Today we’d like to introduce you to Andrew Grossman
Hi Andrew, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
My name is Andrew Grossman and I am the singer, songwriter, and band leader for the experimental pop collective The North Country. I fell deeply in love with music ever since I got a guitar for my 13th birthday and have dedicated my life to songwriting and musical performance ever since then.
We make conscious indie rock and indie pop, blending the sounds of Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, and Arcade Fire into an original sound with an energetic live show and well produced records.
Our new album The Future’s All We Need is out now on House of Joy.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I’m enormously proud of our ability as a band to stick together and persevere during the pandemic. We had a tour scheduled for March 2020 to South by Southwest in Austin, TX, and then you know what happened.
Despite not being able to function as a normal band we stayed creative and wrote and recorded a brand new record completely remotely from our respective homes, sending files back and forth to each other.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a songwriter, bandleader, guitarist, synthesist, producer, and music educator.
My absolute favorite thing to do is write songs. There is no greater joy than coming up with some new idea and seeing it through on stage.
Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
Technology has moved us towards greater atomization. Everything is immediate, decontextualized. Songs function not as works of art to be experienced again and again, something you form a relationship with, but rather as content to experience once passively before moving on to the next source of stimulus.
Despite this, there is still no substitute for the real human connection you can make with music in a live context.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thenorthcountrymusic.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenorthcountry/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thenorthcountrymusic
- Twitter: https://x.com/THENORTHCOUNTRY
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNorthCountryMusic
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thenorthcountry
- Other: https://thenorthcountry.bandcamp.com/album/the-futures-all-we-need
Image Credits
Photos by Mike Kimchi and Mauricio Castro