOUNG & DANGEROUS (including the album’s lead single “Body Talks”). Within just ten days of couch-crashing at Levine’s house, The Struts had laid down nine original tracks and one masterful cover of a KISS B-side: a lean, mean body of work that amounts to their most glorious output to date.

“It was so much fun to make a record this way instead of getting everything done in between touring, working with multiple producers in multiple countries,” says Spiller. “We were all just burning to capture that excitement as much as we possibly could, and at times it felt like the songs were literally just falling from the sky.”

In an organic turn of events for a band massively embraced by some of rock-and-roll history’s greatest icons—a feat that’s included opening for The Rolling Stones, The Who, and Guns N’ Roses—Strange Days finds The Struts joining forces with a formidable lineup of guest musicians: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Phil Collen, Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes, Tom Morello, and Robbie Williams. Mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer (Panic! At the Disco, Arctic Monkeys, Johnny Marr), the result is a powerhouse album that lifts The Struts’ glammed-up breed of modern rock to entirely new and wildly thrilling heights.

Andrew McMahon: The Three Pianos Tour
Andrew McMahon
Zac Clark
Tickets: $45 in advance (plus applicable surcharges)

Dear Friends,

Never have I been more excited to announce a tour. The weirdness we are emerging from has left its mark on all of us and I have been dreaming of the day we could gather in rooms again and shake off its effects together. I will be traveling light this time, surrounded by a small group of friends, performing a set of songs that for me are like mile markers on the map of my life. I spent my time away from the world writing a book, trying to understand more fully who I am and where I came from. I can think of no better time than now, the anniversary of 20 years on tour, to assemble my work on a stage and do what I can to share that history with you through my songs and stories. Like my book, this tour will be called Three Pianos, and while I can’t bring all three of them on the road with me, I hope to channel the wonderful and bizarre affection I have for their place in my world. Any time I embark on some new and public adventure I am filled with fear of the unknown, but if I have learned anything from tours like The Pen and the Piano, from first leaps onto rubber ducks or out on to dance floors beneath parachutes, it is worth taking chances. I am crafting this show with the knowledge it may be the first many of you have attended in a very long time. That comes with pressure, but from that pressure I hope to make something cathartic and worthy of your trust in me. The lights are coming back on, let’s sing together beneath them. — Andrew

Low Cut Connie
Tickets: $20 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $25 at the door

Low Cut Connie released Private Lives last year to rave reviews, ultimately earning its place at #34 on Rolling Stone’s “50 best Albums of 2020” list, #4 on Fresh Air’s Ken Tucker’s ten best albums of the year, and #1 on PopMatters’ “25 Best Americana Albums of 2020” list. Capping off the year, The New Yorker dubbed Adam Weiner “Pandemic Person of the Year.” The album’s last single, the title track “Private Lives,” was also one of “Public Radio’s Most Popular Songs Of 2020.”