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44th annual Country Music Association Awards

Nov 16, 2010

By Kasey Cohan Staff Writer On November 10th, the Country Music Association held its 44th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Last year, Taylor Swift took the night, winning 4 awards. 20-year-old Swift won Entertainer of the year, Female vocalist, Album of...

Non-mainstream essentials: November 2010

Nov 4, 2010

By Nick DiNatale Music Editor October’s largest success: Chiodos’ Illuminaudio. Following their decision to fire incredibly popular, highly successful, and very talented lead vocalist Craig Owens last September, it’s safe to say that any expectations for Chiodos’ new material were significantly...

Uprising Artist, Trevor Buckingham, Featured in Deadfish

Oct 29, 2010

By Ryan Auger, Staff Writer Deadfish, an up and rising band, starring Trevor Buckingham, a senior at WA has been getting more attention due the number of shows they have been performing in the past few weeks. Notoriously known as “T-Buck”, Buckingham began his musical career and writing...

Kings of Leon return with another gem

Oct 22, 2010

By Bjorn Burk Staff Writer After selling 6.5 million copies of their album Only by the Night, the now popular band Kings of Leon put out another solid record this Tuesday with Come Around Sundown. Since establishing themselves as an up and coming band with well known hits including “Use Somebody”...

Preview: Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Oct 14, 2010

By Nick DiNatale Music Editor With the release of their highly anticipated fourth full-length album still over a month away, alternative-rock act My Chemical Romance released their second single from the album yesterday. Titled "The Only Hope For Me Is You", the new single contrasts their first...

Smooth and Supportive at Open Mic Night

Oct 12, 2010

By Ryan Auger Staff Writer On Sunday, the 26th of September the parish center held an open mic night. “It is a great place to work on one's performance skills. Everyone is very supportive because everyone is a beginner sometime.” said John Ferullo, who runs the Westford Parish Arts Center Open...

Band and orchestra go to Boston Symphony

Oct 12, 2010

By Neil Sharma Staff Writer On October 7, 2010 Westford Academy Band and orchestra students took a trip to see the Boston Symphony at Symphony Hall rehearse. The conductor for this year's reoccurring trip was James Levine. The object of this field trip was for the students to see how real musicians...

Non-mainstream essentials: October 2010

Oct 6, 2010

By Nick DiNatale Music Editor Septembers largest successes: Amely’s Hello World EP and I Am Alpha And Omega’s The Roar And The Whisper September brought two very memorable releases, both coming from very young bands that have a great deal ahead of themselves. With contrasting styles, Amely...

Local band plays first big show

Sep 28, 2010

By Ethan Walshe Staff Writer On Saturday, September 25th, local band Break a Promise played its first big show at Rocko’s in Manchester, New Hampshire. The band was part of Lay It To Rest Fest. The event featured 13 other bands, most of them local high school students from around the area, but...

Non-mainstream essentials: September 2010

Sep 21, 2010

By: Nicholas DiNatale Staff Writer Post-hardcore band The Word Alive was originally started as a new project by Craig Mabbit, after he left blessthefall. However, after he created Escape The Fate as a side project, the members of The Word Alive decided that he wasn’t paying equal attention to...

It’s Back To The Roots for The Devil Wears Prada

Sep 1, 2010

For the first of two nights that The Devil Wears Prada’s Back To The Roots Tour would be at Harper’s Ferry in Allston, Massachusetts, the line to get in was stretched around the corner and a sign was posted on the door that the show was 100% sold out. Fans waiting in line without a ticket, hoping...

Non-mainstream essentials: July/August 2010

Aug 17, 2010

By Nick DiNatale Staff Writer Seeing that we’ve been rather busy for the last few months, I’ve sort of lost track of what’s been coming out for new music. However, I still managed to develop a strong liking for Call The Cops, a young band from Long Beach, California with a heavily pop-influenced...