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Monstrous sounds

Zounds, Lolita Black, and more!
Last call for DEER TICK playing the second night of their Divine Providence release party on THURSDAY (the 13th) at the Met.
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 11, 2011

Monstrous sounds

Dan Capaldi steps out from behind the kit

On the Level
In addition to plenty of other projects, Dan Capaldi has played drums now for two of Portland's most important bands of the last five years: the brightly burning Cambiata and the still-on-the-rise Holy Boys Danger Club.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 26, 2011

The digital delight of Space versus Speed

Out of this world
Since 2000, we've had the Popsicko, Rocktopus, As Fast As (three albums), Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia, and now Space versus Speed. All with Spencer Albee as principal songwriter and frontman. Seven full-length records.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 27, 2011

Kurt Baker goes solo, Rustic Overtones get a makeover

Sibilance
KURT BAKER wrapped up recording a couple new original tracks with JONATHAN WYMAN last week, his first original work since the LEFTOVERS went on hiatus.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | January 19, 2011

Upcoming albums: The winter of our deep content

The winter of our deep content
There was a time when winter in Portland was pretty sleepy, with bands holing up to practice and write while the snowflakes flew. No longer. The album-release schedule is now equally robust year-round, and there are big shows just about every weekend through to spring.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 29, 2010

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Review: GFAC returns with double the horsepower

Inverted V8
How spoiled are we in this town? A record like the new Greetings from Area Code 207 Vol. 8 can come out and it's like: Big Fuckin' Deal.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 10, 2010

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Bring the noise

Off the Couch
New Hemlok; What Cheer? in the park
By PROVIDENCE PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | August 04, 2010

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And the award for best bad moustache and a Jheri-curl goes to ...

Sibilance
Do yourself a favor and watch the video for RUSTIC OVERTONES’ “Love and a 45.”
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 26, 2010

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Hot, hot heat

New Year's Eve is just a warm-up
Is New Year's back? It seemed to have been taken away from us, by a general and hard-to-pin-down sentiment that it ought to be some kind of family holiday. Fuck that.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 30, 2009

Local luminaries’ picks

A sample of other best songs of the 2000s
I asked a bunch of people who really dig local music to help me make sure I wasn’t leaving any songs out when I was developing my list of the best 10 songs of the 2000s, but then I quickly realized that “best” is about as subjective as things come when you’re talking about songs.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 22, 2009

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Short-form Portland

The 10 best LPs and EPs of 2009
I can hear the snarky comments already: "What?!? Rustic Overtones put out an album this year and Pfeifle hasn't fallen all over himself naming it #1? The sky is green!" But this isn't 1999. It's 2009. And it isn't all that strange for a phenomenal album to hit Portland's city streets anymore.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 16, 2009

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Get ready

Sibilance
Details on the Rustic Overtones release and more
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 28, 2009

Falling fast

Let's get things started right away
As almost always seems to be the case, I have to start the "fall preview" by detailing this upcoming weekend, which promises to be one of the most active of the year.
By SAM PFEIFLE | September 16, 2009

Ripple effect

The 10 most influential bands of our first 10 years
The Portland Phoenix launched in 1999, just as the Portland music scene was turning.
By SAM PFEIFLE | September 16, 2009

10 years later, we told you so

Ten years of being right (well, mostly)
Like many in the alternative press, we pride ourselves on being ahead of the game. Sometimes, of course, that means we're wrong about what might be coming down the pike — that's part of the risk of being "out front" and not just reacting to the news as it happens.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | September 16, 2009

Machigonne Festival wrap-up

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The MACHIGONNE FESTIVAL was a major success, despite the best efforts of Hurricane Danny.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | September 02, 2009

Flying solo (and duo)

Elijah Ocean and Dave Gutter get busy taking it slow
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.
By SAM PFEIFLE | August 05, 2009

Regardless of the cost

Tony McNaboe testifies on sophomore release
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.
By SAM PFEIFLE | July 22, 2009

Portland Music News: June 19, 2009

Sibilance
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.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | June 17, 2009

Portland music news: April 17, 2009

Sibilance
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.
By PORTLAND MUSIC STAFF | April 16, 2009

Music Seen: Anticon's 10th anniversary

Knitting Factory (Manhattan), December 18, 2008
Sure, Ray LaMontagne is huge and the Rustic Overtones saw their national time, but there is something to be said for a record label co-founded by Mainers that is more than a decade old and can still sell out the Knitting Factory in New York City.
By SONYA TOMLINSON | December 31, 2008

Portland scene report: October 31, 2008

Sibilance starts now
Civil Disturbance drummer Nick “Nikko” Villaci, who’s been in the local rock scene long enough to have produced progeny to fill out other local bands, has announced his retirement from the original music scene.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 29, 2008