• We have a tentative street date for cheek-metal purveyors PIGBOAT's new album, Float: April 21, with a release show later that week, April 25, at Geno's (where else?). There may be a nautical theme — whaddya think? GHOSTHUNTER will open the release show.
• Pianist/composer FRANK CARLBERG releases his new The American Dream with a show at Woodfords Church April 23. We like Frank, and would mention that anyway, but let's say we were encouraged by one of the more breathless pieces of promotion we've read in a long time. Here's a sample: "The American Dream is a jazz suite cum political cri de coeur built around 12 short poems by the late Robert Creeley. The poems have been situated by Mr. Carlberg in musical contexts that extend and enhance the linguistic economy and emotional candor that characterize much of Mr. Creeley's greatest work." We also like: "The quintet, with utmost confidence and éclat, re-animates Mr. Carlberg's visionary approach to and interpretation of Mr. Creeley's impeccable poetries." Can you do that with poetry? Make it plural? We thought it was one of those collective-noun thingies, like water and sand.
• EMILIA DAHLIN has pushed back the release show for disc number four, Rattle Them Bones. An opportunity to open for ANI DIFRANCO, to whom she was once compared fairly frequently, made her change the date a week, from April 17 to 24, so fans will just have to wait to hear what she's promising is her most "genre-bending" work yet.
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Rattle your cage, Music Seen: Rosetta and Cryptic Overcast, Last call, More 
- Rattle your cage
You'll excuse Emilia Dahlin if her first release since the well-received God Machine in 2006 is a six-song EP.
- Music Seen: Rosetta and Cryptic Overcast
Local stalwarts Cryptic Overcast have carved out a niche for themselves as an almost-instrumental band with a sound as informed by heavy metal as it is by psychedelic and progressive rock.
- Last call
One of the big topics of social conversation in Portland last week was the anonymous Portland Point blog's ruthless, somewhat self-negating takedown of the Honey Clouds' May 23 CD-release show.
- Music Seen: Lost Cause Desperados
Lost Cause Desperados have kept a low profile over the last few months, with gigs few and far between. None of that downtime has gone to waste, however, as Portland's kings of warp-speed garage-punk have been hard at work on their upcoming album, Desert of Broken Glass.
- Music Seen: Man-Witch CD-release at Geno's
Anyone who doesn't like Man-Witch either didn't watch enough Saturday-morning TV as a kid, or is an incurable sourpuss.
- Ogre's last hurrah, Dustin Beyette's latest
OGRE 's ROSS MARKONISH checked in this week with some bad news: The band have decided that their 10th anniversary show, September 12 at Geno's, will be their last in Portland.
- Rock'n'Roll birthday party!
While you're out celebrating MARK BELANGER 's birthday August 21 — at Geno's, of course — make sure to catch the set by WHITCOMB , who are shaping up to be the next supergroup of sorts.
- Portland scene report, February 17, 2006
Emilia Dahlin tour update; Local Nothing's sophomore effort; Threads at SPACE
- Covered in Bees
If any Portland band can claim their own cult of personality, it's Covered In Bees.
- Music seen: Pinkerton Thugs
It has been more than a year since Kennebunk-based punkers The Pinkerton Thugs reunited, and yet there still seems to be a resonant buzz around their return. And seeing them live, you get the sense that the band are more relevant now than ever.
- New England Music News: March 6, 2009
Sorry we didn't have time to give you the heads-up before the show, but the BALTIC SEA debuted a new five-man lineup Sunday night at the Big Easy.
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