November 26, 2022

If you've seen our social media feed over the last week, you've known something was up. The three surviving members of Nor'easter actually being together, knowing that one lives in New Hampshire, another in Tennessee and the 3rd in Virginia, would be a very special occasion. 

2022 has already been an epic year for us - to see the album the 3 founding members recorded in 1989 released and enjoyed in far-flung corners of the world is simply still beyond our wildest dreams. But indeed, there…

What a great way to roll into the fall, sharing our rather incredible story with knowledgeable and interested podcasters and radio hosts in the rock and metal world. We're thrilled that Andrew McKnight and Chris Gursky were guests on the "Ouch! You're On My Hair" and "Feckin' Metal" podcasts.

The latter, hosted in Dublin, Ireland by Fearghal Traynor, was a both wide-ranging and in-depth conversation about the band's history, the music and lyrics, and much more. Episode 65 dropped Friday October 21st, and…

We've been clear from the beginning that restoring and releasing Calm Before the Storm was the "one big thing,"  a labor of love and legacy for our fallen comrade Matt Bouley. Our time came and went, and that would have been that - nothing but memories so long as memories live on - had it not been for the existence of the tapes we recorded two years after our final show.

While the nostalgia makes one sad at times to consider what could have been, and wishing there still could be something now, there simply…

August 19, 2022

And with that, the 33-year journey to preserve our music - to preserve Matt's legacy - is finished. It's out there, shined up beautifully and lovingly restored, ready to rock your town tonight anywhere in the world on all the major streaming platforms.

YouTube Music | Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon Music | Pandora | Deezer

In August Andrew sat for another interview with writer Jan Mercker for the local independent Loudoun Now to talk about the Nor'easter project. Two and a half years ago Jan had done a lovely feature story on Andrew's Treasures in My Chest album and book in advance of his release concert; a week before the world shut down.

She clearly connected the human threads that run through Andrew's work, even back in his "wild and wayward youth" of the Nor'easter days. Managing Editor Renss Greene came to Cabin Studios…

We’ve celebrated the three founding members birthdays this year with special milestones. On singer Chris Gursky‘s (on L) April 4th birthday, we dropped our first single “The Chemical Zone.” On the late Matt Bouley’s birthday May 23rd, we celebrated his legacy by sharing the entire album for the first time end to end in a livestream on YouTube. 

And for guitarist Andrew McKnight‘s (on R) birthday on July 25th, he and Chris met up in the White Mountains at the campground where they’d met as teenagers to sign…

July 22, 2022 

Fridays are going to fun for us for a while this summer. Today we are excited to share a new collaborative project with visual artist Manderley Swain from Tennessee – the lyric video to the title cut “Calm Before the Storm” features 19 of her original art pieces. The video also incorporates the short album cover reveal video we did featuring artist Rachel McFadden’s beautiful painting. Please share the link with your friends, and thanks for subscribing to our YouTube channel while you’re…

The summer of ’22 will be memorable for lots of things, but for us it is the completion of a 33-year journey! Calm Before the Storm is at long last fully produced and available in digital and disc formats. Get it now through our Bandcamp store. As the summer rolls on, Fridays are drop dates for some important milestones:

 
      • July 15th – release “Fare Thee Well/Calm Before the Storm” lyric video on our YouTube channel 
      • July 22nd – CDs due in from the factory 
      • July 29th – Preorders and…

June 23, 2022 

This is so cool! The Cosmic Metalhead teams up with the mighty Coneheads to help vanquish Multiple Sclerosis – check out their 30-second video and then please head over to our friend Steve Howard’s fundraising page. They ride 150 miles and tens of thousands of feet of elevation this coming weekend! Team Coneheads are rapidly closing in on $1 million raised to fight MS – would you help the Metalhead lend a hand?

View Steve's Fundraising page here.

After more than three decades “in the vault,” the Nor’easter musical legacy was unveiled for the first time in an end-to-end online listening party, in honor of drummer Matt Bouley’s birthday on Monday May 23rd, 2022. See it anytime at our YouTube channel with the band and the production team!

Sept. 27, 2021 

Lovely bit of news to share tonight; there will be an additional song on the Calm Before the Storm! 

Andrew adapted the melody of an old hymn into a 4-part overdriven guitar postlude we titled “Hymn of the Oceans“. It was recorded on a four-track cassette machine in 1986, and tagged on the end of the cassettes we self-produced late that year. In Andrew’s search for a multitrack cassette recorder a few weeks back, we thought that he had recorded it on an 8-track cassette machine – something…

August 10, 2021.

This morning we learned of the passing of our old friend and sound engineer Matt Turkovich back in his hometown of Shinnston WV. 

He was there pretty much at the beginning and through the end of our live era. Turk always loved sound, and mixing and experimenting was his passion, even as we fidgeted around with low-budget gear and limited amounts of it to boot. In the handful of shows we did, we blew up the power supply to his Allen & Heath mixing board once and a borrowed power amp at…