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Andy Frasco Comes Alive at Northlands, and Other Takeaways from the Eclectic Festival
From Andy Frasco and the U.N. to Goose's new drummer, the best things we saw at the 2024 Northlands festival.
Amid its whirlwind concoction of intricate, improvisational savvy jams and soaring tones from lead singer/guitarist Rick Mitarotonda, a galvanizing cover of the Who’s “Eminence Front” bubbled up to the surface midway through the second set. As the band itself is seemingly the heir apparent torchbearers of the jam scene, Goose was coming in red hot to Northlands after a recent gig at the Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Colorado, an audience of thousands in attendance. The show veers erratically from rock to punk to country and back again, with Frasco’s mashup of Eddie Rabbit’s “Drivin’ My Life Away” and Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” a prime example of his artistic risk-taking.
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