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Who were your favorite acts at KahBang this year? I’m curious to hear about how the Film & Art aspect of the expanded festival was this year. Let us know in the comments! All photos in the (alphabetical) post by Conall O’Brien. Read on… Though I had an amazing time at the first annual KahBang Festival in Bangor, Maine last year, I wasn’t able to make it up this time around. HillyTown photographer Conall O’Briend was, and he’ll be sending us some great photos from today’s full day of music. Here’s a taste of what’s happening up there from rap legend Biz Markie‘s set last night (which for some reason started way early – Conall missed The Gay Blades for that reason, so if you have photos of them and want to see them here, get in touch!).
Read on for the rest of the Biz Markie photos and if you’re in the area, get out to the Bangor Waterfront for a big day with great local bands all afternoon and OK Go, Free Energy, and B.o.B tonight! Read on…
The first time I saw Cleveland, Ohio’s This Moment In Black History, lead singer Christopher Kulcsar ran off the stage and across the tables of indifferent Blackberry-addicted hipsters at The Annex in NYC during the CMJ Music Marathon. That left quite an impression. I caught them again this year during SXSW on March 19 at Plush in Austin, TX and managed to talk the band into promising to come out to Portland, Maine. Tonight, TMIBH plays with their tourmates Sun God, and locals Huak open (with a set including many of the new songs they’ve been recording recently at Forest City!). Read on for more photos from TMIBH’s SXSW show. Read on…
Usually, by the time a band has gotten to the level of notoriety (err, blog-buzz?) that Ducktails has (in the past week), the days of seeing them play in the basements, diy spaces, and at weird parties that their story undoubtedly tells tales of are long gone, and the experience you get as an audience is more along the lines of a standard rock show in a traditional venue. Luckily for Portland, timing worked out just right and we got to have Matt Mondanile (whose other band is the also buzzily busy Real Estate), aka Ducktails, at our little city’s own amazing diy/industrial/sorta-underground (but they have a blog now…) venue, the Apohadion. Last night’s show started out with locals HERBCRAFT (legends in the making, apparently, with some very familiar faces onboard) and then Big Troubles, who also served as Mondanile’s band for the evening.
Read on for more photos from all three bands. Read on… Tuesday, July 27 was the third and final concert in my free, all ages early Tuesday evening summer concert series, OFFStage @SPACE Gallery, celebrating the 2nd year of this site. Foam Castles Thanks to the bands (Foam Castles, Old Man Forest, and Charles Burst played this one, see here and here for recaps of the first two installments), Otto Pizza, and everybody who helped make the shows happen by working door, bartending, running sound, making posters, telling a friend, etc. Special thanks to our friends at WMPG for their massive help by having the featured bands play live on the air during Liberation By Sound for the past three weeks. Old Man Forest Charles Burst I won’t say we’ll revisit the exact same formula (multiple shows, on the floor at SPACE, three bands, etc.) but something will definitely happen again next year around this time. Maybe something a little bigger… until then, keep reading.
On Sunday, July 11, Montreal-based Sub Pop band Wolf Parade brought the tour for their new release, Expo 86, to Portland with a highly-anticipated show at Port City Music Hall. Japanese band The Moools opened. Read on for photos! Read on… This is the first of a three-part series of posts covering the Nateva Music & Camping Festival in Oxford, Maine July 2-4.
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