• Make sure to swing by the White Heart April 3 to see THE LIN, who's part of the DIRT COALITION hip-hop collective and has released a five-song EP called Metal on Metal. What you might call post-hip-hop, it collects all manner of samples, manufactured beats, and various guitar solos into sometimes-instrumental tracks that are something like jazz-newage-electronica, and sometimes-rapped underground hip-hop. There's some cool distorted cutting and crabbing, synths, and lots to listen for.
• A report from a "Sibilance" field agent: Last weekend at the Brickhouse, in Dover, New Hampshire, PARANOID SOCIAL CLUB frontman DAVE GUTTER and drummer TONY MCNABOE had a contest to see who could make himself puke first by using a drumstick down the throat. Gutter won. "I think he'd had oatmeal recently."
• ERIC BETTENCOURT debuted a new band at the Big Easy last weekend: ELLIOT JACOBS on drums, ADAM MONTMINY (Grupo Esperanza, Line of Force, Hamilton County) on bass, and ERIC AMBROSE (Grupo Esperanza, Please Be Ours) on keys, banjo, and trombone.
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- Portland Music News: February 27, 2009
Bettencourt, Choate, Moshe all in town
- Portland music news: April 17, 2009
Two big shows to watch coming up: That TOWER OF SONG we've been telling you about got approval from the City Council to put on a big festival May 23. So that's on.
- Cambiata, Olivia Cornell and The Precious, Elijah Ocean and more
OLIVIA CORNELL & THE PRECIOUS have released their first CD, available now at Bull Moose and the like. Though they won't be playing out again until fall, have a listen to Filthy Things if you've got a jones on for some girl-rock mixed with some NYC punk flavor.
- Sly-Chi turns sausage party and more
Singer KELLY MCKENNA has decided to leave Sly-Chi after three and a half years due to general burn-out.
- Kudos to Phish nerds, and other music matters
We stand corrected
- Bare bones
His press materials tell me the young Benjamin Burgess is "uniquely compassionate."
- Like Woe? Like, Whoa
The dirt on Brzowski, Moshe, Mezcalitos, and more
- Falling fast
As almost always seems to be the case, I have to start the "fall preview" by detailing this upcoming weekend, which promises to be one of the most active of the year.
- Days of the New
When drummer Tony McNaboe delivered the burned copy of Rustic Overtones’ new full-length album, he tucked it inside the packaging of the re-released and re-mastered Long Division.
- Rear-view mirror
After a few days of Indian Summer to remind us of the summer we nearly didn't have, it's timely to shed some warm light on albums released recently that didn't get their proper due.
- Regardless of the cost
If you were concerned that the return of Rustic Overtones would mean the ends of their various side projects, it’s clear now that was a fruitless worry.
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