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In a week dominated by anxiety about the NSA tapping into our Internet activity and concern for the protestors hurt by rioting police in Istanbul's Taksim Square, we lost our ear for cheery summer jams.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | June 13, 2013

True community radio

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It's been three years since the filmmaker and composer SUMNER MCKANE finished In the Blood, a documentary about the lives of turn-of-the-century Maine lumbermen and river drivers, but the project is still gaining traction.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 30, 2013

Breaking up the band

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Why did Jesse Gertz break up Glass Fingers, his one-horse electro-hop noise jam, to start LEVERET, another solo project?

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 23, 2013

At the drugstore

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An incredible crop of metal, crust punk, doom, and otherwise heavy bands turn up on a nasty new comp out of Boston titled SealbeardS, named after a DIY venue that was shut down last fall

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 16, 2013

Several strings attached

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A goodly amount of ukulele news this week.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 09, 2013

Crossing state lines

DEAD TREND, an '80s hardcore punk throwback group, slap down their debut record False Positive this week, and make it official with a show at Mathew's on May 5.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 03, 2013

Not like all the other folk

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The youth rock camps of MAMM get all the attention, but we're almost more charmed by their programs for adults.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | April 10, 2013

Spring sounds a note

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By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | April 04, 2013

Let the blues rush in

If you must use something so silly as social media, be interesting about it.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | March 27, 2013

Go Bang

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One band that has seemed perpetually under-the-radar the last few years is Bangor's CAPTAIN HOLLOW. Listening now to their newly released debut, the long-delayed Greatest Hits , we're wondering why.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | March 20, 2013

Whiskers in the dark

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How lovely it is to find LAMINATED CAT turn up at our doorstep!

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | March 13, 2013

Rock of pure substance

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Is music a type of theology? Generally not, we'd say, but now and again, a group like the WALDOS come along and we start to wonder.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | March 07, 2013

Whistle (or) you work

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There were many questions answered with the surprisingly substantial profile on THE WHISTLER in the Press Herald this past week.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 27, 2013

Species of local rockfish

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Of all the bands honoring the working-class folk traditions of the Maine coastline, few come as hardy as the longstanding eclectic acoustic unit the HOLY MACKERELS.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 20, 2013

Crowdsourcing tradition

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Maine folk musician DAVE ROWE hit and surpassed his $2000 Kickstarter goal last week, setting the stage for a new record of his classic, deeply regionally inflected folk tunes.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 13, 2013

Fantasize Local

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Ask anyone in town and they'll tell you the same thing: the Portland Buy Local campaign has been a resounding success.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 06, 2013

Freedom can be taxing

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As the landscape of listenable music gets bigger and bigger, the simple question — what to listen to? — becomes harder every day.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 30, 2013

From the mouth of the poet

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There's a debate raging in the Wax Tablet offices about which is more colorful: the sunshine-and-lollipops imagery of inaugural poet Richard Blanco's "One Today," or the sparkling new video for JAW GEMS' "Star Visor."

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 28, 2013

Plays the Lord

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It's twenty thirteen, and everyone we're talkin' to has got an idea for some new rock party.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 16, 2013

In with a whinny

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If you haven't yet summoned your "Horsie Forces," mount up: SUNSET HEARTS' excellent Deco Tech EP is now available for free download on their bandcamp.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 09, 2013

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