• Even more RON HARRITY: BIRD IN THE RAFTERS will release their debut disc, recorded with Harrity last year, with a show June 13 at SPACE Gallery. They're calling it Jetlag and it will feature, among other things, a book oscillator invented by COMPUTER AT SEA's GALEN RICHMOND. No, we don't know what a book oscillator is, either.
• Portland's got itself a new rock supergroup: MURCIELAGO. Named for a bull that wouldn't die during a bullfight, they're loud as hell and feature guitarists NEIL COLLINS (TWISTED ROOTS, LINCOLNVILLE, ELDEMUR KRIMM) and MATTHEW ROBBINS (KING MEMPHIS), plus bassist NICK LAMBERTO (LOST ON LIFTOFF, RULER OF THE RAGING MAIN), and drummer BRIAN CHALOUX (PIGBOAT). Guitar nerds will appreciate this: Robbins reports, "I go from a little 53 Fender Deluxe with 15 watts to an Ampeg 1/2 stack and 100 watts."
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- Portland Music News: June 19, 2009
Yeah, this makes us feel a little old: The June 27 show at the Port City Music Hall will be a 20th anniversary show for TWISTED ROOTS . SUN GODS IN EXILE (fresh off a release show for their debut album) and SIDECAR RADIO open, and there's word that original TR bassist NEIL COLLINS will sit in for a few songs.
- Maine Songwriters Association ramps up, Pat Colwell's record, and more
The MAINE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION are trying to ramp up their happenings a little.
- Lady Lamb the Beekeeper seeks her fortune
LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER continues to turn heads now that she's exited the Pine Tree State.
- Cruel Hand carves out a following, Jon Nolan's new CD, and more
The "Sibilance" staff will admit to never having heard CRUEL HAND 's music before last week, but we find it remarkable that the Portland-based hardcore band have carved out a following in New Zealand, where they recently played a string of shows.
- Feeling bad with Good Kids Sprouting Horns
We have a natural inclination toward harmony. We look for patterns and symmetry and create narratives out of coincidences.
- Giving intelligence to simpletons, fools, and Idiots
There are a few reasons not to get overly excited about the debut release from Nuclear Boots.
- Review: Put your hands together for Olas's debut album
It's hard to believe, surely, considering bands like Cerberus Shoal, Fire on Fire, and his solo work, but Chriss Sutherland may have outdone himself again with Olas.
- The digital delight of Space versus Speed
Since 2000, we've had the Popsicko, Rocktopus, As Fast As (three albums), Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia, and now Space versus Speed. All with Spencer Albee as principal songwriter and frontman. Seven full-length records.
- Brown Bird in Williamsburg
Along with other Mainers in Brooklyn this weekend playing at the Slumberland Records 20th anniversary celebration, Maine/Rhode Island chamber-folk standouts Brown Bird were also in the borough, playing the narrow Williamsburg bar Spike Hill Sunday night.
- Run for Cover
If there was ever the idea that Honey Clouds were just Harpswell Sound with a new rhythm section, let their sophomore album, Cover the Forest , dispel it forever.
- Must be Marie
I’ve always loved Sydney Bourke’s contribution to Satellite Lot’s Second Summer album, and it’s great to see a band built around her excellent lead vocals with the indie-pop Marie Stella.
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