For most of the past decade, each new season at the historic Opera House in Boothbay Harbor has opened with Midcoast rock band The Boneheads. The pandemic put a halt to the tradition. So, for the first time in three years, The Boneheads will once again kick off the season, appearing on stage at 7 […]
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‘Simpsons’ music editor Chris Ledesma dies at 64
Ledesma served in the role for Fox’s primetime animated sitcom since its launch in 1989, and worked on more than 30 seasons and 700 episodes.
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Don Roy Trio take stage at Freeport’s Meetinghouse Arts
Meetinghouse Arts welcomes the Don Roy Trio, joined by The Arnott Siblings, for a performance at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7. The Don Roy Trio features Don Roy on fiddle, Cindy Roy on piano and Jay Young on bass. In addition to being a favorite band on the Maine contra dance scene, the Don Roy […]
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‘Twin Peaks’ composer Angelo Badalamenti dies at 85
He was best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ to ‘Mulholland Drive.’
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Maine Voices: Our community radio stations should be treasured
If you ask me, the radio star is alive and well in our state. Two examples: WERU and WMPG.
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Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, dies at 79
The soulful British musician sang lead on many of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits.
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Maine native Amy Allen nominated for new songwriter Grammy
The 2010 Waynflete graduate, who grew up in Windham and South Portland, was nominated Tuesday for songwriter of the year. The Grammy Awards will be broadcast live Feb. 5 on CBS.
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‘Love Sick’: Trove of Bob Dylan’s teenage love letters for sale
The missives have never before been made public and shed light on a period in the folk-rock icon’s life for which not much firsthand information is known.
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Washington guitarist Libba Cotten
The Black D.C.-area guitarist who came to fame in her 70s receives the posthumous honor Nov. 5.
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Concert review: Obomsawin finds artistic home in tradition dating back to avant-garde experiments
The concert was not without its more consonant moments, as when the horns harmonized around mournful/melancholy musical suggestions of what was and what might have been.