These are our favorite New England albums of 2021. There were easily another dozen albums that could have made this list, but ultimately, these were the ones that stuck with us after the reviews had ended.
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We challenged more than 50 musical artists to cover disco songs. This is what happened.
Worcester Magazine
If you ask most musicians, regardless of what kind of music they play, to give an opinion on disco, it s most likely going to be negative. When asked, Worcester musician Daniel Gay said he thought it was, “vacuous and soulless, hedonistic and cocaine-fueled.”
“I used to say, Disco is why God created punk,” admits Pamela Tiger, of the band Punk Rock Treehouse, “and I still do, because I still don t like it much more than I ever did back then.” Veteran Worcester rocker and poet David Jahn says, “Once upon a time, I despised disco. Found much of it genuinely unlistenable. But held pretty much anything commercially successful in contempt as well.”
Written by Emily Morrow on March 15, 2021
What brought
you to hosting a show on WICN? Why do you love being on the air?
My induction into the WICN
fold started back 2003, soon after moving up from Florida. As I was driving up
I-290, scanning the radio stations in the car, I came across some pretty cool
jazz at the 90.5 mark, so I left it there. It was at some point in the
afternoon when my eventual mentor would come on the air, Joe Zupan. I’m like, “hey
this is pretty cool.” A few weeks later, driving into Worcester on Rt.9