{"id":6361,"date":"2018-03-07T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T04:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2018-03-09T02:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T07:03:38","slug":"carissa-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2018\/03\/07\/carissa-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk Rocker Carissa Johnson: \u2018Sometimes I Just Feel Like I Want Something Bigger To Reach For, Somewhere Else To Go\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last April, Carissa Johnson<\/a> recalls, \u201cWe\u2019re the last band of the last show of the Rumble.\u201d A couple weeks earlier, the Andover punk rocker\u2014accompanied by The Cure Alls featuring lead guitarist Steph Curran and drummer Nick Hall\u2014had been one of 24 bands competing in Boston\u2019s annual Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Rumble. By April 21, they\u2019d made it down to the last three bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in our third song, all of a sudden the lights came on and the amps stopped working and the mics went off,\u201d recalls Johnson, who celebrates the release of her third album, \u201cTalk Talk Talk,\u201d accompanied by Curran and Hall, on March 10 with an album release show<\/a> at Great Scott<\/a> in Boston that night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fire alarm got pulled,\u201d Johnson says. The few hundred folks at the show at Once in Somerville had to evacuate for about 20 minutes. \u201cIt\u2019s raining out,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s the worst thing that can happen, but now it\u2019s like, \u20180h, man, I\u2019ve got to figure this out on the spot.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n