{"id":2023341,"date":"2025-09-15T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2023341"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:38:15","slug":"14-albums-by-new-england-musicians-to-listen-to-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/14-albums-by-new-england-musicians-to-listen-to-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"14 albums by New England musicians to listen to this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clockwise from top left: The Lemonheads (Courtesy Gareth Jones); Zahili Gonzalez Zamora (Courtesy Robert Torres); NRBQ (Courtesy Michael Hochanadel); Michael Prentky (Courtesy sassa); Ariel Strasser (Courtesy Sarah Surette); Billy Dean Thomas (Courtesy Nina Gallant); and Couch (Courtesy Billy Landers x Prophet Media).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For many New England musicians, there is a constant nagging question: Would it be better to move to a music capital like Los Angeles, New York, Nashville or Atlanta?<\/p>\n

As the fall album guide shows, the answer is often a definitive \u201cno.\u201d The most glaring proof is Couch, whose Boston home address hasn\u2019t stopped the band from becoming an international touring attraction. There are plenty of other examples, too. Gregory Groover Jr. and Zahili Gonzalez Zamora are making jazz of the highest caliber right here in the city. Northern New Englanders Ali McGuirk and Jon Nolan have become roots music stalwarts. And Billy Dean Thomas\u2019 queer hip-hop and Michael Prentky\u2019s radical Jewish music show that artists working proudly outside of the mainstream can always find a home here. Then there are the Gypsy Moths, who grew up loving Boston garage greats The Dogmatics \u2014 and now share a label (Rum Bar Records) and stages with them. It all gives open-minded listeners reason to be excited about both this batch of releases and the future generations of musicians these artists will inspire.<\/p>\n

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Omnivore Recordings has been doing a great service to fans of eclectic and eccentric rock \u2018n\u2019 roll with its ongoing reissues of the works of NRBQ<\/a>. The latest batch is \u201cHonest Dollar,\u201d a collection of live performances from the band\u2019s classic period of the 1980s and early \u201890s when it featured Brattleboro pianist Terry Adams, Connecticut guitarist Big Al Anderson, the late Springfield drummer Tom Ardolino and Cape Cod bassist Joey Spampinato. Most members of the Q\u2019s cult following agree that the stage was where the band really shined, a point proved by these raucous tracks recorded live in locales like Hartford, North Adams, New Haven and Northampton by saxophonist Klem Klimek (who still frequently plays with the current version of the band led by Adams).<\/p>\n

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