WELCOME TO THE STONE PONY!

RIPE

A head-nod, a foot-tap, or a handclap certainly shows appreciation, but dancing seals the eternal bond between audience and musician. Siphoning the spirits of rock, funk, R&B, jazz and pop through a kaleidoscope of unpredictable and virtuosic improvisation, Boston-based Ripe consistently bring people to their feet. Most importantly, they prove that “dance music” in its purest form doesn’t have to come from computers and synthesizers. It can be an unstoppable groove or an extended moment of ecstatic release. Like those bodies moving on the floor, it’s the result of the energy, friction, and communication between living and breathing people. An inimitable and indefinable chemistry has separated and singled out Ripe since day one. Subverting any and all standard genre boundaries once again, their latest offering confidently continues that tradition.

Tickets: $22 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $25 at the door

A MESSAGE FROM RIPE: “We care so much about everyone involved in our community so we will be requiring proof of full COVID-19 vaccinations for all of our upcoming headline shows.”

LOCAL LEGENDS HALLOWEEN BASH
From the creators of Convention Hell
DES & THE SWAGMATICS / Donna Summer
FOES OF FERN / MCR
MISTER TICKLE HANDS / Jock Jams
DAUGHTER VISION / Devo
NATALIE FARRELL / JLO
OLIVIA BEC / Nirvana
Tickets: $15 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $18 at the door

The Event Organizer is requiring all attendees of this event to have received a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours prior to entering the venue OR be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In attending the event, you certify and attest that you and all individuals in your party attending the event will abide by the following regulations: 

All fans will provide printed proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours prior to entering the venue, OR will be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (at least two weeks after final dose) at the time of the event and provide proof of vaccination – either the original vaccination card or a printed copy of the vaccination card. Unvaccinated fans under 12 years of age, or fans with a valid medical note preventing vaccination, will be required to take a COVID-19 diagnostic test within 72 hours before the event and will provide proof of negative result prior to entering the venue. 

Andrew McMahon: The Three Pianos Tour
Andrew McMahon
Annika Bennett
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

PARQUET COURTS
Public Practice
Tickets: $25 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $30 at the door

Parquet Courts is requiring all attendees of this event to have received a negative COVID-19 test WITHIN 48 HOURS prior to entering the venue, OR be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In
attending the event, you certify and attest that you and all individuals in your party attending the event will abide by the following regulations:
All fans will provide printed proof of a negative COVID-19 test WITHIN 48 HOURS prior to entering the venue, OR be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (at least two weeks after final dose) and
provide printed documentation providing proof of immunization.

Rock ‘n’ roll is often hard to define, or even to find, in these fractured musical times. But to paraphrase an old saying, you know it when you hear it. And you always hear it with the Wallflowers.

For the past 30 years, the Jakob Dylan-led act has stood as one of rock’s most dynamic and purposeful bands – a unit dedicated to and continually honing a sound that meshes timeless songwriting and storytelling with a hard-hitting and decidedly modern musical attack. That signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse as well as more recent and exploratory fare like 2012’s Glad All Over.

Even so, in recent years, Dylan – the Wallflowers’ founding singer, songwriter and guitarist – has repeatedly stepped outside of his band, first with a pair of more acoustic and rootsy records,
2008’s Seeing Things and 2010’s Women + Country, and then with the 2018 film Echo in the Canyon and the accompanying soundtrack, which saw him collaborate with a host of artists
classic and contemporary, from Neil Young and Eric Clapton to Beck and Fiona Apple.

But while it’s been nine long years since we’ve heard from the group with whom he first made his mark, the Wallflowers are silent no more. And Dylan always knew they’d return. “The
Wallflowers is much of my life’s work,” he says simply. Plus, he adds with a laugh, “It’s pretty hard to get a good band name, so if you have one, keep it.”

Good band name aside, that life’s work continues with Exit Wounds, the brand-new Wallflowers studio offering produced by Butch Walker. The collection marks the first new Wallflowers material since Glad All Over. And while the wait has been long, the much-anticipated record finds the band’s signature sound – lean, potent and eminently entrancing – intact, even as Dylan surrounds himself with a fresh cast of musicians, including Walker.

Which, the front man is quick to point out, is not all that unusual. “The Wallflowers has always been a vehicle for me to make great rock ‘n’ roll records,” he says. “And sometimes the lineup
that makes the record transfers over into touring, and sometimes it doesn’t. But my intention is always to make the Wallflowers record I want to make, using the musicians I have beside me.”

Tickets: $39.50 in advance plus applicable surcharges

Start Making Sense
Talking Heads Tribute
Tickets: $20 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $25 at the door
Tickets from previously scheduled dates will be honored

If David Byrne is one of the geniuses of modern times, then Start Making Sense is a tribute to genius. The musicians in this Talking Heads tribute take pride in faithfully recreating the music of Talking Heads’ entire career. Together they bring much of the Heads’ unique live show to the stage, with front man Jon Braun as a spot-on David Byrne, giving you a “once in a lifetime” experience. Prepare yourself for a rockin’, funkin’, danceable celebration of the new-wave art punk you loved from the ’80s!

“This is an appropriate title — Start Making Sense. This band makes plenty of sense to me, and is a great representation of Talking Heads’ music. So listen up and go check them out!” — Bernie Worrell, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member and keyboardist for Talking Heads and Parliament/Funkadelic

Gary U.S. Bonds and the Roadhouse Rockers Holiday Show

The incomparable Gary US Bonds returns to The Stone Pony. Gary’s timeless music is an irresistible invitation to an instant party! Join us for a joyous night of Bonds hits, fan favorites and classic holiday tunes. Remember that anything can happen at a Gary U.S. Bonds show! Special guest the Eddie Testa Band opens the show.

This show supports the Asbury Park Toy Drive. Please bring new unwrapped toys. The first 50 toy donations (suggested $20 value) will receive a special signed event poster.

Doors at 6 pm, show starts at 7 pm

Tickets: $32 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $40 at the door

Low Cut Connie
with special guest Susu
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.”

LETTUCE
Tickets: $28 in advance (plus applicable surcharges), $30 at the door

Tickets from previously announced date will be honored

LETTUCE both feed the rich history of funk and also combine it with strains of hip-hop, rock, psychedelia, jazz, soul, and go-go. The GRAMMY® Award-nominated six-piece — Adam Deitch [drums, percussion, arrangement], Adam “Shmeeans” Smirnoff [guitar], Erick “Jesus” Coomes [bass], Ryan Zoidis [alto, baritone, tenor sax, Korg X-911], Eric “Benny” Bloom [trumpet, horns], and Nigel Hall [vocals, Hammond B-3, Rhodes, clavinet, keyboards] — once again break rules, push boundaries, and uplift on their sixth full-length studio offering, Resonate [Round Hill Records].

To date, their discography comprises Outta Here [2002], Rage! [2008], Fly [2012], Crush [2015], the EP Mt. Crushmore [2016], the live album Witches Stew [2017], and Elevate [2019]. The latter lifted LETTUCE to new heights. Notably, it garnered a 2020 GRAMMY® Award nomination in the category of “Best Contemporary Instrumental Album” and bowed at #1 on both the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart and iTunes Top R&B Albums Chart. Elevate also soared to the Top 15 on the Billboard Jazz Albums, R&B Album Sales, and Heatseekers Charts. Not to mention, it put up 3 million streams within six months, and simultaneously received acclaim from Brooklyn Vegan, Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, and more. Throughout 2019, LETTUCE siphoned all of this energy back into the studio. Written and recorded during the same Colorado Sound sessions that spawned Elevate, the band brought Resonate to life alongside iconic producer and engineer Russ Elevado [D’Angelo, The Roots, Erykah Badu]. Lettuce introduces this chapter with the first single “Checker Wrecker” featuring Washington D.C. go-go music legends Big Tony Fisher of Trouble Funk and Tyrone “Jungle Boogie” Williams of Rare Essence.