• Photographer/songwriter/BOXY member JOSHUA LORING and SPACE GALLERY were awarded a grant by the MAINE ARTS COMMISSION to document the underground rock scene with the goal of showcasing Portland music, performances, and musicians' lives to those within and without our Maine borders. The resulting Treble Treble, a full-color photo album designed by SEAN WILKINSON (HONEY CLOUDS) and accompanying CD compilation featuring music by Portland bands including GULLY, AN EVENING WITH, HUAK, METAL FEATHERS, VINCE NEZ, and TEMPERA, will be released with a show at SPACE November 27. Sounds like a good time.
• Portland ex-pat JEFF BEAM will celebrate the release of his new Portraits of Poor Traits at Slainte, November 29. Free hardcopies of the disc will be available.
• Next big day for local electronic music? December 22 will see the release of VIK44's My Way Out and BRZOWSKI AND MOSHE's Like Woe, on BRICK.CITY.MEDIA and MILLED PAVEMENT, respectively. They're waiting for Brzowski and Moshe to get back from a tour of Europe before the release happens.
• DEAD SEASON have some issues to deal with: The TRUMAN BROTHERS are now the only remaining members of the band. Both drummer ANDY HACKETT and bassist STEVE CHURCH have quit the band and Dead Season are actively recruiting replacements.
• At HEADSTART's EP release show Saturday, frontman KEVIN KENNIE announced unexpectedly (perhaps even to him) that it would be the last-ever performance of the band's first big hit: "Do This." Kennie's delivery made it clear that he just had no interest in the song anymore.
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- Cut to the Bone
Eleven heavy-rock bands are now vying for a $10,000 prize being offered up by radio station 106.3 the Bone.
- Winged migration
Since their start in the middle of the decade, Brown Bird have been one of the region's go-to chamber-folk outfits, with a couple of dark and stormy albums earning them a following in various nooks of New England. The release of their latest album, The Devil Dancing , feels like both an ending and a new beginning.
- Hot, hot heat
Is New Year's back? It seemed to have been taken away from us, by a general and hard-to-pin-down sentiment that it ought to be some kind of family holiday. Fuck that.
- A dead season of desolate grace
JOHN PAUL was back in town last week, and not just to play a gig at the Empire.
- Spose: It's all a joke
It’s every band’s dream, really: DEAD SEASON have secured a JAGERMEISTER sponsorship.
- Leaves of Life from Arborea, and other Portland music news
BUCK AND SHANTI CURRAN , the husband-and-wife team behind ethereal folk band ARBOREA , have been touring nearly non-stop and curating compilations right from their home base in Lewiston.
- 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.
- Portland Music News: May 8, 2009
The weekend of May 23 is shaping up to be an important one in the local-music continuum.
- Falling into you
Between Ron Harrity's skills as recording engineer, label guru (Peapod Recordings), and guitarist/sideman, he's racking up an impressive resume (see the accompanying review of the Isobell record for more details), and the new Honey Clouds record just adds to the list.
- Last call
One of the big topics of social conversation in Portland last week was the anonymous Portland Point blog's ruthless, somewhat self-negating takedown of the Honey Clouds' May 23 CD-release show.
- Holy Boys and Sea Captains
• The HOLY BOYS DANGER CLUB are making a real go of it. They've made a video for "Criminal," off the Lessons for Liars EP from earlier this year. GUY MANLY VIDEOS , who crafted the Cambiata documentary, did the filming. Check the brand-new www.holyboysdangerclub.com to take a peek.
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