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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 […] 
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, […] 
This Sunday (2/13) sees Rhode Island’s B. Dolan bringing a huge Valentine’s Day weekend tour he’s calling “The Church Of Love & Ruin” to SPACE Gallery. He was nice enough to answer some questions in the week leading up to this special string of shows to help shed some light on what he’s got planned […] 
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 […] 
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 […] PICNIC Holiday Sale music presented by HillyTown from Bryan Bruchman on Vimeo. Thanks to the bands and DJs that took part in the music portion of this year’s PICNIC Holiday Music + Arts Sale in Portland, ME! Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11-12, 2010. Thanks to everybody involved, it was great to be a part […] 
Somehow hip hop has snuck into HillyTown over the past couple of weeks, I’d be curious to see what readers think about that – and if it’s something you’d like to see more of. Last night I stopped by Port City Music Hall to check out the J. Cole show, since I figure […] 
What, is the title a little too much? But it’s true! Billed on the Facebook event as “HOMETOWN FAVS & LOVES AFAR|||SOUNDS oF LIMITLESS GENEROSITY,” it seemed likely that there’d be warm and fuzzy feelings at Kittery’s BUOY Gallery for last night’s show, which included hometown favorite Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors), Brooklyn sax […] 
While Mister Wakefield was enjoying some comedy down the street, I was at Empire for Sunset Hearts‘ second ever show. I’d missed the first one but heard great things about it, so I made sure to be there this time around. The group formed after coming together to perform as the Talking Heads for […] On Tuesday, two Canadian acts that I wasn’t very familiar with played at Port City Music Hall. Openers Hey Rosetta! (whose album I acquired and enjoyed quite a bit shortly before the show) are a more-than-capable rock band with strong acoustic elements and songs that range stylistically from soft folk to alt-country-tinged rockers. Headliner […] 
As expected, the reliably smiley Brooklyn-based (though, as we learned, New England-raised) duo, Matt & Kim, brought a high energy show (complete with balloons!) to a dance-hungry audience last night at Port City Music Hall. We missed opener Fletcher C. Johnson (Matt’s brother), but caught the mashup hit-song jacking electro dance duo Javelin, who […] 
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! […] |
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