Hilken Mancini will carry the visuals of a Green Day music video. She’ll partially shoulder the legacy of Boston’s killer ’90s rock scene, too. But she won’t carry other people’s bullshit, and she’s so serious about it that it’s the first message she’s sharing under the Hilken Mancini Band moniker.
“Tell them I’m not carrying their weight / And they can’t bury me this way,” she sings on the chorus of “Weight, ” the defiant debut single of her new project. The Fuzzy co-frontwoman, Punk Rock Aerobics co-founder, and overall Boston badass kickstarts a new musical era with equally epic company, including onetime Fuzzy bandmate Winston Braman and Come guitarist Chris Brokaw.
The band’s self-titled debut album, due out October 25, promises to be just as star-studded, with appearances from Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis, Buffalo Tom’s Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis, and Thalia Zedek, also from Come but a Boston alt-rock vet in her own right.
Hey, maybe that weight is just the heft of all this talent jammed into a 10-track LP. Tune in below.
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