A&C Recommends: 48 Hour Music Festival at SPACE

Posted on February 09, 2012 by in Arts & Culture

What happens when you take 30 of Portland’s biggest musicians, break them into six supergroups and give them 48 hours to write 25 minutes of new material to be performed in front of a live audience?
That’s …

Local Top 5: Must Follow Maine-Twitters

Posted on February 03, 2012 by in Arts & Culture

1.) Maine Breaking News @bangordailynews: The official Twitter for one of the best daily newspapers in the state, The Bangor Daily News has completely embraced the platform with ease. Updates throughout the day provide quick links …

Portland Greendrinks brings awareness to non-profits, beer to the masses

Posted on January 29, 2012 by in Arts & Culture

A crowd gathers at a Green Drinks event in Portland.

The concept is simple: For two bucks  you and a few hundred of your closest friends spend the first Tuesday night of every month at a well-known Portland location to raise awareness for a local non-profit. …

Cloud Nothings bring in Albini for ‘Attack On Memory’

Posted on January 29, 2012 by in Album Reviews

It would have been so easy for Dylan Baldi’s next Cloud Nothings album to follow the tried-and-true trajectory that he had been steadily carving out since 2010′s self-released Turning On — and it would have been …

A farewell to Marie Stella in ‘from’

Posted on January 22, 2012 by in Album Reviews

Here it is: the nearly three-year career span of of Marie Stella — one of Portland’s most predominant live acts — condensed into an appropriately modest six tracks. It shouldn’t surprise many that the final release …

Portland Music 2011 in Review

Posted on December 09, 2011 by and in Arts & Culture

Despite its small population of over 66,000, Portland has developed and nurtured a remarkably diverse local music scene over the years. It’s still growing too, in 2011 Dispatch, a new magazine dedicated to local music and …

A&C Recommends: Falls of Rauros, The Baltic Sea, AWAAS and Haru Bangs at SPACE

Posted on December 05, 2011 by in Arts & Culture

On Saturday, Dec.10, SPACE Gallery in Portland is bringing a surefire cure for your impending cabin fever, as Maine black metal kings Falls of Rauros will be joined by The Baltic Sea, AWAAS and Haru Bangs for …

The RattleSnakes explore new and uncharted territory with ‘Spine’

Posted on December 05, 2011 by in Album Reviews

There is an inherent danger in musician’s revisiting and pillaging their youth for inspiration. For those less-than-successful in the endeavor, the results are mundane melodramas of unrequited love that bring more pity and embarrassment than longing for the salad days. …

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