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Stage NEW JERSEY Want press? If you’ve got a big show, a new CD, benefit concert or going on tour let us know about it info@ newjerseystage.com NJ STAGE - ISSUE 61 Gentleman Owen Flanagan, drums/ percussion; Gabe Sanderson, Matt Dubrow & the Captives, keyboards/ guitar; Riley Schiro, Cranston Dean Band, guitar; Avery Mandeville, backing vocals, and a horn sec- tion of trumpeter David Myles Long and trombonist Andrew Ludwig. Some of them also will back her on a tour to be announced soon. In the meantime, they’ll play July 27 at The Chubby Pickle, Highlands.  After an almost two-year hiatus, Newark punk-rap foursome Sunny Gang is back with a new five-song EP, “American Carnage,” their first release since the 2016 debut full- length, “Party Animal.” Produced by former Hidden in Plain View guitar- ist Rob Freeman at Audio Pilot Stu- dio in Boonton, the EP was written and recorded over the course of the break while the band’s members transitioned from college life into the corporate world. The frustration that comes with joining the ranks of the INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 126