• MIKE CLOUDS is back with another full-length production, First to See the Sun. The 10-track hip-hop release can be found now on MILLED PAVEMENT's EmBen Digital imprint.
• Also in the hip-hop arena, MONSOON will be releasing his first full-length effort, The Bridge Mix Tape, with a June 3show at the Big Easy, with support from BRZOWSKI and LABSEVEN. The disc is a compilation of tracks recorded over the last five years and features all manner of cuts and jabs from DJ SHADE (or shadezilla, as the case may be).
• We're hearing reports that the ANNA'S GHOST album is ready to rock and will be released in late June/early July. It's been picked up by ETERNAL OTTER RECORDS, who also host LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER and the MANES.
• In what's shaping up to be a packed June, the PROJECT SEVEN will release their sophomore disc, TP VII, at Champions, in Biddeford, June 13. They'll be joined by BLISTERS GROW and ATHEME.
• Also June 13, the bluegrass band HAMILTON COUNTY will release their debut disc with a gig at the Empire. Which is, you know, the day after the June 12 release of a split 12" from CURSILLISTAS and WHITE LIGHT that's being called "an extremely limited-edition tour-only 12" vinyl LP." We told you June was going to be busy.
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Music seen: Pixies vs. Sonic Youth at Empire, Hot summer nights, Ain't life Grand, More 
- Music seen: Pixies vs. Sonic Youth at Empire
The Clash of the Titans has become a Portland staple over the last three years. Since shifting from the Big Easy to the Empire this year, the Tuesday tradition has lost none of its crowd-pulling potential.
- Hot summer nights
If the coming week is indicative of anything, it's that this is going to be one busy summer. Discs have been flooding into the office and there's no end in sight. In an effort to keep up, here's a collection of four reviews for albums being released before summer even officially starts.
- Ain't life Grand
Bands come and go. Especially local ones. The money's not great, personalities clash, young and single people tend to move around a lot. Kyle Gervais with Cosades had a band a lot of us in Portland will remember for a long time, but they broke up last year for the reasons that bands break up.
- Moving on up
In the R&B and soul the very talented vocalist Jaye Drew purveys, you need something real, a grit and substance that allows you to rise above sentimental pap and make people actually give a fuck about you. She finds — and shows — just that on A Moving Train, her debut full-length.
- Portland Music News: May 8, 2009
The weekend of May 23 is shaping up to be an important one in the local-music continuum.
- Portland Music News: June 5, 2009
There aren't too many people who've been around and about the local scene more than MATT SHARDLOW over the past 15 years. He's played with the HOBBES , ZION TRAIN , 8 TRACK , STATE RADIO , and various CLASH OF THE TITANS ensembles, while doing sound at the Big Easy for a spell and being a hired gun in general.
- Come on home
What's that about the apple and the tree? With college degree in hand, Lyle Divinsky returns to his Portland stomping grounds with a debut CD, Traveling Man , that not only features dad Phil Divinsky's drummer (Marty Joyce), bassist (Peter Masterson), and guitarist (Andy Argondizza) from the ToneKings, but plays in a Motown/R&B sandbox.
- Music seen: Tony McNaboe
By the time you, dear reader, lay eyes on this, you will have one last opportunity to catch Tony McNaboe's month-long Tuesday-night residency at the Big Easy, which — according to his prediction on week two — is "only going to get better."
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