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By | January 01, 0001

Grand Hotel’s radiant and vibrant in color

Like a hurricane
Less than a year following their terrific self-titled full-length debut, Grand Hotel are back with in color , an album that sees that debut and raises the stakes considerably.
By SAM PFEIFLE | February 16, 2011

Review: Rob Sheffield's inner Sheena

Womanly man
It was probably a common impulse, wanting to save Rob Sheffield.
By AMY FINCH | August 31, 2010

Review: Greenberg

A spurious man
Why does she put up with him? Why, for that matter, should anyone in the audience?
By PETER KEOUGH | March 24, 2010

Let's get Russian

A live album for a dead rock singer from Kino Proby
The quick back-story on Kino Proby: Three Mainers take a liking to the Russian band Kino, and its legendary lead singer Viktor Tsoi, who died in a car wreck in 1990 after becoming maybe the single most famous Russian rock star.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 06, 2010

Smashing success

The New Collisions start things off right
It feels as if all the music people these days were rushing toward a hyper-electro-modern future where they'll be programming drum machines hard-wired directly to their erogenous zones.
By BARRY THOMPSON | May 27, 2009

Going on sale: October 10, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Caithlin De Marrais, Darker My Love, Wayne Shorter and others
By GOING ON SALE | October 08, 2008

Make like a leaf

Fall into local music (and other ironic urgings)
Fall appropriately takes the baton (sorry, Olympics still on the mind) from a stand-out summer of music in Portland.
By SAM PFEIFLE | September 10, 2008

Interview: Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Mission: control freak
In the 2004 documentary DiG! , the Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor reacts to the musical criticism of a Capitol Records executive by scoffing, “I sneeze and hits come out!”
By FRANKLIN SOULTS | September 08, 2008

Sax-crazed

No decade blew harder than the '80s
Sax solos: a symbol of musical excess from a bygone era when “ProTools” was something a plumber brought to the job.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN | August 12, 2008

He loves the ’80s

M83 recaptures your youth
“My relationship to the music of the ’80s is very genuine. There’s no irony to it.”
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | May 28, 2008

Going on sale: March 28, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
Alicia Keys, Joe Lally, Ryan Adams, and more.
By GOING ON SALE | March 25, 2008

Mining the past

The classic sounds of the Mars Volta and Louis XIV
John Coltrane acid blasts rage through the Mars Volta’s new The Bedlam in Goliath.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | February 12, 2008

Keep rotating

Satellite Lot return with Sleepwalk in a Burning Building
The album improves with every listen and is damn hard to get out of your player of choice.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 28, 2007

Retro-futurama

Freezepop just wanna rock
In the hands of almost any band, “Just give us more rock” would be, at best, a wry throw-away, at worst a lazy cliché.
By MATT ASHARE | September 24, 2007

Happy endings

Bad news begets good tunes
The end is nigh! And I’m not talking about the mortgage market.
By MATT ASHARE | September 12, 2007

Live Earth 2007

Where to go, who to see, what to know — even if you don't have a ticket
So you’re headed to a Live Earth gig somewhere, whether outside New York City or in a remote outpost in Antarctica.
By JEFF INGLIS | July 10, 2007

Early and often

Summer heats up quick and stays hot
There’s plenty to get excited about looking forward into the scant three months that make up the only great time to be in Maine.
By SAM PFEIFLE | June 13, 2007

Visionaries

The Eyesores’ new disc, farewell, Century Lounge
As I write this, Alec K. Redfearn and his Eyesores are trekking across western Europe, entertaining and amusing audiences with their picaresque,
By BOB GULLA | April 25, 2007

Never Too Late

Or, always Too Late (the Hero) — whichever implies they’re great
Too Late the Hero’s tour kicked off in an auspicious way that can only happen to bands from northern climes.
By SAM PFEIFLE | March 21, 2007

Soul metal

Jesu, Middle East Downstairs, March 17, 2007
“Some religious music,” wrote the late, great Whitney Balliett, jazz critic for the New Yorker, “shines with evil.”
By JAMES PARKER | March 20, 2007

Making nice

Deftones go on a healing tour
‘If this breaks up, it’s not like I can go sell a Basquiat like Lars Ulrich.’
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | December 01, 2006

Hitsville USA

The Killers reach higher, plus Beck and Evanescence
There are singles artists and there are album artists. Watch videos from Beck's The Information (Windows Media)
By MATT ASHARE | October 11, 2006

One more chance

Post Ransom, A New Vision seek Immortality
Since the late 1990s, Ransom had been one of the more creative heavy rock bands on the Portland scene, using multi-media well to develop their fanbase and becoming one of the first local bands to release a DVD.
By SAM PFEIFLE | October 05, 2006

The song whisperer

Green Gartside revives Scritti Politti
This is an album that you lean into, as if receiving a happy confidence.
By CHARLES TAYLOR | August 23, 2006

Crossword: 'I repeat'

Sounds familiar . . . it's all coming back to me . . .
16 EKCO
By MATT JONES | April 12, 2006

Post-punk prophet

Simon Reynolds rips into rock’s strangest era
With a narrative arc that begins in the London dub dungeon of Public Image Limited and ends in the worldbeating semen storm of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the whole grand experiment of post-punk is tracked and given coherence.
By JAMES PARKER | March 21, 2006

Regaining Shane

The return of the MacGowan Pogues
It was 1985 and it was time for a new kind of kick. I did not expect to find it with guys playing tin whistle, banjo, and accordion, and a guy who used to sing for the B-level punk band, the Nips ( nés Nipple Erectors) — that would be the dentally challenged Shane MacGowan.
By JIM SULLIVAN | March 07, 2006