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To last fifty years in the music business, you must develop an ability to overcome adversity. Veteran Worchester, England-bred singer-songwriter/guitarist Dave Mason is no exception to this rule. A mostly miserable, wind-whipped and rain-soaked Monday night in Ocean City, which briefly resulted in a power outage for an entire block of Boardwalk that included the Music Pier, put those hard-earned survival skills to the test once again. Come rain or come shine, in darkness or light, the show, as they say, must go on...

Despite the calendar reading June 9, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue made sure the kickoff of Summer Concert Series 2017 at Ocean City Music Pier, was like the 4th of July. A strong opening set by New Breed Brass Band set the tone for an evening of funky, New Orleans horn-driven, genre-bending, musical gumbo. At a quarter to nine, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and his band of merry men, took the stage. “What’s up, Ocean City, you ready to party?!?” Shorty asked the crowd, which responded enthusiastically in the affirmative, just as he and the crew blew in with their aptly titled instrumental “Hurricane Season”...

The 2016 Summer Concert Series on Monday nights at the Ocean City Music Pier had already been an unequivocal success, still so much depends on how you finish. This year’s edition ended with the incomparable Lucinda Williams leading a capacity crowd...

It’s no secret that almost anyone who grew up on classic rock and roll loves Led Zeppelin. At some point, usually in adolescence, Zeppelin’s musical impact kicks in like hormones for most self-respecting rock fans. Get The Led Out lead vocalist Paul Sinclair was no different. “I was 12” he recalls, “Zeppelin II was the one that first got me…it’s still my favorite to this day”...

Citizen Cope brings his best for his trip to Ocean City....

Pink Floyd is one of the most beloved rock bands of all time, whose uniquely intricate music is best experienced live onstage. Pink Floyd have not played a full show together since June 1981. That’s two subsequent generations deprived of the chance to see Pink Floyd live. Enter Joe Pascarell, founder and lead singer/guitarist of The Machine, a long-running Pink Floyd tribute band who took the stage Monday night in Ocean City.

Kevin Bacon is a world renowned superstar, pop culture phenomenon and subject of a popular parlor game for reasons that have little to do with music. That is unless we’re talking a Kenny Loggins theme from a film about a town fighting for its right to dance...

40 Years Into His Career, George Thorogood Badder Than Ever

Despite the fact that he is known best for a song in which he’s handed a Vegemite sandwich with a smile that’s called “Land Down Under”, let the record reflect that Colin Hay is actually a Scotsman. I say it for the simple fact that Colin Hay’s Scottish roots, once you realize his origins (Hay was born and grew up there before moving to Australia at 14 where he met the rest of his then-band Men At Work), do indeed rise up from the sea to manifest itself in a myriad of ways all across his work. All the while doing so in a fashion that you or I might not recognize immediately if we didn’t know.

We have a pair of free passes, to both the 6 PM early show and 8:30 second show. Winners will each be awarded passes to one of the two, compliments of BRE Presents, Bob Rose Productions and OCNJ Daily...