The local musician describes his sound as ‘John Lee Hooker making a punk record’.
Aimsel Ponti
Staff Writer
Aimsel Ponti is a music writer and content producer for the Portland Press Herald. She has been obsessed with – and inspired by – music since she listened to Monkees records borrowed from the town library when she was 6 years old. She bought her first Rolling Stones record at a flea market when she was in 7th grade and discovered David Bowie a year later. She's a huge fan of the local music scene and covers it along with national musical happenings in her column. You'll also find her out and about absorbing live music and shopping for vinyl at local record shops and flea markets. Aimsel regularly appears on the News Center Maine TV show “207” to preview upcoming concerts.
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Making Noise: Brahms is back, singing about love, adversity
She is part of a songwriters in the round show tonight at Blue and will play CD-release show on June 22 at The Big Easy.
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Making Noise: Schrock gives older songs a new spin in Nashville
The singer-songwriter talks about what’s happening down South, what we can expect in terms of a release schedule, and how becoming a mother has shifted her world view.
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Waterville’s The Resistance named ‘Best Young Band’
The alternative/hard rock quartet wins Reindeer Records’ statewide high school band competition.
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Making Noise: Maine refugee Efron bringing her lyrical ‘art-pop’ to town
Rachel Efron will celebrate the release of her third CD with a show at One Longfellow Square on Saturday.
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Making Noise: With new CD, Whitcomb aiming for the life of Riley
The CD-release party is May 12 at Asylum.
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Queen: The singing drunk guy – and so much more
Here’s a look at some of the ways the music of Queen has been immortalized in various pop culture ways: • “WAYNE’S WORLD”: It was 1992, and Freddie Mercury had been dead for less than a year when characters Wayne and Garth made the triumphant leap from the small screen of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” […]
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Sinèad O’Connor cancels spring tour dates
The Sinèad O’Connor concert scheduled for May 23 at the House of Blues in Boston has been canceled along with all of the dates of her upcoming tour in support of the new record “How About I Be Me (And You Be You).” Here’s what was posted on O’Connor’s Facebook page earlier today: “With […]
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Review: Benatar rocks the State
Multiple Grammy winner and ’80s rock icon Pat Benatar played a sold-out show at the State Theatre Saturday night. It was a co-headliner affair with her longtime guitarist – and husband of 30 years – Neil “Spyder” Giraldo. Although her Top 40 glory days are a thing of the past, Benatar’s career is anything but. […]
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Making Noise: From tunes to Titanic for sound wizard
Jim Begley works with local bands, mixes sound at Port City Music Hall and engineers sound for TV documentaries.