Chris Barry's "Shore World"
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their CD on Saturday, May 19^th, with a release party at their home base, The Broadway Central, in delirious downtown So.Amboy: There'll be free food, T shirt give-aways and Wayne will be telling them it's too loud !!! With Special

Guests The Swinging Zeros [W/members of Dilletantes/Marbles/Dead PonyCats] plus the edgy to bittersweet tones of Keith Beck.

Also a little FYI Forewarning: Alexander "The Poet" will openthe evening with his pithy toidey poems and anatomical inanity, so if you'd rather skip Alexander's anal/fecal shtick, just get there in time for The Music, hang out, drink ludicrous quantities of  alcohol and Don't forget to say hi to official party greeter The Lone Paranoid on the way in............. 

While Still On The Virgin Release Path:
There's a first time for everything and the mindscreen of Bayshore area Pop contenders Cinema Star shows their new debut CD project looming hot and heavy on the radar. The band has just finished their first original self-titled CD, so I.E., Evelyn Forever move over, the new Coolest Pop Cuties are in town, and if you come to their show Fri May 18 at The Broadway Central Café', [w/guests Dark Heart & Emily Says,} you'll be handed a free copy of their first cd.. Check out more info at their website

Down at The Pony one Wild Wednesday, we ran into frontman/soulpoet ranter Tommy Connolly of Asbury-based Kokopelli who clued me that the band's putting finishing touches on its 1st CD, down under at Subterranean Studios in Long Branch, w/Stacey Phelon on the pots n' pans...(continued on page 7)            

Nick Bukuvalus
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Singer/songwriter/guitar whiz Nick Bukavalus combines McCartneyesque pop sensibility with fastest-gun-in-the-west guitar playing. His style thus leans towards the more melodic, classic rock as opposed to alternative music.

He is an earnest songwriter, incorporating a variety of styles and moods.  Bukuvalas can go from uptempo rockers like "Late Night Wishes (11:11)" to good-time party rock "Just One Night") to Texas-blues-style recollections of downright jealousy("Mr. Lucky"). "Leaving the Saint" hinges on the classic rock band sounds of Bad Company, The Rascals, and Traffic. The guitar riffs have a ring of Stevie Ray Vaughn and Eric Clapton to them while the nifty chord changes and offbeat subject matter to all of Nick's songs bring the Beatles and The Who to mind, as evident on "The Dilemna."
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