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The Components
The Components are an American alternative rock band from New Jersey. History The Components are an alternative and grunge rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey. Guitarist and vocalist Ronnie Sena and drummer Zoe Ekonomidis were previously in a band, called Asphalt Grey. During that period, Sena recorded songs independently, releasing a five-track EP entitled ''Chasing Colors'' under a ""fake" band called the Components." After Asphalt Grey broke up in late 2016, Sena and Ekonomidis continued playing, and in an interview with ''The Jersey Journal,'' Sena recalls "Zoe and I had this amazing chemistry from the first time we played together so we knew we wanted to keep going." The two rejoined as the Components, in January 2017. Sena claims classic blues as their biggest inspiration, along with the Arctic Monkeys, Built to Spill and the White Stripes. In 2017 The Components won the Jersey City Battle of the Bands, which landed them a deal with independent record label Mint 400 ...
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Independent Music
Independent music (also commonly known as indie music or simply indie) is music that is produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing. The term ''indie'' is sometimes used to describe a genre (such as indie rock and indie pop), and as a genre term, "indie" may or may not include music that is independently produced, and many independent music artists do not fall into a single, defined musical style or genre and create self-published music that can be categorized into diverse genres. The term 'indie' or 'independent music' can be traced back to as early as the 1920s after it was first used to reference independent film companies but was later used as a term to classify an independent band or record producer. Record labels Independent labels have a long history of promoting developments in popular music, stretching back to the post-war period in the United ...
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Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ...
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The Jersey Journal
''The Jersey Journal'' is a daily newspaper, published from Monday through Saturday, covering news and events throughout Hudson County, New Jersey. ''The Journal'' is a sister paper to ''The Star-Ledger'' of Newark, ''The Times'' of Trenton and the '' Staten Island Advance'', all of which are owned by Advance Publications, which bought the paper in 1945. History Founded by Civil War veterans William Dunning and Z. K. Pangborn, the ''Jersey Journal'' was originally known as the ''Evening Journal'' and was first published on May 2, 1867. The newspaper's first offices were located at 13 Exchange Place in Jersey City with a reported initial capitalization of $119. The newspaper built a new office building on 37 Montgomery Street in 1874. Editor Joseph A. Dear changed the ''Evening Journal'' to its current name in 1909. The paper relocated again, in 1911, to a building at the northeast corner of Bergen and Sip Avenues. This building was demolished in 1923 to make room for Journal ...
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The Components (band)
The Components are an American alternative rock band from New Jersey. History The Components are an alternative and grunge rock band from Jersey City, New Jersey. Guitarist and vocalist Ronnie Sena and drummer Zoe Ekonomidis were previously in a band, called Asphalt Grey. During that period, Sena recorded songs independently, releasing a five-track EP entitled ''Chasing Colors'' under a ""fake" band called the Components." After Asphalt Grey broke up in late 2016, Sena and Ekonomidis continued playing, and in an interview with '' The Jersey Journal,'' Sena recalls "Zoe and I had this amazing chemistry from the first time we played together so we knew we wanted to keep going." The two rejoined as the Components, in January 2017. Sena claims classic blues as their biggest inspiration, along with the Arctic Monkeys, Built to Spill and the White Stripes. In 2017 The Components won the Jersey City Battle of the Bands, which landed them a deal with independent record label Mint 400 ...
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Continuum (The Components Album)
''Continuum'' is the debut studio album from the American rock band the Components. Content The eight-track album was released on digital download with Mint 400 Records, on January 19, 2018. ''Continuum'' is conceptually about overcoming the demons of depression and substance abuse, and is described as "dark, haunting, and ambitious." The album draws comparison to the music of the post-grunge band Foo Fighters, and the alternative rock duo Royal Blood. The opening track "Parliaments and Witchcraft" appears on the 2018 compilation album ''NJ / NY Mixtape''. Reception Joe Wawryzniak form ''Jersey Beat'' describes ''Continuum'' as "robust shouted vocals, incendiary guitar riffs, fat throbbing basslines, and fierce pile driving drums" and a "totally kick-ass blast of pure sweaty'n'sinewy noise and fury." It made music journalist Jim Testa's Top 10 Hudson County Records of 2018, who notes "you'll definitely hear elements of the White Stripes in the band's stripped-down approach, bu ...
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NJ / NY Mixtape
The North Jersey Indie Rock Festival is an American annual concert in Jersey City, that showcases artists primarily from New Jersey. About The festival was created by Sniffling Indie Kids co-founder Frank DeFranco and Mint 400 Records founder Neil Sabatino, in 2016. It has been hosted by many of the state's music magazines, websites and radio, including ''The Aquarian Weekly'', ''Jersey Beat'', Speak Into My Good Eye, and WFDU. The labels were both working on the album ''Creases'' when they were formerly introduced. Sabatino recalls in an interview with Bob Makin of ''Courier News'', that the labels "had done a ton of local shows together and esaw the opportunity to do a showcase on a much larger scale in the past, Mint 400 tried to do a showcase at least once a year of our local acts always at Maxwell's under the old owners," and DeFranco noted the desire to create a "festival like this because e feltthe North Jersey scene had been overlooked by similar festivals in Asbury P ...
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HMag
Hoboken ( ; Unami: ') is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city's population was 60,417. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated that the city's population was 58,690 in 2021, ranking the city the 668th-most-populous in the country. With more than , Hoboken was ranked as the third-most densely populated municipality in the United States among cities with a population above 50,000. Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan area and is the site of Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub for the tri-state region. Hoboken was first settled by Europeans as part of the Pavonia, New Netherland colony in the 17th century. During the early 19th century, the city was developed by Colonel John Stevens, first as a resort and later as a residential neighborhood. Originally part of Bergen Township and later North Bergen Township, it became a separate township in 1849 and was incorporated as a city in ...
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The Aquarian Weekly
''The Aquarian Weekly'' is a regional alternative weekly newspaper based in New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1969, its focus is rock music and related events in the New Jersey/New York City/Eastern Pennsylvania region. From 1986 to 1992, it was called ''East Coast Rocker''. After returning to its original title, the newspaper began including a pull-out section that retained the ''East Coast Rocker'' name, and which is now freely distributed throughout the region. The paper has remained independently owned and operated throughout its existence. History James Rensenbrink (1932–2013), a former employee of two New Jersey newspapers and one Louisiana newspaper, founded ''The Aquarian'' in 1969. ''The Aquarian'' initially concentrated on radical politics and uncompromising ecological writings, raging against media monopolies as well as antiquated marijuana laws. In the beginning, ''The Aquarian'' promoted hippie culture and healthy lifestyles, dropping issues sporadically fr ...
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