Michael Kane And The Morning Afters Broke But Not Broken

Michael Kane AND THE Morning Afters might be the favorite sons of Worcester, but what does it mean to be kings of a town that lost its crown? It means the path forward can be done on the band’s own terms. And so no one told Michael Kane AND THE Morning Afters that they couldn’t make an album that doubled as an arena rock-ready, gritty, Americana masterpiece. And so they did, in their forthcoming 2022 album Broke But Not Broken, issued by State Line Records. But like any notable news of the now, to understand it one must go back to the start. Kane assembled THE Morning Afters in 2016 after years of sitting on the sidelines and watching his friends succeed with music. Kane put his beautiful loser persona to song and began to showcase the serious potential that spent a lifetime trapped in his own body. Michael Kane AND THE Morning Afters released Laughing At The Shape I’m In on a 7-inch EP through State Line Records in 2017, and in the process became the house band at The Hotel Vernon in Kelley Square. Wearing the crown of the Heart Of The Commonwealth, THE Morning Afters began to play live all over New England and the Northeast. They’ve supported Street Dogs and OFF With Their Heads, repped Worcester with pride at the Bosstones’ 2018 Cranking And Skanking Festival, and brought