Catching Up with Aron Street
Written by: Brianna Coccia-December 2019
Edited by: Travis Ryan
It seems like only yesterday I was dancing my butt off at Aron Street’s My Friend Luke EP release show at Comiskey Park Bar. I remember standing in the crowd, letting myself get lost in the music, and singing the lyrics at the top of my lungs. Maybe it was the fact that I had just driven seven hours from Vermont and made it just in time for the show or the fact that I was surrounded by the people I love and care about, but I felt like I was right where I needed to be.
Since then it seems like Aron Street has been on a nonstop train of musical creativity, starting with signing under the award-winning music firm Big Noise. Big Noise has been providing career and creative direction, artist development, project management, and music industry outreach for Aron Street.
What started as a casual conversation between Nick Mullady and Phil Anthony about guidance and band management led to a larger conversation with Al from Big Noise and landed them signed and on the road to success. The following week, Aron Street was working on a Grammy submission only to find out two months later that they were a Grammy contender for their song “Don’t Die”.
Nick states that for him, Grammy contention was the sign he needed to greenlight the full-time pursuit of his dreams. Nick’s mom was the first to show her full-fledged support after watching Nick pursue his passion for music over the past few years, saying she’d quit her job of 30 years to be in his shoes today.
Currently, Aron Street is hitting the studio to record new songs like “Lonely Arms” and “Parking Lot” that’ll soon be set to release.
“Lonely Arms” tells a story about a girl who is searching for where it is that she truly belongs in the world. Along the way, she gets caught up leaning on someone who is inconsistent and unreliable and finds herself on the tragic side of one-way love. This song hits close to home with lyrics like: “But I’m not happy with me/a phrase so painfully complete/I’ve forgotten what I had/and what it is I meant to be/all I feel is worthless misery”.
“Parking Lot” is more of a sad boy anthem about living a routinely boring and numbing life. This song particularly parallels Nick’s perspective before finding his current direction.
Before getting to where he is now, Nick went to military school; we’re talking boot camp, buzz cuts, the whole nine yards. He went on to carry the rigid and regimented attitude established in military school into his pursuit of work. He lived by the template of a structured life where you do something because it’s your duty and that’s that. This left him settling for the 9-5 just to make a paycheck, lacking motivation and passion—at least until Aron Street’s first show in January of 2017.
Along with cooking up more music for our hearts to ache to and bodies to sway to, our boys in Aron Street have taken on a new lineup. Nick Mullady (lead vocalist/guitar) has welcomed members Phil Anthony (bass), Melissa Frabotta (rhythm/guitar/backup vocals), John Venezia (drums), and Jesse Kessler (Piano) into the Aron Street family.
And with that, Aron Street nears the end of 2019 with a new look but the same striking lyrics we’ve come to know and love.