[Cover photo credit to Hannah Greve, direction credit to Madison Van Houten]

Central New Jersey Alternative Rock outfit Bobby Mahoney has released its Wicked Cool Records label debut, Another Deadbeat Summer. With it comes the title track and video to bring the summer vibes.

Frontman Bobby Mahoney says of the title track:

‘”Another Deadbeat Summer’ was originally written in two sittings- in 2014 I started the song alone in my dorm room at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, and then finished it with Jon Alba at my parents house later. The song is about a wild high school party, and the observations I made as an attendee, feeling like an outsider.

When we initially recorded it and made the first video, it became the first song of ours that people would sing along loudly to at the shows, and became a staple of our set. In the following ten years, the song has covered a lot of ground, including when we re-tracked it in 2017, with Frank Mara at North End Recording in Clifton, NJ, adding saxophone by Zack Sandler. That was the version that Stevie Van Zandt initially heard and brought us to Wicked Cool Records.

For the newest version, Geoff Sanoff, Zack, and I worked together on a new horn line, and Geoff’s mix with Joe Lambert’s master really breathed fresh air into the song. This song just does not seem to want to die, and I am very thankful for it. It was a no-brainer to bring Zack Morrison back to direct the new version of the video, since he did such an amazing job on the initial project in 2014. It is cool to see how far this team has come in the first ten years of ‘Another Deadbeat Summer’, and I am excited to see where the song takes us in the next ten years.”

The band Bobby Mahoney made a name for itself in the Asbury Park, NJ music scene, sharing the stage with the likes of Frank Turner, Against Me!, Steve Earle, Dave Hause, opening for Bon Jovi, and jamming with Bruce Springsteen and other notable songwriters at multiple Light Of Day Music Festivals, which benefit Parkinson’s, ALS, and PSP research.

Upcoming Shows:

6.15 AP Underground N2S- 5:30pm Destination Asbury- 644B Cookman Ave (acoustic)

6.30 Revilla Grooves Milltown, NJ 2pm (acoustic)

7.6 The Kill Shed- Tom’s River, NJ w Vinnie Caruana, Levy Okun, Tim Vecci, Hoffman (acoustic)

7.12 “Another Deadbeat Summer” Record Release Party – Wonder Bar- Asbury Park, NJ w Soraia, Idle Wave, FEENY

7.20 Kingsland – Brooklyn, NY w The Dollyrots, The Boreouts, Palmyra Delran

EU/UK ACOUSTIC

31 July Freiburg, Germany – Red Carpet Stage

2 August Dörphof, Germany – The Upstage

3 August Melle, Germany – Local Heroes Festival @ XV Eichen, Sehlingdorfer Str. 41, Melle-Buer-Hustädte https://buer-kultur.de/local-heroes-festival.html

4 August Tönivorst, Germany (near Düsseldorf) – Kiwi Lounge

5 August Fellbach, Germany – Annette’s (private house show)

10 August Birmingham, England – Rock and Roll Brewhouse*

15 August London, England – Biddle Bros*

*= with Mixtape Saints