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Why did Jesse Gertz break up Glass Fingers, his one-horse electro-hop noise jam, to start LEVERET, another solo project?
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An incredible crop of metal, crust punk, doom, and otherwise heavy bands turn up on a nasty new comp out of Boston titled SealbeardS, named after a DIY venue that was shut down last fall
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A goodly amount of ukulele news this week.
DEAD TREND, an '80s hardcore punk throwback group, slap down their debut record False Positive this week, and make it official with a show at Mathew's on May 5.
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The youth rock camps of MAMM get all the attention, but we're almost more charmed by their programs for adults.
If you must use something so silly as social media, be interesting about it.
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One band that has seemed perpetually under-the-radar the last few years is Bangor's CAPTAIN HOLLOW. Listening now to their newly released debut, the long-delayed Greatest Hits , we're wondering why.
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How lovely it is to find LAMINATED CAT turn up at our doorstep!
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Is music a type of theology? Generally not, we'd say, but now and again, a group like the WALDOS come along and we start to wonder.
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There were many questions answered with the surprisingly substantial profile on THE WHISTLER in the Press Herald this past week.
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Of all the bands honoring the working-class folk traditions of the Maine coastline, few come as hardy as the longstanding eclectic acoustic unit the HOLY MACKERELS.
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Maine folk musician DAVE ROWE hit and surpassed his $2000 Kickstarter goal last week, setting the stage for a new record of his classic, deeply regionally inflected folk tunes.
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Ask anyone in town and they'll tell you the same thing: the Portland Buy Local campaign has been a resounding success.
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As the landscape of listenable music gets bigger and bigger, the simple question — what to listen to? — becomes harder every day.
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There's a debate raging in the Wax Tablet offices about which is more colorful: the sunshine-and-lollipops imagery of inaugural poet Richard Blanco's "One Today," or the sparkling new video for JAW GEMS' "Star Visor."
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It's twenty thirteen, and everyone we're talkin' to has got an idea for some new rock party.
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If you haven't yet summoned your "Horsie Forces," mount up: SUNSET HEARTS' excellent Deco Tech EP is now available for free download on their bandcamp.
While we're still a little baffled by this sudden uptick in local stand-up comics, there's something interesting and a little beautiful about it.
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It was a good year for weird music — or was it a weird year for good music? — and here are some of the standouts.
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