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Hilken Mancini Band // Handsy // Gramercy Arms
November 22, 2024 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Hilken Mancini is an American singer, songwriter, musician, author, and aerobics teacher, best known as the co-founder of Punk Rock Aerobics and Girls Rock Campaign Boston. She has been a member of the bands Fuzzy, The Count Me Outs, Shepherdess, The Monsieurs, and Band of Their Own. She also directed the music video for the Green Day song “Here Comes the Shock”, which features her doing her Punk Rock Aerobics.
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- Hilken Mancini co-fronted Fuzzy, a 90’s indie rock band from Boston that got snapped up by Atlantic Records during the Alternative Nation frenzy at the majors. RollingStone cited their single “Flashlight” as one of the 50 best songs of the 90’s.
90’s Boston was lousy with poppy alt rock: The Pixies, Juliana Hatfield, Belly, Lemonheads, Letters To Cleo, and then this band Fuzzy who didn’t really get the buzzbin hit those other bands had. A lot of bands slipped through the cracks.
A couple months ago I got a message from Hilken – she’s all “do you remember me from Fuzzy and The Mardi Kings? I have this 10 song album.” She was humbly describing an incredible album she’d made with Hilken Mancini Band.
Hilken Mancini Band is very much Fuzzy adjacent, but new and better. I think it’s her best work yet – but will scratch that itch for Fuzzy fans as well.
Hilken Mancini (Fuzzy) is on guitar/vocals, Winston Braman (Fuzzy/Thalia Zedek/Consonant) is on Bass and Luther Grey (Tsunami) is on Drums and Melissa Gibbs (Heavy Stud/Gymnasium) on vocals and guitar.
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