{"id":46065,"date":"2011-07-19T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=46065"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:28","slug":"republican-szlachetka-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/07\/19\/republican-szlachetka-02\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican talks to Northstar Session singer-songwriter Szlachetka &#039;02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Republican<\/em> of Springfield, Mass., talks to singer-songwriter Matt Szlachetka &#8217;02, whose band, the L.A.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthstarsession.com\/\">Northstar Session<\/a>, is touring New England in support of its third album, <em>Late Bloomer<\/em>, including a stop at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Irish-Twins-Pub\/190492997643041\">Irish Twins Pub<\/a> here in Lewiston on Thursday evening, July 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/07\/tns_press_0.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/07\/tns_press_0.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"tns_press_0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highly praised of late, the band has appeared on the NBC show <em>Parenthood<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bendbulletin.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20101210\/NEWS0107\/12100317\/\">prompting a critic<\/a> to note that &#8220;you don\u2019t get a song on a high-powered, heavily marketed show like <em>Parenthood<\/em> by writing lousy songs. And The Northstar Session doesn&#8217;t write lousy songs. In fact, The Northstar Session&#8217;s ear-pleasing sound is one part laid-back roots-rock, one part catchy indie pop, and one part L.A. swagger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A music major, Szlachetka moved to Los Angeles in 2006, where he hooked up with bandmates Kane McGee (drums) and Dave Basaraba (keyboard). &#8220;We have never had a permanent bass player and usually have four or five players on rotation,&#8221; he tells <em>The Republican<\/em>. &#8220;We always kid around that we&#8217;re like Spinal Tap except with bass players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/entertainment\/index.ssf\/2011\/07\/northstar_session_brings_matt.html\">View story from <em>The Republican<\/em>, July 12, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican of Springfield, Mass., talks to singer-songwriter Matt Szlachetka &#8217;02, whose band, the L.A.-based Northstar Session, is touring New England in support of its third album, Late Bloomer, including a stop at the Irish Twins Pub here in Lewiston on Thursday evening, July 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,133,11009],"tags":[11051,6135],"class_list":["post-46065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-music-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86407,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46065\/revisions\/86407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}