Independent Music, Artist-Led

Karen Mansfield returns on October 29, 2026, with a new rendition of “I Only Have Eyes for You,” honoring the dreamlike romance of The Flamingos’ classic while bringing the song into her own expressive rock-and-roots world.

Mansfield is a New Jersey singer-songwriter, recording artist, producer, and engineer known for her warm, smoky contralto. Light of Day founder Tony Pallagrosi described her as a “hopelessly hoping, brutally honest, deathly humorous, uncompromising songstress” and the Jersey Shore’s “first female-hippy-beach-punk-folkie.”

After emerging as the frontwoman of the all-woman acoustic punk band Bleeding Knees, she became a longtime presence in the Asbury Park music community. Her catalog includes a 2014 self-titled EP and the 2018 album Thistle & Boon, which reached No. 6 on Billboard’s Middle Atlantic Heatseekers chart.