Another article on the Ridgewood music explosion

NPR recently kicked off a new weekly series where they ask musicians why music scenes grow where they do. They of-course chose the bands that came out of the Ridgewood NJ area, which include Titus Andronicus, Real Estate, Vivian Girls, Julian Lynch and Family Portrait. NPR talked with members of Real Estate and Julian Lynch specifically. You can check out the full article here. Excerpt below.

"Ridgewood High School hosted these things called Open Mic Nights. All of the bands that are in this indie rock scene now would frequent these open mic nights," he says, "myself, Martin Courtney from Real Estate, Matthew Mondanile from Real Estate and Ducktails, Julian Lynch, Evan Brody from Family Portrait. It was cool, it was an opportunity for you as a high school student to showcase what you were doing on the weekends, which for a lot of us was worshiping bands likeWeezer and learning how to play their songs." [NPR]

Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus

Real Estate - Pool Swimmers

Vivian Girls - I Have No Fun

Julian Lynch - In New Jersey