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The past several years have been busy ones for This Bliss. The Boston-based synth-pop trio (Featuring UMass Lowell alumni Nick Zampiello of New Alliance East Mastering in its ranks) recently signed with Mint 400 Records, received high praise for their 2018 studio debut Forensic Styles, and in the time between…
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Modern pop rock titans Imagine Dragons’ debut album first came together as a compilation of demos for the soundtrack of the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway musical. Producers quickly rejected that package, however, instead pushing the band to produce the wildly successful and eventually iconic Night Visions. That album…
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Multi-instrumentalist and ULowell alum Tiffany Sammy, performing under the name TIFFY, ends her debut EP Fire Sale with a song cleverly titled “Song in A(lways disappointed).” Outside of references to that song title, however, disappointing and its derivatives, are words best banished from the listeners’ lexicon when dissecting what is an…
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Indie punk garage rockers Graneros, lean heavily on repetition in their latest EP Casey the Dog. But make no mistake, repetition, does NOT make this a one dimensional record. Rather, perhaps an homage to their diverse musical roots, the trio marry indie with everything from 70s classic rock to 2000s…
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On the Facebook page of Lowell-based synth-rock eccentric Fomosurfer (The solo project of Inspector 34‘s keyboard prodigy Silas Price) the one-man electronic beat dispensary is described as “a humble hit machine made out of proteins” (Which frankly is selling himself short), while categorized as “dunce music.” If by “dunce music”…
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“The real stories I cannot actually tell you. It’s like a paradox; because it’s like these stories don’t exist because I can’t tell you the stories, but they do exist: I just can’t tell them to you.” Via his solo project Kofi The Spiderman, Kofi Edzie of Arty $lang has…
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Salem and Lowell based pop-grunge trio Hyber teased fans for months with rehearsal photos and snippets of songs before they finally announced they would be releasing their debut single “Ghost” last month. When that release date finally came, a meticulously crafted sound accompanied by a show-stopping music video proved this…
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Aaron Garcia spent the first few months of 2019 helping fellow slowcore artists and adoptive sisters Circus Trees assemble their debut EP Sakura. But through sitting in on their editing sessions and designing the record packaging art, Garcia also found time to write a song of his own about the…
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First of all, if you haven’t heard of Lowell’s own Corner Soul, stop here, visit corner-soul.bandcamp.com, download everything that’s available (name your own price, I encourage you to be generous) then come back here and let me tell you all about their latest release. Strong work, you’re going to enjoy…
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Looking for a deep analysis of music? Craving those beautifully crafted descriptions? Look elsewhere on our site for that. Jim goes to shows. He has thoughts and these are them. Last week I was at a show and so was Joel and he said “you should do a review of…
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