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While we were hanging out at Picnic (photos from that in a minute) and the ensuing afterparty (and perhaps an after afterparty or two…) world renowned banjo player Béla Fleck was at the State Theatre with the reunited original lineup of his band, the Flecktones, for a night of virtuosic music in support of […] 
Guitar duo Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks returned to Portland last month for this show on at the Ocean Gateway on Portland’s waterfront, which Trombone Shorty opened. The new album by Tedeschi Trucks Band, Revelator, was mastered here in Portland by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering. Photos by Conall O’Brien. […] 
For no reason in particular (OK, some moving, our own events to produce, hurricanes, etc. may have played into it a bit) we waited a whole month to get these photos out to share with you. In August, HillyTown photographer Conall O’Brien headed out to the weekend waterfront concert portion of KahBang Festival 2011 […] 
Last weekend, a show with a spectacular lineup popped up in Kittery, having been moved from a venue in NH. Looks like the story is repeating itself, as this Friday, the Daytrotter Barnstormers 5 show (with Deer Tick, We Are Augustines, and more) has also been moved from NH to the venue pictured in […] 
In the time since the demise of local chaos-fueled folk rockers Dead End Armory, Wesley Hartley and the Traveling Trees saw Wesley’s Texas roots coming to the forefront in a more subdued setting. Now that project has dropped a member and turned up the volume as Splendora Cölt, a trio that rides the line […] 
Maybe it didn’t turn out to be such a Hot August Night (the slightly wet weather and wind kept the live music inside on the lower deck of the boat) but we still had a great party on the Casablanca Sunday Night. Thank you so much to Peapod Recordings, SPACE Gallery, if and it, […] 
This fairly low key evening started out with a beautiful performance by Micah Blue Smaldone, accompanied by Colleen Kinsella. Guitarist (and filmmaker) David Camlin followed with some solo fingerpicking action, before An Evening With took the stage. Jeremy Alexander’s project has had a rotating cast of characters over the years, in an effort to […] 
For a while I wasn’t sure if The Baltic Sea were still active, but it turned out they were just hard at work on their new album, Period Piece (which was the featured album here recently). At last week’s TWO show at Port City Music Hall, the band made some of the best use […] 
This show, promoted by KahBang, was originally scheduled to take place at the Maine State Pier, but eventually moved next door to the Ocean Gateway Waterfront to accommodate the high demand for tickets. Wiz Khalifa was the big draw, but openers Big Sean and Chevy Woods seemed to be getting plenty of attention from […] 
Two things I love are music and food, so this event was a chance to pair the two. Despite some threatening clouds and occasional drizzle (oh, and that sold out Beirut show across town), the pre-show backyard BBQ we set up at Mayo Street Arts on Friday went off without a hitch, and music […] 
According to our photographer David Zwickerhill, the show was crazy. We believe it. The Athens, GA-based metal duo Jucifer are infamous for their massive wall of amps and obscene volume levels, and it looks like they held nothing back at this show on July 22 at Geno’s. Read on for photos of Jucifer and […] 
It’s hard to believe that it had been two years since local sensations Hiss & Chambers played live. We knew they were working on something (keep an eye out for a possible release…) but were excited to hear that they’d be making a return to the Empire stage this summer with one of our […] 
Last week, local promoter extraordinaire A Robot put on another excellent free show at Flask (careful with those Moxie Bombs!). If you haven’t been making it out to these, you’ve been missing something real special. For this occasion, the bands were all female-fronted, and I especially appreciated the increasing number of band members onstage […] 
Our friends in the band When Particles Collide (they played a recent HillyTown Presents show in Biddeford) checked out the Arootsakoostic Music Festival this weekend and were kind enough to share their thoughts and images from the experience with us on the site. Check it out below: words by Sasha Alcott and photos by Chris […] 
With SPACE Gallery becoming a regular tour destination for Jolie Holland, on Thursday she brought her tour in support of the just-released album Pint of Blood through Portland. In a move that it seems we’re seeing more and more, members of the excellent opening band, Portland, OR-based Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, are […] |
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