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Living with Snaex

Giving the finger to a time of moral crisis
Snaex's new record The 10,000 Things is all a big fuck you to what? Us? Lingering dreams of making music for others to consume? Society at large?

By: SAM PFEIFLE | November 03, 2014

The Big Muddy

Ryan Flaherty brings the Ruckus
Some people just want it more.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 24, 2014

With Glue , they leave you wanting more
If Slainte did nothing more than allow Nick Poulin the time and space to get Tall Horse together, its legacy may be pretty well secure. Who knows what will eventually come of the band, but Glue, as a six-song introduction to the world, is a damn fine work filled with highly listenable, ’90s-style indie rock.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 16, 2014

Reviving Viva Nueva

Rustic Overtones set the record straight
15 years ago last week, Rustic Overtones appeared on the cover of the third-ever issue of the Portland Phoenix .

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 11, 2014

Rodgers, over and out

The piano-rock that's in the headlines
It’s been a long time since standing up and pounding on a piano and belting out lyrics has been much of a thing.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 11, 2014

Bird on a wire

The Feather Lungs show big heart on Arrival
You certainly can’t say Feather Lungs lack ambition.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 03, 2014

Light at the end

Four songs from Scott Girouard
Scott Girouard is hard to miss, locally, bu t he’s never before released any of his own material.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 06, 2014

Once, twice...sold!

Beam & Fink recall Smith & Simone
Imagine if bands could only ever play their own songs. What a drag. It would sure as hell make it harder to hook up at a wedding.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 01, 2014

Spose deeply offended by Maine GOP's suggestion of depravity

Mock press releases
In a press release last Friday, the Maine GOP makes the suggestion that a Spose lyric contained in a Knack Factory video “suggests Senator Collins performs graphic sexual acts.” Nothing could be further from the truth.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | October 01, 2014

Jason's Chemical romance

From underwater demon to lab rat
The mind can wander here. It’s good for lawnmowing or woodstacking or, maybe later in the year, shoveling the driveway. Just like it’s a fit for drinking and carousing with friends and maybe shaking your ass a little bit later in the night.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | September 19, 2014

Cruel intentions

This fall, it's time to get heavy
Portland music scene release dates for the fall.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | September 12, 2014

Mind over mind

Greg Klein leaves Dark Hollow for Right of Way
As a string band, Dark Hollow Bottling Company were an awfully good rock band. Much of that spirit continues in Dark Hollow singer Greg Klein’s new project, GK and the Right of Way.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | September 04, 2014

Discovering Shenna Bellows

Or: Why if you vote for Susan Collins, you’re a bad person
Long walks and straight talk with the Democractic Senate challenger.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | September 01, 2014

Partly sunny

Mike Clouds' new Apollo's Stamina
Mike Clouds' new Apollo's Stamina

By: SAM PFEIFLE | August 31, 2014

New words, old beats

Essence explores The Root of It
Whatever the rap equivalent of “she could sing the phone book and I’d dig it” is, that’s Essence for me.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | August 31, 2014

First second coming

Hey, look, I Discovered a Planet
Hey, look, I Discovered a Planet

By: SAM PFEIFLE | August 22, 2014

The Crunk Witch that they are

Down from the country: Heartbeats in Hyperspace
Three albums in, Crunk Witch are now far more than novelty. The all-digital, husband-wife duo of Brandon Miles and Hannah Collen have created enough material at this point to establish a clear method behind what can sometimes seem like madness.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | August 14, 2014

Fire on fire

Caro Khan introduce themselves as Pyronauts
From the varying deliveries and styles through the three fully instrumental tracks, there’s a lot to consider in Pyronauts , with equal attractions in playing it loud in the car with the windows down and in the headphones.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | August 07, 2014

Hip hop summer

New records from Alias; the Yeti; Dynamo-P & Micodin
For pure output, it’s hard to argue Portland is anything but a hip hop city.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | July 31, 2014

Seven-man army

Old Crow Medicine Show arrive with the Remedy
Lately, it’s been open season on “Wagon Wheel,” which has become the acoustic musician’s “Freebird,” one of the very few songs that people actually know well enough to find it funny to request.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | July 24, 2014

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