The Points North
The Points North is an expression of spirits found in the eastern seaboard's northernmost major city- home to beauty, kindness, love, isolation, and longing.
Chris North Alspach is a former small-city photojournalist and has attended many house fires, camera in hand. Regina Peterson grew up playing flute in her family's church, and began collaborating with Alspach in summer 2006 under the name Saint Joe Hazelwood. A year later the pair met Dylan Clark at a show in a Pennsylvania cornfield while Clark was in the midst of a two-month U.S. tour drumming for Tigersaw. The trio quickly bonded over reminiscence of their shared childhood home of rural Central Massachusetts.
The Points North performed their first show in Cambridge in February 2008 and went on to perform 40 shows and release a split cassette before the end of the year.
In 2009 The Points North played 70 shows throughout the northeast and released the 12" LP I Saw Across The Sound, which has since received dozens of reviews and was recently named a top local release of 2009 by The Boston Globe. In November The Points North gained bassist Evan Foudray, whom they had met a year earlier while playing at a campfire in the woods of Maine.
In January and February 2010 The Points North temporarily relocated to Victoria, Australia to record their yet-to-be-released sophomore album with Adam Casey of The Boy Who Spoke Clouds.
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Discography
I Saw Across the Sound (2009)
Freedom or Decomposition Songs (2008)
S Joe Hazelwood (2007)
Summer 2007 Tour EP (2007)
Moth & Wool EP (2006)
Upcoming Shows
Friday, Mar 12 2010, 8:00 PM
The Butcher Shoppe
Allston, Massachusetts
Saturday, Mar 13 2010, 8:00 PM
Distant Castle
Worcester, Massachusetts
Sunday, Mar 14 2010, 8:00 PM
Tetonka Fortress
Naugatuck, Connecticut
Monday, Mar 15 2010, 8:00 PM
123 West Park
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, Mar 18 2010, 8:00 PM
Dominican Joe
Austin, Texas
Saturday, Mar 20 2010, 2:30 PM
Six Stages Over Texas
Austin, Texas
Saturday, Mar 20 2010, 8:00 PM
Mount Bonnell
Austin, Texas
Tuesday, Mar 23 2010, 8:00 PM
The Houle Home
Athens, Georgia
Wednesday, Mar 24 2010, 8:00 PM
641 RPM
Boone, North Carolina
Friday, Mar 26 2010, 8:00 PM
McGuffey Art Center
Charlottesville, Virginia
Sunday, Mar 28 2010, 2:00 PM
Normals Books (Matninee)
Baltimore, Maryland
Sunday, Mar 28 2010, 8:00 PM
Green Line Cafe
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sunday, Apr 4 2010, 2:00 PM
The Sock Hop
Lowell, Massachusetts
Monday, Apr 5 2010, 8:00 PM
Dynamite Records @ Thornes
Northampton, Massachusetts
Tuesday, Apr 6 2010, 8:00 PM
Pine Needle House
Worcester, Massachusetts
Friday, Apr 16 2010, 8:00 PM
Armory Cafe
Somerville, Massachusetts
Saturday, Apr 17 2010, 8:00 PM
Thats Entertainment
Worcester, Massachusetts
Friday, Apr 23 2010, 8:00 PM
The Skinny Pancake
Burlington, Vermont
Saturday, Jun 19 2010, 8:00 PM
119 Gallery
Lowell, Massachusetts
Thursday, Jun 24 2010, 8:00 PM
Club Passim w/ Audrey Ryan
Cambridge, Massachusetts