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Two masks, two duos, a dance contest, and flowers? Yup, sounds like a HillyTown Presents show. At least on Tuesday night at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY it was. A Severe Joy came down from Maine to play a show along with locals Genghis Hans and Mitten, and Poingly kept things fun with jams at the DJ booth, including an impromptu performance of one of his own songs/dance contest. The grand prize was an iron. And that’s just how we do it. Check out photos from the whole show after the jump! Read on… This year, HillyTown will celebrate its 4th year. In the coming months, you’ll see some other names regularly popping up on the site as contributors, hopefully a new design and features, and more HillyTown Presents events in both Maine and New York. Thanks for sticking with us as we sort things out. Coming up next week is the first in a series of HillyTown Presents shows at Union Hall, a cozy basement venue in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Thursday, January 12 @ Union Hall [702 Union St. Brooklyn, NY] It’s gonna be a whiskey-drinkin’ foot-stompin’ rowdy good time. See you there!  o'death poster by Kris Johnsen This is a big weekend for parties with “o” bands at SPACE Gallery. Tomorrow there’s SPACE co-founder Jon Courtney’s birthday celebration with Oneida and Company, and then on Sunday it’s a HillyTown shindig (which the Free Press recommends) featuring o’death, with Butcher Boy and Splendora Colt (read a PPH article on the band here) opening. We couldn’t be more excited to be presenting this show, and as you may know, it’ll also be my going away party as I leave Portland next week (to answer your question, yes, HillyTown will continue, details to come)! Check out these videos and get psyched, and I hope to see you this weekend. Get tickets for the HillyTown Presents show here. Read on…  Picnic 2011 poster by Kris Johnsen Check out some music from The Outfits while you read on… This is another big weekend for us! Rain or shine, we’ll be outside all day tomorrow (Sat. 8/27) in Lincoln Park in Portland for the FREE Picnic Music + Arts Festival. We curated the music lineup for this year’s festivities and are excited to see all these bands play. Here’s the schedule for the day (please note that NYC’s The Bandana Splits had to cancel, so Henry Jamison is filling in): 11:15 Mango Floss Dylan over at Dispatch did a preview of the bands here.  Picnic Afterparty poster by Robbie Kanner Following the 11am-6pm outdoor event, we’re teaming up with A Robot Booking + Promotion to bring you the official Picnic Afterparty at Geno’s, starting at 9pm. The party is 21+, kicks off at 9pm, and features two of the NYC bands playing Picnic (Clouder and Weird Children), along with two Portland bands (Vanityites and The Deliberates). Here’s the Facebook event page. See you there!
Read on for a full gallery, including a delicious pulled pork sandwich with homemade slaw, courtesy of Deux Cochon and other treats. Yum. Read on… Here’s a video preview of what we’ve put together for you tonight at Mayo Street Arts in Portland. Three excellent acts that you may or may not be aware of already, plus a pre-show stuff-yr-face BBQ party in the backyard (or maybe inside depending on the weather) with both meaty and veggie treats from Deux Cochon. Beat Radio (NYC) BBQ starts at 6:30pm and music at 8pm. See you there! We’re excited to announce the HillyTown Presents-curated lineup of bands playing at next month’s Picnic Music & Arts Festival in Portland, Maine. The free August 27th festival will take place at Lincoln Park on Congress Street and Franklin Arterial from 11am-6pm. We’ve put together a fun day including Maine bands and 3 NYC acts coming up for the fun.
Performing bands (in no particular order): Butcher Boy We sure hope to see you there. Of course, before that, there is the boat on August 7. Contact us to purchase tickets for that one! New show announcement!
On Friday, July 29, HillyTown Presents if and it + Beat Radio (NYC) + The Farthest Forests at Mayo Street Arts [10 Mayo Street, Portland, ME]. Doors 7:30pm, music 8:00pm, all ages, $5. Headliners if and it have been making a name for themselves at just about every venue in Portland (we just saw them at Flask and you can catch them opening for Josiah Wolf at SPACE on June 26 for a taste of what to expect). Beat Radio are yet another great NYC-based band that we’ve been eager to get to Maine. Songwriter Brian Sendrowitz crafts lo-fi indie pop anthems that will creep inside your head and stay with you. The Farthest Forests, a folkish duo from Eliot, ME will open the night.
With a busy schedule of HillyTown Presents shows over the past couple of months, we’ve had the opportunity to work with some great local and national acts, including longtime favorites and bands we were seeing for the first time. This past Saturday in Biddeford, we brought you Lovers – a trio from Portland, OR – for a show a The Oak + The Ax. We’ve been enjoying every track of their album Dark Light for some time now, and were ecstatic to see those song realized in a live setting. It was also great to see such a large crowd come out for this one – it seemed like a lot of people in the room had the same overwhelmingly positive reaction to the band as we did. A Severe Joy got things started strong with what was described by one person as “a cabaret LCD Soundsystem” and won over the whole room with an inspiring dance-based performance, before Tree Streets moved things along with their garage country jams. Read on for a full gallery from the show! Read on… |
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