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Foam Castles invite you to Come Over to My House

Digital domicile
Bitch all you want about the firehose of new music nowadays, but the lowered barriers to recording and distribution certainly do make it easier for artists to be a lot more playful in their releases.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 13, 2011

Gully + Foam Castles + Sunset Hearts at Empire Dine and Dance, January 8

Music seen
Gully, Foam Castles, and Sunset Hearts at Empire was a veritable who's-who of the Portland indie rock scene.
By AMANDA PLEAU | January 12, 2011

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Beer, boys and parking-meter woes

New anti-anthems from Foam Castles and the Rattlesnakes
As if you needed proof that Ron Harrity is one busy man (see: new releases from If and It, Honey Clouds, Marie Stella), two more albums finished off in his South Portland studio hit the streets this season in advance of your summer road trips.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 16, 2010

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One man’s picks for the BiMPys

Handicapping the Best Music Poll
Pffft. That Phoenix Best Music Poll is just a popularity contest!
By SAM PFEIFLE | June 02, 2010

Run for Cover

Honey Clouds shake the trees and get noisy
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.
By SAM PFEIFLE | May 26, 2010

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Leaves of Life from Arborea, and other Portland music news

Sibilance
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.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 19, 2010

We heart these people

Meet Portland's most influential
We all know Portland is a busy, exciting place to live. It takes a lot of people's amazing energy to keep it going, though. Who's doing the moving and the shaking?
By JEFF INGLIS | February 10, 2010

Winged migration

Brown Bird and South China fracture and cohere
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.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | December 02, 2009

It takes a village

... and a compilation album/photobook to raise a self-sustaining indie scene
Treble Treble , a new 15-page photobook and 10-artist compilation album curated by local musician and budding photographer Joshua Loring, is the first concerted effort to market Portland's indie music scene.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | November 24, 2009

The death of 'Do This,' and more

Sibilance
Photographer/songwriter/BOXY member JOSHUA LORING and SPACE GALLERY were awarded a grant by the MAINE ARTS COMMISSION to document the underground rock scene.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | November 18, 2009

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Last call

Bands come, go, and get bashed
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.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 03, 2009

Falling into you

Something old, something new from Honey Clouds
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.
By SAM PFEIFLE | May 20, 2009

Portland Music News: May 8, 2009

Sibilance
The weekend of May 23 is shaping up to be an important one in the local-music continuum.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 06, 2009

Dracula Zombie USA Yankee Ingenuity + Feel It Robot

Music seen November 20, at SPACE Gallery
The best way to warm up as the cold sets in is to have a dance party. Whether SPACE's Halloween costume ball or the spontaneous Obama victory celebration in Monument Square, it seems the colder it gets, the more Portlanders want to shimmy.
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | November 26, 2008