Red Medicine’s debut does DIY right

Posted on February 27, 2011 by in Album Reviews

Red Medicine’s eponymous debut album is a progressive and razor sharp trek through the last twenty years of experimental rock music.
These University of Maine at Farmington kids cut a wide swath through the legacies of math-rock …

The ‘surrealist madness’ of Portland’s Id M Theft Able

Posted on February 26, 2011 by in Album Reviews

Id M Theft Able, arguably Portland’s most prominent noise musician, has a swirling blur of a sound that is as disorienting as it is fascinating.
He builds massive sonic barrages out of samples from discarded twenty-five cent …

The rustic entrapment of Wesley Allen Hartley and the Traveling Trees

Posted on February 07, 2011 by in Album Reviews

I haven’t stopped listening to “Don’t Peel Your Bloomers Off Just Yet” by Wesley Allen Hartley and the Traveling Trees since I got it half a year ago. It’s a gorgeous and devastating album written by …

Planets Around the Sun’s ‘embryonic unconcious’

Posted on January 31, 2011 by in Album Reviews

“Tower” is a collection of unreleased recordings from local drone-improv giants Planets Around the Sun. The opener and title track begins as a mid-paced, mind-bent psychedelic processional and then dismantles itself into a cloud of swirling, …

Planets Around the Sun

Posted on January 31, 2011 by in Arts & Culture

Planets Around the Sun is a loose collective of sound-makers from Portland, Maine that centers around the central axis of main players Ian Paige, Matt Lajoie and Caitlin King (simply known as “CK”). All three members …

Vermont-based Seth Gallant goes back to basics

Posted on January 24, 2011 by in Arts & Culture

Seth Gallant is a 25-year-old songwriter born and raised in Rumford, ME. Presently, he calls Burlington, Vt. his home. “I really love the solitude [in Rumford]. Sometimes I’ll take a week off and spend it there …

Gallant release impresses with maturity

Posted on January 24, 2011 by in Album Reviews

“Nothing, This Makes Sense” is Seth Gallant’s latest release, despite being issued in early 2010. The album begins with a gorgeous piece of arranged minimalist guitar work, recalling one of the more austere mid-90s slowcore acts, …

Tiger Saw releases its finest gem

Posted on December 06, 2010 by in Album Reviews

Dylan Metrano, the visionary behind New England collective Tiger Saw, is one of the East Coast’s best kept musical secrets. Though a steady buzz and certain level of acclaim has been building since their inception in …

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