(WATCH) Jersey Rock Video of the Week: Swim The Current "So Low" (2024)

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Swim The Current started out as a side project and evolved into something much more. The group is made up of George Pond (bass), Greg Antine (guitar), Joe Gareri (guitar, keyboards), Chris Moore (drums) and Marcos Leal (vocals). The Jersey Rock supergroup strives to blend a “cinematic writing style” with a high-octane sound

No longer content to just release a song or two, they are currently working on their first full-length album. Following the success of their debut single “We Are Not The Same,” the band decided to try their hand at a cover. They landed on something of a surprising choice. Speaking of their decision to cover a Koe Wetzel tune, bass player George Pond said:

“well, Marcos was a big country fan. He came to me with an idea of doing a country cover something. I’m not very familiar with but I became a big country fan for about a week and a half two weeks. He gave me a bunch of artists to listen to, and a bunch of songs he thought might fit the criteria to these artists entire catalog and try to get a feel for country being mostly a metal guy and a hard rock guy. I really wasn’t tuned into the country scene. I picked Koe Wetzels “So Low” his message seem to fit the time and point in some things that were gone personally for Marcos and I honestly didn’t think that the song was going to takeoff like it is nor did I know exactly how everybody else in the band was gonna take it whether they were going to be OK with doing this no absolutely not. After its completion everybody was just so head over heels about the way it came out even people in Coast camp gave us the greenlight to do it. We decided to shoot with the famed Tom Flynn amazing video Director to complete the vision. “

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Saturday Night House Party 2024 Birthday Blast

• SHINEDOWN - GET UP

  Released in 2018 as part of the Attention Attentionalbum, this song gave the band their eleventh song to reach the top ten on the Billboard Rock Airplay chart. This actually broke the Foo Fighter’s previous record of 10.

• ACDC- HAVE A DRINK ON ME

  Don’t mind if I do! This song of course is from the ever-popular Back In Black album, released in 1980. This album also held other major hits such as Hells Bells, Shoot to Thrill, and You Shook Me All Night Long

• METALLICA- WHISKEY IN THE JAR

  A lot of people forget this banger is a cover! That’s right, back in 1973, Thin Lizzy actually released this song. It was in 1998 that Metallica played a similar song but with a much heavier sound, and this is what we have! I think they do a good job!

• PAPA ROACH- NO APOLOGIES

  You don’t have to say you’re sorry, but you SHOULD listen to this song. Fairly new, it came out in 2022 as part of Papa Roach’s Ego Trip Album.

• LOLA MONTEZ - VOLBEAT

  This hit song came from the Danish group’s fifth studio album, Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies.It was Volbeat’s 4th song to top the Mainstream Rock Songs chart in the United States. It is about the famous dancer and Countess of Landsfeld, Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, her stage name of course being…Lola Montez. After reading a bad review about her performance she attacked the writer with a whip…look it up.

• DROPKICK MURPHYS- THE BOYS ARE BACK

  Released in 2013, this is part of the band’s Signed and Sealed in Blood album. This is the kind of song you and your good friends blast on full volume when out for a night of debauchery.

• GEORGE T- ONE BOURBON, ONE SCOTCH, ONE BEER

  This song was originally written in 1953 by Blues artist Rudy Toombs.Bad To The BoneGeorge T took that ball and RAN with it in 1977 with his own rendition. The original lyrics are about a drunk man at a bar at closing time, just trying to drink enough to forget that his girlfriend’s gone AWOL, harassing a tired, bored bartender. George’s version also takes inspiration from “House Rent Boogie” which serves as more backstory for the singer.

• MOTLEY CRUE- WILD SIDE

  The opening track toGirls, Girls Girls, the band’s third straight album to hit quadruple platinum! Written by Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee, this was just one of the songs that made the whole album an “arena rock juggernaut”.

• GIO AND THE HIGHER GUNS- ROMON AYALA

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Tom Hanley is the host of Jersey Rock, New Jersey’s longest running local rock show on 95.9 The RAT. He got his start in broadcasting at Monmouth University's WMCX-FM. He's hosted Jersey Rock since 2016, been on the air at WRAT since 2008, and been listening to RAT Radio since 1996! Jersey Rock is a multi-platform local music brand that provides exposure to NJ artists. The on-air program features a different Garden State band each week. Tune to 95.9 The RAT every Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday night at 11:30 pm to hear call-ins and songs from the Jersey Rock Band of the Week! Each week Jersey Rock features a different music video as the Jersey Rock Video of the Week . Between Jersey Rock's on-air and online platforms, there's opportunities for 9 different NJ bands to be featured each week. If you're in a NJ band and want to be on Jersey Rock, e-mail Tom Hanley. Send your mp3's, videos, pictures, and links to jerseyrock@wrat.com