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Outro is, from left, Josh Levy, Adam Zucker, Noam Schatz and Peter Sax.
Post-punk and shoegaze are clear reference points for Northampton band Outro, whose members found time to make an album amid the obligations of day jobs and family.
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Bowery Presents and Higher Ground are in talks to buy the Calvin Theatre from Eric Suher. Photo by Chris1982.
What will new ownership for the Calvin Theatre and the Iron Horse Music Hall mean for Northampton and the Western Massachusetts music scene?
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After spending years playing as a sideman and avoiding the spotlight, the Northampton musician has released his second solo album since 2021..
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Son Rompe Pera performs May 27 at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence, part of a changing concert scene in Western Massachusetts. Photo by Julian Parker-Burns.
Three venerable concert venues in Northampton seem to have run their course, while new rooms have sprung up to fill the void in a changing live-music scene in Western Massachusetts. I wrote about what’s happening in a story for The Boston Globe.
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Silvana Estrada performs onstage Tuesday, Aug. 2, at Bombyx Center for Arts and Equity in Northampton.
The Mexican singer and songwriter showcased her dazzling voice with an hour-long set of songs from her album “Marchita.”
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Spanish for Hitchhiking’s new album “Wild Love” is the group’s first since 2015. Photo by Dennis Crommett.
The Northampton band is back after six years with its most cohesive album so far on a dozen new songs that sound as if the musicians have been playing them together for years.
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Philip B. Price releases his new solo album, “Oceans Hiding in Oceans,” Feb. 19.
The Winterpills singer premieres his new song “Loneliness,” from his upcoming solo album “Oceans Hiding in Oceans.”
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Photo by Jo Chattman.
The former restaurateur never had as much time for music as he would have preferred, but maybe his sixth album heralds a new focus.
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Weyes Blood’s latest, “Titanic Rising,” is my pick for the best album of 2019. Photo by Eliot Lee Hazel.
In a year with plenty of challenging albums and public spats about adopting a persona, I mostly just wanted catchy melodies. My favorite albums are the ones that delivered.
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The Pernice Brothers’ new album, “Spread the Feeling,” is their first since 2010.
The band’s new album is their first in nine years, and it is very much worth the wait.
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Northampton singer Philip B. Price stops in at a particularly dispiriting open mic night in the video for "C’mon World,” the first single from his first solo album in 15 years.
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Deer Tick, Anais Mitchell and Del McCoury and David Grisman are among the acts scheduled to perform at this year's Back Porch Festival, which returns March 1-4 to the Academy of Music and Parlor Room in Northampton.
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Photo by Joanna Chattman.
There’s nothing like a surprise release from a great band: Winterpills, say, putting out an unexpected single. Sure, the Northampton group posted “Colorblind” in August, but it’s never too late to celebrate, right?
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Sooner or later, Death is coming. We all know it. Matt Silberstein just seems more aware than most in the Salvation Alley String Band’s stylish new video for “The Merciless Scythe of Time.”
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Though the Fawns won’t get anywhere near the recognition they deserve, the Northampton band set a high bar for all the new music that will follow in 2016 with the release on Jan. 1 of “Goodnight, Spacegirl,” their first new album in 10 years.
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