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Nightcrawler: The Name Game

Nightcrawler: The Name Game

by Gary Carra | Jun 22, 2016 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Music, Nightcrawler

SWMRS boasts unique punk pedigree What’s in a name? The members of SWMRS are barely in their 20s and can already claim quite a lot. Reportedly inspired by watching Jack Black and his homage to headbanging — the film School of Rock — together in...
Nightcrawler: (Holly) Miranda Writes

Nightcrawler: (Holly) Miranda Writes

by Gary Carra | Jun 6, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler

 Carrots enhance the eyesight. Spinach helps you grow big and strong. And cranberries … make you rock?”It’s how I learned to play guitar back when I was 14,” explains the 33-year-old singer-songwriter Holly Miranda. “I was on a...
Nightcrawler: Who’s rocking the stage at this weekend’s International Food Fest

Nightcrawler: Who’s rocking the stage at this weekend’s International Food Fest

by Gary Carra | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler

 By Gary Carra  In 2014, Thomas Kielbania Jr. revived Chicopee’s storied Kielbasa Festival after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Now, he’s reinventing it – and renaming it, and relocating it – to West Springfield, for what’s shaping up to be a...
Nightcrawler: Decade-dence, 90s pop, 80s rock and Guns N bobbleheads

Nightcrawler: Decade-dence, 90s pop, 80s rock and Guns N bobbleheads

by By Gary Carra | Apr 25, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Basemental, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler

Better call Mr. Peabody and Sherman. Looks like someone’s gotten a hold of the Wayback Machine.First stop: Foxwoods Resort Casino’s Grand Theater this Friday, April 29. Not only will female hip-hop heavyweights Salt-n-Pepa be there, but so will literal heavyweight Biz...
Nightcrawler: Mercury Rising Queen For A Night in Springfield; Foxwoods’ Battle Of The Bands Seeks Combatants

Nightcrawler: Mercury Rising Queen For A Night in Springfield; Foxwoods’ Battle Of The Bands Seeks Combatants

by Gary Carra | Apr 20, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Music, Nightcrawler

By Gary Carra There’s been a growing trend in tribute circles over the past decade. While the songs remain the same for bands like Zep-licators Get The Led Out (coming to Holyoke’s Mountain Park Aug. 5) and Billy Joel recreators Big Shot, the need to physically look...
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