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...first solo album from Max Heinegg, former vocalist of the Boston-based hard rock band The High Ceilings, comes to fans this month as a pleasantly mellow surprise. The release is a welcome departure from the old-yet-successful Heinegg rock style, as the artist seeks to transform himself into a singer-songwriter with this emotion-rich set of tunes. But the soulful frontman doesn’t entirely leave his rock roots behind, as most of these songs are thickly coated in layers of electric guitars and instrumental ornamentation...
...which Heinegg describes on his website as “the first record I had made that really sounded like me,” gains strength from the meshing of emotive rock sounds with simple melodies resounding with soft, heartfelt messages. Despite the departure from his long-standing metal band status, Heinegg insists that his band’s recent break-up wasn’t strictly from creative differences: in fact, many of the members of The High Ceilings offered their musical abilities during the production of their old comrade’s debut. The new album that Heinegg...
Clapping, singing and dancing brought Memorial Church to life this weekend thanks to the Kuumba Singers—a description as fitting for the reaction of the audience as the singers’ performance. Permeated with the strong culture of African music, jazz and gospel, the choir and band moved the crowd emotionally and, in many cases, physically. For two and a half hours last Saturday night, the world was on hold for the overflowing audience as the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College brought the audience to its feet with a spiritual, energetic show...
...band continued to add to their already-phenomenal variety of sounds and genres. Following the pop sound of “Mary Did You Know,” the drums broke into a strong, smooth beat that had the whole church bobbing and clapping. “Now Behold the Lamb” produced the kind of soulful sound normally associated with artists as Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. But it was one of the song’s soloists, Kuumba president Shola Olorunnipa ’05 who stole the show with unrestrained excitement in her voice, leading...
...Eggers says geography has been a big obstacle for the group. “We’re always running around and since we live in different cities it’s been hard to play together,” he says. Given these difficulties, he proclaims that the band is “psyched to play this...