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The Ergs! are set to play ahead of the Frantic City festival in AC later this month, which features a stacked lineup including Yo La Tengo, The Bouncing Souls, Murder City Devils and more.
In the science standards, for instance, educators must teach that human activity “modified … the relationships between Earth’s systems,” and that humans can develop solutions. I would’ve used “fucked over,” but I guess modify is fine.
Leaves were just starting to change color on our walk, but for its ease and payoff, we’ll be back several times this fall.
Harvey quit his dead-end 9-to-5 during the pandemic and began making bagels. This week, he’ll have a grand opening for his bagel shop, Harvey’s Handrolled Bagels, in Montclair.
“The only measure of success with being in a band and being able to play music with your friends and peers is having fun with it, and having it be a fulfilling and amazing experience.”
“It was pretty natural once it was the two of us. Once we had the baritone [guitar], it kind of defined what we sound like pretty quickly.”
“I remember just sitting in this back bedroom doing nothing but writing poems. Something switched in me, man. I just felt like I had to mend myself.”
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“I was like, ‘Woah, this is something.’ I was having fun, and by October I had 30,000 [followers]. Now I am getting paid and they are giving me money, I decided to keep going and go hard as fuck.”
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“I had a gut feeling, and if it scares me I probably have to do it, and get out of my comfort zone. The reason why I stayed away from music was because I was afraid of it, so I had to face my fears.”
“Every time I tune my guitar to drop D I’m like, ‘Yeah, fuck you.’’’