• The "Sibilance" staff sat in on DAVE GUTTER's new project, with EVAN CASAS, being mastered by ADAM AYAN at Gateway. The record's called The Key to Adore and is more organic and subdued than what you've heard from Gutter before. Watch out for his cover of "The Man Comes Around." Look for the disc by end of summer.
• Here's a history lesson: June 24 marks the 40th anniversary of Portland pop band LOVE, INC.'s first single: "She don't Care About Me/Never Never Land," on Musicor Records. You can hear tracks from drummer MARC MAILHOT's new solo album, Coral Sunset, at www.myspace.com/thechapparals.
• CARLL WILKINSON, who debuted with Pomegranate in 2005, has a new release, The Working Poor Blues, which he's recorded with PETE MORSE in his Busted Barn Studios. Wilkinson does a lot of the work — drums, bass, guitars, pedal steel, piano — but he brings in STEFEN SAMUELS (Eldemur Krimm) and jazz pianist TOM SNOW from time to time, too.
• LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER are no longer a duo. Chanteuse ALY SPALTRO will kick off the band's next phase with a solo show (accompanied by a looping station) at One Longfellow Square June 25.
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- Tweak-folk
Released this summer, Nico Muhly's Mothertongue (Bedroom Community) — the latest album by the ambitious contemporary classical music composer, a protégé of Philip Glass — offers listeners a bombastic example of the ongoing collaboration between the composer and Vermont-based folk singer Sam Amidon.
- People, Get Ready
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With a large number of new entrants, and several returning filmmakers, the fourth annual Portland Phoenix Maine Short Film Festival was a rousing success.
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- Daydream believer
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- Fall Books Preview: Reading list
Even if you’re not back in the classroom, autumn inspires a desire to learn, to restore the intellectualism that was fried by too many beers and barbecues and sunburns. Fortunately, Portland is full this fall with opportunities to spark your smarts.
- Cornmeal Records' new releases
Busy fall for CORNMEAL RECORDS . In addition to the STEVE JONES and BONEHEADS retrospectives, CHARLIE GAYLORD is also preparing the released of GREETINGS FROM AREA CODE 207, VOL. 8 , which should be released November 12.
- Livening up 2010: Many bands, all over town
It was about the experience in 2010. Whether it was the sweaty, riotous, arm-over-your-buddy's-shoulder type of concert or the ruminative, head-plodding sort, concertgoers in town (and away) had much to immerse in.
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Seeing Joe Walsh for the first time, down with Jerks of Grass in some of the final days of the Bramhall Pub, he was immediately "the Android".
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