The songs feel different, says Henry LoConti. But they’re not going to stop.

The namesake and singer-guitarist of funk-rock band LoConti continues forward in his music career after his brother Michael LoConti, the band’s drummer and cofounder, died in a late-February car accident.

The loss, sudden and devastating, shook the foundations of Henry’s life and the band itself. LoConti went on hiatus and canceled its gigs in the months after Michael’s death. In the background, the bandmates gathered in their grief and, together, found solace in their music.

“It's just in us to play. We're musicians,” Henry says. “It was kind of our first and most natural response to let these songs heal us.”

LoConti decided to keep the band going, easing its way back onto local stages with a few free summer

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