Sunday, 10/27/24. Doors at 4pm.

Tickets $15/advance or $20/day-of. Available at both Guitar Bar stores or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-in-a-blender-at-503-social-club-tickets-1017022992147?aff=oddtdtcreator

Life in a Blender was born in Jersey City in the late 80s, tossed from a speeding train, and then somehow managed to record ten albums ranging from screaming punk to orchestrated chamber pop. They have brought the high theatrics of their live act to stages from Berlin to Austin to Toronto to Brooklyn and Seattle with a stop in Poughkeepsie. Their live cover of "Purple Rain" at The Ritz, featuring James Mastro, had the band banned for life. Their latest album, "Bent by the Weather," is gaining raving mad reviews: "Bent by the Weather takes LIAB's well-honed, intellectually-minded sophisto-pop to new heights."—The Big Takeover. "Bent by the Weather delivers tuneful, oddball indie rock from the mind of true American original." —The Jersey Journal. "Smart, avant-garde, and catchy, "Bent by the Weather" is anchored by drummer Ken Meyer from Hoboken." —Jim Nolan. Buy everything at www.lifeinablender.net.

Tom Barrett and CG Gennone will play 503 Social Club Thursday, October 24, 2024. Doors at 7. BYOB.
$10 adv/$15 day-of
Tickets available at both Guitar Bar stores or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../tom-barrett-and-cr-gennone...

Tom Barrett lives a quiet life in East Nashville, Tennessee these days with his wife and two cats, but in a former life he was a prevalent figure in both the Jersey City and Hoboken music scenes for nearly two and a half decades, having played in more than a half-dozen bands (Overlake, American Watercolor Movement, etc.) before embarking on his own musical path in 2011. Three full-length records and a handful of EPs and singles later, he’s still developing his own style of carefully rendered acoustic indie-folk tunes, taking inspiration from greats like Nick Drake and Jeff Tweedy, along with so many others.

His fourth record, Everywhere We Live, is brighter and more polished than any of his previous full-length releases. Its eleven songs mostly reckon with the feelings of fear and loneliness that come with living in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people. There’s also hope and resilience in there as well. And a lot of Mellotron. Everywhere We Live will be available on all streaming services October 4th via Mint 400 Records.

For Jersey City guitarist and songwriter CR Gennone, it’s been a long road to The Ghosts Are Coming Home, the second album from his five-piece outfit CR and the Nones. Ghosts, the Nones’ second record and first on Magic Door, is a culmination of the sound and aesthetic Gennone has been building across many years and multiple bands. Its combination of expansiveness and introspection recalls The War on Drugs or early My Morning Jacket, and the ten tracks here showcase sincerity and heart that are impossible to resist. - Zach Romano

Friday, October 11 at 503 Social Club!

Limited 45-seat capacity. Tickets $20/adv or $25 day-of. BYOB Tickets available at both Guitar Bar locations or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wesley-stace-at-503-social-club-tickets-936645350457?aff=oddtdtcreator

Wesley Stace, the man formerly known as John Wesley Harding, presents his fall USA tour “Alone (and Together)”, for which he will play songs from throughout his storied career, precisely as nature intended: on his own, in his own time, on his own dime. One Man, one guitar, one voice, one harmonica, occasional whistling. He welcomes all your requests, in advance, by email. (WARNING: the occasional friend may undermine this singular concept.)

Doors at 7, show at 7:30.

$25 advance, $30 day-of. BYOB.

Tickets available at Guitar Bar stores or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/richard-lloyd-group-at-503-social-club-tickets-942580171667?aff=oddtdtcreator

Richard Lloyd is a legendary electric guitarist, singer/songwriter, and founding member of Television, a band that rose to fame with their 1977 debut release, Marquee Moon, widely regarded as one of greatest albums in rock and roll history and perhaps the most defining and highly influential release of the 1970’s New York rock scene. Lloyd embarked on a solo career after Television disbanded, releasing seven solo albums and working as a guitarist, session musician, and band member with Matthew Sweet, John Doe, Rocket from the Tombs, and more. Released in October 2017, Lloyd’s book, Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist establishes Lloyd as a masterful storyteller and humorous and insightful writer with an acerbic and razor-sharp wit.

Wednesday, September 25th 2024. Doors at 7pm.

Tickets $15 adv/$20 day-of. BYOB

Available at both Guitar Bar stores or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-pettis-demolition-string-band-at-503-social-club-tickets-971177386707?aff=oddtdtcreator

Grace Pettis's music is described as a little bit of folk, a little bit of country/americana, and a whole lot of soul.

Grace is the winner of many of the nation’s most prestigious songwriting contests, grants, and residencies, including NPR’s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, the Buddy Holly Educational Foundation, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Grace’s songs have been recorded by other esteemed artists, including Sara Hickman and Ruthie Foster, with 3 co-writes on Foster's latest, Grammy-nominated album, Healing Time (2024).

Grace was an official showcasing artist at SXSW and Folk Alliance International this year (2024). She has independently released three acclaimed records and signed with MPress Records in 2020. Her debut album on MPress, Working Woman (2021), was produced by lauded singer-songwriter Mary Bragg, mixed by 2x Grammy® award winner Shani Gandhi (Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical), and featured an all-female/non-binary band and creative credits. Guest contributions came from Indigo Girls, Ruthie Foster, Dar Williams, and other luminaries.

With a shared passion for country, roots rock, bluegrass and mountain music, singer/songwriter Elena Skye and Grammy Award winning, multi-instrumentalist Boo Reiners front Demolition String Band.They have released seven albums, played clubs and festivals across the USA and Europe and shared bills with a wide range of acts such as The Avett Brothers, Ryan Adams, Patti Smith, Ricky Skaggs and Southern Culture On The Skids, with whom they’ve done numerous tours. With a collection of tasty original songs and unique covers, including their bluegrass-infused version of Madonna’s “Like A Prayer,” Demolition String Band can rock the dance floor with their electric quartet or as an acoustic trio, playing and singing old-school style around a single microphone, juggling banjo, mandolin and guitars, and topped off with their taut harmony vocals.

Living legend Syd Straw heads across the Hudson for an evening of music accompanied by Don Piper.

Saturday, September 21, 2024. Doors at 7, Show at 7:30.

$25 advance/$30 day-of. BYOB.

Tickets available at both Guitar Bar locations or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-syd-straw-feat-don-piper-tickets-982108391637?aff=oddtdtcreator

Syd Straw was born singing and has been at it her whole long life, working fearlessly and happily with many of her heroines, and a number of men as well—such as Emmylou Harris, Rickie Lee Jones, Golden Palominos, Michael Stipe, Marc Ribot, Roseanne Cash, and Carlene carter. Syd played the math teacher Miss Fingerwood, on Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete and Pete, and glamorous hippie chick Laurel on the original Tales of the City—like everyone else, she is working on at least 3 books, and writing her first musical by flashlight in her tent, and she is probably sorry she walked off with your lighter in her pocket.

An eclectic evening of electric songwriting at 503 Social Club!

Thursday, August 8, 2024.

Doors 7pm

Show 7:30pm

$15 in advance / $20 day-of. BYOB. Limited 45-seat capacity. Tickets available at Guitar Bar and Guitar Bar Jersey City, or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bedsit-poets-and-psych-o-positive-at-503-social-club-tickets-936613926467?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bedsit Poets made their long-awaited return after over a decade with their third album, All Roads Lead Me Back, on Think Like A Key Records. Unfortunately, band member Edward Rogers will not be able to make this show, but after their recent record-release show in New York City, Amanda Thorpe returns from London for Bedsit Poets to do one special show in New Jersey at the 503 Social Club. Joining Amanda will be Don Piper and Bob Perry.

Psych-O-Positive is a self described "psychedelic cave punk band" based out of Hoboken, NJ. USA.

“If you took all the great punk bands of the 80’s (like Gut Bank and Sexpod) and threw them in a blender with the best Riot Grrrl and Antifolk bands of the 90’s (like The Aquanettas, The Sprinkle Genies, and tranceSenders) and you let that blender spin for the aughts to late teens and then at the dawn of 2020, you took the blender and threw it full force into a brick wall, the sound of the glass shattering and the slow spill down the wall would sound just like Psych-O-Positive.”

I will show you how to transfer your photocopy, pick a color scheme, and paint a patterned silhouette in acrylic gouache paint.

In this workshop we will be painting a patterned silhouette of a head with acrylic gouache, a vivid, matte, and opaque cousin to watercolor. Acrylic gouache is not especially messy, but you probably don't want to wear your best clothing for this workshop.

Please bring a b/w photocopy showing the full head of the person whose silhouette you want to paint, approx. 7 x 9".

Tickets are very limited! Available at:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/heads-up-painting-a-silhouette-in-gouache-with-nancy-tompkins-tickets-938460670127?aff=oddtdtcreator

You are welcome to bring a snack or any beverage of your choice.

Married acoustic duo Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) and John Cowsill (The Cowsills, the Beach Boys) are heading to Hoboken to take the 503 Social Club by storm!

Thursday, July 11 pm 7pm

$20 advance / $25 day of show

BYOB. Tickets available in-person at Guitar Bar and Guitar Bar Jersey City or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vicki-peterson-and-john-cowsill-at-503-social-club-tickets-901736446987?aff=oddtdtcreator

Legendary Mekons founder Jon Langford will bring his inimitable backing band The Bright Shiners to 503 Social Club! Join us for an evening of rollicking rippers from some of the baddest in the biz.

Sunday, June 16
5:30 doors
6pm show
$20 advance / $25 day of show.
Tickets available in-person at Guitar Bar and Guitar Bar Jersey City or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jon-langford-and-the-bright-shiners-at-503-social-club-tickets-894640482767

Speed the Plough is a New Jersey-based chamber pop/indie rock band that has been playing since 1984. The band rose out of the ashes of The Trypes, a mainstay of the early 80's Hoboken scene, which included most members of The Feelies, many of whom continued with STP through that band's first decade. Speed the Plough has released 9 full-length albums (on Coyote/Twin-Tone, East Side Digital, and Bar-None Records), a limited edition single on the French label Acetone, and a self-released EP. They have had songs featured in two independent films, Strangest Dreams (1990)and Paradise Park (1993). Their 2013 release, "The Plough & The Stars" (Bar-None) is a 30 year retrospective of the band.
The current lineup features founding members John Baumgartner (keyboards and vocals), Toni Baumgartner (woodwinds and vocals) and Marc Francia (guitar), Michael Baumgartner (guitar
and vocals), Glenn Mercer (percussion, guitar), Dan Francia (bass) and John Demeski (drums).

As the NY Times described them: “...this is no rarefied art music. It’s a garage-band sort of minimalism, with welters of electric guitar sounds and feedback accelerating madly into crashing crescendos, only to subside and begin building again.”

BRENDA+1 are Brenda Sauter and Rich Barnes of WILD CARNATION. Brenda joined The Trypes and The Feelies in the mid 1980's before becoming one of the founding members of Wild Carnation in 1992. She was a member of Speed The Plough from 1991 until 1996. Rich played in X-Wires in the early 1980's and Wow And Flutter in the early 1990’s before becoming one of the founding members of Wild Carnation. He was a member of Speed The Plough from 1993 until 1996. Rich and Brenda, as a duo, have been posting their songs and tributes to songwriters since April, 2020. This is the first time they’re taking their Facebook musings on the road.

Tickets are $15, available in-person at Guitar Bar and Guitar Bar Jersey City, or online here

503 Social Club is excited to announce a double-header with a live performance from roots-rock legends The Silos against the backdrop of songwriter/frontman Walter Salas-Humara's paintings!
Come to the Social Club for the opening exhibition at 7 pm on May 11th, 2024. Music starts at 8 pm.
Limited seating 45-capacity. BYOB
Tickets $20, available in-person at Guitar Bar and Guitar Bar Jersey City, or online here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/876878817147?aff=oddtdtcreator

From their haunt high atop the Palisade in Jersey City, Hudson City Rats serve up a healthy dose of primitive, infectious rock 'n’ roll, in their own raw, stripped down style. With the infamous punk rocker Patrick Lally at the helm, Fred Jenkins and Jeff Feinberg provide a big beat behind Robert Boudreau's blues-tinged guitar. Their live show is a house rockin' party! It needs to be experienced. It's sure to make you move!

Come early to see Michael Jerome Browne, a Canadian blues singer-songwriter hailed as “Arguably the finest acoustic blues artist in this country” - Globe and Mail (Toronto) and “... one of Canada’s most significant musical exports; a finger-picking stylist with a hugely talented and nuanced delivery.”
-Iain Patience, Elmore Magazine (USA)

Tickets are $15/advance, $20 day-of. Tickets are available in-person at Guitar Bar and Guitar Bar Jersey City or online here.

503 Social Club's artist in residence Jen Morris will host an afternoon of "psychedelic cave-punk" with Hoboken legends Psych-O-Positive! Jen's artwork will be on display as a perfect complement to the music, so get here early and take it all in before the show starts at 3.
Tickets $10, available in-person at Guitar Bar and Guitar Bar Jersey City or online here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-in-residence-jen-morris-hosts-psych-o-positive-tickets-863904390287?aff=oddtdtcreator

James Mastro & The Gold Stars (Tony Shanahan, Dennis Diken, Megan Reilly, and Chris Robertson) will perform songs from Mastro's new album "Dawn of. New Error," along with some surprises!

"Mastro’s writing chops and lived-in voice carry everything from the punchy to the reflective...For so long in the shadows, Mastro deserves his turn in the spotlight." – MOJO

Only 40-person capacity, so advance tickets are suggested. BYOB

Purchase at Guitar Bar (160 First St, Hoboken, or over the phone 201-222-0915), and Guitar Bar Jersey City (362 Palisade Ave.) $15 in advance, $20 day of show. Venmo: @Guitar-Bar

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/james-mastro-the-gold-stars-tickets-851504752637?aff=oddtdtcreator

Richard Lloyd is a legendary electric guitarist, singer/songwriter, and founding member of Television, a band that rose to fame with their 1977 debut release, Marquee Moon, widely regarded as one of greatest albums in rock and roll history and perhaps the most defining and highly influential release of the 1970’s New York rock scene. Lloyd embarked on a solo career after Television disbanded, releasing seven solo albums and working as a guitarist, session musician, and band member with Matthew Sweet, John Doe, Rocket from the Tombs, and more. Released in October 2017, Lloyd’s book, Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist establishes Lloyd as a masterful storyteller and humorous and insightful writer with an acerbic and razor-sharp wit.

Doors: 7:00, Show 7:30. Only 40-person capacity, so advance tickets are suggested. Available at Guitar Bar (160 First St, Hoboken, 201-222-0915), and Guitar Bar Jersey City (362 Palisade Ave.) $20 in advance, $25 day of show. Venmo: @Guitar-Bar

503 Social Club, 503 Third St, Hoboken, NJ

Three songwriters walk into a social club…

This promises to be an evening of great music not to be missed. Dave Schramm, George Usher, and Steve Almaas, have all been regarded for their insightful lyrics and melodic landscapes. Schramm is Hoboken-based, fronting his own band and also known for lending his guitar talents to Yo La Tengo and Freedy Johnston. Usher and Almaas were key figures in the early days of the Lower East Side Ludlow St scene, with both releasing critically acclaimed albums over the years.

We’re honored to have them all together in a meeting of East meets West (Hudson River, that is).

Doors at 5. Only 40-person capacity, so advance tickets are suggested. Purchase at Guitar Bar (160 First St, Hoboken, or over the phone 201-222-0915), and Guitar Bar Jersey City (362 Palisade Ave.) $15in advance, $20 day of show. Venmo: @Guitar-Bar

503 Social Club is proud to host a group exhibition of four women that we feel are some of the area's most inspired - and inspiring - painters.