MIDCOAST BAND ENDLESS INTERSTATE has been nominated in the Best in State category for the 2016 New England Music Awards.
The Wiscasset-based band Endless Interstate has been nominated in the Best in State category for the 2016 New England Music Awards to be held on April 9 in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts.
The four other Maine nominees, Builder of the House, Muddy Ruckus, Lovers of Fiction and Gunther Brown, all hail from Portland, so songwriter and guitarist Chris Muccino hopes to energize the Midcoast vote before the awards.
The seven-man band includes Muccino, Matthias Sampson, Jordan Warsky, Chuck Benton Tyson Soule and Dan Bodmer.
Voting for all categories is online through the New England Music Awards site.
Muccino said the members of the group have been writing and playing music in the Midcoast since about 1991. The core group, initially of the band Liquid Daydream, parted ways in 2002 only to reconnect in 2010 as Endless Interstate.
Sitting in his home studio, surrounded by string instruments, Muccino said the group released a couple Liquid Daydream singles while hammering out their Roadsigns album in the recording studio.
Roadsigns was released in 2013 followed by the New Fire album in March 2015. The group has also appeared on local show 207, have seen themselves numerous times on Bull Moose Music’s top 10 and has played the L.L. Bean summer concert series.
Muccino characterizes the band’s sound as alternative with a bit more of an acoustic feel. It was a departure from their days in Liquid Daydream, where Muccino said they followed the harder edge of alternative. Getting a little older, Muccino said a lot of thought went into Endless Interstate’s style and the group agreed to dial it back to more acoustic stylings.
Musical influences on the band range anywhere from Bad Company and Led Zeppelin to the Black Crows and Rush.
“People have said that our style kind of reminds them of Pearl Jam or the Stone Temple Pilots just because of our singer’s voice,” Muccino said. And after listening to singer Sampson in World from the Roadsigns album, that’s no stretch.
Muccino said the group played a bunch of shows in 2015 but are taking a break now and focusing on working on the next album. Currently, Endless Interstate can be found at Bull Moose, the band’s web site and on iTunes.
Muccino said the bands they are up against are all good, but he’s hopeful that all the time and energy they’ve taken and put into recording their music will pay off.
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