• The weekend of May 23 is shaping up to be an important one in the local-music continuum. Not only do the LEFTOVERS release their new album with a gig at the Empire, but the weekend also sees a release from HONEY CLOUDS at SPACE (May 23), as well as the first disc from 9TH RAIL, a band featuring DAN NELSON, son of fantastic jazz guitarist RICHARD NELSON, at Slainte (May 24). Busy, busy.
• BILL CHINNOCK, who died in March 2007, is still lovingly remembered by a big portion of the local music scene. Soon, OLD PORT RECORDS, run by TAYLOR MESPLE, will give you something more to remember him by in the form of a live CD, collecting "some of his last and best concerts." No word yet on a release date.
• TWISTED ROOTS spent a recent weekend shooting a video for "Hollow Earth" down in Houston. The whole deal will be in high-def, look like a million bucks, and be ready for summer.
• The annual INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION has announced winners and Maine this year is represented only in the children's and teen categories. The FLANNERY BROTHERS (out of Bangor) took home an honorable mention in the former for "Broccoli Yet;" MICHAELA THURLOW took home an honorable mention in the latter for "Comprehend."
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- Theodore Treehouse are Closest to the Sun
Bryan Bruchman and Dylan Martin and Ian Paige and everyone else who's been raving about Theodore Treehouse's live set over the past year were completely and totally right.
- Fusing porn with high art
Porn in the form of prose and poems, along with sexy and graphic illustrations and photos, fill the pages of Salacious , a new magazine dedicated to erotic art and literature, the likes of which you may never have seen — at least not compiled in one place.
- Dean Ford is Deaf. Dumb. In Love.
Dean Ford renews, this week, his membership in the cult of pop with the release of Deaf. Dumb. In Love. , a six-song EP filled with love songs and general guy-girl drama in the classic poodle skirt tradition.
- Covered in Bees album, John Paul's show, and Nicole Rabata's debut disc
COVERED IN BEES are doing their best to plan ahead: They've got the date set for the release of their fourth album, Holy Crap! It's Covered In Bees : September 25. Where's the party? Geno's. Where else?
- Aly Spaltro moves to NYC; Roy Ghim juggles projects
ALY SPALTRO is moving to NYC. SPACE is hosting a see-you-later party with JACOB AUGUSTINE and PANDA BANDITS opening and closing around her set and one from her Brooklyn buddies PEARL AND THE BEARD .
- José Ayerve makes melancholy upbeat
For a select few of us, the news of Spouse's hiatus was a little bit heartbreaking.
- Inspiring urban growers
Just in time for the fresh-food abundance that comes with summer and farmers' markets and pick-your-own adventures, the folks at SPACE Gallery and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) will host their second Food+Farm extravaganza this week.
- Uncovering the imagination
More than meaningless scraps of paper, discarded objects, or misplaced keepsakes, Found items are stories in themselves.
- Food unfarmed
Following in the Peabody Award-winning footsteps of Aaron Wolf's congenial, informative documentary King Corn, Robert Kenner's omnibus agri-doc Food, Inc . offers a bleaker portrait of America's food economy at this year's Food+Farm event series, centered at SPACE Gallery from May 7 to 10.
- Music Seen: All over
Last week we spent five of six nights out on the town. If anyone ever complains that we don't have enough venues or shows to attend we beg to differ.
- Music Seen: Ocean and Pontiak
The day after Ocean's predictably under-attended (30-40 people) Cinco de Mayo performance at SPACE, a friend who also attended asked what I thought. "So loud," I said. "So slow," he responded. It wasn't hard to catch the reverence in both reactions.
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