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Why is it some of the best music out there is the least publicized? However, isn’t that what makes a gem a true gem? Something hidden. Something rare. Something special. Carissa Myre of Tewksbury’s school shoes has been releasing a song here, a song there, throughout the better part of…
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Analyzing and appreciating the sub-genre of loud emo rock often means focusing on mood and a band’s ability to walk the line of emotionally intense lyrics without venturing too far into the cliché. Catchy guitar riffs and closely miked drums define good emo music from there. Almost an afterthought on…
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Loud, dirty and as aggressive as the summer heat in Massachusetts, the vinyl release of Lowell’s own punk mainstays More Beer Please new split with Boston’s Kermit’s Finger will leave you thirsty for another one. Since their formation all the way back in 2006, MBP as they’ve come to be…
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This past January ignited the process for producing a killer record by Lowell locals, Floor Hockey. With the release of ‘Ice Pick’ and, later, ‘Seeds & Stems’ and ‘Window Shopping’, listeners got an inkling of what to expect from this band. Now that Floor Hockey’s full-length, Today’s Kids is public,…
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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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