EX-TEMPER + SPEEDFOSSIL WITH SPECIAL GUEST GOLDSETTER
Gateway City Arts 92 Race St, Holyoke, MAEx-Temper creates pivoting, unpredictable, guitar-driven rock layered with catchy melodies and three-part vocal harmonies. Once described as “Fugazi meets the Andrews Sisters” and credited with playing “heavy, head-banging riffs,” their lyrics explore everything from heartbreak and obsession, to prominent social issues like police brutality, mass shootings, the inefficiency of white guilt, and mansplaining; as well as mysteries like the Green Children of Woolpit, and existential questions such as if an organ donor’s consciousness or memories can be transplanted into the recipient’s mind. Psychedelic, thumping, melodic, and driving, Goldsetter’s music doesn’t take us where each song should go, but where it […]