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.

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

Friends of Jerry -- Two Sets of Electric Jazz Punk Dead - Tribute to the Grateful Dead

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

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

Grunge Is Not Dead Tribute: NIRVANA by Lounge Act // PEARL JAM by Oceans // ALICE IN CHAINS by Jar of Flies 

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

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

Spotted by Lou Reed and Peter Gabriel in 1996, Joseph Arthur now has around fifteen albums to his credit. He’s also at the origin of several bands: The Lonely Astronauts, Fistful Mercy (which he founded with Ben Harper) or even RNDM with Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam.  Joseph Arthur on stage could be described as a fallen or cursed angel, who with his guitar, pedals and mics, builds live real swirling and captivating melodies which gives stripped-down pieces, without artifice, inhabited solely by the singer's voice. Joseph Arthur draws his inspiration from Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Jeff Buckley. The finesse of the compositions and the richness of the orchestrations make Joseph Arthur one of the best American songwriters of the 21st century. His song "In the Sun" was covered by singer Michael Stipe of R.E.M and Chris Martin of Coldplay, as well as by Peter Gabriel.

1adam12 was honored to be a member of your favorite band's unknown favorite band "Noise Museum"(pre- internet). 1adam12 is a member of the Glenn Mercer Band (of The Feelies) The Drunkees and formerly of The Oxygen Tent.  Also a member of Upper Cayuga 6 Nations Reserve, Canada. #415762 (Cousin to Jay Silverheels) Sorta representing modern Iroquois synthesis.

Joseph Arthur with special guest 1adam12

Doors - 6:00 pm // Showtime - 7:00 pm // 18+

$15 advance (plus fees) // $20 day of show (plus fees)

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

ACAF's Spring Arts Mixer and National Mural Day!

Doors - 5:00 pm // All-Ages Are Welcome // FREE EVENT

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

Immerse yourself in the vibrant arts scene of Atlantic City at Anchor Rock Club in the Orange Loop and find like-minded creative people and lovers of Atlantic City.

• Local art market
• Sneak peek at this year's mural restorations
• All Ages, Free Admission, Cash Bar

We're inviting artists to join a pop-up exhibit and market—whether you have prints to sell or a canvas to display, we want to hear about it and make space for you at the event.

If you would like to exhibit or sign up as a vendor, apply today.  Follow RSVP link for more info!

No vendor or exhibition fees, any and all sales retained by the artist. Space is limited, so get in touch today to reserve your spot! Selected artists will be contacted directly.

Plus—stay after 7 pm for Anchor Rock Club's Vinyl Night (Free Entry, Every Wednesday)!

Join us at Anchor Rock Club every second Thursday for PASS/GO, a night of house, dance & techno music, brought to you by a healthy rotation of your favorite local and regional selectors. Come party with us and enjoy live entertainment, drink specials, and monthly themes right here at Anchor Rock Club, Atlantic City’s home for electronic dance music. 

For dancers

Music lovers
And party animals

FEATURING THIS MONTH:
@samwas__

@bigbodykito

& resident mad lad @vick.quick

PASS/GO is a monthly series of house, dance & techno music on each second Thursday of every month presented by Weekday Underground. Enjoy local, regional and resident DJ’s curating live sets to bring you an evening of dance music you just can’t miss. Join us at Anchor Rock Club from 8pm-midnight on Thursday, May 8th in Atlantic City, NJ. 

FEATURING THIS MONTH: 

SAMWAS -  SAMWAS is a producer and DJ representing the Atlantic City underground electronic music scene since 2012. Samwas has released original music on independent labels Aspire Higher, Funkadelphia, & Psy.Fi Productions. Samwas continues to perform at venues and festivals, specializing in house and dub, as a member of the Weekday Underground crew since 2023.

BIG BODY KITO - BBK is a dynamic DJ and multi-media creative hailing from Vineland, NJ, known for his genre-blending sound that fuses House, Dub, and Latin rhythms. With over a decade of experience, Kito has built more than just a rapport with his audiences—he’s cultivated real connections. Whether he’s behind the decks at a packed club, festival, or underground renegade rave, Kito brings the energy and always delivers an unforgettable experience. As a core member of Weekday Underground, he’s deeply committed to nurturing the community and helping underground music thrive. Kito’s ability to seamlessly mix genres and craft unique, high-energy vibes has solidified his place as a true pillar of the New Jersey creative scene.

WITH RESIDENT: VICK QUICK 

No cover, 21+

Contact the organizer: weekdayunderground@gmail.com

Feels Good // LVNA // Wring Me Out // Gimic

Doors - 7:00 pm // Showtime - 8:00 pm // All Ages

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

BEACH RAVE goes monthly at Anchor Rock Club!  On Saturday night, May 10th, 10 pm until 4 am, noetrope and friends bring you this classic DJ dance party every second Saturday of the month at Anchor Rock Club in Atlantic City NJ!

Gridiron with Verses Of The Bleeding // Wretched Rite // Disposed

Doors - 6:00 pm // Showtime - 7:00 pm // All-Ages

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

First impressions last a lifetime. Wolfgang Van Halen has prepared a lifetime to make his first impression with his solo band Mammoth. The songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist worked tirelessly on material that would become his debut album. Playing every instrument and singing each and every note, his music presents a personal and powerful perspective, balancing memorable hooks and tight technicality. As many times as audiences have experienced his talent alongside the likes of Tremonti, Clint Lowery, and of course, Van Halen, Wolfgang prepares to step into the spotlight with his own brand - Mammoth - for the very first time now.

“The name Mammoth is really special to me.” says Wolf. “Not only was it the name of Van Halen before it became Van Halen, but my father was also the lead singer. Ever since my dad told me this, I always thought that when I grew up, I’d call my own band Mammoth, because I loved the name so much. I’m so thankful that my father was able to listen to, and enjoy the music I made. Nothing made me happier than seeing how proud he was that I was continuing the family legacy.”

103.7 WMGM Rocks presents Mammoth WVH

Doors - 5:00 pm // Showtime - 6:00 pm

247 S New York Avenue // Atlantic City NJ

Visit 1037wmgm.com for more ticketing info - tickets available only through WMGM

Riot Nerd Presents: Charli XCX & Chappell Roan Dance Party w/ DJ 21SPARKSFLY

Dance to tons of Charli and Chappell with similar artists mixed in!

Doors - 9:00 pm // Showtime - 9:00 pm // 18+

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

Tokyo Rose // Days Like These // The Beautiful Mistake // Steven Lemon

Doors - 6:00 pm // Showtime - 7:00 pm // 18+

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

Line Dancing - Lessons with Caitlin and Mike

Doors:  7:00 pm // 21+

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

Frankie Mermaid // Dirt Birth // Linus Blanket // Youth

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

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

Riding the fine line between obnoxious skatepunk and soddenmetal, Murphy's Law came out of New York City's mid-'80shardcore scene and formed in Astoria, Queens, around vocalist Jimmy G. The group's self-titled debut, released on Profile in 1986, contained the usual '80s subjects (boredom, alienation,weed, beer, etc.), but the songs were definitely there, and Murphy's Law improved even more with their second album,1989's Back with a Bong! The band was on the Profile-associated Combat Records for 1991's The Best of Times, but recorded little duringthe early '90s. In 1995, Murphy's Law came back with the EP Good for Now, and the full-length Dedicated arrived the following year. Best of Times / Good for Now was issued in 2000; The Party'sOver came next in the spring of 2001.

Thirty years ago in Pomona Valley, California, was the birth of Total Chaos. Created outof the desperate needto savea dying genre of punk rock, during a time that the market was saturated with a more commercial newstyle.It was more important than ever to express their social and political views. The idea of social responsibility was a significant thing, from organizing peace punk picnics, to protesting against the gulf war, their music hada meaning and stood for something. Over the years, the band has seen many things come and go, but they have stuck to their original ideals. Whether you are pop punk, street punk, hardcore punk, straight edge, political punk, goth punk, skate punk, crust punk, metal punk, or whatever box they try to put you in, Total Chaos unites you all into one scene: PUNK ROCK!

South Jersey skate punk legends, Gutter Drunk, bring their incredible live show to Anchor Rock Club!  Not to be missed!

Murphy's Law // Total Chaos // Gutter Drunk

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

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

with you in spirit, the fourth Balance and Composure LP, is an arresting, atmospheric collection of melodic post-punk and towering rock. Due out October 4 on long-time collaborator and Grammy-nominated producer Will Yip’s Memory Music, it’s the band’s first LP in eight years, and a thrilling full-length comeback after their four-year hiatus. It thunders and stirs, dipping between beautiful, crystalline arrangements and punishing, earth-shaking climaxes; in between all, a gripping, near-physical tension crackles and growls and grooves, waiting to rip open.

It’s an intensely self-reflective record for vocalist and guitarist Jon Simmons, an uprooting and examination of the supports on which a life is built. Preemptive grief, wrestling with god and faith, familial responsibility, familial mortality—these are the things Simmons was carrying while writing this material. They’re also things he was trying, for better and worse, to avoid—hence the record’s title.

with you in spirit feels like the work of songwriters reaching new heights, exploring new depths. Sometimes, the record itself feels like a band grappling with its own avoidance, its own mortality, and deciding to face these things the only way they know how. Balance and Composure are with us in spirit, yes, but in the flesh, too, for now.

Sainthood Reps have been known for their unique blend of grunge and post-hardcore for many years. After releasing Monoculture in 2011 and Headswell in 2013, the band spent the next several years collectively pursuing other projects before eventually regrouping during COVID. Since 2022, the band has been in and out of the studio, compiling new music that marks a definitive step forward in their evolution. Stay tuned in 2025 for much more from the Reps.  

Balance & Composure // Sainthood Reps

$30 advance // $35 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

The Swinging Sixties

Join us in celebrting the music of the 1960s and shop for vintage looks with local vendors

The Jette Planes play The Beatles

Ornamental plays 60's Folk

The Jettes play The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Purple Sage plays The Kinks

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 special guests TBA

$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

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