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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 […] 
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 […] 
Last night (Monday, February 28, 2011) at the State Theatre, Girl Talk turned the sold out crowd into a hot, sweaty mess where everyone – as requested – did their best to forget the fact that it was Monday night, and they should probably be doing homework, sleeping, or whatever – anything but dancing […] 
Review and photos by David Zwickerhill. Thursday night six bands were formed by a random drawing of local musicians. Two days later Charlemagne, VCR, Bathroom Zeta Jones, Junkie Brewster, Assless Chaps, and Vermin Bride were the five ad hoc bands that took to the stage at this year’s 48 Hour Music Festival (2/19/11 @ […] 
Frontier Ruckus at One Longfellow Square – photo by Bryan Bruchman Sunday was a busy day for shows in Portland. I took a break from the excellent show down the road at SPACE and went to One Longfellow Square (the venue hosting the HillyTown Presents show I just announced April 23) to check […] 
Our predictions for how crazy and awesome B Dolan’s Church Of Love & Ruin show at SPACE was going to be were pretty spot on. Check out the photo gallery below for marching bands, burlesque, sissy bounce, feminist crowdsurfing, and a whole lot more! There was so much going on, it took two of […] 
Screaming Females win the award for national act that could be mistaken for a Portland local band, judging by the reaction of fans at their shows. Every time they come around it’s as if there’s a sigh of relief from the punk and indie rock-loving fans who hold their breath between visits. At their gigs, […] 
Review and photos by David Zwickerhill Thursday (2/3/11) night’s hip hop show at Port City Music Hall was not one to have missed. From a solid performance by the openers, local trio Educated Advocates, to the frenetic energy of California rapper Lyrics Born, it was a barn burner from end to end. Lyrics Born […] 
Dominic Lavoie of The Lucid On Friday, February 4, about 500 local music fans came out to Port City Music Hall after the First Friday Art Walk to celebrate new releases by The Lucid and Space Versus Speed. A Boston band called Foxtrot opened with a seemingly very Radiohead/Oasis-influenced sound. Though the SVS […] 
Last night (February 3, 2011) somebody said this show was “highly blogable.” Well, here’s the blog post about it, so I guess they were right. Woods and Ducktails (Real Estate’s Matt Mondanile solo/backed by whoever he’s touring with) have both been through Portland in the past year, and this time they hit town […] 
It isn’t every day that the band with the country’s number one bestselling album stops by to play an instore at your local record shop, but today, that’s exactly what we got here in Southern Maine. The Decemberists took a day off between Boston and Montreal to visit Bull Moose Music in Scarborough, Maine […] 
I’d say that my enthusiasm for the Fitz & The Tantrums show this week was definitely warranted. Granted, the band’s perfect aesthetic and really fun, lively style makes them easy to love, but it had to be seen to truly be tested. Following Dean Ford, the modern soul group just destroyed, sending the crowd […] 
On Monday, January 24, Portland’s Dean Ford had the challenge of opening the show at Port CIty Music Hall for Fitz & the Tantrums. Sharing a bit of the headlining act’s sense of style but only a small dose of their performance and stage presence, Ford played a strong set with the support of […] 
This is going back a few weeks now, but I’m working on catching up! I made a resolution this year to get out to more venues in Portland and throughout Maine – because it’s one thing to list the shows here and in Maine Magazine, but it’s another to actually go out and see […] Our friend Robbie Kanner shot the Dashboard Confessional concert at the State Theatre last night and was kind enough to share his photos here. Check them out below. |
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