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Suggestions to help you have a rockin’ KahBang
Considering all nine days are jam-packed with bands, movies and other cool events, it’s easy to take a look at the KahBang Festival schedule and not know where to start. Where to go? What to see? Here are my personal suggestions for your KahBang week, ranging from dirty garage rock ...
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Electronic pop duo Dance Atlantic to have live debut at KahBang
It was the year 2000, and Drew Hooke and Tom Tash were freshmen at Mattanawcook Academy in Lincoln. It didn’t take long for the budding young musicians to realize that not only were they destined to be best friends, but that they also made a very good songwriting duo. “That ...
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Portland’s Kenya Hall Band an old soul at heart
Kenya Hall is pretty satisfied if you call her music soul, or funk. R&B or blues, however, not so much. She knows what she is, and that’s smooth and funky, with a little bit of grit. The Kenya Hall Band, a seven-piece outfit with Hall, of course, on vocals, is ...
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Bluegrass musician to take pedal-powered tour of Maine coast
If you see a guy riding his bike somewhere between Lubec and Portland, hauling a trailer with a guitar in it, be sure to say hello. It’s probably musician and organic farmer Adam Nordell, whose mini tour of Maine next week is pedal-powered. Nordell, 28, spends much of his year ...
Summer concerts from Portland to Bangor include Elvis Costello, Wiz Khalifa, Stone Temple Pilots
The worst thing about summer is that there’s just too much to do. I mean, come on — look at bangordailynews.com or your Facebook events feed. There’s something happening every day of the week. I know not everyone is like me and feels compelled to go to as many things ...
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Tree Streets play ‘garage twang’
Bangor residents know the neighborhood called the Tree Streets — it’s the part of the East Side between Pine Street and Fern Street, bisected by State, Garland and Mt. Hope, where most of the streets are named after trees. It’s pleasant, quiet, and yes — there are lots of trees. ...
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These October Skies plays post-hardcore with a dash of pop
Even I, as someone who religiously follows music trends and styles, have a hard time keeping the hundreds of genre names that are out there in order. For instance, I feel like I’m safe in calling a band such as Orono five-piece These October Skies post-hardcore — hardcore punk, but ...
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Duo The Thriftways play amped-up blues rock
The hot genre of 2011 is the duo band. Two musicians; one raw, stripped-down sound. Bangor’s pop-punk duo When Particles Collide, Belfast’s fuzz-rock two-piece the Class Machine and Portland’s indie rockers The Milkman’s Union all bring new dimensions to the duo format. You now can add a fourth band to ...
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Fiercely talented Lady Lamb to play West Market Festival
Aly Spaltro is from all over — Arizona, Nevada, New York — but she calls Maine home. At least, that’s where she went from being Aly the poet, the teenager and nascent creative person to Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, the ascendant indie-rock star. Spaltro just moved to New York City, ...
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Bangor’s Jacob McCurdy plays accessible acoustic pop
It wasn’t until he got to college at the New England School of Communications that Jacob McCurdy figured out that he really loved making music. And it wasn’t until he met his friend and later songwriting collaborator, Adam Hanson, that his songs went from bedroom noodling to actual, structured compositions ...
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Great Western Plain discovers the beauty of ‘Noise’
Tim Berrigan and Tony Bitetti met in first grade. Bitetti was a newcomer to the York Elementary School, while Berrigan was an old hand at it. As 6-year-old children often can do, young Tony was not happy about his new school and made himself heard on the subject. He refused ...
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May and June blooming with concerts statewide
On Wednesday, the residents of Bangor overwhelmingly voted to approve the construction of a new arena, to replace the aging Bangor Auditorium and Civic Center. So what does that mean for folks like us? The folks who travel far and wide and spend our hard-earned income on seeing live music ...
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Ellsworth songwriter Ross bares his soul on new album
Chris Ross saved up his pennies for the better part of six months, and in March, he flew to Nashville, Tenn., to record his debut solo album, “The Steady Stumble.” Though he had only parted ways a few months before his old, still much-loved band, Stiff Whisker and the Driftwood ...
Dean Ford plies power pop next weekend in Bangor
There’s a not-so-dark secret that many supposedly hardened rockers or know-it-all indie fans would have a difficult time admitting. You can listen to all the avant-rock noise or heavy metal you want, but sometimes, you just want to listen to bright, shiny, delicious pop music. Which is exactly why Dean ...
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Bangor rock duo When Particles Collide hitting the stage with a bang
When particles collide, new particles are formed. Put electrons, neutrons, protons or any of those other, more exotic particles like neutrinos in a place where they can come together at super-fast speeds, and the results are unpredictable but fascinating. Physics is fun! So it’s entirely appropriate that the Bangor rock ...
Ellsworth’s Entropy takes rock ’n’ roll very seriously
Most of the members of the rock band Entropy weren’t even out of high school yet when they got their first taste of the thrill of rock success. In 2007 they won the Battle of the Bands at The Grand in Ellsworth, and in 2009 they won the statewide Maine ...
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The making of a band — Nevah
Twelve years ago, nobody who’s now in the band Nevah knew that they all lived within a few miles of one another, and that very soon they’d all be playing sweet, harmonious bluegrass-tinged country rock together. Winterport may be a neat little town, but how is anyone supposed to know ...
Carolina Chocolate Drops to bring their distinct sound to Rockland theater
The Carolina Chocolate Drops has a little bit of everything going on in its sound. Though it is firmly rooted in acoustic blues, country and folk in the string band tradition, you can hear jazz, R&B, hip-hop and modern-day progressive bluegrass all hovering around the edges. You can hear the ...
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A look at the highlights of the upcoming music scene in Maine
Twitter never ceases to both amuse and amaze me. Every time I log on, whether it’s on my phone or my computer, I feel like I’m taking a dip in the collective consciousness of the Internet. Sometimes, it’s something vitally important and exciting, like what’s happening in Libya and Egypt. ...
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New Naliboff album reflects island environment
The tidal nature of life on the island of North Haven — receding in the winter, coming back in the spring — formed the basis of Courtney Naliboff’s debut solo album. The close-knit community, the whir of boat motors and the crash of waves against the rocks all inform the ...
Police find remains believed to be Nichole Cable, 15, in Old Town woods
Orono man charged with murder in death of Glenburn teen
Family remembers Nichole “CoCo” Cable, warns of social media dangers
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Nichole Cable: In our minds, hearts
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UMaine narrows candidate list, hopes to name men’s hockey coach next week
Eastport teen notches first ‘Bandolero’ racing victory
Houlton makes plans for new hockey boards at Millar Civic Center
Former Dexter, Nokomis coach Pratt takes Mount View football post
UMaine’s Fransoso overcomes injuries, turns passion for baseball into stellar career
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Microsoft unveils new Xbox One game console
Bangor veteran of World War II exemplifies the way life should be
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