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Music Seen: Anticon's 10th anniversary

Knitting Factory (Manhattan), December 18, 2008
Sure, Ray LaMontagne is huge and the Rustic Overtones saw their national time, but there is something to be said for a record label co-founded by Mainers that is more than a decade old and can still sell out the Knitting Factory in New York City.
By SONYA TOMLINSON  |  December 31, 2008
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Winter to remember

2009 enters with a roar
Sometimes January in this town can be a bit slow. It's cold. There's a holiday hangover. Whatever.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  December 31, 2008
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Scrutiny of the bounty

Was 2008 the best year ever for local music releases?
I'm an enthusiastic guy, and maybe prone to hyperbole from time to time, but it's hard to argue that 2008 wasn't an all-time banner year for music created here in the Portland area.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  December 23, 2008
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Can classical be underground?

Portsmouth's Navona Records releases an indie aesthetic for orchestra
At least one of the reasons many of us contemporary-music fans don't get into classical music is because it seems like no one wants us to listen to it.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  November 14, 2008

Portland scene report: October 24, 2008

Sibilance starts now
Anybody catch Ray Lamontagne on Late Night with Conan ?
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  October 22, 2008
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Gossip=Truth

Ray LaMontagne on his new Gossip in the Grain
On LaMontagne’s new Gossip in the Grain (RCA), he’s having a lot more fun.  
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  October 09, 2008
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Make like a leaf

Fall into local music (and other ironic urgings)
Fall appropriately takes the baton (sorry, Olympics still on the mind) from a stand-out summer of music in Portland.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  September 10, 2008
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Going on sale: July 18, 2008

Breaking news from the concert ticket trade
The Walkmen, Ray LaMontagne, Jonathan Richman, Gang Gang Dance, Paul Weller, and Henry Rollins.
By GOING ON SALE  |  July 15, 2008

Portland scene report: June 13, 2008

Sibilance
As you get excited for the new Jerks of Grass album, be on the lookout for Joe Walsh.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  June 11, 2008
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Worth the wait

The GFAC series returns to its roots with Volume 7
The wait is over.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  April 23, 2008
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Solo shot

Gary Louris leaves the Jayhawks behind
Gary Louris had no grand designs for the beginning of his solo career.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 25, 2008

Portland scene report: February 29, 2008

Sibilance starts now
Called Destroy the Plastique Man , the album was begun on the West Coast in that Portland during Albee’s short-lived self-imposed exile from this Portland.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  February 27, 2008
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Let's stop fooling around

Wishes for a year in local music
What did this last year feel like to you?
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  December 26, 2007
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“Savannah” would be better

Joe Farren would just get in trouble in Atlanta
Why does the six-minute-plus final track, “Go On,” full of nothing but guitar, vocals, and a little harmonica, seem like our first introduction to the real Joe Farren?
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  August 29, 2007
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Mistakes were made

But Joshua Madore has produced a fine debut, nonetheless
The Portland music scene has a case of the single white males.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  May 02, 2007

Portland scene report: May 4, 2005

Sibilance starts now
More word on the new Ocean album.
By PORTLAND MUSIC STAFF  |  May 02, 2007
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Miller time

The Low Anthem's fragile wonder
Local boy Ben Miller started in Providence a few years back as a solo artist.
By BOB GULLA  |  March 14, 2007

Local appearances


The following Portland acts are among those listed in the Pandora catalogue.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  January 31, 2007
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Shades of Grey

Roy Davis debuts with a ramshackle warmth
We know at least two things after Roy Davis’s January 4 Big Easy CD-release show: he’s got good taste — and a brass pair of balls.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  January 11, 2007
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Thirty for 2006

A year in local releases
Last year I hinted that I’d have to expand my rankings after two years of Top 20s. Well, here you go. The Top 30.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  December 21, 2006

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