• The "Sibilance" staff sat in on DAVE GUTTER's new project, with EVAN CASAS, being mastered by ADAM AYAN at Gateway. The record's called The Key to Adore and is more organic and subdued than what you've heard from Gutter before. Watch out for his cover of "The Man Comes Around." Look for the disc by end of summer.
• Here's a history lesson: June 24 marks the 40th anniversary of Portland pop band LOVE, INC.'s first single: "She don't Care About Me/Never Never Land," on Musicor Records. You can hear tracks from drummer MARC MAILHOT's new solo album, Coral Sunset, at www.myspace.com/thechapparals.
• CARLL WILKINSON, who debuted with Pomegranate in 2005, has a new release, The Working Poor Blues, which he's recorded with PETE MORSE in his Busted Barn Studios. Wilkinson does a lot of the work — drums, bass, guitars, pedal steel, piano — but he brings in STEFEN SAMUELS (Eldemur Krimm) and jazz pianist TOM SNOW from time to time, too.
• LADY LAMB THE BEEKEEPER are no longer a duo. Chanteuse ALY SPALTRO will kick off the band's next phase with a solo show (accompanied by a looping station) at One Longfellow Square June 25.
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- Elijah Ocean, Tony Smokes and the Ladykillers
Yes, we know that there are important albums being released by ELIJAH OCEAN and the new duo of DAVE GUTTER and EVAN CASAS in the very near future. Pfeifle can't review everything in the same week, for Christ's sake, so just lay off and wait till next week.
- 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.
- 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.
- Before the Goldrush
With a name right out of a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel and hand-pressed CD packaging graced with images of antique farming tools, Putnam Smith does nothing to dispel the notion that he wouldn't mind living in 1809 instead of 2009.
- Review: Food, Inc.
You are what you eat. And if you're like most Americans, you eat hamburgers made from cows who likely spent their lives crowded in fetid factory farms, ankle-deep in mud and excrement.
- Tweak-folk
Released this summer, Nico Muhly's Mothertongue (Bedroom Community) — the latest album by the ambitious contemporary classical music composer, a protégé of Philip Glass — offers listeners a bombastic example of the ongoing collaboration between the composer and Vermont-based folk singer Sam Amidon.
- 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.
- Music Seen: Lady Lamb The Beekeeper at Empire
It's easy for Portland to get behind an act as well-put-together as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper.
- Machigonne Festival wrap-up
The MACHIGONNE FESTIVAL was a major success, despite the best efforts of Hurricane Danny.
- Music Seen: Roots and Tendrils
Belfast as a destination just got more desirable with the addition of Roots and Tendrils. Nestled downtown, the light from the plate-glass windows and lush landscaped front lawn complete with brilliant colored chairs and lawn sculptures invite anyone heading down to the stone's-throw-away waterfront to peer inside.
- Multi-faceted
How we think about making and consuming music is changing. It is not news that labels, albums, and record stores are dying, pushed aside by new ways of conducting the commerce of music. (Though at the turn of the 20th century the song was king and the trade was in sheet-music publishing rights, so maybe this is all a return to form, just with new technology.)
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