NEWBEATS
Think of all those great rock ’n’ roll towns around the country: Akron, Ohio; Athens, Georgia and Austin, Texas. And those are just the A’s. Notice that New England doesn’t even have a representative in the Top 40. That’s about to change. It’s now possible to add New Haven, Connecticut to the list.
NEWBEATS
MIRACLE IN THE WORKS
Think of all those great rock ’n’ roll towns around the country: Akron, Ohio; Athens, Georgia and Austin, Texas. And those are just the A’s. Notice that New England
doesn’t even have a representative in the Top 40. That’s about to change. It’s now possible to add New Haven, Connecticut to the list. Yup, New Haven—home of the ivydraped wall of Yale University, the stodgy ole Carpenters, not to mention the birthplace of moi—has an honest-to-God rock scene.
Leading the pack of Nutmeg State rockers is a quartet comprised of partiernext-door-types called Miracle Legion. Unlike those of us who chose to flee the city’s gray skies and dying elm trees, these dudes (singer Mark Mulcahy, guitarist Ray Neal, drummer Jeff Weiderschall and bassist Joel Potoocsky) like it in the Elm City.
“It’s easier here than in New York or Los Angeles,” explains Neal. “You can get swallowed up by some of those other towns. There’s so much going on there. If we’re here, we can look back at it all with some perspective.”