More details on the RUSTIC OVERTONES release: It’s called New Way Out. It’s got 13 songs, all brand-new. It’s going to come out November 11. They won’t play in Portland to support it until New Year’s at the Port City Music Hall. Get ready.
AMANDA GERVASI has joined GYPSY TAILWIND, replacing as lead female vocalist ANNA LOMBARD, who is working on a solo release for early next year. GT manager DEREK LOMBARDI reports the first local show with Gervasi will be December 6 at PCMH, with STEPHEN KELLOGG AND THE SIXERS.
ZACH ROMANOFF just got back from Toronto where he was recording a new EP’s worth of tunes, working toward a full-length album “with MLADEN ‘MI6’ ALEXANDER formerly of Triumph.”
Those who like a little world in their music should look for OLAS, featuring members of GRUPO ESPERANZA, FIRE ON FIRE, and MONEYCASTASIA. They sing in Spanish and like to rock the Flamenco.
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- 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.
- What are the odds?
Ten years! When we organized our first Best Music Poll, way back in the day, we could only hope that it would one day wind up the institution it is today, with the annual Portland Music Awards ceremony drawing the best collection of musical talent Maine can produce.
- Portland Music News: June 19, 2009
Yeah, this makes us feel a little old: The June 27 show at the Port City Music Hall will be a 20th anniversary show for TWISTED ROOTS . SUN GODS IN EXILE (fresh off a release show for their debut album) and SIDECAR RADIO open, and there's word that original TR bassist NEIL COLLINS will sit in for a few songs.
- Finding even better days
Gypsy Tailwind have been a slow build. Though Halo Sessions was one of the best local albums of 2008, it seems no one really heard it until 2009, thanks largely to the radio success of "So Lonely," a single whose melancholy bounce was heartbreakingly honest: "I'll tell you a secret: I drank myself to sleep last night."
- Music Seen: Gypsy Tailwind at Port City Music Hall
Sometimes "studio magic" doesn't translate well to the stage — especially when 15 musicians perform in a single song. But other times, you wish such large live performances were being recorded for the next album.
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JODI EXPLODI 's Shipyard EP is out and available, after a few delays here and there. It's the first disc from the band since the four-song Demo-Arigato from 2006. It appears to have some kind of zombie theme to it, but we haven't caught a listen yet.
- Tower of Song Festival, Eric Bettencourt, and the Outsiders
This is shaping up to be one of the best summers in a long time when it comes to outdoor and festival-type shows.
- 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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• The ROTORS TO RUST show last weekend wasn't a one-off. The band have plans to release a new disc at the end of summer on MARK CURDO 's LABOR DAY RECORDS . Bassist JASON GROSSO says the new material is more loose and creative than you've heard from the three-piece before.
- Flying solo (and duo)
Think about everything you know about Elijah Ocean and Dave Gutter: Ocean's work fronting the heavy rock trio Loverless, say, or his lead-guitar turn in the radio-rock foursome All the Real Girls; Gutter's piercing vocals out front of Rustic Overtones, or his white-hot bounce in the lead of Paranoid Social Club.
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