The full music line-up for this year’s Sea. Hear. Now festival on the Asbury beach on September 21 and 22 has been announced by festival producer C3. The acts include Dropkick Murphys, Dispatch, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The B-52s, Bad Religion, The Struts, St. Paul and Broken Bones, Sharon Van Etten, […]

From a surprise performance from Bruce Springsteen with Southern California’s Social Distortion to an intimate meet and greet with Jack Johnson at Danny Clinch Transparent gallery and Blondie’s power packed performance, the inaugural Sea.Hear.Now festival brought Asbury Park to capacity, in more ways than one. “I’ve got to share this with my dad,” one concert […]

The Asbury Park Police Department has announced no parking areas associated with the Sea.Hear.Now festival will begin 7:30 a.m. Friday and run through the inaugural music, art and surf event’s end on Sunday evening. The no parking areas are: -Ocean Ave between Seventh Ave and Fourth Ave -Seventh Ave between Kingsley St and Ocean Ave […]

What began at 7 a.m. wrapped up by mid afternoon Tuesday just in time for the Fourth of July celebrations to begin. “A morning and afternoon later….. Asbury Park… tough sand,” master sand castle artist Matt Long said via social media after sculpting the holiday tribute that honors the city’s history and its upcoming inaugural […]

A couple Hollywood stars, famed musicians and state and local dignitaries came together Monday night to celebrate the grand reopening of Asbury Lanes. iStar CEO Jay Sugarman opened the night by thanking those who made the relaunch and night possible, including his Senior VP of Land & Development Brian Cheripka.   “Brian is our leader […]

Jack Johnson, Incubus, Social Distortion, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Blondie, and Brandi Carlile will headline Danny Clinch’s two-day fall Sea.Hear.Now Festival in Asbury Park. In total there are 25 shows slated for the music, surf, art and food event being held 12:30 to 10:30 p.m. Sept 29 and 30 in Bradley and Atlantic […]

Music, surf, art and food will come together during a new festival launching this fall. The Sea.Hear.Now Festival, is the brainchild of nationally renowned music industry photographer and video producer Danny Clinch, who opened his Transparent Gallery inside The Asbury, the city’s newest hotel and entertainment venue. The Sea.Hear.Now Festival will run from 12:30 to […]

City elder Rev. Gil Caldwell is most known as a civil rights activist; marching along Rev. Martin Luther King Jr who he first met in 1958, having been jailed for publicly supporting equal rights, and being turned away from a Pennsylvania hotel during his honeymoon with wife Grace. The retired United Methodist Church minister, who […]

Friendship, love of craft and music came together when music industry photographer and filmmaker Danny Clinch invited famed guitarist and bluesman Gary Clark Jr to headline a live streamed concert event ahead of the latter’s sold show Saturday night at The Stone Pony. “Asbury Park is about community,” Clinch said. “It’s art and music culture, […]

Their names are recognizable members of Asbury Park’s music, art and culture and now a series of vignettes pays homage to a dozen creatives whose artistry helped form a local resurgence. Local Legends, directed by William DeVizia and Michael Lucio Sternbach, is a series of shorts that captures the spirit and stories of those who […]