STATIONEIGHTYFIVE have a new album ready for summer release. A five-song EP titled Hoka Hey!, the effort will be celebrated with a gig at the Empire July 31.
SORCHA releases her third full-length effort, Laughing and Lamenting, with a big-time roots gig at SPACE Gallery on June 5, where she’ll be joined by JERKS OF GRASS, SEAN MENCHER, PUTNAM SMITH, and her own band RAMBLIN’ RED. Word is everybody involved will be backing Sorcha at one time or another, as will producer/performer PETE MORSE, who’ll dabble in pedal steel and electric guitar.
CLARA BERRY has a new disc ready and will drop Creature with a gig at the North Star Music Café on June 24.
Do yourself a favor and watch the video for RUSTIC OVERTONES’ “Love and a 45” on YouTube. Nobody rocks a bad moustache and a Jheri-curl like DAVE GUTTER and JON ROODS.
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- Short-form Portland
I can hear the snarky comments already: "What?!? Rustic Overtones put out an album this year and Pfeifle hasn't fallen all over himself naming it #1? The sky is green!" But this isn't 1999. It's 2009. And it isn't all that strange for a phenomenal album to hit Portland's city streets anymore.
- Local luminaries’ picks
I asked a bunch of people who really dig local music to help me make sure I wasn’t leaving any songs out when I was developing my list of the best 10 songs of the 2000s, but then I quickly realized that “best” is about as subjective as things come when you’re talking about songs.
- Hot, hot heat
Is New Year's back? It seemed to have been taken away from us, by a general and hard-to-pin-down sentiment that it ought to be some kind of family holiday. Fuck that.
- Review: GFAC returns with double the horsepower
How spoiled are we in this town? A record like the new Greetings from Area Code 207 Vol. 8 can come out and it's like: Big Fuckin' Deal.
- Upcoming albums: The winter of our deep content
There was a time when winter in Portland was pretty sleepy, with bands holing up to practice and write while the snowflakes flew. No longer. The album-release schedule is now equally robust year-round, and there are big shows just about every weekend through to spring.
- Kurt Baker goes solo, Rustic Overtones get a makeover
KURT BAKER wrapped up recording a couple new original tracks with JONATHAN WYMAN last week, his first original work since the LEFTOVERS went on hiatus.
- Monstrous sounds
Last call for DEER TICK playing the second night of their Divine Providence release party on THURSDAY (the 13th) at the Met.
- John Harbison plus 10
Classical music in Boston is so rich, having to pick 10 special events for this winter preview is more like one-tenth of the performances I'm actually looking forward to.
- Local flavor
Local journalist and acclaimed hip-hop scribe Andrew Martin has corralled a flavorful roster of Rhody-based rap talent on the Ocean State Sampler , 10 exclusive tracks available for free download.
- See ya, '09!
Forget those gift cards burning a hole in your pocket and catch some good shows around to close out '09.
- Kwok 'N' Roll
After the third costume change of his show, Aaron Kwok strode from the midst of a gaggle of backup dancers to the front of the stage, rearing his head back.
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