Little Spoon (formerly High Sea ) is Allston resident Cameron Potter's local dreamy psych-gaze solo project. Potter sent us two new ultra-inspired jams last night, "Slumber" and "Truss," which you can stream right here via Bandcamp: <a...

So we have this Portland Music Awards show coming up on Wednesday (yes, this Wednesday, June 3), at 5:30 at Asylum , 121 Center Street, in Portland. Admission's free - but it's strictly 21+ (it's no use begging - we've heard 'em all, and we're not buying any of them). We have...

Maine native Buck Edwards , who has been writing and performing country songs around the country for what we'll generously call "a while," just landed a gig at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, opening for George Strait on May 30, as part of the Colgate Country Showdown ....

The other day we here at the Phoenix got an e-mail about the State Theatre from Roy Ghim, who hosts Liberation By Sound on WMPG , with a tale of, as he described it, how something that "was initially a scoop turned out to be a non-story." Nevertheless, he sent it our way, no longer as a scoop...

Tomorrow evening, Charlie Gaylord's Greetings From Area Code 207 show on WBLM (102.9 FM) will spend an hour with Ray LaMontagne , talking about Meg White, Rustic Overtones, and Ray's move to Massachusetts(!). Hear some older Ray live tracks and some stuff from his new disc. It's on April...

Hoboe - the oboe-enhanced rockers led by Zen Ben - need your help. Bob Bergeron , the band's bassist, had two of his basses stolen from his car on Exchange Street early yesterday morning. They are described as "a black Rickenbacher with a white pick guard and a bartolini pickup in the neck position...

Brian from Sly-Chi checked in the other day to let us know that they are finalists in the Anthem International Music Festival . (No, we hadn't heard of it either.) They're up against six other bands - and it seems like the whole thing's a little oddly organized. There are seven finalists...

Look, we know you missed the first broadcast of Portland Phoenix local-music writer Sam Pfeifle on Charlie Gaylord's Greetings from Area Code 207 show on WBLM talking about our list of 2008's top 20 local albums . (Also don't miss Chris Gray's list of things you might have missed when...

Portland musician and rock-historian Allen Lowe has a piece in the current issue of the Oxford American , the magazine's 10th annual "Southern Music Issue." He extols the virtues of the Hampton Grease Band , whom he describes as "a group that had everything I liked in not just rock...

The folks at WBLM (102.9 FM, "the Blimp") have banded together to raise money for the Good Shepherd Food-Bank , an Auburn-based nonprofit that helps feed hungry people across Maine, both on its own and in partnership with local food banks. The BLM Band (a bunch of DJs and employees at the radio...