Top 10 for Portland store July 25-31: 1. Mumford & Sons, “Sigh No More” 2. Bon Iver, “Bon Iver” 2. “Limitless” (DVD) 2. “Source Code” (DVD) 2. Gillian Welch, “Harrow & The Harvest” 6. Adele, “21” 6. Tedeschi Trucks Band, “Revelator” 8. Bad Meets Evil, “Hell: The Sequel” 8. Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues” 10. “Dylan […]
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Guster makes a musical jump by taking a step back in time
Guster has always had an easy-going rootsy pop sound, and that personality dominates the band’s new CD.
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Hot Tickets and Cheap Thrills, Aug. 4, 2011
• HOT TICKETS Music and Nightlife: J. Geils Band headlines at Bangor Waterfront THE J. GEILS BAND, with vocalist Peter Wolf back on the mic, is one of the best bands to see for a good time. Opening tonight’s show will be The Chris Robinson Brotherhood, featuring the frontman for The Black Crowes. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. today […]
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Off Beat: Redneck Olympics: Competition, sure, but mostly it’s for fun
Playing horseshoes with the U-shaped toilet seats commonly found in public restrooms doesn’t make you a redneck. (Though friends might worry over how you came to possess such a collection of toilet seats, which, you have to admit, is a legitimate concern.) The backyard game could be explained as a creative repurposing of fixtures following […]
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From the Editor: ‘Nevermind’ gets new spin in Portland
The year 1991 was a good one for rock music. It produced some of the best albums of all time, including “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” by Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Achtung Baby” by U2, “Out of Time” by R.E.M., “Ten” by Pearl Jam and “Metallica” by Metallica. But none of them had the impact of […]
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Eat and Run: Myth-construed
A meal at Ruski’s will make a believer out of anyone who likes to eat.
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Bigger bite of the Bard
The Freeport Shakespeare Festival gives audiences more comedy for free this year and more choices in productions.
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Carrying on the Zappa legacy
Dweezil, son of Frank, is making sure that his father’s brilliance still shines.
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CD Review: Nuclear Boots skips the fancy
‘Idiots in the City’ is a beautifully purposeful set where lyrical cadence and band cohesion are anything but neglected.
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DVD Releases
NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: “RIO,” animated with the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway. Family-friendly fun finds a mild-mannered small-town macaw named Blu (Eisenberg, doing another amusing take on his befuddled young milquetoast character) impulsively following bird-of-his-dreams Jewel (Hathaway) to Rio de Janeiro, where an amusing if predictable series of comedic complications occur. […]