Mill City’s Burning - The Chris Ware Band - Lowell, MA
N 42° 38.511 W 071° 18.520
19T E 310730 N 4723627
Immortalized by album and by song.
Waymark Code: WM5R80
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 02/05/2009
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This location is the former railroad station for the Boston & Maine RR. At one time it was also a bowling alley, and as you can see from the album cover, it was a theater. UMASS Lowell bought and it is being restored.
The Chris Ware Band – a virtual car crash of punk and rockabilly – was born late in the winter of 1995 in the haunted dark of a bar in Lowell, Massachusetts.
A few friends were spending the evening discussing a few shared obsessions – the cruel voyeurism and gossip-mongering of enemies real and imagined, excess (in all its manifestations), and Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power. The band was conceived, that night, as an outlet for their petty anxieties, consuming paranoia, and love of rock and roll.
In 1997, the Chris Ware Band released the seven song Mill City’s Burning, which enjoys regular college radio airplay and continues to draw comparisons to the likes of the Dead Boys, the Standells, and Nick Cave.
Their 2000 follow-up full-length Soul Shakedown – which charts the interior regions of despair, unrest, betrayal, remorse, and boner-shame – is a more finely crafted rock and roll locomotive. One of the tracks on Soul Shakedown is called Mill City's Burning.
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