TLDR: If you go to only one show this weekend, it oughta be the Pop-Punk showcase on tap at The Brass Rail Friday night, Jan. 26. The bill is stacked with some of Portland’s best up-and-coming live acts — Vices Inc., Gum Parker, Get Out of My House, and Plague Dad – and it’s FREE!!!Continue reading “TPS Pick o’ the Week: Vices Inc, Gum Parker, Get Out of My House, and Plague Dad at the Brass Rail — Friday 1/26 7pm — FREE!”
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TPS Pick o’ the Week: Rascal Van at the Sun Tiki — Friday 7/28 8pm
If you missed out on tickets for Billy Strings over at Thompson’s Point and you’re looking for some quality live music Friday night, you might wanna dip over to Sun Tiki Studios on Forest Ave. and catch a local outfit called Rascal Van, ’cause these kids are the real goddam deal. Rascal Van’s a four-pieceContinue reading “TPS Pick o’ the Week: Rascal Van at the Sun Tiki — Friday 7/28 8pm”
Local Boy Makes Good — Dan Blakeslee’s Playing the Newport Folk Festival!
Scan the roster of artists playing the Newport Folk Festival next week and you’re gonna see some pretty big names: Maggie Rogers, Billie Strings, Noah Kahan, CAAMP – the list goes on and on. You’re also gonna see this name: Dan Blakeslee. That’s because the southern Maine troubadour has been booked to play the legendaryContinue reading “Local Boy Makes Good — Dan Blakeslee’s Playing the Newport Folk Festival!”
Grammy Nominee Rachel Eckroth at the Sun Tiki on Monday, Dec. 27
Monday night, typically, is not a show night at the Sun Tiki Studios – – but then, it’s not every night that a musician of Grammy-nominated keyboardist Rachel Eckroth‘s caliber comes through town, either. Eckroth, who’s playing at the Sun Tiki on Monday, Dec. 27, has established herself as a creative force whose nuanced soundContinue reading “Grammy Nominee Rachel Eckroth at the Sun Tiki on Monday, Dec. 27”
Portland Stripped: four of Portland’s most notorious noise merchants unplugged
Fronting a band is one thing. Playing solo is something else altogether. There’s nowhere to hide – no drummer to keep the beat, no bass player to drive the groove, and no one else to pick up the slack. It takes courage, it takes charisma, and it takes strong material. I remember seeing Bob MouldContinue reading “Portland Stripped: four of Portland’s most notorious noise merchants unplugged”
A pair of don’t-miss folk shows in Portland
If you’re into folk or folk rock, or grunge folk or any of the other #folk varietals, there are a couple of shows on the immediate horizon that you won’t want to miss out on. First up, Dan Blakeslee and Coyote Island – a pair of Maine-based musicians who have both made quite a nameContinue reading “A pair of don’t-miss folk shows in Portland”
Kip Brown tribute show at Geno’s honors Portland local legend’s legacy
Way back in 1983, the now-storied Geno’s Rock Club, located in a what was then quite literally an underground space on Brown Street in Portland, began booking local bands. That first show featured a band called Average Rage, fronted by a local musician named Kip Brown, who himself went on to become something of aContinue reading “Kip Brown tribute show at Geno’s honors Portland local legend’s legacy”
Portland’s SeepeopleS is back in action, people
Portland’s own genre-bending band, SeepeopleS, has been on an involuntary hiatus since the Pandemic shut pretty much everything down. But, with vaccinations rates climbing and venues starting to reopen, Seepeoples is swinging back into action, too, with a couple of high-profile gigs coming up on the immediate horizon. On Dec. 4, they’ll be opening forContinue reading “Portland’s SeepeopleS is back in action, people”
Live music in Portland – so many choices, so little time on Friday, Nov. 12
What is it with the Portland>Poughkeepsie connection? A Poughkeepsie band, What Makes Sense, is at Geno‘s tonight, and tomorrow night another band from Poughkeepsie, Spud Cannon, is headlining a trio of power pop indie rock bands at Sun Tiki Studios. Spud Cannon put out a record, as in vinyl, back in June, and it’s jammedContinue reading “Live music in Portland – so many choices, so little time on Friday, Nov. 12”
Vapors of Morphine and Muddy Ruckus
Saturday, Nov. 6 at the Bayside Bowl Morphine was one of those bands that elicited far more than its share of those, “Holy shit, what was that I just heard?” moments from anyone who caught them for the first time. A three-piece outfit that featured drums, bass and a baritone sax, they put out aContinue reading “Vapors of Morphine and Muddy Ruckus”
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