Despite the competition, there is plenty of camaraderie.

“The most important aspect of this music community is that it supports itself,” said Rick Barry, a singer-songwriter who has been performing in Asbury Park since 2000. His coming album, “Curses, Maledictions and Harsh Reiterations,” which he expects to release in the fall, includes guest vocals by Ms. Atkins.

“When I first started playing in town as a kid, there were artists I looked up to, who booked me slots opening for them and helped me build an audience,” said Mr. Barry, 32, who lives in Neptune. “Once I had some people paying attention to what I was doing, I did the same. Now I see kids that I was helping out, all grown up and mentoring young artists of their own. It’s like a human ladder — everybody has someone helping to lift them to the next level and everybody has someone they’re helping to lift.”

Along with the support network, there is also plenty of crossbreeding among musicians.

Backing Ms. Atkins on her current tour, for instance, is David James Rosen, a guitarist who is also in a two-person local band, Black Jesuses, with Sam Bey, a former drummer for Ms. Atkins. Mr. Rosen described the sound of Black Jesuses as “about simplicity” and said, “We try to sculpt things out of noise and dissonance.” The group is scheduled to release its self-titled debut album, on vinyl, on Aug. 23, on Intheclouds Records, a label based in Englishtown. A record release party is planned at Art629, an Asbury Park art gallery, the same day.

Image The singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins, an Asbury Park native who helped produce Glycerine Queens’ debut EP. Credit... Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

Both Mr. Bey and Mr. Rosen are also members of the Parlor Mob, a band that, along with Ms. Atkins, helped foster Asbury Park’s current musical revival.

Formed in 2004 and signed briefly to Columbia, the Parlor Mob toured heavily before announcing a hiatus in 2010. The group recently reunited and is set to release a new album, “Cry Wolf,” independently in August.

“We produced it ourselves, with no outside involvement from anyone other than our friend and fellow local artist Scott Liss, and that’s the first time we’ve done that since our first record in 2004,” said Mr. Rosen, 30, of Asbury Park. Another member of the band, Paul Ritchie, is the frontman for the psychedelic-tinged garage rock band gods, one of several Parlor Mob spinoffs.