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A decade of song

10 years of the Portland Music Awards

By MARGO ROY, CLIF GARBODEN, JOHN MARSHALL, LISA CRAIG, MATTHEW ROBBINS, SONYA TOMLINSON, JEFF INGLIS, AND JENNIFER KEARNS | June 11, 2009

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One man’s picks for the BiMPys
Pffft. That Phoenix Best Music Poll is just a popularity contest!
Photos: 2011 Best Music Poll awards party
The first-ever Best Music Poll awards party came to life at Brighton Music Hall emceed by DJ Paul Foley with Bodega Girls as the house band plus an all-star cast of Boston music heroes including Bill Janovitz, Peter Wolf and Amanda Palmer.
Out: Good times a’Bruin
It was the first time the Boston Phoenix hosted an awards party for its 23-year-old Best Music Poll, but what erupted June 15 at Brighton Music Hall was a drunken shitshow that honored decades of Boston rock and roll, and was capped off by the Bruins' first Stanley Cup championship since 1972.
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One man’s picks for the BiMPys
Pffft. That Phoenix Best Music Poll is just a popularity contest!
Photos: 2011 Best Music Poll awards party
The first-ever Best Music Poll awards party came to life at Brighton Music Hall emceed by DJ Paul Foley with Bodega Girls as the house band plus an all-star cast of Boston music heroes including Bill Janovitz, Peter Wolf and Amanda Palmer.
Out: Good times a’Bruin
It was the first time the Boston Phoenix hosted an awards party for its 23-year-old Best Music Poll, but what erupted June 15 at Brighton Music Hall was a drunken shitshow that honored decades of Boston rock and roll, and was capped off by the Bruins' first Stanley Cup championship since 1972.
In the red
A handful of Phoenix readers questioned the parameters of what exactly defined a "Breakthrough Act" in our recent Best Music Poll, decided in dominant fashion by alt-rock quartet SEXCoffee. What exactly constitutes a band playing together for six years as finally "breaking through?" Well, it isn't titled "Best "New" Act," if that helps.
Music Seen: Ogre's farewell show
It's never easy saying goodbye to a friend.
Ocean + Desolate Grace
At Geno’s, November 13
Jonah Tolchin’s Criminal Man is a product of the environment
As if there was any question regarding the impassioned subject matter found on Jonah Tolchin's recent full-length debut Criminal Man , the 19-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist decidedly sets me straight during our interview earlier this week.
Photos: Crowd shots from the 2012 Best Music Poll Awards Party
Crowd shots from the 2012 Best Music Poll Awards Party | June 13, 2012 | Fourth Wall Project
Connecting the dots
Nearly a year has gone by in the city of eternal youth turnover and ageless scenesters — and has anything really changed?
Jeff Byrd & Dirty Finch kick out the laid-back jams
Add Jeff Byrd & Dirty Finch to the conversation when talking up the quality roster of local Americana/alt-country acts within state lines.
Fungus Amungus kicks out the (structured) jams
It's hard to believe Fungus Amungus have released only one album since sax player Jarrod Valenti founded the band nearly a decade ago.
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