{"id":20595,"date":"2021-10-28T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20595"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:41:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:41:28","slug":"spotify-smasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/spotify-smasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Smasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=nov21_fin_web&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=36&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Musician Zach Hurd is back in Maine, by way of Brooklyn, L. A.,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">and a hit on Spotify (\u201cSafe\u201d) with 18 million plays.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">BY COLIN W. SARGENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Your music is so breezy. I\u2019ve just listened to \u201cChanging,\u201d \u201cI Wonder,\u201d and \u201cLike a Bird.\u201dIt could be the best pop music ever created by a Mainer.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thank you! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">What part of Maine do you come from? \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I was born in Brunswick and raised in Bath, on Hyde Street. My parents taught at the Hyde School, and I went there. I played soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. I didn\u2019t have a band yet, but the whole school does performing arts. I did a senior thesis project with two classmates where we wrote some songs, recorded in a local studio, and did a show at the end of the year. \u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Your background on fan sites for Bay Ledges appears as \u201cMaine\/NYC\/LA.\u201d How do you reconcile these divergent cultural forces in your music? \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I kind of tried not to move to New York. I played in New England cafes and other venues up here. Then in the mid-2000s I decided, \u201cI need to do this.\u201d My best friend from Bath\u2019s older brother was living in Brooklyn. He wasn\u2019t into music. He had a corporate job. But he said, \u201cI have this spare room with a mattress on the floor.\u201d So I made the leap and \u00a0went to open mikes every night. You try to just get experience performing so you can book a club on the Lower East Side or in Brooklyn.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spotify-buster-fb-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"spotify-buster-fb\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spotify-buster-fb-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spotify-buster-fb-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spotify-buster-fb-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spotify-buster-fb-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spotify-buster-fb-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/spotify-buster-fb.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Zach Hurd is back in Maine, by way of Brooklyn, L. 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