503 Social Club hosts James Mastro Pictures Exhibition

(HOBOKEN, NJ) — Rock/Americana singer-songwriter-guitarist James Mastro (Bongos, Ian Hunter) will exhibit a lot of his photographs he took over the previous three years whereas on tour all through the United States, the UK and Greece opening for artists together with Alejandro Escovedo and Marshall Crenshaw as he supported his acclaimed debut solo album, Dawn of a New Error. The exhibit, entitled “The Passenger”, will run from October 12-November 23, 2025 on the 503 Social Club in Hoboken.

The distinctive, stunning and infrequently weird pictures don’t middle on musical performances; Instead, Mastro’s work invitations one to hitch an insiders’ membership to see ignored and offbeat nooks of cities and surroundings with the hardened locals.

As a photographer, James Mastro brings the identical sense of marvel and journey that resonates in his music: A peeling away of layers, a give attention to one thing within the nook of your eye, discovering magnificence in a rusted manufacturing unit as simply as a flowering cactus.

“Many of my photos are taken from a backseat while moving at 70 miles per hour,” says Mastro. “It’s a combination of quick reflexes and luck when something catches my eye.”

An opening reception will happen on Sunday, October twelfth from 2:00pm-6:00pm. It is free and open to the general public. The gallery is situated at 503 third Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.

While touring, Mastro had at all times stored journals over time, however these days he makes use of pictures to recollect the day. Mastro explains: “I get a song lyric or idea out of many of the images I capture. They put me back in a scene, and then the imagination just adds more color.”

Dawn of a New Error marks the return of James Mastro to the entrance and middle as singer and songwriter. Featuring visitor vocals by Ian Hunter and produced by Tony Shanahan – greatest often known as Patti Smith’s bassist, co-producer and musical collaborator – the songs have been recorded each time Mastro and Shanahan discovered time to get collectively, between Shanahan’s work with Smith and Mastro’s work with Hunter and different initiatives. Noteworthy drummers on the file embody Brian Griffin (Brandi Carlile, Black Crowes) and Steve Goulding (The Mekons, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe). The album was recorded and blended by Grammy® nominee James Frazee (Patti Smith, Sharon Van Etten, Marshall Crenshaw), and mastered by the legendary Greg Calbi.

James Mastro has been a highly-regarded songwriter and guitarist since his teen years in CBGB stalwarts The Richard Lloyd Group, enjoying guitar on the Elektra Records launch Alchemy. Mastro is a founder (together with singer Richard Barone) of The Bongos, a radio and MTV staple who launched three lauded data – Nuts & Bolts (JEM), Numbers With Wings (RCA/re-released October, 2023), and Beat Hotel (RCA).

In 1992 he moved to middle stage as frontman for Americana fave The Health & Happiness Show, releasing three critically acclaimed albums: Tonic, Instant Living (Bar-None), and Sad and Sexy (Cropduster). The band spent the subsequent 10 years touring incessantly, opening for Wilco, Johnny Cash, Golden Smog, Barenaked Ladies, Beat Farmers, The Blasters, Kirsty MacColl, and served because the backing band for Texas troubadour Butch Hancock.

In 2001 he joined ranks with Mott the Hoople’s legendary singer Ian Hunter and has served as his left-hand man ever since, touring and enjoying on Hunter’s final six albums: Rant, Shrunken Heads, Man Overboard, Live within the UK, When I’m President, and Defiance Pt. 1. In between his recording work with Hunter, he toured as a guitarist with Mott the Hoops ’74, Patti Smith, John Cale, Alejandro Escovedo, Garland Jeffreys, The Jayhawks, and Southside Johnny.

His studio and session work is intensive, and consists of enjoying guitar on the late, nice Phoebe Snow’s Natural Wonder and Marti Jones’s Match Game. Production credit embody Steve Wynn’s “The Devil’s Not That Kind,” Jill Sobule’s “Just A Little Lovin’,” Amy Speace’s Songs for Bright Street and The Killer In Me, and Tiny Lights’ The Smaller the Grape, the Sweeter the Wine.