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Valley Show Girl: And The Kids’ Whimsical Indie Rock

Valley Show Girl: And The Kids’ Whimsical Indie Rock

by Jennifer Levesque | Feb 14, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Music, Valley Show Girl

Signature Sounds recording artists And The Kids from Northampton have made a name for themselves throughout their active musician years in the Valley. They’ve been locally and nationally covered and very recently had a live set at Paste Magazine that was streamed...
Valley Show Girl: Mystical Musical Man

Valley Show Girl: Mystical Musical Man

by Jennifer Levesque | Jan 18, 2019 | Columns, Featured, Valley Show Girl

While exploring the rainforest and meeting up with friends in beach towns in Puerto Rico, Matthew King sipped on mojitos while chatting with me via email about his latest musical conquest, TapRoots. Since 2009, Matthew has been playing percussion with both The...
Valley Show Girl: The Gift of Music – A 2018 Local Music Retrospective

Valley Show Girl: The Gift of Music – A 2018 Local Music Retrospective

by Jennifer Levesque | Jan 7, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Music, Valley Show Girl

The gift that keeps on giving is always the gift of music. You can go all out and get someone you love a new record player with a handful of vinyl for them to christen the needle with. You can pick up a CD or even a cassette, and you can purchase the album online to...
Valley Show Girl: Neon Fauna’s Bootleg Debut

Valley Show Girl: Neon Fauna’s Bootleg Debut

by Jennifer Levesque | Oct 11, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Valley Show Girl

On January 13, 2017, Neon Fauna played a gig at 13th Floor Music Lounge in Florence in the midst of recording sessions for the full-length album “Drag Beach.” Like all of their shows, the band felt it was a burst of energy and thought of bootlegging it. Sound engineer...
Valley Show Girl: Behind the scenes of booking shows

Valley Show Girl: Behind the scenes of booking shows

by Jennifer Levesque | Sep 28, 2018 | Columns, Featured, Valley Show Girl

Since this past March/April time-frame, I’ve been booking some shows at 13th Floor Music Lounge in Florence. The shows started in July, but it took months to get to the actual show part of it. I wanted to curate these shows a little differently, and put a somewhat...
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