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A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts

1997 single by The Get Up Kids

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4658555
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"A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts" is the second single from Kansas City, Missouri, band the Get Up Kids. The single, also commonly referred to as The Loveteller EP by fans, was released in 1997 on Contrast Records. The final pressing of the album was printed on orange vinyl in a limited run of 200. Each of this set was packaged in a handmade sleeve with the band's name spray-painted on, and an actual photo glued to the cover by label owner Al Barkley.

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The song "A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts" was re-written and released on the band's rarities and b-sides collection Eudora (2001) as "Newfound Mass (2000)".

"A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts" and "Off The Wagon" were also released on the band's EP Woodson (1997).

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This entry incorporates text from A Newfound Interest in Massachusetts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.