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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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Lowell based alt-rock gloom quartet Green Piece will have you believe that their new EP Whatever traces its roots directly back to a green floppy disk. The word “demos” scrawled across it as pictured in a promotional post on the band’s Instagram account suggests that much. But even beyond offering…
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You might know Tom Stevens as a guitarist, vocalist, and sometimes multi-instrumentalist for the stellar Lowell indie rock group oldsoul- a quartet that I’ve admired for being as adept at musical virtuosity as they are at heart-felt songwriting. On EP1, we hear the same level of instrumental expertise that we…
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It’s an exhilarating, vulnerable, determined, and desperate feeling to be so into someone and having no idea what to do about it. That passion is beautifully packaged into a falsetto with Phil Cambra & the Space Cadets’ Make You Mine. Make You Mine is made for the LANY fan that…
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Seeing a live performance by Lowell-based noise/synth performer Idol Brain (Jefrey Hall) is a singularly visceral and dynamic experience. As glitchy, otherworldly noises blare and bleep in and out of existence, there stands Hall (Or bounces and sways in a free-wheeling manner, as the mood may permit) behind a mountain…
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Cam Knopp has a YouTube channel full of guitar covers and tutorials helping musicians mimic their favorite tracks. The most recent videos on that account, however, are no covers, and, in almost no way employ mimicry — even of himself. With the recently released Plural EP, Knopp and his brother…
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In the Glue – The Craft of Depth and Dimension So often in local scenes recorded music sounds like three or more people in a room with some mics thrown on. That band will record their parts, an engineer will layer them over each other, and they’ll all rub their…
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