Calendar of Events

Sleep Until Dark hosts special guest DJs each week in a genre bending journey through some of the best record collections in South Jersey. Featuring cocktail specials from Stateside Vodka and mad drink discounts, it's the perfect way to get your midweek vinyl fix.

Line Dancing - Lessons with Caitlin and Mike

Doors:  7:00 pm // 21+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

HUGE IN EUROPE is your new favorite GenX Band!  Step into a vibrant musical realm where every chord resonates with passion and every beat pulsates with energy. HIE's repertoire spans the iconic eras of our youth, covering the timeless classics as well as the unforgettable gems from the '80s, '90s, and 2000s.

Plush In The Box // Huge In Europe

Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm // 18+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Te Vista // Super Jack // CJ Sooy // Malcolm Tent

7:00 pm doors // 8:00 pm showtime // 18+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Schism - A Tribute to Tool including Laser Show plus special guests Lounge Fly (Stone Temple Pilots Tribute) and Siamese Dreamers (Smashing Pumpkins Tribute)

Saturday, June 29th // Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 7:30 pm // 18+ (under the age of 18 must be accompanied by parent)

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Verses of the Bleeding // False Salvation // Disposed // Hindsight // Who Remembers // Overanalyzed

Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 7:30 pm // All-Ages

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

A historic beachside venue, reborn...

For decades, this historic location was the center of Atlantic City nightlife. Then in 2019, the venue was reborn as Anchor Rock Club, AC's independent music venue. The two story concert hall offers full accommodations for the largest wedding down to the smallest Springsteen show, including...

Wedding Ceremonies | Receptions | Cocktail Hours | Private Concerts | Office Functions | B'nai Mitzvahs | Custom Events

For bookings and inquires, contact Greg at gjm@anchorrockclub.com

...or visit https://www.anchorrockclub.com/private-events for further information

Whagwaan presents INDEPENDENCE DUB FEST 2025

featuring Tippy I // Yaadcore // Selector Jerry from Sounds Of The Caribbean // House of Roots Heartical Dub Machine // Food by Sedellah's Island Grill

$20 (plus fees and tax)

Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm // 18+ // under 18 y.o. must be accompanied by parent

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Official Disco Biscuits After Party featuring DJ Brownie and DJ Baba G of Disco Biscuits and special guest DJ Greenie of Lotus

Doors - 11:00 pm // 21+

$15 advance // $20 at the door // $10 admission at the the door with proof of having purchased a ticket for Disco Biscuits show on 7/5/25

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Lovelight - Tribute to Grateful Dead

Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8;00 pm // 18+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

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2. Although there are numerous, conflicting, tales of how, when, where, and sometimes why The Dead Milkmen initially formed, the most reliable evidence points to band founder Joe JackTalcum’s decision, in the late 1970’s, to create a band based entirely upona group of woodcut she discovered in the basement of The Vatican. Talcum then recruited acquaintance Rodney Anonymous and the pair immediately set about unlearning everything they had previously learned about music and spending countless hours screaming at inanimate objects. In 1982 bassist Dave Blood was added to the group after impressing Talcum and Anonymous with his ability to cover passing vehicles with ketchup. Shortly afterward, and entirely against his own will and better judgment, drummer Dean Clean joined the band. In 1985, the band, or “The Dead Milkmen” as they were now known, released their debut album “Big Lizard in My Backyard” which was instantly declared “The greatest cultural achievement of our time” (by theband themselves). Big Lizard was followed by “Eat Your Paisley” in 1986 and “Bucky Fellini" in 1987.The hit single “Punk Rock Girl” from the Dead Milkmen’s 1988 release “Beelzebubba” opened many doors to mainstream success, which the band then purposely set about slamming shut in the faces of anyone who used the term “Market Penetration” in a non-sexual sense. Two years later, the Milkmen followed up “Beelzebubba” with “Metaphysical Graffiti”; a work which is universally regarded as “a CD you can buy if you’ve got roughly eleven dollars”.Bored and looking to “do something different that didn’t include sacrificing a goat”, the band thenbegan recording “Soul Rotation” (1992). Although critically acclaimed as a brilliant recording (again, by the band themselves), sales were disappointing and the band returned to shoplifting.1993’s “Not Richard, But Dick” saw the band return to form and to arguing with each other...loudly... mostly in public places ...like restaurants, and so the band agreed that 1995’s “Stoney’s Extra Stout (Pig)” would be their final recording unless “some idiot hands us a %$#@ load of money to record another CD.” Tragically, for the Milkmen’s bank accounts, the idiot with the money was killed by a polar bear at the Kiev Municipal Zoo. In March of 2004, bassist Dave Blood decided to fake his own death for artistic reasons. Today he lives in a remote Serbian village with his wives and innumerable offspring. Suffering from the loss ofBlood, it appeared that the Milkmen would never reunite, let alone reform, or even band together again.In 2008 the band reunited, with bassist Dan Stevens on bass, playing the bass, in order to play Austin TX’s Fun Fun Fun Fest (temporarily renamed from “Fun Fun Fun Fun Fest” because “It’ll be a little less fun with the Dead Milkmen there.”) 2011’s release of “The King in Yellow”– the Milkmen’s first release in sixteen years–was at once declared a seamless continuation of their earlier work...in that it’s a CD you can buy if you’ve got roughly eleven dollars. In the autumn of 2012 the Dead Milkmen began releasing a series of singles on the should-be-by-now-obsolete 7 inch vinyl format in an obvious attempt to appeal to a younger "hipster"audience. Despite evidence that the singles were failing to expand their fan base, the obstinate Milkmen continued to produce four of them in the span of two years before releasing them in 2014, along with six additional tunes, on an album called “Pretty Music for Pretty People” to streaming sites and also as a CD that you can buy if you have roughly eleven dollars.

    
3. In 2017 the band was approached by Giving Groove, a record company that shares profits with charity organizations, with an offer to release an album that would benefit any charity of the band’s choosing. The band delivered six songs they assumed would ensure that the label wouldwant nothing to do with, but, to their surprise, was released as the E.P. “Welcome to the End ofthe World” which, against all odds, is now in its fourth pressing in the still-should-be-obsolete inferior vinyl format. Fast forward to the summer of 2023: In an era of unparalleled stupidity, political dysfunction, and societal collapse, the Milkmen have returned with the release of their first full length albumin nine years, “Quaker City Quiet Pills”, on The Giving Groove record label. Written over the tumultuous three-year span of 2019 to 2022, the album includes gems such as “Grandpa’s not a Racist (He Just Voted for One)” and “Musical Chairs”. It was released to streaming sites in addition to the still-popular physical formats of CDand vinyl.

The Dead Milkmen plus The Rectors and Reckless Randy

$25 advance // $27.50 day of show (plus tax and service fees)

Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm // 18+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Albee Al & Friends Birthday Concert

Doors: 7:00 pm // Showtime: 7:00 pm // 21+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Ave // Atlantic City NJ

DJs Spooky Sophia & Sleep Until Dark set the vibe for an alternative dance party featuring the music of your favorite new wave, goth & punk artists from the 70s to today.

FREE / NO COVER / 21+

Doors - 8:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

The Washups (FINAL SHOW) // Gutter Drunk // The Only Way

Doors - 7:00 pm / Showtime - 8:00 pm / 18+

Anchor Rock Club / 247 S New York Avenue / Atlantic City NJ

Pure Petty - A Tribute to Tom Petty

TWO SETS!!
Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm // 18+
Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Dave Hill is a comedian, writer, actor, and musician originally from Cleveland but now living in New York City, which is great. He has appeared on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls5eva, Joe Pera Talks with You, Inside Amy Schumer, @midnight, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Tick, The Jim Gaffigan Show, and the new U.S. version of Would I Lie To You among other programs. And he plays a Devo-obsessed weed dealer in the new film Drunk Busstarring Ozark’s Charlie Tahan and Will Forte. Dave has also starred in his own TV series, The King of Miami, on the MOJO Network, which was cancelled even though Dave really liked it. Dave is a regular contributor to public radio’s This American Life and Live from Here withChris Thile (formerly Prairie Home Companion) and also hosted his own radio show, The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, on WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey for five years. Dave is alsothe resident heavy metal expert on Malcolm Gladwell and Rick Rubin’s Broken Record podcast.
Dave performs live comedy in theaters, prisons, and basements all over the world. He appearsregularly with fellow comedians such as Janeane Garofalo, Tom Papa, and Gary Gulman andhas opened for musical acts including Snoop Dogg, Tenacious D, Broken Social Scene, Down, Autopsy, Quicksand, and Rhett Miller. Dave also plays guitar and sings in his own rock band, Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is thetheme song for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in addition to fronting Painted
Doll with death metal legend Chris Reifert (Autopsy, Death). He is also the founding member ofWitch Taint, most extremely extreme Norwegian Black Metal band from Gary, Indiana everprobably (go to www.theblackmetaldialogues.com for more info). He also composes music for TV and film.

Dave has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Salon, GQ, McSweeney’s, The New York Observer, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Guitar World, among other
publications, and is author of three books, Parking the Moose (2019 DoubledayCanada/Penguin Random House), Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (2016 Blue Rider
Press, and Tasteful Nudes (2012 St. Martin’s Press).

Dave Hill plus special guests

Doors - 7:00 pm // Show - 8:00 pm // 18+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Molly Ringworm / Teen Idle / Kennedy Shaw / Great Oblivion

Doors - 7:00 pm / Showtime - 7:30 pm / 18+

Anchor Rock Club / 247 S New York Avenue / Atlantic City NJ

Pine Barrens Folk Night

featuring Jackson Pines // Ornamental // Blood Red Moon

Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm // 18+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

The Dollyrots // Black Widows
Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm // 18+
Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Get ready to immerse yourself in the ultimate summer music experience at KitoFest, a home-grown music festival taking place at the Anchor Rock Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey on August 16th, 2025.

KitoFest brings together the best of live music, culinary delights, and a vibrant atmosphere all under one roof. The Anchor Rock Club sets the stage for an unforgettable day of musical exploration and community connection.

Prepare to be captivated as an impressive lineup of local and regional artists take to the stage, delivering electrifying performances that span a multitude of genres. From soulful jazz to infectious pop, rock anthems to captivating indie tunes, there will be a diverse range of sounds to cater to all musical tastes.

Nestled in the heart of Atlantic City, the Anchor Rock Club provides the perfect backdrop for KitoFest's intimate and immersive experience. The venue boasts state-of-the-art sound systems and a cozy ambiance that will make you feel right at home. Dance, sing along, or simply sway to the music as you soak up the infectious energy of the crowd.

KitoFest isn't just about the music; it's a feast for the senses. Treat yourself to a delectable array of culinary delights from local food vendors stationed throughout the festival grounds. From savory street food to refreshing beverages, there will be something to satisfy every craving.

In between sets, take a stroll through the festival marketplace, where you'll discover a curated selection of local artisans showcasing their unique crafts, clothing, and artwork. Engage in conversation, make new friends, and celebrate the spirit of creativity and community.

With its prime location, KitoFest offers the perfect opportunity to explore the vibrant city of Atlantic City. Take advantage of the festival's proximity to the beach, enjoy the lively nightlife, or extend your stay to fully immerse yourself in the excitement and entertainment the city has to offer.

Join us at the Anchor Rock Club in Atlantic City, NJ, on August 16th, 2025, for KitoFest, a celebration of music, community, and summer vibes. Don't miss your chance to be part of this unforgettable experience. See you there!

KITOFEST Music & Arts Festival

Doors: 7:00 pm // Showtime: 7:00 pm / 21+

Anchor Rock Club // 247 S New York Ave // Atlantic City NJ