House of Independents to Host Rockabilly Bash for New Year's

House of Independents scorches with a swinging sixteen roaring Rockabilly sock hop to kickstart 2016! Put on your party pants and rebel rock those dancing feet. Ring in the New Year at Asbury Park's ultimate Rockabilly House Party!

A $30 ticket buys you an exclusive champagne toast with THE GAS HOUSE GORILLAS and so much more, including 2 drinks, DJ's, ample room to dance, and the biggest screen ball-drop in town!

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About Gas House Gorillas - In 2003 Rick Fink started a band with the express purpose of defying category. Early on, the Gas House Gorillas became a virtual who's-who of the Rockabilly, Swing and Blues community, sort of a wise-guy Jump Blues band from Hell. Crusher Carmean, the well-known front man of the band Crescent City Maulers joined early on and found a permanent home. From the beginning, the band built a solid reputation through constant touring and fearless take-no-prisoners performances. As the years went by, the band continued to hone it's high-energy Roots Rock approach with a more Punk aesthetic, creating a sound all their own and gaining an ever growing and devoted fan base. Summer 2013 saw the release of Punk Americana on Lanark Records, which became the #1 and #2 most downloaded album in the country, competing against national and international recording artists. In 2015 the band decided to ditch the horn and become a quartet. The result was an even more muscular musical assault. Rounding out the current lineup are Oscar Rodriguez on guitar and Eddie Everett on drums. The fruits of this configuration can be heard on the band's upcoming album SHUT UP! on Stoopid Brute Records. You will find Big Band Swing, Rockabilly Rave Ups, Hard Core Punk and even sweet Pop music standing side by side under one roof. GHG consider this to be their greatest achievement and the best representative of what this band is about. The Gorillas will continue to bring smiles to the masses as they joke, cajole and crowd-surf their way into 2016 with a vengeance.

Asbury Park's House of Independents, located at 572 Cookman Avenue, has become downtown's premiere live entertainment venue through an eclectic mix of theatre, dance, film, comedy, oddities, late night fare, and, of course, the music that has placed Asbury on the global radar. Located in the heart of downtown, House has made a home for emerging and established culture renaissancing Cookman's Arts District through a wellspring of gay, concrete and established culture.

House of Independents celebrates this spirit wtih a stage that salutes both legendary and emerging artists with venue opening performances by John Waters, Henry Rollins, Coney Island Circus Sideshow, Walking Dead's Emily Kinney, New York's avant-garde puppet theatre Lone Wolf Tribe (2016), Philadelphia's award-winning Junk Dance (22 & 23 Jan), Puddles Pity Party (9 Jan), The Light of Day Foundation concert Sweet Little Sixteen Kickoff featuring Dramarama, Jill Hennessy, Willie Nile, The Billy Walton Band (14 Jan), comedic headliners from The Stress Factory, Farmers market weekends from Asbury Fresh (28 Nov, 5 Dec, 12 Dec), Light of Day Winterfest concerts with Remember Jones (15 Jan) performing the entire Amy Winehouse album Back to Black and Steve Forbert (16 Jan), Offseaon poetry with music (13 Feb), oddiites direct from the iconic Asbury Lanes, the heart-stirring holiday classic A Christmas Carol (16-20 Dec), and many more surprises.