New Freak Scene! This week, Western MA band the Lucky Shots are back with a new album, and CT musician Michael Larocca has a solid two hours of solo drum tracks for you -- nay, for all us.
#music #WesternMass #Connecticut
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-59-the-lucky-shots-second-tongue/

Time for a #waterfall, even if it's not #waterfallwednesday

https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/bash-bish-falls-in-color-adam-gladstone.html

#photography #berkshires #westernmass #newengland #buyintoart #ayearforart #fineartamerica @fineartamerica #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #wallart #bashbishfalls

It's Freak Scene day: this week, New Haven band Drifting North has a debut EP, and Ciarra Fragale is getting in shape with her new single. Also, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists are coming to the Iron Horse, in this week's Resistance Postscript.
#WesternMass #Connecticut #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-58-drifting-north-first-harvest-ep/

Here's some #photography done in the #berkshires (AKA #westernmass
https://adam-gladstone.pixels.com/featured/adams-overlook-in-sepia-adam-gladstone.html

At the Town Hall by Jm McGovern (D-MA) and a large auditorium is filled. Got here well beforehand and I’m in the balcony (which is fine)
#massachusetts #westernmass #townhall #democrats

If a mayor takes credit for, say, a music club reopening during their tenure, should they also be responsible for venues that haven't reopened? I pose the question in the latest issue of my Freak Scene newsletter.
#WesternMass
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-57-max-wareham-dagommit/

This story in the Daily Hampshire Gazette is an excellent example of how NOT to teach college students to do journalism. There are some big problems here, including the spelling of at least one subject's name. Legit story? Yes, but badly executed.
#WesternMass
https://www.gazettenet.com/The-challenges-behind-offering-more-healthy-options-as-part-of-free-meals-in-Massachusetts-schools-60021975

In the latest Freak Scene newsletter, we hear from banjo player/historian Max Wareham, and bring you the scoop on what's going into the former Majestic space in Northampton and more:
#music #WesternMass #Connecticut
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-57-max-wareham-dagommit/

I’ve signed up to attend the disco dance event with Western Mass Solidarity & Action on Saturday, Mar 15, 2025. Are you with me?? I suck at dancing but I don’t care

Use this link to sign up: https://mobilize.us/s/fXVSSL

New Freak Scene! This week, with albums from Kris Delmhorst and Taxidermists, plus NEW MUSIC from Perennial, who should be your new favorite band if they aren't already. What a time to be alive.
#WesternMass #Connecticut #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-56-kris-delmhorst-ghosts-in-the-garden/

Calvin Coolidge's former home in Northampton, Mass., is displaying an upside down American flag, and not in a Samuel Alito pro-insurrectionist way.
#WesternMass #uspol

New Freak Scene! This week, we hear recent music from Easthampton's Moon Hollow and New Haven's the Moon Shells, plus Peter Mulvey tells it like it is:
#WesternMass #Connecticut #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-55-moon-hollow-moon-shells/

New Freak Scene newsletter! This week, there's new music from Storm the Ohio (after 15 years!), Mal Devisa and Reale Wolfe. Take a look, and maybe subscribe?
#WesternMass #Connecticut #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-54-storm-the-ohio-ep/

Our Missed Connections adoptathon continues today at NINE shelters across #Massachusetts! Learn more here, via WHDH: https://whdh.com/news/mspca-angell-hosting-missed-connections-adoption-event/

This week in Freak Scene, the latest from Outro, a new album from The Will Call and an idea for Fountains of Wayne:
#WesternMass #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-53-outro-broken-promise-ep/

heyyyy @erdanton did a really wonderful write-up about my pair of #jamuary EPs, as well as reviews of a couple other musicians in the vaguely #WesternMass region.

check it here: https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-52-wolfears-wolfpack-album/

New Freak Scene, this week with albums from wolfears, Frank Viele and @jepyang. Check it out here, and while you're at it, why not subscribe?
#WesternMass #Connecticut #music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/freak-scene-52-wolfears-wolfpack-album/

Chickadees started their spring mating calls yesterday! It seems early, but it’s such a welcome sound.

If you are a musician who is trans in #WesternMass or #connecticut I want to spotlight your music. Get in touch here, or through my newsletter.
#music
https://buttondown.com/freakscene/archive/