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Review: Decades of Philip B. Price of Winterpills
This past year Winterpills member and Northampton-based singer-songwriter Phillip B. Price remastered a dozen of his past solo albums recorded from 1988 to 2004, which had never seen the light of day. With a back catalogue of more than a hundred songs to choose from,...
The Top 9 Ways to Get Fit in Western Mass this Winter
A few ideas from your friends at the Advocate.
Halos & Horns: A look back at the good, the bad, and the dead of 2017
Who was naughty and who was nice in 2017.
Editorial: We’re Talking Horns upon Horns, Horns within Horns …
As the biggest horns-earner of 2017, Trump gets his own article.
Stagestruck: Gender Parity Still Elusive in Theater
In this time of long-overdue comeuppance for sexual harassment and assault, I approached my annual reckoning of gender equity in theater with fresh eyes.
A Cannabis Cafe Could be Coming to Easthampton with New State Regulations
Last week I sat down with Karima Rizk for a cup of coffee in her kitchen in Easthampton to discuss her new business, Cafe Vert. The coffee was like many other homebrewed cups of coffee: it was rich, balanced, and welcoming on the brisk December morning. But unlike...
The Valley Advocate’s Apocalypse Survival Guide
It’s coming … are you ready?
‘There’s Only Two Kinds of Music: Good Music and Bad’
Joe Louis Walker has a voice out of classic soul and blues guitar chops that were inspired by some of the greats — B.B. King, Muddy Waters, the list goes on. Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, grew up in San Francisco playing blues before entering into the...
Editorial: The Nuclear Option is Not an Option
Think about that: a mistake at a nuclear power plant has done more lasting environmental damage than the deliberate use of a nuclear bomb.
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The Melvins: The Advocate Interview
The Melvins occupy a strange space in the rock music landscape. They’re revered by fellow musicians and rock nerds as pioneers of the ’80s grunge rock scene, as original and weird today as they were 30 years ago, yet they fly largely under the radar of most mainstream rock fans.
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