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By STEVE PFARRER

Here She ComesJake ManziTwo years ago, Valley singer-songwriter Jake Manzi released his debut album, “Whatever My Heart Allows,” a mostly pop-flavored record that explored the classic subject of love in all its complexities, especially the uncertain...

By STEVE PFARRER

Several years ago, Grayson Ty and Laura Buchanan first met as separate working musicians. That night, Ty, a singer-songwriter, was co-billed at the Iron Horse Musical Hall in Northampton with Eavesdrop, then an acoustic folk-pop trio that Buchanan was...

By STEVE PFARRER

Almost 40 years ago, a rock-pop band in Great Britain known as Lloyd Cole and the Commotions made their debut in fine fashion, releasing a single, “Perfect Skin,” that reached number 26 on the UK charts in 1984 and an album, “Rattlesnakes,” that...

By STEVE PFARRER

Get Gone by Dennis Crommett In the summer of 2021, Dennis Crommett and his bandmates in Valley indie rockers Spanish for Hitchhiking released their first album in several years, “Wild Love,” a hard-rocking collection of songs written and sung by...

By STEVE PFARRER

Like millions of other Americans, Matthew King spent much of 2020-2021 in lockdown after COVID-19 arrived on the scene.But like other artists, King, of Amherst, also used that downtime to keep busy with his music, writing a number of new songs and...

By EMILY THURLOW

NORTHAMPTON — When digital downloads became widely available in the early 2000s and subsequently surpassed sales of physical music, the music industry and the public had all but signed the death certificate for local record stores, resigned to the...