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Bad Seeds At The Oak+The Ax Video

This Saturday night, The Oak + The Ax presents a show entitled “Bad Seeds.” Check out the promo video below:

This show serves as the homecoming for Dead Man’s Clothes, who just returned from a tour that took them to SXSW (more on that later) with a number of stops along the way. We’re […]

SXSW Music: The Sounds

I’m back from SXSW and catching up on the photos of all the bands I saw there. Here’s another one!

Band: The Sounds / Hometown: Helsingborg, Sweden Show: Conflict Of Interest Party / Venue: Purevolume House / Date: 3/15

With a brand new album (Something To Die For) being released next week (March […]

SXSW Music: Delicate Steve

I’m back from SXSW and catching up on the photos of all the bands I saw there. Here’s another one!

Band: Delicate Steve / Hometown: NJ Show: M for Mikey showcase / Venue: Spill / Date: 3/15

A band whose name I heard kicked around quite a bit before hearing any of their music, […]

SXSW Music: Esben and The Witch

Hello from Austin, Texas! The SXSW Music Festival is fully under way, and it’s already a bit overwhelming. I’ll be posting galleries of bands I caught (some, like this, will just be one band, others will be a mix of acts I saw) with special attention paid to bands from or connected to Maine, those […]

SXSW Music: No Joy

Hello from Austin, Texas! The SXSW Music Festival is fully under way, and it’s already a bit overwhelming. I’ll be posting galleries of bands I caught (some, like this, will just be one band, others will be a mix of acts I saw) with special attention paid to bands from or connected to Maine, those […]

SXSW Bands: Astronautalis (and SPACE Photos)

On March 3, Seattle MC Astronautalis debuted his new live band with a show at SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine. The band includes two familiar faces from our local scene, plus another member from the Bronx (we did an interview and photos at their practice space). At the show, Astronautalis said he’d been dreaming […]

SXSW Bands: Lady Lamb The Beekeeper

It looks like Lambmania really is catching on. Lady Lamb The Beekeeper (aka Aly Spaltro, formerly of Portland, Maine, now floating between NYC, MA, and Maine) has been riding a wave of buzz (I guess we were on to something) and good press in the past year, and this looks like a lot of […]

SXSW Bands: Screaming Females (Photos from NJ + SXSW Dates)

Sure, we just saw Screaming Females in Portland, but I can never get enough of them. On Friday, March 4, the band played a show at Asbury Lanes (a bowling alley with a music venue right in the middle of it, on top of the lanes!) in Asbury Park, NJ. The night was a […]

SXSW Bands: Dan Deacon (Made You Sweat)

On Friday, March 11, 2011, Dan Deacon finally came to Portland, Maine to play a highly-anticipated show at SPACE Gallery. The sold out show was, by all accounts, incredible. Read on, you’ll see.

Dan Deacon is only playing one show during SXSW this year. He said he didn’t want to do it, and waited […]

SXSW Bands: Nicole Atkins (Played Port City)

Just a couple weeks ago (Thursday, February 24 to be exact), Nicole Atkins was here in Portland to headline a show at Port City Music Hall. She has a modest schedule in Austin, TX this week with 4 shows at SXSW. I missed the Portland show, so I hope to catch her at the […]

New Brenda Video – “Girl Don’t Grow”

Brenda is currently the band at the center of the Portland indie rock scene. With deep roots and infinite connections musically and socially that touch almost everybody who spends their nights practicing and playing shows in our many venues, the trio also happens to have a knack for writing catchy songs that share a piece […]

HillyTown Exclusive: Decemberists Bull Moose Tracklist

There was one critical bit of information missing from our post about the Decemberists’ announcement of the Record Store Day release of their Live At Bull Moose ep: the tracklist! Well, now we have that (which hasn’t been announced anywhere else that we know of) and we’re excited to be the first to share it […]

New Grand Hotel Music Video

Portland pop rock band Grand Hotel released a new video today for their track “Walken.” The storyline is pretty simple but fun and upbeat, much like the tune itself. Check it out.

The guys have two local gigs coming up – this Saturday, March 12, they’ll be at Yankee Lanes for the MAMM Slam, then […]

Decemberists Releasing Bull Moose EP for RSD!

This is some pretty cool news from P4K: Remember when we got to see the Decemberists play an instore at the Bull Moose in Scarborough? As it turns out, that performance was recorded (by a good friend of HillyTown, Satronen Sound) and will be released as a seven-song CD, Live at Bull Moose, on […]

Jakob Battick Releases Bloodworm Songs Friday

This Friday, Jakob Battick & Friends will play their last show for the next 6 months (doesn’t this sound familiar?) as they celebrate the release of their new EP, Bloodworm Songs.

Check out the final packaged version of the album below:

A while back we shared the group’s video for “Three Orphans,” from this […]