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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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Emily Doran is a hard rocking, glam infused punk rocker who enters every live show like she’s going to drop-kick a disco ball and stomp holes through the stage with her leather boots. At least that’s the way fans who have seen performances by her band — The Gala —…
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It has to be asked: Why hasn’t UML alum Matt York taken off on a national scale in the same way that less compelling singer-songwriters have? (Looking at you, Ed Sheeran.) Utilizing a tried and true formula of working class sensibilities, minimal chords, and a whole lot of heart, the…
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Lowell singer songwriter Renee Lamy has said in interviews that she likes genres of music with the guitars and live drums that self-contained audio workstations have pushed out of the genre she’s setting her roots in — pop. Perhaps fittingly, Lamy’s most recent release, Losing Game, drags those elements back…
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Blenders on Fire – SkyTigers’ Disasterbation To take equal parts punk and thrash, toss it in a blender, light it on fire, and be able to say “Here’s our next release” is one thing. To pour that into a cup, give it to someone, have them drink it, and have them…
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They had released two singles, two music videos, a feature length documentary, and played dozens of shows across New England. Yet even as those actions grew their following, fans of the shoegaze trio Circus Trees sometimes loudly asked, when would we finally see record? Upon listening to an advanced copy…
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The State of the Union is an annual message delivered by the President of the United States to a joint session of congress, generally taking place in January, which amounts to a sales pitch for the upcoming year. It’s by and large a very stuffy and clinical event, with little…
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