Hey, maybe MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING does know that there’s music being made this century! MPBN Television has added THE ACADIA SESSIONS, a documentary series examining bands recording music at ACADIA RECORDING COMPANY, and it will air at 11 pm on Saturdays, beginning May 8. There are 13 episodes planned for the first season. The series is the baby of Acadia’s GINA AND MARC BARTHOLOMEW, PETRA SIMMONS, and DAVID CAMLIN, and they’ll celebrate scoring a slot on MPBN with a show April 1 that will feature OLAS!, DARK HOLLOW BOTTLING COMPANY, and the return of PEEPSHOW after long hibernation, all of whom will get some airtime in coming weeks.
Um, SPOSE hit #1 on the ITUNES Alternative chart this past week. He was in the 30s overall at last check.
If you’re in the clubs in Europe, you just might hear “Pegasus,” a dubstep jam by MOLDY FEATURING DYNAMO-P. You might even hear it here in Maine.
TRAVIS JAMES HUMPHREY has been working hard down in Nashville, with guitarist and Maine native JOHNNY HILAND, who’s producing a CD that should be ready by the middle of April. If everything goes right, Humphrey will use the momentum from the album to move down to Nashville and start the pro-musician grind down there.
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For all of the excitement that surrounded Wilco on the Maine State Pier or Sufjan Stevens at Port City Music Hall or the various sold-out Ray LaMontagne shows of the past year, there is no question that last Sunday's Phish show at the Cumberland County Civic Center was the biggest thing to hit our fair city in a very long time.
- Wanting more
After its triumphant traversal of the complete Béla Bartók string quartets at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Borromeo Quartet was back for a free 20th- and 21st-century program at Jordan Hall, leading off with an accomplished recent piece by the 24-year-old Egyptian composer Mohammed Fairuz, Lamentation and Satire.
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Our most popular slideshows from the last year: including Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Dale Bozzio's crazy cat house, and much more.
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This was a queasy year for classical music.
- The future is now
Even with all the promise of the new year ahead, it's hard not to feel a little stiffed in the Future of Mankind department. Here it is, 2010, and there's nary a flying car to be seen.
- Swing, etc.
The music may suffer plenty of economic slings and arrows these days, but it's still full of thrills galore. As usual, it's looking outside of its orthodoxy for invigorating ideas. Here are titles you truly need.
- Beyond Dilla and Dipset
With a semi-sober face I'll claim that hip-hop in 2010 might deliver more than just posthumous Dilla discs, Dipset mixtapes, and a new ignoramus coke rapper whom critics pretend rhymes in triple-entendres.
- 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.
- 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.
- Best in their field
The jazz scene continues to struggle — along with everyone else — through hard times.
- Royal pain
Jesse Lortz is always ready to lay something heavy on you. As the primary architect and male half of Seattle indie-folk troubadours the Dutchess & the Duke (who come to T.T. the Bear's Place this Sunday), he spent their 2008 debut, She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke , contemplating loneliness, disgust, and death.
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