• Former Gypsy Tailwind frontgal ANNA LOMBARD is now back in the game, post baby. Her new gig is READY AIM FIRE, which features NICK FALK on drums, NATE PERRY on guitar and bass, JAMES DONAHUE on guitar and vocals, and JACK LOMBARD on keyboards and vocals. They debut at Brian Boru on August 13.
• Remember POVERTY? The man who rapped his way out of the homeless shelter and onto stages fronting 50 CENT and plenty of others has now changed his handle to THOMMY and is working on a new release with DAVE GUTTER doing the executive production. The kid could always sling rhymes — we're interested in the new project.
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- The Big Hurt: The week in beef (in brief)
A recessed economy means fewer chains to go around, so it's been a fine week for a-fussin'-and-a-feudin'.
- Portland Music News: June 26, 2009
The "Sibilance" staff sat in on DAVE GUTTER's new project, with EVAN CASAS, being mastered by ADAM AYAN at Gateway. The record's called The Key to Adore and is more organic and subdued than what you've heard from Gutter before. Watch out for his cover of "The Man Comes Around." Look for the disc by end of summer.
- Elijah Ocean, Tony Smokes and the Ladykillers
Yes, we know that there are important albums being released by ELIJAH OCEAN and the new duo of DAVE GUTTER and EVAN CASAS in the very near future. Pfeifle can't review everything in the same week, for Christ's sake, so just lay off and wait till next week.
- Flying solo (and duo)
Think about everything you know about Elijah Ocean and Dave Gutter: Ocean's work fronting the heavy rock trio Loverless, say, or his lead-guitar turn in the radio-rock foursome All the Real Girls; Gutter's piercing vocals out front of Rustic Overtones, or his white-hot bounce in the lead of Paranoid Social Club.
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- The Big Hurt: Lambert works it, 50 blows it, Moz ends it
ADAM LAMBERT 's spicy AMA performance continues to dominate entertainment headlines, weeks after it first scandalized the nation — but why does America care what a man does with another man in the secluded privacy of the American Music Awards?
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- And the award for best bad moustache and a Jheri-curl goes to ...
Do yourself a favor and watch the video for RUSTIC OVERTONES’ “Love and a 45.”
- 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.
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I have nothing against the music of British rapper TINIE TEMPAH — I don't think I've even heard it, to be honest — but boy am I ever sick as heck of reading that name in print.
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