Eric Hutchinson Website I Facebook I Twitter Sometime last year, Eric
Hutchinson came to a strange realization: he kept daydreaming about
high school. It had been over twenty years since the singer-songwriter
had graduated from Montgomery Blair High School, yet his adolescent
dreams, hopes, fears, anxieties and emotions the singer faced as a kid
began flooding back; suddenly, the singer felt transported back into
his teenage self. Growing up in suburban Maryland, Hutchinson’s
teenage years were filled with the type of alienation and private
angst recognizable to most anyone who’s ever been 16. Twenty-plus
years later, the singer was finally ready to write about it. The
result: Class of 98, a 90’s alt-rock-inspired autobiographical
record that chronicles the singer-songwriter’s adolescence. “It
took me a long time to understand myself,” Hutchinson says.
“Writing this record allowed me to get into the time machine and go
back and look around my old life and report from my current point of
view. That was fun. The problems were waiting for me: Who likes me?
Why doesn’t this person want to be around me? Why don’t I
understand myself?” After experimenting with a series of genres like
Americana/soul and jazz on his last few albums Modern Happiness and
Before and After Life, the singer-songwriter turned to the pop-punk
alt-rock of his youth for the riff-heavy Class of 98, taking
inspiration from bands like Green Day, Oasis, and Weezer. “That
music is in my guitar DNA,” says the singer. “I love 90’s music,
and this type of sound was so formative for me.” To help round out
his sound, Hutchinson recruited Justin Sharbono (formerly of Soul
Asylum) to offer his distinctive (and period appropriate) guitar
playing on the album. Hutchinson also enlisted the sonic guidance and
mixing talents of Paul Kolderie, who’d made great 90’s records
with bands like Radiohead, Hole, The Lemonheads, Buffalo Tom and The
Pixies. jeremy messersmith Website I Facebook jeremy messersmith is an
indie pop singer-songwriter and one of Minnesota’s most recognized
and celebrated artists, praised by The New York Times, NPR, USA Today,
Paste Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Spin, and
Rolling Stone among many others. A thoughtful, clever lyricist with a
tender voice, the Minneapolis-based troubadour crafts songs that are
catchy and relatable, and span the emotional gamut from poignancy to
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