As Violent Femmes prepare to embark on their 40th anniversary tour celebrating their debut album, I figured it was only right to properly honor the album that shaped my high school experience. That, and I also wanted an excuse to mention how upset I am that the tour doesn’t stop on the East Coast.
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And The Kids has certainly been busy since their 2016 release of “Friends Share Lovers.” The band — consisting of Hannah Mohan on vocals and guitar, Rebecca Lasaponaro on drums and Megan Miller on synthesizers and percussion — opened for Blondie at MASS MoCA and have made appearances in the Paste Magazine studio and NPR’s “Tiny Desk” concert series. Now, the Northampton group is back with their third LP, “When This Life Is Over,” in which they continue to explore the complexity of human connection.
Josh Ritter along with his bandmates, the Royal City Band, performed at Calvin Theater in downtown Northampton on last Saturday. This performance was the second stop on his U.S. and European tour to promote his new album “Gathering.”
“I feel like every little girl dreams about being something when they grow up. Some girls dream about being lawyers. Some dream about being mommys, and I dreamt about being a singer.” This is the introduction to “Gatekeeper,” the fifth track on Jessie Reyez’s EP, “Kiddo.”
Photo Courtesy of billboard.com || The sister-group HAIM’s latest album demonstrates their musical prowess, Patience Kayira ’20 writes. HAIM, a three sister group from Los…
Dirty Projectors’s self-titled album spares no details in revealing the tumultuous break up between frontman Dave Longstreth and his former bandmate and girlfriend Amber Coffman.…
“Signs of Light,” released on Sept. 9, 2016 is The Head and the Heart’s third album and its first release with Warner Bros. Records. The…