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By Hilly Town, on February 27th, 2013% Here’s the fourth – and final – installment in our BTR Hear & There video collaboration with BreakThru Radio. For this one, we joined Tyler from Foam Castles in the band’s basement practice space in Portland for the song, “Underground Interiors.”
. . . → Read More: BTR Hear & There MAINE #4: Foam Castles – “Underground Interiors”
By Hilly Town, on February 26th, 2013% More goodness from Lady Lamb The Beekeeper! This time, a video directed by the one and only David Meiklejohn, for the song “The Northing Pt. II.” Keep reading for Aly’s upcoming headlining tour dates, with opener Xenia Rubinos.
Lady Lamb on tour:
. . . → Read More: Lady Lamb video for “The Nothing Pt. II”
By Hilly Town, on February 22nd, 2013% Lately it seems like we’ve got another Maine-related video from BTRtv to post every day! The fun will just keep going with more coming soon, too!
Here’s Endless Jags being interviewed by the dude who runs this site. Enjoy!
. . . → Read More: Endless Jags on BTR Live Studio
By Hilly Town, on February 13th, 2013% For this, the third installment of our collaboration with BTR Hear & There, we stopped by Lisa/Liza‘s apartment in the West End of Portland on a chilly, foggy day, for an intimate, solo performance of her song, “There In The Water.”
The video is also available on YouTube.
Upcoming tour dates: 2/14 @ Precinct . . . → Read More: BTR Hear & There MAINE #3: Lisa/Liza – “There In The Water”
By Hilly Town, on December 2nd, 2012% What, did you think that just because it’s Sunday and a soggy day that you get to stay in for the night? Think again. Two shows in the Arts District are sure to get the crowds out. Port City has Trampled By Turtles (whose name we just can’t get past, but they do seem quite . . . → Read More: Slippery Sunday, What To Do Tonight
By Hilly Town, on November 19th, 2012% So many of our favorite Maine bands have managed to make their way down to NYC and found time to do sessions at Serious Business Music for BreakThru Radio: Kurt Baker, Sunset Hearts, Brenda, The Milkman’s Union, Marie Stella, etc… and now The Rattlesnakes! Watch the video below!
Listen to the whole interview and . . . → Read More: The Rattlesnakes studio session: Serious Business on BTR
By Hilly Town, on November 14th, 2012% Today, VICE premiered the video for Sontiago‘s song, “Muscle Car,” featuring Therese Workman from Oh My Goodness (who we’ve been harassing forever to play a show, and will continue to do so). It’s a fun track and the video is just a big old Portland love fest for us with so many familiar faces making appearances . . . → Read More: New Sontiago video – “Muscle Car” + Lady Lamb news
By Hilly Town, on August 31st, 2012% Our friends The Toughcats just released a new video for their song “Some Old Days,” which appears on their upcoming album, WOODENBALL.
WOODENBALL comes out on September 18th but you can preorder it now at Bull Moose.
By Hilly Town, on March 30th, 2012% This has been out there for a few weeks, but maybe you haven’t checked it out yet.
Phantom Buffalo (patron saints of this little website) are getting ready to release their new album, Tadaloora, and put together a teaser video (above) and VIDEO GAME to promote it. In the game, you get to . . . → Read More: Phantom Buffalo Made A Video Game (and have an album on the way)
By Hilly Town, on March 12th, 2012%
By Hilly Town, on February 22nd, 2012% Portland roots band This Way return from a 9-month break from local shows with a headlining gig this Saturday (2/25) at Empire. Have you seen their new stage yet? We haven’t but are curious to see how the venue changed things up – from what we heard a few months back the plan sounded very . . . → Read More: This Way video premiere: “Take It All (Or Leave It All Behind)”
By Hilly Town, on January 3rd, 2012% Portland supergroup Sunset Hearts are apparently at work on the followup to Haunted Cloud. Here’s a short tease of a clip with the band listening back to some new recordings.
By Hilly Town, on December 6th, 2011%
Here’s yet another new local music video! Jacob Augustine (who just released three albums) unveiled the appropriately moody clip for his track “Waco” (the lead on The Original Love today.
By Hilly Town, on December 5th, 2011%
Poor Kurt Baker, somebody stole his heart!
By Hilly Town, on November 9th, 2011% While in Brooklyn for a show recently, Audrey Ryan – a Boston-based Maine native, did a Hear and There video session on the street with Breakthru Radio for her song “Way I Am.” Watch it below:
Audrey has a book out. The Need To Be Heard documents the challenges of independent music through . . . → Read More: Audrey Ryan BTR Video
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