Editor’s Note: Welcome to our new series spotlighting the bands and artists playing this year’s NICE, a fest. With 49 live performances over three days and two venues — July 28 to 30 at Somerville’s Crystal Ballroom and The Rockwell — there’s a lot going on, but consider this your compass to the NICE-est weekend imaginable. Get ticket info here, and check out our continued coverage of the festival.
Trash Rabbit
When and Where: Saturday, July 30 at 1 p.m. at The Crystal Ballroom.
Band Bio: Boston-based punk/emo outfit Trash Rabbit has been playing together for five years. Cutting their teeth as high schoolers in the DIY/house show scene, guitarist/vocalist Mena Lemos, bassist/vocalist Nic Adams, drummer Gibran Mobarak, and new member Gia Flores on guitar, take inspiration from punk, jazz, and emo, and have created a unique sound that has been shaking floors and fueling mosh pits since their start. The band released their first EP, Trash/Cable, in 2018, and immediately began playing basements in the Boston and Burlington D.I.Y. scene. Their next release, the LP Boy Problems, came out in summer of 2019, and the band began attending Berklee College of Music in the fall. Their next single, “Deadhouse”, was released in November 2019. The band continued through COVID, triumphantly playing their first show back at Lynch Family Skatepark in July 2021, and releasing an EP, Trash Rabbit Presents: Rabbit’s Rumble, in November 2021. Currently, Trash Rabbit is re-recording their first EP, a matured and refreshing version of their first songs that have maintained popularity with their original fan base throughout the years, and is releasing a single in early May, “Way Out West” with Northeastern’s music club, Greenline Records. Trash Rabbit has shows coming up with Guerilla Toss, Sonic Blue, and many more wonderful acts across the East Coast.
Fun Fact: “we all love jazz, we all play drums, we love bad bunny, and mena’s dad filmed a music video for scene legend Lou Miami in the 90s in allston (and some parts in mount auburn).”
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