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The Wooden Birds with Dan Mangan and Jacob & the House of Fire Sunday 08.29.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+
Buy tickets here or any Bull Moose Music location The Wooden Birds is Andrew Kenny- a native Texan who, after nearly six years in Brooklyn, NY, has returned to Austin. He's best known as the singer/songwriter behind mellow indie favorites the American Analog Set. He's also performed as a guest artist with the Album Leaf, Her Space Holiday, Styrofoam, Arthur and Yu, Ola Podrida, and most recently the Broken Social Scene. Fans of the AmAnSet will recognize his voice and songwriting immediately, but the arrangements on "Magnolia" are more vocal and percussion heavy than anything Kenny has done before. Canadian Arts & Crafts artist Dan Mangan brings his songs, filled with unusual razor-sharp phrasing and sage poetry of everyday observations to SPACE and local favorites Jacob & the House of Fire will get the party started with their own brand of orchestral indie rock.
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Saturday 08.28.2010, Starts at 8 pm, $5, 21+
Buy tickets here or any Bull Moose Music location It's the end of the summer and the nights are warm and inviting. It's time to trim your mustaches and shine gold chains, feather your hair and press white pants. That's right, Yacht Rock is here again! We're converting SPACE into Koko's Boathouse, and there'll be some great prizes from Find, Sounds Absurd! and SPACE for the best dressed/smoothest persons at this years voyage. Jason Keith and Matty T. will be spinning discs and The Fuge and Country Rhodes will host. From Steely Dan to Hall & Oates, The Beach Boys to Elton John, come on down and smooth out those wrinkles in your face, get real contented. |
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Grant Street Orchestra, Sandbag, Jesse Pilgrim Friday 08.27.2010, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Grant Street Orchestra is a local hip hop group that redefines the scene. The seven man band was nominated last year for best new artist at the We Push Buttons Awards. Lead vocalists Mint and I-Kue bring soul and energy to each track as they perform hits like "Funk It" and "Phone Sex". The group unabashedly incorporates rock and jazz elements into their tracks with bass-lines by Peter Eberhardt, Charlie Sichterman on Drums, Henry Redman on saxaphone, Geoff Zimmerman on rhythm guitar and trumpet, and Andy Barbo on lead guitar. So put your beer in a coozie, have a hotdog and enjoy The Parkside Session with the boys from Sandbag, along with Jesse Pilgrim and the rest of the neighborhood as they stoop it curbside at SPACE, Grant Street style. |
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David Wax Museum with Audrey Ryan and Brown Bird Friday 08.20.2010, Doors at 8 pm, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location While none of the three bands playing tonight are Portlanders proper, we've given them the key to the city because they pick up what we like to put down. The David Wax Museum, quartet from Boston will headline the evening with their brand of rootsy Americana folk akin to SPACE favorites The Felice Brothers and The Low Anthem, as well as the Avett Brothers for whom they've opened on a national tour. David Wax combines his blend of American and Mexican style guitar with Suz Slezak's old-time fiddling, while they raise their voices together in sleepy drawl harmonies. They're coming to Portland fresh off of a national tour with the Old 97's and the Newport Folk Festival. Mt. Desert Island native Audrey Ryan's brand of experimental folk melds influences from the past (Dylan, Mitchell, Young) with her contemporaries (Flaming Lips, Wilco, Arcade Fire). Opening the whole night is Brown Bird bringing back their miniature orchestra of harmonized voices and instruments surging on waves of Appalachian, gypsy, and shanty music. |
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Dead Man's Clothes CD Release and Masquerade Ball Saturday 08.14.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Portland Phoenix readers voted Dead Man's Clothes "Best New Act" this year and they're wasting no time with a CD Release and Masquerade Ball! Masks and extravagance are highly encouraged. Featuring indie-faves Theodore Treehouse and the scandalously ingenious Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue. Ian Paige spins tunes between sets and keeps the dance party going after the performances are over. Dead Man's Clothes has gone to great lengths with the help of local artists to create all their CD cases, posters and more by hand. They even built the tools to do a lot of the printing. This is more than just a music release, it is a veritable art collection and a celebration of the DIY spirit! |
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Friday 08.13.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Kurt Baker has traveled the world touring with his group The Leftovers, worked with many new local groups such as The Goodnight Process and the Desires, and now has ventured onto the path of solo artist. His first solo release "Got It Covered" on Oglio Records is an electrifying 7 song EP paying tribute to his favorite New Wave and Power Pop artists of the 70s and 80s. Baker has assembled an all star cast as his backing band and will be playing many of the songs off his new record, Leftovers classics and new originals. Along with the release of "Got It Covered", a brand new 7 inch single of his covers of Blondie's "Hanging On the Telephone" and Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" will be on sale for the first time at the show. Joining Kurt will be Portland's Mink Wilde and the Gentlemen Callers, a sleaze-glam rock n' roll band not to miss, Ohio's most drunken party animals The Dopamines play along with Grabass Charlestons, a swaggery indie punk group in the realm of Hot Water Music, Jawbreaker and the Lawrence Arms. And just to keep things extra wild, throughout the night classic 80's slasher movies will be shown (it's Friday the 13th)! |
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This Moment in Black History with Sun God and Huak Wednesday 08.11.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9 pm, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Hailing from Cleveland, OH, This Moment in Black History rip through art-punk tunes as voraciously as they rip into politics and social commentary in their lyrics. All Music Guide described the group as "an incendiary quartet who delivers fast, loud, and angry punk rock with a bluesy edge and a sense of humor that's clear despite their politically motivated rage." The group even payed homage to former activists, albeit of a different genre with the title of their second LP, "It Takes a Nation (of assholes to hold us back)". These midwestern boys certainly don't take any crap, so expect to come and get loud along with them! Joining the bill is another Cleveland band with rugged guitar chops straight from the Hüsker Dü playbook, Sun God. Local mathrock masters from the Peapod Recordings label, Huak, kick the night into gear. |
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Maps & Atlases with Cults, Laura Stevenson and The Cans Tuesday 08.10.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy Tickets here or any Bull Moose location Maps & Atlases formed when the founding members met in art school at Columbia College Chicago in the South Loop of Chicago. Shiraz Dada (bass), Chris Hainey (drums), Dave Davison (guitar/vocals), and Erin Elders (guitar) got together to try to find a sound that is both technical and organic, in the same vein as their influences Don Caballero and Hella. Their latest tracks reveal an interest in virtuosity channeled through the West African guitar stylings the kids are digging these days. In 2009, the band was listed as the best new band in Illinois as part of The Boston Phoenix's 50 Bands, 50 States supplement. Brooklyn's Laura Stevenson and The Cans open the night, mixing textures, arrangements and folk harmonies to create a warm and inviting sound with diverse accompaniment from violins to trumpets to glockenspiels. San Diego-born New Yorker duo Cults open with their sunny, lo-fi pop and fuzzed out summer jams that Pitchfork starts it's day with as part of a balanced breakfast. |
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Saint Solitude with Marie Stella Thursday 08.05.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Saint Solitude is the project of Asheville, NC musician and Maine native Dup Crosson. Depending on the day, or the song, Crosson alternates between the roles of singer, loop artist, multi-instrumentalist, and perhaps most importantly, songwriter. He combines his favorite elements of Britpop, shoegaze, post-punk, and psychedelia into concise, accessible, and immediately appealing pop songs. Crosson has played under the Saint Solitude moniker since 2006, when he studied in Sweden and wrote the majority of the songs on his debut EP, "Disaster Stories". Now, with new backing band in tow, Crosson is touring to support the release of his debut full-length, "Journal of Retreat" (Alive and Well Records). Portland's own Marie Stella opens. |
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Saturday 07.31.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10 advance/ $12 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. The Felice Brothers and their long time friends and band mates Greg Farley and Christmas Clapton, come to us from the Catskill Mountains, where a homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for generations. Their rambling journey so far has brought them from busking in New York City subway stations, to tours across the world that have included enthusiastically received performances at major music festivals including Bonnaroo, All Points West, Outside Lands, and Langerado. Their studio was built from the remains of an abandoned chicken coop and it was there over the summer and fall of 2008 that they wrote and recorded this new collection of songs teaming with tales of love, death, betrayal, baseball, train stations, phantoms, pandemics, jail cells, rolling rivers and frozen winter nights. This is music that hasn’t lost sight of the history of the land from which it came, and that quality alone makes The Felice Brothers the next great American band. |
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Transmission Drop with Jason Anderson and Strand of Oaks Friday 07.30.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Rising from the ashes of Portland rock favorites The Hot Dogs, Transmission Drop brings the cacophonous energy of their former band to a new batch of dynamic songs about bear attacks and pants. You'll be singing along before you even know you knew the words to Jeff Badger's local anthems. Jason Anderson will get your fist in the air praising the good lord rock n' roll while Strand of Oaks opens the whole evening with what Rolling Stone calls "devastating, gorgeous songs about loss and heartbreak." August gallery artist Bill Daniel will be out front at the beginning of the concert with a special treat that will give us a taste of what he has in store for his gallery show so come early! |
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Wednesday 07.28.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location La Strada is a collective of musicians playing Brooklyn-crafted folk/roots pop with both acoustic and electronic elements who won our hearts when they last opened for Beat Circus in May. We couldn't wait to bring them back! La Strada reaches for both the earthen lows of driving rhythm and the star-like complexity of higher frequencies with drums, violin, viola, cello, bass, accordion. Their new LP New Home brings to mind Beirut, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Wilco. The Huffington Post writes "Drawing on Jungian archetypes, folk tales and Franco-Baltic harmonies, La Strada offers up the best of the New York indie scene: interesting music made by talented people who have a point of view and a love for what they do." Opening the night is a special solo set from dream-popper Jakob Battick with a few guest surprises. |
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HillyTown Presents OFFStage @SPACE #3: Charles Burst, Old Man Forest, Foam Castles Tuesday 07.27.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, $5 suggested donation, All Ages Formerly the drummer for beloved Brooklyn band The Occasion, Charles Burst is now fronting his own project on Ernest Jenning Records (also home to La Strada, see tomorrow’s show for them!) with sunny organ-filled melodies and a brand new 7”. Old Man Forest construct timeless, quirky pop songs reminiscent of NYC’s Pearl And The Beard or tUnE-yArDs. A rotating cast of top local indie players collaborate to bring Tyler Jackson’s music to life as Foam Castles. If you’re looking for your summer jam, this is the show for you. See HillyTown.com for more info and updates. |
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Amanda Gervasi Album Release with Pete Miller, Jesse Pilgrim Saturday 07.24.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Amanda Gervasi, born in Houlton and raised in Hampden, landed back in the state after a few soul-searching years of college in Nova Scotia. Up until that point, her guitar was a cumbersome piece of baggage, coming with her to college and even crossing the ocean to Kenya. Within a short year returning to Maine, however, Amanda had a slew of reputable shows under her belt and in late 2009 she became the newest member/lead singer of Gypsy Tailwind, recording two albums simultaneously and doubling her performance schedule. Tonight she celebrates her debut solo album “Merry the Ghost”. Pete Miller blends indie and folk with songs exploring and unmasking human tendencies. His record “Shake the Dawn” – recorded and co-produced with Eric Bettencourt at Shadow Shine Productions inspired the Portland Press Herald to write: “Cellos, acoustic guitars and brushy drums dominate as though it were high time someone went back to a more honest, transparent sound." Local folk troublemaker Jesse Pilgrim opens the night. |
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Factory Portland - Launch Event Friday 07.23.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location A new asset to our city's virtual scene, Factory Portland assists local musicians and artists with social networking and production efforts. Additionally, Factory Portland's site features a database of close to 400 past and present local acts, including area favorites and one-time collaborations. To celebrate the launch, Factory Portland has invited an eclectic selection of Portland bands and musicians to play: newer acts like The No. 9 and Greyshield; side/spinoff projects The Red F (Tim Burns of Phantom Buffalo) and Wesley Hartley and The Traveling Trees; solo appearances from Jose Ayerve (Spouse, Nuclear Waste Management Club), and TJ Metcalfe (Dead Man's Clothes, Cosades, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper); and the surprise reunion of Bullyclub! |
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Dimensions in Jazz presents: The Daniel Glaude Quartet Thursday 07.22.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music store location Comprised of musicians from the prestigious jazz conservatory at Purchase College, The Daniel Glaude Quartet performs extensively in New York City at venues such as Puppet's Jazz Bar, The Shrine, and Caffe Cielo. Daniel Glaude's original compositions aim to preserve the tradition of jazz while taking inspiration from the music of Miguel Zenon, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and the modern jazz revolutionaries. Harmonically and rhythmically creative without losing sight of melodic integrity and heartfelt performance, the band features Daniel Glaude (alto saxophone), Dana Malseptic (fender rhodes), Dom Sbrega (bass) and Pat Morrison (drums). |
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HillyTown Presents OFFStage @SPACE #2: Balthrop, Alabama, Doomstar!, Good Kids Sprouting Horns Tuesday 07.20.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, $5 suggested donation, All Ages Balthrop, Alabama are a small town band from a big city (NYC) who sing songs about dead people in love, and they’re bringing their enchanting folk - white picket fence and all - right here to Maine. Doomstar! Have been jangling and stomping all over the Boston scene lately and are now ready to take Portland along for the ride too. [dog] and [pony]’s new indie darlings Good Kids Sprouting Horns will warm things up just right. See HillyTown.com for more info and updates. |
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MAN FOREVER, Christopher Teret, followed by GUITAR CLOUD Saturday 07.17.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location MAN FOREVER is the solo endeavor of ONEIDA drummer Kid Millions. The self-titled debut–two monolithic, hypnotic improvisations for arrays of carefully tuned drums– is due out in an edition of 300 LPs featuring hand-pulled screens on recycled record jackets from Jagjaguwar vinyl imprint St. Ives. The touring drum quartet of Kid Millions, YEAH YEAH YEAHS drummer Brian Chase, Oneida cohort and KNYFE HYTS drummer Shahin Motia, and Gold Sparkle Band drummer Andrew Barker, plus Richard Hoffman from Sightings on bass, will be augmented by local percussionists in each city. Remember our awesome First Friday event, DRUM SWAMP? These guys invented that. Speaking of the DRUM SWAMP, we figured this would be a good opportunity for the sequel: GUITAR CLOUD. Stick around as we close out the night with waaay too many of Portland's finest guitarists discovering what happens when they combine forces and plug into an epic wall of amplifiers. Earplugs will be available at the door... Local folk luminary Christopher Teret will open the evening as he sings from the belly and plays through a homemade amplifier songs that go from the head, through the heart, to the earth. |
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Eyedea And Abilities with Bleubird, Educated Consumers, and Kristoff Krane Friday 07.16.2010, Doors at 8:30, Starts at 9:30, $10, 18+ Buy Tickets Here or visit any Bullmoose Music location Minnesota emcee and dj duo Eyedea & Abilities pretty much defined underground hip-hop in the 90s to the present moment along with collaborators and contemporaries Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, El-P and the like. Incorporating distorted guitar and keyboard sounds with DJ Abilities' intricate turntable work, Eyedea spits rhymes from an extensive freestyle and battling history. Eyedea won the Blaze Battle aired on HBO against the fiercest underground battlers in the scene, and began touring with Slug of Atmosphere and other members of the Rhymesayers crew. DJ Abilities has won three DMC awards for his work on his mixtures and 1200 Hobos, and the two teamed up in 2001 to release First Born under their joined monikers. The follow up E&A emerged three years later, and in 2009 the duo released By the Throat, showcasing their musical growth into more experimental hip hop with a more punk mentality and more complex song structures. Rhymesayer Kristoff Krane, Maryland duo Educated Consumers and boundary-blowing SPACE favorite Bleubird open the evening. |
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HillyTown Presents OFFStage @SPACE #1: Miniboone, Lapsed Axis, Same Basic Bear Tuesday 07.13.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, $5 suggested donation, All Ages Miniboone, NYC’s most energetic young band, full of indie pop melodies and frantic hooks, return to Portland. Local punk all star legends-in-the-making Lapsed Axis (members of Gully, Ye, Haru Bangs) and elusive giants of indie rock Same Basic Bear (members of Computer At Sea, Wesley And the Traveling Trees) will make them feel at home. See HillyTown.com for more info and updates. |
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NOMO with Banning Band and DJ Patrick O'Rorke Monday 07.12.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Don't miss a rare night with a band MAGNET calls "party music of the first order, locking into a groove so deep you can practically feel the sweat." Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, the bursting ensemble NOMO recalls Fela Kuti or Antibalas in their grooves, horns and percussion while not being afraid to swim in the experimental side of Miles Davis' electric period. The band is anything but sprawling jazz though; their songs are tight afrobeat funk jams refined to a sweltering boiling point that is sure to give the SPACE crowd the dance party they're looking for while the wallflowers can geek out on the amazing arrangements. Opening the night is Banning Band, rhythm exploratoratriots featuring Dylan Blanchard (Grupo Esperanza, Olas), Phil McGowan, and Seth Kearns. DJ Patrick O'Rorke spins world beat between sets. |
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Samuel James with Brown Bird, Joe Fletcher and The Wrong Reasons Friday 07.09.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location Samuel James is Portland's own master of fingerstyle, slide, banjo, harmonica, and piano. With his musical influences ranging from Skip James and Sonny Terry to Gus Cannon and Charley Patton, such understanding of pre-war blues is rarely embodied in the music of one person. But he's no revivalist. His songwriting is absolutely unparalleled in contemporary blues, reclaiming a tired genre from self-involved licks and meaningless verses to connect with relevant and entertaining stories that feel of the present day as much as they are timeless. Beginning as the brain child of songwriter David Lamb, Brown Bird has developed into a miniature orchestra of harmonized voices and instruments carrying Lamb’s haunting lyrics on surging waves of Appalachian, gypsy, and shanty music. Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons make their SPACE debut with a snarling set of real rock n' roll that would make Johnny Cash proud. |
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Loop 2.4.3 - First Friday Art Walk Friday 07.02.2010, Doors at 5:00 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, Donations encouraged for musicians, All Ages Come for the gallery show during the First Friday Art Walk and stay for the 7pm performance for the duo that NPR's Fresh Air says "reinvents percussion". Loop 2.4.3 employs the gamut of percussion instruments, from marimba and steel drum to tom-toms, bongos and snare drums, temple bowls and wood blocks, opera gongs and electronics in an epic arrangement that's as amazing to watch as it is to hear. Loop 2.4.3 members have also played at The London Jazz Festival, Merkin Hall, Tonic, The Sydney Festival, Music Works Northwest, Carnegie Hall, The Japan Society (NYC), the Harry Partch Institute as well as gaining hipster cred with member Thomas Kozumplik performing with Terry Riley, The National, and the Bang on a Can All Stars. |
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Saturday 06.26.2010, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 21+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music store location. SPACE teams up with Electrolush for our most ambitious dance party yet. This gigantic rave-up features an epic amount of djs (Nocturnal, Nicotine, Beatmo, Secret Weekend, Jen "popgirl" 23, Atomik), visuals by Vj Foo, performances by Dakini Borealis, Atomic Trash, Ludella Hahn, and The Lady Beast, with your host with the most, MC Pensivv, keeping you partygoers up to date. We'll transform the gallery into another planet, so come dressed for the Alien Masquerade Ball. Oh, did we mention there'll be lasers? LASERS! |
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Friday 06.25.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10 or $7 for SPACE members, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Duo Sonidos brings together the talents of violinist, William Knuth and guitarist, Adam Levin. Based in Boston and Madrid, the duo is at the vanguard of the guitar chamber music world. Their commitment to creating a new body of chamber music has led to collaborations with some of the world’s most renowned composers, including works by Jan Freidlin (Israel) and Eduardo Morales-Caso (Cuba-Spain) on ALR Records label. Levin and Knuth have performed throughout the United States and Europe and have been honored as US Fulbright Scholars in the field of music performance in Madrid, Spain and Vienna, Austria respectively. They celebrate the release of their debut CD tonight with a mix of traditional works, including a piece by Piazzolla and famous Spanish composer Manuel de Fallaand and contemporary material including one by Morales-Caso and the duo's own compositions.
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Bear In Heaven with Brenda (Album Release), Lobisomem Thursday 06.24.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location. Synth pads and polyrhythmic electronics fill a space perfect for the pop constructions of Beast Rest Forth Mouth, Bear In Heaven's second album and their call to the four cardinal directions. Pitchfork gives it a remarkable 8.4, saying it's "a welcome reminder that an album doesn't have to be bombastic to feel huge and important. Take out the earbuds and let it fill a space: This is music that's bigger than your iPod-- music you'll want to feel all around you." The Onion finds the band “a powerful, functional mix of This Heat, ’70s soft rock, early Genesis, and oddly, later Pink Floyd.” We say it's hard to find a band these days that puts so much attention to their songwriting, recording, and performing so come see them now so you can say you saw them when. Portland band Brenda is on fire, playing the Nateva Festival and hand-picked by Jeff Tweedy to join the Wilco Solid Sound Festival and, tonight, celebrating the release of their debut LP "Silver Tower" on new Portland label McKeenstreet Music. Brooklyn-based electronic artist Lobisomem opens. |
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Ted Leo And The Pharmacists with Screaming Females Saturday 06.19.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $13 advance/$15 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Theodore F. Leo has been building up serious punk rock cred since his days in the band Chisel, through experimental solo records consisting of tape loops and dubbed-out jams, to his solid blistering pop tunes with The Pharmacists. On their latest (and first Matador release), The Brutalist Bricks - which Pitchfork calls "the Pharmacists' most impressive musical showing on wax since 2003's masterful Hearts of Oak" - Ted Leo/Rx pick up the pace with some of their tightest songs to date. Live shows in recent years have shown that contrary to the expected "just play your old songs!" fans are loving the new material and welcoming them alongside older favorites like "Me and Mia" or "Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?". Screaming Females blew the doors off SPACE last year and we can't wait to see what they have up their sleeve this time. |
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86 Ensemble (formerly Snowmonks) - Double CD release party and open improv Thursday 06.17.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. The 86 ensemble is a new wave performance ensemble involving original and traditional jazz, improvisation, scintillating vocals, and provocative spoken poetry. New York City jazz pianist Jesse Lynch leads the rhythm section with original compositions as well as time tested traditional jazz from the last five decades. Maine poet and writer, Gil Helmick interweaves his luscious and provocative poetic landscapes with the band's musical geography. Join them for a special double CD release at SPACE. The first CD is an improv album by the 86 ensemble, formerly "Snowmonks", called "Crimes Against Inhumanity", and the other by Jesse Lynch Trio called "Intuition". The first set will feature original and traditional jazz works and free improvisation with poetry. The second set will be an open invitation for local jazz and improvising musicians to enter into the mix - come one and all, and get ready to howl at the moon into the night with some of Portland's finest Jazz musicians. |
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White Hinterland with Tiger Saw, Manners Wednesday 06.16.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. White Hinterland explores the edges of minimal pop, accomplishing a delicate but lively seduction through deep, patient bass throbs, prismatic synth textures, and direct, intimate songs sung with an empowered gravitas. After Casey Dienel and band-mate Shawn Creeden relocated to Portland, Oregon from Boston and Brooklyn, respectively they didn't have regular access to a piano, the centerpiece of previous White Hinterland recordings. Dienel's writing process took on an innovative new shape delving excitedly into a new practice of collaboration centered around live looping, electronic and acoustic percussion, and kaleidoscopic sound, all providing a shimmery underpinning to intricate layers of Dienel's voice recalling The Dirty Projectors, The xx, tune-yards, and The Neptunes with an Arthur Russell and Serge Gainsbourg cover thrown into the mix for good measure. Oft-local indie-folk collective Tiger Saw's recent record featured Casey Dienel's vocals so come early for the reunion and for a short sweet set by Portland's Manners, the musical moniker of Greg Beson's folky electronic experiments. |
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DM Stith with Inlets, Silje Nes Tuesday 06.15.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Mentored by Sufjan Stevens, who signed Stith to his Asthmatic Kitty label, DM Stith makes music with cellos and pianos but also the creaking of wooden doors, has the uncomfortable intimacy of Antony and the Johnsons, and the baroque strangeness of Bowie. While in Brooklyn, David befriended Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond), and soon after began facilitating, in small technical ways, the recording of her album Bring Me The Workhorse. This, in turn, spurred David to begin writing and recording songs that probe questions and revisit dreams and visions. As Inlets, Sebastian Krueger’s ambitious compositions share a complexity of Owen Pallett or Grizzly Bear. He's collaborated with My Brightest Diamond, handled banjo for Feist on SNL, contributed to DM Stith’s Heavy Ghost, and worked with violinist Marla Hansen. Silje Nes shares her autodidactic adventurousness with peers like Tujiko Noriko, Islaja, Lau Nau, or Foehn, as well as the homespun, sprawling beauty of The Pastels, Pram, or Crescent.
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Marion Grace - GEMINI PARTY - with Isobell, Jacob Augustine and the House of Fire Saturday 06.12.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6 advance, $8 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Marion Grace was conceived years ago by namesake lead singer and songwriter Ralph Marion Graceffa, and most of the current members have been together since 2006 with ties to NYC, Boston, and their home of Portland, Maine. Taking most of 2009 to record their debut album "Lying Down Looking Up", the band worked with Producer Adam Frederick and Engineer Mike Davidson at Zippah Studios in Boston to develop their sound of soulful and honest folk rock. They're joined by their friends in Isobell and Jacob Augustine (with his new 10 piece band The House of Fire!) for nothing less than a birthday party for lead singers Graceffa and Isobell's Hannah Tarkinson. The party's theme will be based on their astrological sign of Gemini with each act's set embodying two entities working as one. Expect a lot of guest vocals and fun experimentation for this one-of-a-kind show! $5 cover at the door for all Gemini's! |
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Thursday 06.10.2010, Doors at 9:00, Starts at 9:30, $5, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. You've heard of emcee battles, you've heard of air guitar competitions but are you ready for a dance-off? New York maximum rock and roll party machine DJ Jonathan Toubin returns to SPACE after bringing us one of the best dance parties we've ever had. SOUL CLAP is making it's way across the nation where everyone is welcome to get down to classic 45s from Etta James to James Brown. You can move your feet to your favorites AND get your mind blown by Toubin's crate of obscure soul gems. Later in the evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to compete in the dance-off, grab a number, and compete for a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The competition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in town. SOUL CLAP has become notorious in New York for bringing together wild raucous crowds of folks young and old who want to dance and prove that they know how to shake their thing. Come show us what you've got. |
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Grouper with Animal Hospital, Vince Nez and Melaena Cadiz, Planets Around the Sun Sunday 06.06.2010, Doors at 8:00pm, Starts at 8:00pm, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Grouper is the assumed name of Northern Californian artist Liz Harris. After several years in the underground she released the 2008 album which defined her sound; 'Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill' and achieved an unprecedented amount of critical acclaim, with Pitchfork mentioning it in their top albums of 2008, touting it as 'druggy and sexy and arty and pretty, but never pretentious'. In 2009 she toured the USA in support of Animal Collective and continues to stun audiences worldwide. Animal Hospital's Kevin Micka buries himself in a pile of electronics-shelves of effects, mixing consoles, amps and delay units-while patiently constructing a layered nest of loops consisting of live drum beats, guitar chords, scrapes, chucks, chimes, and melodies. Brooklyn's Melaena Cadiz recently recorded an album featuring SPACE friends Brown Bird and Matt Bauer and tonight she's joined by Portland's own Vince Nez (The Last Sip). Planets Around the Sun keeps the party going with their dub Solar Soundsystem in between sets. |
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Sorcha CD Release with Jerks of Grass, Sean Mencher, Putnam Smith & Ramblin' Red Saturday 06.05.2010, Doors at 8:00pm, Starts at 8:30pm, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Raised on the ocean in rural Downeast Maine, Sorcha's early musical influences include her mother's traditional folk background, her father's funk past, and her brother's exhaustive jazz collection. She's honed her songwriting and performance skills over several album releases, culminating in this latest CD release celebration of Laughing and Lamenting. She'll be accompanied onstage by Pete Morse on electric and pedal steel guitar, Adam Montminy on upright bass and Zak Trojano on drums plus a host of special guests including Jerks of Grass, Sean Mencher, Putnam Smith and her bandmates in Ramblin' Red. The theme of this evening of folk, jazz, blues and bluegrass will complement Sorcha's new record, which explores the paradox of loss and growth. |
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Land of Talk with Marie Stella and In the Audience Monday 05.31.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Montreal trio Land of Talk rock the post-hardcore idiom in the vein of Pretty Girls Make Graves and Tokyo Police Club with frontwoman (and Broken Social Scene alum) Elizabeth Powell's vocals taking notes from the best of early Catpower. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon produced their most recent record, "Some Are Lakes" to accentuate the band's brittle buzz-saw guitars chime with nagging melodies and crackling emotion, honeyed and broken. They're joined by Portland's Marie Stella, in anticipation of their debut EP "Trust" plus the SPACE debut of local young indie-upstarts In the Audience. |
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Christian Cuff with Mieka Pauley Saturday 05.29.2010, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10 in advance/$12 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Bath songwriter Christian Cuff has been incredibly busy this last year building momentum for his latest album "broke-broke" by touring the world and selling out a hometown show at the Chocolate Church. He turns his ambitious eye to a collaborative event at SPACE by throwing a party with some of his favorite artists and artisans showcasing their work, the unveiling of a documentary by our friends [dog]and[pony] about turning his dynamic live show into a studio record, AND an epic performance with his new 11 piece band. If that's not enough, NYC chanteuse Mieka Pauley will treat us with a rare solo performance and show us what's she learned sharing bills with Ben Kweller, Mason Jennings, John Legend and a few other wicked famous musicians. |
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Honey Clouds CD Release Party with Foam Castles, Tan Vampires Friday 05.28.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Honey Clouds is Sean Wilkinson, Mandy Wheeler, Ron Harrity and Trey Hughes. The group plays rock and roll influenced by 60s psych and 90s indie rock. Their songs are usually about hanging out, yardwork and talking animals that collect seashells. Cover the Forest is their second release on Peapod Recordings, and is a raucous and enthusiastic "welcome back" to summer. Foam Castles is the recording moniker for Maine pop genius Tyler Jackson. His third album "Molly's Jungle" will also be released this summer on Peapod Recordings. The Foam Castles live band experience will feature Brenda drummer DJ Moore and other local indie personalities. Dover, NH based Tan Vampires opens the night with haunting Jeff Buckley-ish vocals and inspired atmospherics.
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Arrington De Dionyso's Malaikat Dan Singa with Crank Sturgeon and id m theftable Tuesday 05.25.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Arrington de Dionyso (of seminal freak folks Old Time Relijun fame) uses performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll. Arrington performs on the bass clarinet, jaw harps, and his voice with a distinctly multiphonic ability inspired by Tuvan throatsinging and the ecclesiastics of Albert Ayler and Don Van Vliet. Pushing the envelope between musicality and pure energy, between shamanic ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with resonant sound. Malaikat Dan Singa is his Indonesian Pop band. Woah. The inevitable, inimitable, world renowned Crank Sturgeon warms up the crowd with a performance you won't forget with help from the unfathomable arbiter of all things Strange Maine, id m theftable. |
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Laura Marling with The Middle East and Smoke Fairies Tuesday 05.11.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $12 advance/$14 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Laura Marling is a UK indie folk star in the ascendant whose striking melodies and wise-beyond-her-years vocals could melt even the iciest of hearts. The 20-year-old small town girl sings about love, lust and romance, the futility of religion, self-loathing and human psychology. Each one of her songs is a mini-blast of prime poetry, gorgeous melody and sublime songwomanship. 'I Speak Because I Can' - the follow up to Laura's Mercury Nominated debut album - was produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller, Ray Lamontagne). Breakaway Australian folk-pop outfit The Middle East will blow you out of the water with a sound echoing the bittersweetness of Bon Iver and bombast of Arcade Fire. London's Smoke Fairies round out this unbeatable night with an opening set of soulful roots music. |
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Drink Up Buttercup with Dead Man's Clothes, The Class Machine Monday 05.10.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location. After being kicked out of their practice space for disturbing the horses, Drink Up Buttercup was soon besieged with praise in Philly publications and catapulted to touring worldwide after the completion of their first full-length album, recorded by Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man). Drink Up consists of an ex-opera scholar who refused to exchange sexual favors for solos, a comic book kid who still uses a discman to play music in the car, and two teens who are engaged in an epic battle of side projects for myspace plays. Critics often liken Drink Up’s sound to classic bands like Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, and Frank Zappa as well as to contemporary bands such as Man Man and Animal Collective. Portland darlings Dead Man’s Clothes join the bill preceded by the SPACE debut of Belfast’s The Class Machine. |
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The Blow with Theodore Treehouse Thursday 05.06.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location. After a year's hiatus from performing, The Blow's Khaela Maricich is stepping back onto the stage with a new body of material. She is presenting a new set of songs, along with a narrative stage performance to accompany the music. The Blow recently opened a string of concerts for the band Vampire Weekend, and there had the opportunity to try out the fresh material in a large music venue format. The upcoming tour of the Northeast is planned as a workshop, where Maricich can test out and develop performance elements in intimate settings. For the upcoming album and performance cycle, Maricich is working in collaboration with installation and sound artist Melissa Dyne. Dyne will augment the live Blow performances and recordings with her expertise in accoustics, light, and spatial phenomena. The Blow is currently at work on a full length album, and plans to release an EP of new material later in 2010. The Blow has recently performed segments of the new work at The Baltimore Museum of Art, Harvard University, and Pulse Art Fair in Miami. OUR Portland's most buzzworthy new band, Theodore Treehouse, opens the night. |
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Marco Benevento Trio with Treeyo Wednesday 05.05.2010, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10 advance/ $12 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location. On Between The Needles & Nightfall, Marco Benevento's third studio effort in as many years, the pianist offers his own take on simple pop pleasures, dance party rave-ups and art jazz experimentation. The results are day-glo electro-rock Arcade Fire-meets-Brad Mehldau anthems. Speaking in modern sonic tongues, cut-and-pasted, tweaked-out and glitchy, Marco Benevento creates music full of wide-eyed wonder that rejoices in the limitless horizons of sound and melody. He returns to Portland with his trio including Reed Mathis on bass and Andrew Barr on drums. Come early for a very special Cinco de Mayo cocktail hour hosted by Portland ensemble Treeyo featuring Dj Moore (drums), Tyler Quist and Hassan Muhamed (keys), and Stu Mahan (bass). |
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Beat Circus with La Strada, Matt Rock Saturday 05.01.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location. Beat Circus returns to Portland with their new cd, Boy From Black Mountain (Cuneiform), released last fall, the second part of principal member Brian Carpenter's "Weird American Gothic" trilogy and winner of the Independent Music Award for Best Alt/Country Album of 2009. If you caught their mesmerizing performance for the last Gothic Part 1 tour stop at SPACE, you know their music is characterized by its intensity and lush arrangements, and Carpenter's lyrical obsessions with love, death, religion, violence, and American mythologies. Beat Circus will be touring with Brooklyn's beloved La Strada, also releasing a new cd on Ernest Jenning. Rockland-based accordionist Matt Rock returns to SPACE after spending the last two years in Europe touring with the sailing circus troupe Compagnie Aquanaut throughout the Baltic Sea and absorbing the folk music of East European immigrant communities in Berlin. |
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The League of Young Voters presents the 5th annual ReEmergence Party! Thursday 04.29.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, $10-$15 donation, 18+
Kaleidoscopic Community: Celebrating the Local Creative Economy is a League-style shindig to highlight Portland artists, artist resources, and art organizations that work together to preserve the creative economy for which Portland is so well known. Local groovemasters Dreamosaic headline with local rising stars of the indie scene, Theodore Treehouse, and looper Scotty Whitehouse for a night of music, writers, belly dancers, painters and just about every other kind of artist you can think up. Come to SPACE from 7 to 9pm for visual artists' gallery hours and Port Veritas providing spoken word performances. Then stay from 9pm on for the dance party!
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Johnny Cash Night - A benefit for Prison Literacy Programs Wednesday 04.28.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $5 to $15 donation, 18+ On the heels of our wildly successful Johnny Cash Night in '09, The Nave Gallery, Band In Boston, Rhode Island School of Design, and Space Gallery have organized a series of Johnny Cash tributes New England-wide to benefit prison book programs and celebrate the Man in Black. Join us for an evening of tribute covers by Portland musicians Christopher Teret, Jesse Pilgrim and the Bonfire (with many special guests!), and Caleb Aaron and the Thrill Pills, spanning the entirety of Cash's discography from Sun Records-era barn burners to gospel tear-jerkers. Proceeds from this event will benefit Volunteers for Hancock Jail Residents, which has operated a jail library program since 2001 and also purchases books for Maine's prisoners as funds allow. More info at www.jailvolunteers.org. |
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Saturday 04.24.2010, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 21+ Our friends at the Portland Symphony Orchestra are having a wild 70s performance with Motor Booty Affair early this evening so we thought they needed an afterparty. Whether you can make it to the symphony or not, we've got the disco ball warmed up for you and Kurt Baker (The Leftovers, The Desires) on the decks ready to spin the finest in 70s tunes followed by the turntable acrobatics of Graymatter and Nicotine till the wee hours of the night. And yes, of course, a COSTUME CONTEST AT MIDNIGHT. You know what to do. Co-presented with our friends at FIND and FERDINAND - make sure to stop by and gear up with 70s threads and accessories to ensure you bring home the trophy! |
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The Low Anthem with Brown Bird Friday 04.23.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location. Providence's The Low Anthem combines folk and blues arrangements with the elegance of chamber music and the fervor of gospel. Last seen in Portland playing two sold-out shows at Merrill Auditorium opening for Ray LaMontagne, the trio uses a variety of unusual instrumentation—by its own count, the band mates took turns playing 27 different instruments on their latest Oh My God, Charlie Darwin—that gives its songs, at times, an otherworldly quality. For example, Miller and Prystowsky refurbished a World War I pump organ that had been dragged by chaplains into the battlefield and is now part of The Low Anthem’s arsenal of instruments. Adams plays the crotales, a rack of bronze, cymbal-like discs often used with mallets as a percussion instrument. Adams, however, wields a bow to elicit feedback-like sounds. Some critics have called The Low Anthem’s sound Americana, but what the group has really done is to conjure a varied and elusive sound of its own. Portland favorites and Peapod Recordings artists Brown Bird open the night. |
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Wednesday 04.21.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray are...Heavy Trash! A Rockabilly voyage like no other! Jon Spencer has destroyed and rebuilt American roots music with such ferocity and wild abandon it is hard to believe that there is anything left. The trail of musical destruction in the wake of his combo Pussy Galore still smolders with the stench of avant punk trash and nasty garage ooze and grind, while his towering work with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion remains an indelible totem to his enormous mojo spirit and red-hot power of deliverance. In the late '70s, young Matt Verta-Ray found himself one of only twelve people who went to see Bo Diddley at a Canadian fairground. After the show, Bo came out and preached to Matt for an hour about the dark secrets of rock'n'roll. And the rest, as they say, is history - from sitting on the edge of the stage with Bo, to thumping bass for Madder Rose, and then onto his hard-wired decontructionist rootsabilly band Speedball Baby, where he developed his slashing-dagger guitar style - to forming Heavy Trash with his friend Jon Spencer. THE Portland rockabilly band, King Memphis, opens the night with the style, aplomb, and grace that we've come to expect. |
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The Molenes, The Grassholes, The Coming Grass Friday 04.16.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. The Molenes forge hard-twang melodies and driving steam-train rhythms into compelling songs that have been firing up the stages of the Northeast’s burgeoning Americana/Alt-Country scene since the band’s inception in 2005. Evoking the burnished lyricism of SON VOLT, the organic atmospherics of WILCO, and the rootsy swagger of STEVE EARLE, The Molenes’ second album, Songs of Sin and Redemption (2008), takes the listener on a tour through both the dark and light sides of the American experience. Nine years in, The Grassholes are just getting started. As they've moved from slamgrass takes on Monroe/Flatt & Scruggs/Carter Family traditionals to more nuanced interpretations of contemporary Americana and fully realized original work. Acclaimed gunslinger Nate Schrock returns for a rare appearance with Steve Jones and Ginger Cote as The Coming Grass, hands-down one of the finest bands to come out of Portland. |
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MONOTONIX with WIFE, Mink Wilde and the Gentlemen Callers Thursday 04.15.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Dissatisfied with the state of the music scene in their hometown of Tel Aviv, the Israeli trio Monotonix formed in November 2005 and began a flurry of recording influenced by Led Zeppelin, the Sonics, and Thin Lizzy. Eventually finding themselves banned from most of the venues in Tel Aviv, the band decided to leave Israel so they could tour the United States and Europe. These tours furthered their reputation as a band whose shows are not watched, but experienced. Monotonix have become known for setting themselves and their equipment on fire, stealing drinks from audience members to pour on themselves, and turning their shows into unabashed, frenzied dance parties. Uh oh. What did we just get ourselves into? The Portland pure punk band you haven't heard (yet), WIFE, will do a short but likely insane set. Mink Wilde & The Gentlemen Callers makes their SPACE debut to open the night. |
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Jon Langford in Concert with D. Gross Saturday 04.10.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Join us for a rare acoustic show from visiting gallery artist and Mekons founder Jon Langford playing new solo songs, deep Mekons and Waco Brothers catalog and a couple strange covers. Jon will be joined by his regular partner in crime the amazing violinist Jean Cook (Ida, Pine Valley Cosmonauts). Local troubadour D. Gross opens the night with a sound the Phoenix describes as "veins of Delta blues, folk revival, and Bob Dylan, Gross works his guitar and harmonica behind a raspy and inviting lead vocal to tell country tales and woo country women." Sponsored by our friends at WMPG Community Radio. |
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Deer Tick with Those Darlins, Tiger Saw Sunday 04.04.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8 advance/ $10 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Though ostensibly an alt-country act, no amount of Telecaster bends or fiddle breaks are going to disguise Deer Tick's indie-rock core: John McCauley, in both composition and performance, owes more to the Shins, Modest Mouse, and early Bright Eyes than he does even to alt-country acts like Uncle Tupelo. More accurately, McCauley is reviving the REAL country of Hank Williams and company, louder and dirtier for a new generation looking for honest music. Informed by Nashville and its intersecting indie, pop, and country scenes—and aware of the twisted tradition of Appalachian roots music that stretches back beyond the Carter Family, Those Darlins are, nevertheless, not of Nashville. These three rowdy ladies ROCK HARD. Opening the night is oft-local collective Tiger Saw, led by Dylan Metrano, whose latest record features members of Dirty Projectors, White Hinterland and John McCauley himself. |
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Sole & The Skyrider Band, Dark Time Sunshine, Ceschi, Blak Madeen, Brzowski Saturday 04.03.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Sole, known as one of the godfathers of abstract hip hop and founding member of the Anticon label, has recorded one of his most ambitious yet accessible albums to date with 2009's Plastique. Backed by The Skyrider Band, Sole's brand of wit packed, radical and dense lyricism is perfectly accompanied by The Skyrider Band's subtle, layered post-rock-hop compositions. Seattle mainstay Onry Ozzborn has spent the last five years on Rhymesayer's Entertainment putting out underground hip hop classics such as Grayskul's Bloody Radio and touring and collaborating with everyone from Aesop Rock to Atmosphere. Now he has started a new group with producer Zavala called Dark Time Sunshine - called a "Psychedelic Gangstarr" with a "slight bit of Company Flow twirling in the waters beneath them". With influences from Neutral Milk Hotel to the Freestyle Fellowship, Ceschi brings a unique folk and hip hop hybrid to the stage. Blak Madeen and Portland's own Brzowski open the night. |
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SPOUSE with The Grownup Noise and The Milkman's Union Friday 04.02.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Consistently, New England-based SPOUSE has been churning out catchy and intricate chunks of quality pop, with wide appeal. If the early 90’s brand of college rock had somehow managed to escape the turmoil of countless break-ups and disasters, this group would be in it’s rightful place among college radio’s more esteemed go-to artists. Instead, José Ayerve and his crew of multi-instrumentalists have been relying on a steady DIY approach resulting in an impressively large discography of uncompromised material. The group releases it’s 5th full-length, Confidence, on May 18th (Nine Mile Records). They will be previewing tracks from their latest offering for this show (and they may even have some copies on hand). Joining them will be Boston’s hard-working, melodic artisans The Grownup Noise and Brunswick's up-and-comers on the scene, the The Milkman’s Union. |
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Acadia Sessions Showcase: Dark Hollow Bottling Co., Olas and Peepshow Thursday 04.01.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Come show your support for the first Acadia Sessions Showcase event featuring Dark Hollow Bottling Co., described in the Portland Phoenix as "rollicking acoustic-folk tunes", Olas, a flamenco influenced music and dance troupe and Portland punk music legends Peepshow in their first live show in years. This showcase event is the first of an ongoing event series presented by 'The Acadia Sessions', a new music documentary television series that will begin airing on MPBN in May. Featuring Maine musicians that are part of episodes from the TV show, this diverse lineup exemplifies the vast range of musical genres that will be represented. For a preview of the TV show check out www.theacadiasessions.com.
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Dark Dark Dark with Hersey State, Dark Urrru Tuesday 03.30.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Dark Dark Dark’s sound draws heavily on Americana and Eastern European influences, referencing a long tradition of wandering musicians and those who have lived deeply. Their small array of age-old instruments conjures a lush musical vision of the future with banjos and accordions swimming next to haunting group vocals reminiscent of Maine's own Fire on Fire. Knowing they recently collaborated with recent visiting gallery artists Swoon and Tod Seelie, we're excited to show them a warm Portland welcome. Portland's latest supergroup, Hersey State, comprised of members from The Orchards, Tin Ceilings and the School Spirit Mafia strumming and singing together to create a uniquely Maine folk sound. Dark Urrru, featuring members of Brother Oak and Big Blood opens the night. |
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Saturday 03.27.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. No, it's not a ukulele. No, it's not a mini-guitar. It's a mandolin, an eight-stringed loud-mouth of an instrument with a long history in folk, pop, bluegrass, even heavy rock and metal, and if you've ever wanted to see it put through its paces, now's your chance. From a six-piece mandolin orchestra to the legendary Al Hawkes Trio to performances by mandolin players from Jerks of Grass, the Tricky Britches, the Grassholes, the Intergalactic Yurt Band, and more, this is a show not to be missed by any true acoustic-music fan. In an unprecedented partnership, The Portland Symphony Orchestra joins with Portland Ovations and Space Gallery for an entire weekend dedicated to celebrating the art and sound of the mandolin, in all its various forms and styles. As part of Mandolin Madness, present your ticket from either PSO or Ovations shows at SPACE and save $2! |
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Vikesh Kapoor, John Shade, Wesley Allen Hartley and the Traveling Trees Friday 03.26.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. In just short of a year in Cambridge, MA, 23 year old folk singer Vikesh Kapoor has already made waves in New England. Featured on billboard.com as an artist-to-watch, he has trekked through two regional tours this past summer in support of his recent, debut EP “On the Tail of a White Donkey” spreading his Dylan-channeled music throughout the land. The Boston Globe writes, "At first glance Kapoor looks like the second coming of iconic troubadour Woody Guthrie. And when he opens his mouth, you think he just might be." John Shade’s debut album, All You Love Is Need, was recorded at Bon Iver’s studio (A.K.A. April Base) in the fall of 2009. It was recorded/engineered by Nate Vernon and features Jeremy Boettcher (bass), Ben Lester (drums), and John DeHaven (trumpet). John says he's bringing a string quartet with him for this special Portland show! Wesley Allen Hartley and the Traveling Trees is the new country-fried project of the former frontman of Dead End Armory, delving deeper into the Portland transplant's Texan roots. |
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Treble Treble: Metal Feathers, An Evening With, Gully Wednesday 03.24.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Every so often we're due for an all-local lineup here at SPACE where Portland gets to prove we can make our own fun. Throwing the party are indie stalwarts Metal Feathers with the dark country crooning of An Evening With and rockers-in-residence, Gully, who will be performing songs from their forthcoming EP, Gregory. |
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Saturday 03.20.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Big Blood is South Portland's very own Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella (Cerberus Shoal, Fire on Fire) playing intimate, haunting folk. Uke of Spaces Corners are Dan Beckman, Amy Moon and friends playing anthems for in-between realities and a soundtrack for drinking tea. Belfast's Ancestral Diet, featuring members of Caethua and Impractical Cockpit, join the bill for a full night of rural psychedelia. Visiting from Minneapolis, Mother of Fire create a unique sound from violin, bass and drums. Join them for Beaded Eggs, a celebration of the coming spring season with video and sculptural installations. |
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Friday 03.19.2010, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. "Batteries Not Included" is a night of Maine's boundary-breaking live hip hop and electronic music acts as three distinct sets culminating in a collaborative effort by all musicians to create a dense live sound collage with local legend Agent8 projecting his signature visuals. Slouch and Adam B get their fingers dirty digging into dusty crates and destroying drum machines. Sandbag is a local crew featuring Pensivv, Ill by Instinct, Shupe, and Doc Joshua/Mr. Harps. They are hosts of the Hip Hop Open Mic Night in Portland and were awarded Best Artist at the 2009 We Push Buttons Awards. Metris and Vik 44 go head to head with cerebral bass, glitched breaks, and minimalist style. Come early to see local artists displaying electronic-themed art throughout the gallery. |
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THE VINYL HOURS - A Kris Clark Dance Party Saturday 03.13.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, Ends at 1:30 AM, $7, 18+
Good riddance standard time! Hallelujah Daylight Savings! Waxmasters CHRIS GAUTHIER (Zootz)) and MARCUS CAINE (Bubbas, Zodiac) guide you to the light through the Vinyl Hours of darkness. Jump, shake, twist... Spring forward. Another soul-lifting House Party brought to you by Kris Clark. Portion of proceeds to benefit Haiti.
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P.O.S. with Dessa, Astronautalis, F. Stokes Thursday 03.11.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. P.O.S. built his reputation as an innovator, with an unlikely punk rock past and expressive, honest content. On Never Better, the new disc, he conjures get-away cars, racing chariots, the pursuit of sirens, and the occasional rueful nighttime drive. Like many great rappers, P.O.S. creates his own self-contained little microcosm—his characters become familial to us; we get in on his slang and inside jokes. P.O.S. doesn’t hesitate to call out the compounding absurdities of pop culture, either with a little friendly ribbing or with a Molotov cocktail. He drops deft one-liners that cut to the quick of America’s stuff-obsessed culture, Can’t take it with them can they? P.O.S himself made more than half of the beats on Never Better, and the production bears his unmistakable signature. Feedback and relentless drum rolls are only occasionally tempered by sung choruses and clean, chiming guitar lines. P.O.S. is a rapper with range, he’s a real musician and an unstoppable performer. For him, genres are as they ever were: permeable. Dessa (emcee in the Minneapolis Doomtree Crew) joins the bill and SPACE favorite Astronautalis opens the night. Just added: a short set by F. Stokes at the beginning of the evening! |
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Saturday 03.06.2010, Doors at 1:30 PM, Starts at 2:00 PM, $8, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location. Singer Morgan Taylor, when he’s not recording with members of Wilco and Duncan Sheik, caters to an active and often verbally inquisitive audience—perfect for children and families. We think this is some of the best children's music around with Taylor entertaining kids and parents alike with cool songs that don't insult a five year old's (or a fifty year old's) intelligence. He returns to SPACE with the latest installment in the story of Gustafer Yellowgold, a golden alien who comes to life in a “moving book” of songs and pictures, projected in full color onto a big screen, with subtitles for early readers. The New York Times called the Gustafer show and accompanying live music “a cross between ‘Yellow Submarine’ and Dr. Seuss, filtered through the lens of the Lower East Side.” |
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Saturday 03.06.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+
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PERFORMANCE: Greg Davis, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Ben Vida Friday 03.05.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+
Immediately following the opening of visiting artist Greg Davis' sound installation, we'll be treated with a rare live performance of analog synthesizer music by Davis in collaboration with Keith Fullerton Whitman and Ben Vida. Davis is a musician and composer specializing in immersive soundscapes. He runs Autumn Records out of Vermont and is part of the esteemed Kranky Records roster of artists. We last saw Keith Fullerton Whitman opening up for Deerhunter at the ICA Boston with a mind-bending barrage of electronic knob twiddling and video images. Ben Vida usually records under the name Bird Show and has released records with Kranky, Thrill Jockey and Drag City. Don't miss the opportunity to see these standouts of experimental music sharing the stage.
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Middle Eastern Night with The Shavarsh Kef Ensemble and Alhan Middle Eastern Music Ensemble Saturday 02.27.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. The Shavarsh Kef Ensemble carries on a Maine tradition of Middle Eastern music started by the late master musician Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian. The ensemble consists of five musicians who have played with, studied with and been inspired by Al: Eric LaPerna, percussion, Amos Libby, oud, Beth Borgerhoff, accordion, Michael Gallant, violin and Steve Gruverman, clarinet. They continue to play a rich mixture of Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Arabic folk and classical music. Alhan Middle Eastern Music Ensemble's repertoire is drawn from compositions of some of the preeminent composers of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Turkey. They also perform Muwashshahat, a classical song form developed in 10th century Andalusia and performed throughout the modern Arab world. The group features Eric LaPerna; riqq and darbuka, Tom Kovacevic; oud, nay and vocals, Madeleine Hanna; lead vocals and frame drum and Michael Gallant; violin. All of the members have studied with some of the leading performers of Middle Eastern Music in the world today, including Simon Shaheen, Bassam Saba, Michel Merhej and the late Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian. |
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Glenn Jones with Arborea, Old Man Forest, Selbyville Friday 02.26.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Since 1989, Glenn Jones has led Boston’s “avant -garage” instrumental rock band, Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date, including a soundtrack for cult-director Roger Corman, and collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and former Can vocalist Damo Suzuki. A 30-plus-year devotee of the Takoma school, Jones has written extensively on the steel-string guitar’s leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly 25 years, and Robbie Basho, who befriended Jones during the five years before his untimely death in 1986. Arborea is Buck and Shanti Curran melding lilting lyrics, dulcimer, guitar, banjo and otherworldly sounds into a psych-folk evocation of the land and seascapes in their home state of Maine. Lewiston's Old Man Forest and Portland's Selbyville open the night. |
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Dimensions in Jazz presents: Dijkstra/Hollenbeck Duo Friday 02.19.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10 advance, seniors, students/ $15 day of show, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. John Hollenbeck (drums, percussion, toys) and Jorrit Dijkstra (alto sax, lyricon, analog electronics) have been playing duets on and off since 1998. In their improvisations they investigate the minuscule details within the sonic palette of their instruments by “zooming in” to a whole new world of sonic textures. With the help of some analog electronics, they place their sounds under an imaginary microscope, to orchestrate the overtones, micro-beats, wind flows, clicking of the pads, impact of the stick on the drumhead, and sub tone effects, without losing their strong sense of melody and groove. They also share an interest in improvising with multiple-tempo layerings, melodic cells, cut and paste methods, extended techniques and integrating uncommon (analog) instruments such as the Autoharp and the Lyricon. Their music shows influences from Ornette Coleman, Steve Lacy, György Ligeti, and Conlon Nancarrow, as well as minimalists like Morton Feldman, and ambient music pioneer Brian Eno. Their debut CD “Sequence” on Trytone Records has received critical acclaim in the international press.
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Dead of Winter - An Evening of Portland Songwriters Saturday 02.13.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $6, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. This evening will mark four years of packed crowds, hot toddies, cozy candlelight, and intimate performances from a cross-section of Portland's finest musicians as they gather together for the 4th Annual Dead of Winter showcase at SPACE. Every year, you get to see songwriters stripped down from their usual bands, hear new material and cool cover songs, as well as witness unexpected collaborations on stage. Come to see your favorite local musicians and leave as a fan of new ones! Featuring José Ayerve (Spouse), Eric Schwan (Orchards), Randy Illian (Tin Ceilings), Jeremy Alexander (An Evening With), Aly Spaltro (Lady Lamb the Beekeeper), Jacob Augustine, Darien Brahms, Matthew Lajoie (Cursillistas), Peet Chamberlain, Timmy Findlen (Over A Cardboard Sea), Emily Dix Thomas, D. Gross, Joshua Loring & Annie Larmon. |
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Stand With Haiti: A SPACE Benefit for Partners In Health Friday 02.12.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $5 - $20 suggested donation, 18+ Buy tickets here On January 12th, a catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, killing tens of thousands and direly affecting millions more. SPACE presents a throwback show by two of our oldest friends to benefit Haitian relief work. Darien Brahms presents her classic 2003 album Green Valentine in it's entirety, followed by Phantom Buffalo (née The Ponys) performing their seminal first album ShiShiMuMu. All door proceeds go to benefit Partners In Health, a nonprofit that has worked in Haiti for nearly twenty-five years and today is one of the largest non-governmental health care providers in the country. All proceeds to benefit Partners in Health's "Stand With Haiti" program. The first 100 people through the door who donate $20 or more get a limited edition t-shirt ($75 value) donated by Rogues Gallery. Sizes limited. |
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Maps & Atlases with Brenda, Dead Man's Clothes Monday 02.08.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Maps & Atlases formed when the founding members met in art school at Columbia College Chicago in the South Loop of Chicago. Shiraz Dada (bass), Chris Hainey (drums), Dave Davison (guitar/vocals), and Erin Elders (guitar) got together to try to find a sound that is both technical and organic, in the same vein as their influences Don Caballero and Hella. Their latest tracks reveal an interest in virtuosity channeled through the West African guitar stylings the kids are digging these days. In 2009, the band was listed as the best new band in Illinois as part of The Boston Phoenix's 50 Bands, 50 States supplement. Local favorites, Brenda, play some of the tightest pop around, the three-piece shimmying between Beach Boys inspired anthems and angular rhythmic acrobatics creating an energetic tension with frontman Joshua Loring's sonorous vocals. Fresh faces to Portland, Dead Man's Clothes made it on WCYY's list of bands to watch in 2010... because they're worth watching. |
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Saturday 02.06.2010, Starts at 6:00 PM, $5 students, $8 adults, All Ages Girls Rock! is a showcase of female talent from the Maine Academy of Modern Music. Host to Portland’s original “Rock Camps,” MAMM instructs student ensembles year round, and this is when you get to hear their talent! This jam-packed bill includes Marie Moreshead, Totem, Darien Brahms, Oxymorons, and Arcane Lore. Come check out a great night of local girls and guys that rock, while benefitting the music and mission of the Maine Academy of Modern Music |
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Friday 02.05.2010, Starts at 8:00 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, free, All Ages Drum Swamp. A kick. A swamp. A swirling, burning critical mass of 20 + Portland drummers, bangers, and clangers pummeling into the heavy night. An hour-long semi-improvised organic orgiastic progression of percussion. A cosmic cymbal and the crash of a new beat. A February First Friday after event. Sponsored by The Drum Shop. |
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Prince Rama of Ayodhya with Peace, Loving and Planets Around the Sun, Ian Ferrel Monday 02.01.2010, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 8:30 PM, $5 suggested donation, 18+ Join SPACE for a show of campfire surrealism, psych and folk before the big James Blackshaw and Gary Higgins show later in the evening. Prince Rama of Ayodhya is Taraka and Nimai Larson fueled by chameleon-like songwriting expounded by tribal beats and sci-fi synths. A guiding force of the The Whitehaus Family Record phenomenon coming out of Jamaica Plain, MA, Peace, Loving summons spirits with collage improv action on bass, drums, found sounds and shamanic sensibilities. Portland progenitors of the new weird sound Planets Around the Sun and Ian Ferrel from The Cups and Theodore Treehouse open the night. |
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James Blackshaw with Gary Higgins Monday 02.01.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Initially inspired by the guitarists of the 60’s Takoma label to teach himself fingerpicking, James Blackshaw writes long-form pieces primarily for solo 12-string guitar and piano that are heavily influenced by minimalist composers and European classical music and which use drones, overtones and repeating patterns alongside a strong inclination for melody to create instrumental music that is both intelligent, hypnotic and emotionally charged, not to mention demanding of a technical virtuousity that puts him in the pantheon of the world's greatest guitarists. Gary Higgins is a living legend who In 1973 released a brilliant, yet impossible to find LP, called Red Hash. A Drag City Records employee got it from Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance and became obsessed with the album and tracking Higgins down. Drag City renewed interest in this elusive classic when they reissued it last year. It may be 32 years late, but acclaim is finally coming to Higgins as the current folk explosion makes this classic record sound as relevant and contemporary as it did in '73. |
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Jeff Platz's Nude Saviors with Birdorgan, Mambo Mantis hosted by id m theft able Saturday 01.30.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Guitarist and composer Jeff Platz plays with his Nude Saviors, including Kit Demos from Portland's own Mystic Out Bop Review, John Mclellan on drums, and guest Jim Hobbes (of Fully Celebrated Orchestra) on sax. Platz has performed in various music festivals world wide such as New York city’s “What is Jazz” festival, the “Heidelberg jazz festival” in Heidelberg Germany, Amsterdam's” Crossing Borders” festival and the Munster International Jazz festival in Munster Germany. The Berlin based music journalist Wolf Kampmann writes, “Platz’s music is generous although never accidental. The secret of its uninhibited quality lies more in Platz’s playful use of the familiar where intuition, feeling, and memory are the most important navigational instruments”. Joining the bill is NYC's Mambo Mantis, who make music described as "what rock should have been if it could and what jazz could be if it would." New Hampshire's Birdorgan opens the evening with their unique sound derived from retired record players, prepared guitars, modular synths and contact mics. Portland's eminent arbiter of experimental music id m theft able hosts the evening. |
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Friday 01.29.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. First they brought you Tower of Song, then the debut albums of Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Anna's Ghost. Now Eternal Otter Records is back with their greatest event yet- the vinyl release of "Death, Rebirth, and Transformation". This 3-volume set of 7" singles features unreleased recordings by bands that have broken up, lost a founding member, or reformed under a new line-up including the legendary Cerberus Shoal, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper's Aly Spaltro and her former bandmate, TJ Metcalfe, and Portsmouth-based band Blaque Boose. Record listening stations curated by each of the artists will be setup in SPACE starting Wednesday, January 27th. The release party tonight features performances by Aly Spaltro, TJ Metcalfe, Blaque Boose, and Panda Bandits (paying homage to Cerberus Shoal). These performers will be joined by Dana Gross, Jesse Pilgrim, and Over A Cardboard Sea, who will be releasing a 2nd series of vinyl 7" records later in the year. A vinyl single of your choice from the "Death, Rebirth, and Transformation" series is included with your ticket purchase. Don't have a record player? Come early to SPACE for a tag sale of used turntables! |
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Saturday 01.23.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Portland prodigal son Roy Davis has returned to the scene but not before having holed up in the Milltown studio with his group of closely-knit cohorts (aka The Dregs) to bring us an 11 song voyage of indie-rock and folk. As the sounds shift between minimalist roots arrangements and heavy handed dirge-rock, Davis' lyrics are human and confrontational, like a eulogy for an innocent bystander. Dave Gutter (Paranoid Social Club, Rustic Overtones) and Evan Casas (Ocean and Casas) join forces for their side-project that brought us the album "The Key to Adore", an intimate salve to their more rock oriented pursuits. Marie Moreshead, a twenty-two year old folk/pop songstress who has been called “our city’s new ingénue” by the Portland Phoenix, opens the evening.
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The Pete Kilpatrick Band CD Release party with Amanda Gervasi, Hutch Heelan Saturday 01.09.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. The Pete Kilpatrick Band is a five piece pop rock band from Portland,Maine celebrating the release of their fifth studio record "Shapes and Sounds." In the past five years they've shared the stage with artists such as Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, Guster, Ray Lamontagne, Spoon, The Wailers, Brett Dennen and G Love. They have sold over 25,000 albums independently and have been named Maine's "Best Act" in three of the past four years. Recently, Pete has been nominated for two "Best Singer/Songwriter" awards at the renowned Boston Music Awards. Amanda Gervasi, the new singer for Gypsy Tailwind, will give us a set of her solo work and Hutch Heelan opens the night. |
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ALL AGES: John Nolan, Ocean is Theory, Pinsky, Gabriel the Marine Friday 01.08.2010, Doors at 7:30pm, Starts at 8:00pm, $8, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. John Nolan began his musical career as the lead guitarist for Taking Back Sunday, helping to secure the band's place in the alternative rock spotlight before moving on to form Straylight Run in 2003, which has toured alongside bands such as Jimmy Eat World, Minus the Bear and Rooney. John has been hard at work on his new solo record, "Height", as he steps out of his traditional front man role and into the possibilities of life as a solo artist. Ocean is Theory, from Atlanta, GA have been making quite a name for themselves on the Warped Tour and with a stint on SXSW. Portland's own Pinsky have been hard at work writing and recording new material, expanding their sound in a more mature direction while still holding onto the raw, energetic, and sincere sound that put them on the map. Pinsky are also featured in the new indie-documentary entitled "The Rivals" by Lone Wolf Productions. Long Island Indie band Gabriel the Marine open the show. |
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ICING: SPACE Gallery's New Year's Bash Thursday 12.31.2009, Starts at 8:00 PM, Ends at 1:00 AM, $50, 21+ We're partnering with Maine Magazine with plans to dress sharp and live it up for New Year's Eve this year with good food, good friends and a handful of performances by some of Portland's most talented artists. It's a bold mix of music, performance, and audiovisual delights with some dancing thrown in. Sponsored by Elliotsville Plantation, Inc., Cellardoor Vineyard, Coffee By Design, Black Parrot and Chantal, with food by Aurora Provisions, Browne Trading Co., Rosemont Market & Bakery, and local dessert vendors. |
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[dog] and [pony] DVD Release Show Saturday 12.12.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Click here to buy tickets [dog] and [pony] is the proverbial pat on the butt provided by local artists Nick Poulin and Krister Rollins to push the Portland Music Scene out the door and expose it to the world on their nifty website loaded with videos, articles, and updates. Starting tonight, they expand to the DVD format, which contains all episodes from Season 1. From Dead End Armory to Jacob Augustine, you can watch their style as documentarians progress, hear great music, and contribute to the scene while you're at it. Headlining the release party is Jacob Augustine, with supporting acts Marie Stella, Jesse Pilgrim, and Wesley Hartley. Special guests include Chriss Sutherland, Samuel James, D. Gross, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Kris Rogers and The Loblolly Boy.
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New York Night Train SOUL CLAP Dance-Off and Soul Party! Thursday 12.10.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $5, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. You've heard of emcee battles, you've heard of air guitar competitions but are you ready for a dance-off? New York maximum rock and roll party machine DJ Jonathan Toubin brings the soundtrack, you bring your dancing shoes. SOUL CLAP is a huge dance party making it's way across the nation where everyone is welcome to get down to classic 45s from Etta James to James Brown. You can move your feet to your favorites AND get your mind blown by Toubin's crate of obscure soul gems. Later in the evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to compete in the dance-off, grab a number, and compete for a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The competition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in town. SOUL CLAP has become notorious in New York for bringing together wild raucous crowds of folks young and old who want to dance and prove that they know how to shake their thing. Come show us what you've got. |
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A. A. Bondy, Wesley Allen Hartley and the Traveling Trees, Vikesh Kapoor Monday 12.07.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10 advance/ $12 day of show, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. With a sweetly countrified voice recalling Ryan Adams, and late-night moody instrumentation supplied by a killer backing band (including Ian of Felice Brothers), A.A. Bondy can make you smile even while he mourns for loves lost. The Boston Phoenix says it best: "A unique trait of (good) country music is its ability to transmit weakness as power; in this respect, Bondy's voice cuts through these simple little songs like a trusty pocket knife." Wesley Allen Hartley and the Traveling Trees is the new country-fried project of the former frontman of Dead End Armory, delving deeper into the Portland transplant's Texan roots. Cambridge-based singer Vikesh Kapoor opens the night. The Boston Globe writes, "At first glance Kapoor looks like the second coming of iconic troubadour Woody Guthrie. And when he opens his mouth, you think he just might be. |
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ALL AGES: Nightmare Of You, Destry, Fly Upright Kite & Colors Tuesday 12.01.2009, Doors at 7:30pm, Starts at 8:00pm, $8, $7 Advanced, All Ages Click here to buy tickets or go to any Bull Moose Music Location New York's Nightmare Of You have just released their 2nd full length, Infomaniac, and are playing this year's CMJ Festival. Their jaw-dropping live shows blend impeccable musicianship, master wordplay, and unforgettable melodies and harmonies. Desty, featuring ex and active members of Straylight Run, Taking Back Sunday, Northstar & Cassino, have a brand new cd, which the band worked on while living in all different areas on the country sending songs back and forth to become their full length "It Goes On." Boston's Fly Upright Kite are also on the bill with beautiful, swells of emotive songs that fans of Copeland and As Tall As Lions would be sure to love and make one of their first visits to Portland. Portland's own Colors open the night. |
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Friday 11.27.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $5, Free for SPACE Members, 18+ Click here to buy tickets Early in the year, photographer Joshua Loring and SPACE Gallery were awarded a grant by the Maine Arts Commission to document the underground rock scene with the goal of showcasing Portland music, performances, and musicians' lives to those within and without our Maine borders. The result is TREBLE TREBLE, a full color photo album designed by Sean Wilkinson and accompanying CD compilation featuring music by... well... a LOT of Portland bands. Many of them will be performing tonight: Gully, An Evening With, Huak, Metal Feathers, Vince Nez, Tempera & Leif Sherman Curtis. How are we going to fit all those bands, plus some informative, sometimes hilarious, sometimes scandalous insights on the scene in a slideshow presented by Ian and Josh into one night? You'll have to fight off your turkey coma and come find out! |
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SPACE and We Push Buttons present: El Ten Eleven with Arms and Sleepers (CD Release) and Atomik Saturday 11.21.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location LA’s El Ten Eleven is a post-rock, guitar looping, hard drumming duo packing a double-necked guitar driven dance tracks. Known for infectious grooves and awesome stage presence (playing bass, double neck guitar, loop pedals at the same time!) El Ten Eleven bring the party. The party you're going to. Arms and Sleepers get the night started by creating warm and hauntingly beautiful electronic compositions embedded in the cinematic experience of live video. They'll be celebrating the release of their new LP entitled Matador. Between sets and keeping the party going after the bands, we'll be treated to ATOMIK (Voted 2009 wepushbuttons.com Best Club DJs). Comprised of DJs Jason Keith & Matty.t. ATOMIK sticks to no one genre - disco, funk, electro, nu-disco, house, 70s, 80s, 90s... whatever will bump those speakers. One thing is certain, you will be DANCING! |
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Pants Yell! with Windy Smiles and Thithy Bwown Friday 11.20.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $5, 18+
Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Pants Yell!, from Cambridge, MA, bring the indie-pop in support of their new album, Received Pronunciation, out on classic indie label Slumberland Records (about to celebrate their 20th anniversary!!). Andrew Churchman, Sterling Bryant, and Casey Keenan made all the twee top 10 lists with their 2007 release Alison Stattonand the buzz that labelmates Pains of Being Pure at Heart have gained is starting to rub off on them in 2009. Windy Smiles weave boy/girl vocals around tunes for fans of Silver Jews and Fiery Furnaces. BOXY is quickly turning heads and gaining fans as one of Portland's newest bands featuring Joshua Loring (Brenda, Cult Maze),Graeme K., Annie Larmon and Chad Chamberlain. BOXY couldn't make it but Thithy Bwown take their place, featuring members of Seekonk and Plains.
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Two Man Gentlemen Band with Over A Cardboard Sea and The Grassholes Saturday 11.14.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location SPACE welcomes New York’s Two Man Gentlemen Band on their 2009 “Drip Dry Your Troubles Away” tour. Banjoist Andy Bean and bassist Fuller Condon combine hot jazz, vintage rhythm & blues, old-time country, and tin pan alley to create a joyous two-man sound that is all their own. Drawing influence from these varied genres, the Gentlemen bring out all the stops for their live performances (so be ready to dance “the Drip Dry Dance” right alongside). Portland’s Over a Cardboard Sea plays American popular song from the golden age of Tin Pan Alley (1890-1939 for those of you keeping tabs). Comic songs, novelty tunes, and tear-jerkers from the era of wax cylinder recording come to life when this ukulele-led line-up takes the stage! It’s a wow! It’s gigantic! It’s a real humdinger! Four-part harmonies and bad jokes make this group of ragtime rascals a must-see! With special guests, local pickers extraordinaire The Grassholes starting off the night! |
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J. Tillman with Pearly Gate Music and Micah Blue Smaldone Friday 11.13.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Pitchfork says the new solo endeavor of J. Tillman (of Fleet Foxes) "whispers loudly to slow the world down, to preserve a moment and all its emotions, whether they're pleasant or-- more likely—painful". Mojo says his new album, Year in the Kingdom, is an "Intimate, confessional... Lovely, late-night album". Rolling Stone says it's "...a compelling whirl of Laurel Canyon-echo balladry and desolate-psychedelia stomp." We say this is a show not to miss for fans of Fleet Foxes, Will Oldham, and Nick Drake and that he'll be in good company with Seattle's Pearly Gate Music and our own Micah Blue Smaldone, a member of Fire on Fire and solo master of the 12-string guitar. |
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An Evening With, The No. 9, Gavin Castleton and Greg Lyon Thursday 11.05.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $6, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location An Evening With is one of Portland's prized bands opening for acts at SPACE like Magnolia Electric Company, matching them note for note with engaging performance and alt-country sound (and a little bit of frontman Jeremy Alexander channeling Springsteen). The No. 9 is a new local group led by Gully's Stu Gurley, making Western Motown for reformed metalheads. Gavin Castleton has been touring the country for 12 years; first as a member of "futurock" band Gruvis Malt, then a member of "adventure rock" band Ebu Gogo, and now as a solo artist returning to Portland with a trio after his acclaimed set at the first annual Machigonne Music Festival with Ray LaMontagne and the Rustic Overtones. He'll be performing songs from his full-length zombie "popera" Home as well as his new Random Anthems EP. They're joined by opener Greg Lyon, a Boston based songwriter who gets his influences from anything that flies below the radar, playing with such bands as Pending Disappointment, Spanish Armada, and with Sarah Borges of Broken Singles. |
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The Mumlers and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and The Milkman's Union Wednesday 11.04.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location San Jose’s The Mumlers are an indie folk collective brought together under songwriter Will Sprott and bring an old world jamboree throw–down flair to their lively performances. Their new album, "Don't Throw Me Away" utilizes myriad instruments, including euphonium, French horn, clarinet, trumpet, Mexican whistles and pedal steel guitar. Lady Lamb & the Beekeeper is one of Portland's most talked about acts, not only for singer Aly Spaltro's inventive arrangements and instrumentation, but because she's writing some of the catchiest pop songs around. The Milkman's Union , a Brunswick band that has appeared on stage with the likes of Deerhunter and Dr. Dog, opens the evening |
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Saturday 10.31.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 21+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Remember Halloween at SPACE last year? Wow! Sold out crowd, amazing local artists performing as some of our favorite bands, ridiculous costumes, scandalous photos from the photo booth... let's do it again! Darien Brahms returns to the stage... this time as The Velvet Underground, and The Rattlesnakes team up with David Pence to perform as The Fall, while the Portland supergroup The Blood Capsules (members of Cult Maze, Ye, APSL and the Hatreds) rock sets by The Cramps and The Misfits! Not enough for you? How about Phantom Buffalo as DEVO!! Plus, deejay duo BAM BAM is back to keep you dancing into the wee hours of the night! |
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Tiger Saw Book Release with Music by Tiger Saw and South China Friday 10.30.2009, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages All My Friends Are Right Here With Me is the story of the first decade of the indie-folk collective Tiger Saw. Based on a decade of tour diaries and dozens of interviews, it tells of a community of bands in this DIY, post-Nirvana era. It features first-person accounts of tours with the likes of Kimya Dawson, Castanets, and Viking Moses, and features detailed remembrances by members of Dirty Projectors, White Hinterland, Songs: Ohia, and many others. Each chapter also includes concert fliers, tour photos, as well as comics and illustrations by Pat Corrigan, Tom Eaton, and Alan Bull. The book comes with an exclusive 13-track CD of Tiger Saw covers performed by some of their friends like Jason Anderson, Strand of Oaks, and South China, the latter performing a full set from their upcoming album Washingtons, on Peapod Recordings. Best of all, this event is FREE so you can save your money to buy a book! |
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Ocote Soul Sounds (featuring members of Antibalas and Grupo Fantasma) with Olas Sunday 10.25.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 21+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Adrian Quesada and Martin Perna, respective bandleaders of famed ensembles Grupo Fantasma and Antibalas, once again unite under the Ocote Soul Sounds banner in support of their new album, ‘Coconut Rock’ which seamlessly entwines the grit and funk of the gridlocked NYC streets, with the voices and rhythms of the dusty lanes of Latin America. Growing up on hip hop and the jazz and funk it was built on; both artists taught themselves to play multiple instruments; both had founded game-changing, booty-shaking big bands; and both were deeply moved by a powerful spirit of social and political activism, the spirit that was to become Ocote, which Dazed and Confused describes as “Sounding like a sun kissed Brazilian soundtrack from the ‘70s... for fans of Fela Kuti, Gang Starr and everyone in between.” The evening will begin with a special performance by Portland's newest World Music Ensemble, Olas, featuring members of Grupo Esperanza, Fire on Fire, and Moneycastasia.
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A Multimedia Event with Califone Wednesday 10.21.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $12 advance/$14 day of show, All Ages Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Califone is at the peak of its powers on All My Friends Are Funeral Singers, its sixth song based album. The long-awaited follow-up to 2006’s acclaimed Roots and Crowns, the album is the strongest collection of songs in a career with no shortage of strength. The subtlety and detail of Califone’s previous work is present here – the atmospheres are carefully nuanced, the percussion is both rattling and melodic, the melodies are rich and soulful, interspersed throughout softly strummed folk and electrified blues. In addition to treating us to a standard set from the new album, the band will be performing a live, interactive soundtrack to frontman Tim Rutili's new film of the same name, starring cult actress Angela Bettis (Girl, Interrrupted , May, Carrie) for an ambitious event unlike anything Califone has done to date.
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ALL AGES: Negative Standards, Pinko and the Action Boys, A Primitive and Savage Land, Ye Tuesday 10.20.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $5, All Ages Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location The essence of the hardcore punk band Acts of Sedition Negative Standards is a battle cry against their namesake: an act which forbade Americans to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government during wartime. Hailing from Oakland, CA, the group works to keep political dissent alive through community involvement and constructive lyrics. Maine punks Pinko and the Action Boys, A Primitive and Savage Land and Ye open with sets impossible not to get sweaty to! NOTE: DUE TO A SHATTERED COLLARBONE, the drummer for Acts of Sedition can't play. BRUTAL! The band will play as Negative Standards (featuring Acts of Sedition + friends) - down-tuned heavy hardcore with noise and samples... still sounds good! |
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Jozef van Wissem with The Improvisational String Quartet and Selbyville Saturday 10.17.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8, All Ages Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Composer-lute player Jozef van Wissem is renowned for his unusual approach of the renaissance and baroque lute. He cuts and pastes classical pieces, reverses melodies, adds electronics and processed field recordings made at airport lounges and train stations, accomplishing the strange feat of bridging the idiom of seventeenth century lute literature and twenty-first century composition. van Wissem runs the Incunabulum record label, and performs extensively around the world working with Tetuzi Akiyama, Maurizio Bianchi and James Blackshaw. His solo cd entitled "it is all that is made" was released by Important records in March 2009. He's joined by Portland's own Improvisational String Quartet, featuring members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Meantone's alter ego, Al Guisto. Selbyville, a new addition to the Portland scene, combines ambient electronics and compositional guitar work to finish off the night.
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Gully with Mean Creek and The Everyday Visuals Tuesday 10.06.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Boston folk-rockers Mean Creek mix tender melodies and harmonies with pummeling beats and atmospheric guitars that propel them into territory occupied by Fleet Foxes and company more than the alt-country acts of the moment. They'll be supporting their brand new record The Sky (Or the Underground). The Everyday Visuals return to SPACE with pop exuberance and driving feedback sounds that the Boston Phoenix says "conjure the Walkmen and XTC". Our own local rockers Gully headline the night. |
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Astronautilus with Samuel James and Nobs Monday 10.05.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Once described as what Tom Waits joining the MC battle circuit would sound like, Astronautalis is back to sweat, shout and freestyle all over our stage, all the while seducing the crowd with his unique brand of southern-indie-artsy-electro-historical-fiction-folk-crunk. Catch him now before Tegan & Sara steal him away as their European tour opener next month. Opening the night are Portland's mighty Samuel James and pride of the Bronx, Nobs. |
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WMPG Global Dance Party - A Fundraiser for WMPG's Power Up! signal improvement project Saturday 10.03.2009, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10 suggested donation, $7 with student id, 18+
Click here to buy tickets Six of WMPG’s finest DJ’s: DJ Eric (Zanzibar), SayLove (D.D.P.), Dany Challenger (Caribbean Flava), DJ Adira (Shaken and Stirred), Artur (Zvuki Russi), and Lady Soulshine (Mama Africa) will rock the wheels of steel (along with a battalion of bellydancers) for a dance party devoted to helping our favorite community radio station boost their signal across Southern Maine.
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Screaming Females with Marie Stella and The Rattlesnakes Tuesday 09.29.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Like the Thermals or Yeah Yeah Yeahs without any of the accompanying production sheen, Screaming Females are power-pop gone ragged on their latest LP, Power Moves. The New Jersey trio has only one actual screaming female, Marissa Paternoster, who Rolling Stone calls "2009's answer to Sleater-Kinney's 2006 breakup". Let's leave it at this: the band plays until they bleed, and then they play some more. Portland's own Marie Stella and The Rattlesnakes open the night. |
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LOVE UNITES: Dance Party to Benefit Marriage Equality Saturday 09.26.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 18+
Click Here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location You just come, dance, drink and party with your BFF's to some hot music and have the time of your life. Really? How much easier could it be for you to step up and defend equality? Rhetorical question people! Proceeds will buy TV air time to make the case to preserve the recent passage of the law that extends full marriage rights to same sex couples in Maine. |
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WePushButtons Electronic Music Festival @ SPACE Friday 09.25.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 18+
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Wednesday 09.23.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00pm, $6, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. There could be no better band to tap into the cosmic forces of the fall equinox than the psychedelic performative entity known as |
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Chain and the Gang with BOXY, Panda Bandits, and BAM BAM Sunday 09.20.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Living legend of the D.C. scene Ian Svenonious speaks oblique truths to power whether it's the politicized punk of Nation of Ulysses, the Gospel Yeh-yeh of the Make Up, or the subversive pop stylings of Weird War. His latest project is Chain and the Gang, whose K Records release Down with Libery... Up With Chains! features Calvin Johnson and members of Bad Thoughts, Desolation Wilderness, the Vibrarians, and Old Time Relijun. Word on the street is that this might be the best live show we'll see all year, and if you've ever seen Svenonious perform, that's no surprise. One of Portland's most exciting new bands, BOXY features Joshua Loring (Brenda, Cult Maze), Annie Larmon, and Graeme K. Deejay duo BAM BAM will select the finest mod and soul tracks to keep the party going after the show and Portland's strangest animal-style collective, Panda Bandits, start the night off with a bang! |
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Wednesday 09.16.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $15 advance, $18 day of show, 18+ Click Here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music Location A founding member of The Be Good Tanyas, Texas-born Jolie Holland sets her solo career apart by fusing folk, traditional country and blues into songs where the space between ancient and modern seems to fade away. Her latest album, The Living and the Dead, lives and breathes through memories of the past via reflection and resurrection, and grows into the present tense. The New York Times calls her "the folk singer who’s from everywhere and nowhere". Matt Bauer's banjo driven folk songs are haunting compositions ebbing and flowing between atmospherics and pointed lyricism. His latest record, The Island in the Storm, features contributions from other SPACE friends like Dirty Projectors and Mariee Sioux. |
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Death Vessel with Cotton Candy and Lorelei Saturday 09.12.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8 advance/$10 day of show, 18+ Click here to buy tickets or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Death Vessel is Joel Thibodeau's work as both a solo artist and band leader. His music is an eloquent distillation of a life's tales. Born in Berlin, Germany before The Wall fell... raised in Kennebunkport, Maine before the senior Bush's presidency... this musician lived a childhood where the ghosts of Cold War casualties and seaport tragedies haunted the alleyways and beaches. Leaving Maine as a teenager, Thibodeau moved to Boston, Providence and New York and crafted a truly unique sound, touring with the likes of Low, Jose Gonzalez, and Iron & Wine. Cotton Candy is the latest project of the legendary Mark Robinson (Unrest, Air Miami, Teen Beat Records). Slumberland Record's stalwarts, Lorelei, open the night. |
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The Intelligence with Johnny Cremains Tuesday 09.08.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets by clicking here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Noisenik Lars Finberg has played in some of that Seattle's noisiest, weirdest bands, including the A Frames, Unnatural Helpers, and the Dipers, but as The Intelligence, he throws downright poppy melodies in with jagged beats and shards of new wave and no wave guitars and keyboards. Now Oregon-based and comfortably among some of the best new rock bands on In the Red records, the Intelligence's latest Fake Surfers strips away some of the band's noise in favor of nods to '60s pop. Johnny Cremains is a new local supergroup of guitar gangsters featuring members of Ocean, Covered in Bees, and Confusatron. |
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The Annual SPACE Homecoming Dance Saturday 09.05.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 21+ If you were at our sold-out Homecoming Dance last year, you'll remember the rules: this is a SEMI-FORMAL dance, okay? No baggy jeans, and get a haircut young man! Spring for a corsage, dress to impress and dance the night away as it slowly devolves from an "Enchantment Under the Sea" style night in our makeshift gymnasium to a full-blown rager once the chaperones leave. Joshua Loring (Brenda, BOXY) will perform some classic oldies with his supergroup The Sticky Limos, and Spencer Albee brings The School Spirit Mafia back (we're proud to say their first gig was for last year's dance). Plus dj sets by Nicka P and Kurt Baker (Leftovers, Buzz Electric dance party) and the illustrious, industrious DJ Jon to keep you dancing all night long! We'll make the punch.
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Mother Mother with Please Be Ours - CANCELLED Wednesday 09.02.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ CANCELLED - due to visa issues. we hope to have the band back very soon! IF YOU BOUGHT TICKETS AT BULL MOOSE, PLEASE GO BACK THERE FOR A REFUND. IF YOU BOUGHT TIX FROM BROWNPAPER, YOU WILL BE RECEIVING AN EMAIL FROM THEM SHORTLY AND YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY RECEIVE A REFUND. We were excited when Sam Roberts came to SPACE last February, but what we didn't expect was that the supporting band, Vancouver Canada's Mother Mother, were going to blow us out of the water! With a beautifully bent portrait of vocal harmony, clever, offbeat lyricism, and dynamic instrumentation, their sound is best encapsulated on their sophomore album, O My Heart, produced by Howard Redekopp (Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers) and Mother Mother's own frontman, Ryan Guldemond. This is powerpop of the best kind, eschewing cuteness in favor of aggressiveness and turning to angular guitars and powerful harmonies that leave you reeling after every song. Kicking off the night, Please Be Ours is a love-fueled pop collaboration of locals Eric Ambrose, Evan Casas, Danny MacLeod, and Elijah Ocean.
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Saturday 08.29.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 18+ Buy tickets by clicking here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. The Picnic Music and Arts Festival is an annual craft fair-art show-music festival-yard sale extravaganza held at Lincoln Park in downtown Portland. In anticipation of the September 12th date, join SPACE and the Picnic purveyors for a benefit concert to keep this rich community event going! Musical performances by Huak, The Rattlesnakes, Marie Stella, Batshelter and Haru Bangs. |
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Solillaquists of Sound with Adeem Friday 08.28.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10 advance/ $12 day of show, 18+ Click Here to buy tickets. It would be an understatement to call the Sol.Illaquists of Sound a mere Hip-Hop Band. Their message and ambitious fusion of varied stylistic genres continue to reinvent the perceptions and experience of music as a whole. Swamburger, Alexandrah, Tonya Combs, and DiViNCi are each talented, focused and motivated enough to hold their own, but prove to be an undeniably ruthless force when working together. Backed by a powerful message of self-awareness, the Sol.Illaquists combine rapid-fire lyricism, jazz-tinged vocals, insightful poetry, and innovative live electronic performance. Solo MC of the New Hampshire-based hip-hop group Glue, Adeem opens the night. |
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ALL AGES: Caspian, The Baltic Sea, Arms And Sleepers Thursday 08.27.2009, Doors at 7:00pm, Starts at 7:30pm, Ends at 11:00pm, $5, All Ages Buy tickets Here or at Bull Moose record stores. Boston's premier post-rock instrumentalists, Caspian, headline another edition of our new ALL AGES series in support of their hot-off-the-presses second full length, Tertia, featuring further development of a momentous sound SPIN says "transcends post-rock cliches with meticulously crafted song." Portland's own heavyweights The Baltic Sea bring their multimedia onslaught to the fray. IREPRESS (pronounced EAR-press) consist of five ancestrally diverse individuals collaboratively creating music with a versatile sound, sharing the stage with everyone from The Wu Tang Clan to Kayo Dot. Irepress have dropped off this show due to personal Reasons. Arms And Sleepers have taken their place!
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HillyTown.com Presents OFFStage at SPACE Gallery Wednesday 08.26.2009, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Every Wednesday in August! Free, all ages shows @ SPACE starting at 7pm thanks to Portland's finest music listings site, HillyTown.com! Each show encourages musicians from near and far to get off the stage and show us something a little different... Week 4 features White Light, Blood Warrior (featuring members of O'Death), and Mark Summers (featuring members of Huak)! |
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Saturday 08.22.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or at Bull Moose Record Stores With the mighty Samuel James' 3rd full length album, For Rosa, Maeve and Noreen, our local bluesman takes his traditional style in new directions, drawing from his experiences touring the U.S. and Europe and taking the Delta spirits he resurrected and calling the music his own. As usual, his CD release is a star-studded affair with guest musicians Sontiago, Dilly Dilly, Ian Paige, Brown Bird, Micah Blue Smaldone, D Gross, Meantone, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Joe Fletcher, Myron Samuels, Billy Carrol, Computer at Sea, and Miah Connell PLUS a special dance performance by Atomic Trash to open the evening. Wowee!
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Spouse with Sandra Black & Adam Kurtz Friday 08.21.2009, Doors at 8:30pm, Starts at 9:00pm, $7, 18+ Click Here to buy tickets. Spouse frontman, José Ayerve, has consistently found himself collaborating with some of the most creative and inspired musicians around. |
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HillyTown.com Presents OFFStage at SPACE Gallery Wednesday 08.19.2009, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Every Wednesday in August! Free, all ages shows @ SPACE starting at 7pm thanks to Portland's finest music listings site, HillyTown.com! Each show encourages musicians from near and far to get off the stage and show us something a little different... Week 3 features Phantom Computers, Happy Machines, and Dead End Armory! |
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Sunday 08.16.2009, Doors at 8:00pm, Starts at 8:30pm, $10-20 suggested donation, 21+ Peace Action Maine, Federal Spice, and SPACE present a benefit for local refugee families featuring Fitzie Niceness with Tuf, a Rockin' Vibration reunion, and DJ Lukaduke from Cognizant Sound. Jamaican-born Fitzie Niceness has established himself in Maine and throughout New England with CD releases and live appearances featuring his dancehall-inspired vocals and conscious roots lyrics. He will be backed by Tuf, Portland's rootsiest reggae band. Rockin' Vibration is a legend in Maine's reggae history. From the early 80s to the late 90s, Rockin Vibration ruled the local scene. They originated the Peaks Island Sunday reggae series, and opened for nearly every major reggae talent passing through Portland. DJ Lukaduke will be bringing an extensive selection of roots reggae and Studio One classics to spin between sets. |
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Miss Fairchild mixtape release with the Maine Roller Derby Saturday 08.15.2009, Doors at 8:30pm, Starts at 9:00pm, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Portland's favorite pop funk messiahs, Miss Fairchild and Maine Roller Derby team up for a party that'll blow your skates off! Miss Fairchild celebrates the release of the "Kept Woman" video and their summer mixtape with the Derby girls, who launch their fall season August 29th. Expect video screenings, dj set by Todd the Rocket, and the "greatest hits" from last season's rough and tumble derby season. |
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Hometown Heroes Series: Brown Bird, Chriss Sutherland & Dead End Armory Friday 08.14.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00pm, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. We're anxiously anticipating the new album of sometimes-Portlanders Brown Bird so we handed them the controls for the latest installment of our Hometown Heroes series in order to get a sneak peek of the new songs. Expect the usual blissful, brooding string instrumentation and frontman David Lamb's careful and pointed vocals that makes the Portland Phoenix ask "How many times can you get the chills in one song?". The band invites their friends Chriss Sutherland and Dead End Armory to do some special performances. We don't know what's in store, but we heard rumors there's Barbecue involved! |
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HillyTown.com Presents OFFStage at SPACE Gallery Wednesday 08.12.2009, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Every Wednesday in August! Free, all ages shows @ SPACE starting at 7pm thanks to Portland's finest music listings site, HillyTown.com! Each show encourages musicians from near and far to get off the stage and show us something a little different... Week 2 features Panda Bandits, Dan Wholey, and Jesse Pilgrim! |
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Starlight Mints with Evangelicals, Dominic and the Lucid Tuesday 08.11.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10 in advance/$12 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Starlight Mints are a group of beautiful pop mutants: four singular musical minds whose love for archetypal pop music and AM radio has provided, over the course of three previous acclaimed albums, a rock-solid foundation where opulent chamber pop collides with post punk and new wave, all baked to perfection under the hot Oklahoma sun. Evangelicals mix a little Flaming Lips, Deerhunter, and Arcade Fire into their shimmering pop compositions, supporting their debut full-length The Evening Descends. Flower-power-pop scions Dominic and the Lucid open the night by showing us why they were voted Best Pop/Rock Act in the '09 Phoenix Best Music Poll! |
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HillyTown.com Presents OFFStage at SPACE Gallery Wednesday 08.05.2009, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Every Wednesday in August! Free, all ages shows @ SPACE starting at 7pm thanks to Portland's finest music listings site, HillyTown.com! Each show encourages musicians from near and far to get off the stage and show us something a little different... Week 1 features Boxy, The Cups, and Haru Bangs!
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Mad Tea Party with Over A Cardboard Sea Saturday 08.01.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets Here or at Bull Moose record stores. Based in Asheville, NC, Mad Tea Party brews up rock 'n' roll, retro-pop and honky tonk to create something like "B-52s meets Buddy Holly with a lot more thump." Delicious harmonies glide over electrified ukulele, juke-joint guitar, scratchy fiddle and pulsing foot percussion. Catchy songs about love, life, sex and dancing are steeped in raw rockabilly with shreds of doo wop and devilish blues. Portland's premier vaudevillian tricksters, Over A Cardboard Sea, play the ol' tymey jams to open the night. |
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Lewis & Clarke, Robert Stillman’s Horses with Caroline Weeks, Corridor, and Glass Ghost Tuesday 07.28.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at Bull Moose record stores. Fresh off a tour with Bat For Lashes, Lewis & Clarke, led by Lou Rogai, are bringing their spiritual, mood-driven compositions back to SPACE in support of their new EP Light Time. The Onion’s A.V. Club says, “Rogai has a gift for speaking plainly while tonguing poetry, and his meditations on life cycles and pastoral philosophy blossom and collapse with organic grace...” |
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The Extraordinaires, Malajube, The Last Sip Saturday 07.25.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at Bull Moose record stores. “We never, ever, ever want to do a normal live show.” says Extraordinaires singer Jay Purdy. Often found on tour with their fellow Philadelphians, Man Man, the group has bucked every trend, creating hand bound books instead of albums and creating spin-off theater productions of their unique indie rock vignettes. |
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The Sophomore Beat, Moving Mountains, Pinsky & Arcuates Friday 07.24.2009, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $5, All Ages Buy tickets here or at Bull Moose record stores. The ALL AGES shows continue! The New York based band Moving Mountains are on tour supporting their latest release, Foreword. |
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Tuesday 07.21.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here. CANCELLED! Believe us, we're super disappointed about this. John is having tonsil trouble today and we wish him speedy recovery. IF YOU HAVE TICKETS, PLEASE CONTACT THE PLACE YOU BOUGHT THEM FOR A REFUND. Though ostensibly an alt-country act, no amount of Telecaster bends or fiddle breaks are going to disguise Deer Tick's indie-rock core: John McCauley, in both composition and performance, owes more to the Shins, Modest Mouse and early Bright Eyes than he does even to alt-country acts like Uncle Tupelo. McCauley is the REAL country of Hank Williams and company, louder and dirtier for a new generation looking for honest music. California's Dawes open with their sweet porch harmonies and local boys Dead End Armory bring the unique Texan-style indie rock turned Maine psychedelic sincerity. |
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Cotton Jones with Mean Creek and Daniel Hales & The Frost Heaves Tuesday 07.14.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at Bull Moose record stores. Cotton Jones is the latest, greatest incarnation of Basket Ride and Page France. Maryland’s Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw have found new folk flexibility with their new name and new record entitled Paranoid Cocoon featuring gauzy grooves with spirit filled organ lines and washed out dual vocals that fall somwhere between Luna, Yo La Tengo and Beach House. |
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Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int’l Monday 07.13.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here Chicago’s Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int’l plays classic Central and West African dance music-specializing in soukous, Highlife, Rumba, Dry Guitar, and other delights from the great continent. |
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HUMANWINE with Lady Lamb The Beekeeper & Marie Stella Sunday 07.12.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $5, All Ages Buy tickets here or at Bull Moose record stores. HUMANWINE is independent on purpose, avoiding major label support and sticking with their self owned record label, Nervous Relatives Records since 2002. Out of Boston, Oakland, and anywhere in between that their mobile grease-bus home carries them, HUMANWINE brings an allegorical take on oppression, politics & the proletariat. Varying in size from the two founding members, M@ McNiss and Holly Brewer to a dozen, each performance is a unique multi-media event that includes acoustic /electric instruments, video projection and a voice that Boston Phoenix awarded Best Female Vocalist of 2008. |
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Friday 07.10.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here. Join World Arts and Culture Center's first SPACE Gallery Fundraiser with special dance performances featuring Bellydance with Adira, Tribal Bellydance with Jaiyana, Nia Dance with Maggie Bokor, Capoeira Angola with Mestre João and a range of traditional Brazilian dances such as Samba, Afoxe, Frevo and Carimbo by World Arts Samba Troupe. All this and a Latin Dance party all night with DJ Marcus Caine spinning favorites of Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and other Latin specialties from Brazil and beyond. Come celebrate with us in style, a dance show not to be missed! Bring your friends and dance for a great cause! For more info, call 207-409-6124 |
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Tuesday 06.30.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $6, All Ages Zs makes music that is variously categorized as no-wave, post-jazz, brutal-chamber, brutal-prog, and post minimalist. Zs' music is angular, repetitive, and either very loud or very soft. The group is often recognized for it's dual function as chamber ensemble and rock band, working with Animal Collective, Gang Gang Dance, and Big A little a (Aa), as well as Joe Maneri, Christian Wolff, Louis Andriessen, and Petr Kotik. |
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Arborea (Cd Release) w/ Mariee Sioux, Dearest, and Sondra Sun-Odeon Saturday 06.27.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Arborea is Buck and Shanti Curran melding lilting lyrics, dulcimer, guitar, banjo and otherworldly sounds into a psych-folk evocation of the land and seascapes in their home state of Maine. They'll be celebrating the release of a compilation CD they curated called Leaves of Life, featuring tracks by Larkin Grimm, Micah Blue Smaldone, Big Blood and Devendra Banhart among many others. California's Mariee Sioux continues the folk tradition of songwriting greats such as Joni Mitchell, Kate Wolf and Nick Drake, Sondra Sun-Odeon is the lead singer of Silver Summit. Both artists also appear on the compilation. |
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Sun Gods in Exile (CD Release) with Ogre and Murciélago Friday 06.26.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Local bad boys Sun Gods in Exile write songs in the spirit of Southern Fried Rock to set fire to the hearts of cold-weather Mainers. Picture Ted Nugent storming the stage at an Allman Brothers show and then ripping solos over everything; verses, choruses, intros, outros, everything. Join them in celebrating their new album of Skynyrd worship, titled “Black Light, White Lines” on Small Stone Records. Ogre makes a long-overdue appearance on the SPACE stage with their raging underground metal set. Murciélago is the brand-spankin' new project of King Memphis gunslinger Matt Robbins. |
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Winterpills with Bird in the Rafters Computer At Sea, and Seymour Saturday 06.13.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Northampton's Winterpills return to SPACE with their delicate dream-pop laced with vocal harmonies and the inventive songwriting of Philip Price pushing the songs in new forceful directions reminiscent of Elliot Smith and Arcade Fire. |
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Friday 06.12.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $6, 18+ Local label L'animaux Tryst celebrates the release of three limited edition vinyl LPs with TRYST HAUNT II: Space Is The Place - a biennial label showcase and "happening". |
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Pink Mountaintops with Quest for Fire & Dilly Dilly Wednesday 06.03.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Remember that amazing Black Mountain show at SPACE last year? Well say hi to their alter ego! "Outside Love" is the third album by Pink Mountaintops, AKA Stephen McBean, the driving force behind Black Mountain. With Pink Mountaintops, McBean marches to the beat of a poppier drummer, turning his songwriting to themes of love, while maintaining the dense sonic architecture that propelled Black Mountain's runaway acclaim. |
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isobell CD Release with Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Phantom Buffalo Saturday 05.30.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here. isobell releases their first album, Maproom, on Peapod Recordings, at SPACE tonight. Members formed not so long ago but have quickly moved onto everyone's radar. The Portland Press Herald added them to their "10 to watch" list with an album that's being compared to Sigur Ros and Mazzy Star. |
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Wednesday 05.27.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $13 adv / $15 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here. |
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HOMETOWN HEROES: Honey Clouds CD release with Gully and the Rattlesnakes Saturday 05.23.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here. Just in time for summer, Honey Clouds are releasing their first CD entitled "Fall On the Honey Clouds", a properly recorded follow up to 2007's "earl grey demos".
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Azita with Plains and Orchards Saturday 05.16.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Azita Youssefi established herself as a fixture in Chicago's Wicker Park no wave scene in the early nineties when she formed the Scissor Girls. Since then, she's traded in the abrasive guitars for solo work on piano and her brilliant warbling voice, got picked up by Drag City records and released records with members of Isotope 217 and Tortoise. Plains opens with their acoustic shoegaze sound along with the Portland ramshackle folk collective The Orchards. |
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Thursday 05.14.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, All Ages Rooted in Flamenco dance, driven by palmas, and borrowing elements from Afro-Cuban, Folk, Acoustic, and Arabic music, Lindsey Bourassa, in collaboration with an eclectic group of Portland dancers, musicians and artists, composes a story about movement. Through original music, flamenco dance, and spoken word Lost for Words is the visceral and corporeal representation of a written narrative about geographical, emotional, and expressive movement. Featuring dancers Lindsey Bourassa and Megan Keogh, and musicians Chriss Sutherland, Dylan Blanchard, Tom Kovacevic, Leif Sherman-Curtis, Molly Angie and Anna Trunzo. |
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The Thermals w/ The Shaky Hands and Point juncture, WA Wednesday 05.06.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ We love The Thermals! Even though they're from that other Portland, the Kill Rock Stars popsters always seem at home here. |
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Tuesday 05.05.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ One of Portland's finest exports, Ocean, headline a show of head-nodding heaviness with Thrill Jockey Record's Pontiak: three brothers from Virginia who mind meld for amp-blowing sound and incredible productivity - three albums in just over a year! Their latest, Maker, leads the listener through a maze of sustain and hum tones with piercing vocal phrases and a sound reminiscent of more saturated, heavier Dead Meadow. |
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ALL AGES: Feel it Robot, the 500s, and Rotundo Sealeg Sunday 05.03.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, Ends at 11:00 PM, $7, All Ages
Feel It Robot is a five piece power post punk synth pop force from the seemingly innocent hamlet of Bangor, Maine. Singing exclusively about Bicycles, Robots, Dancing, and Taking Off Your Pants might seem a bit limiting, but the hour long set swings from Punk to Salsa to 50s Swing with such ease that it always leaves sweaty crowds wanting more. They're joined by comrades-in-fun, Portland's own the 500s, and keytar-fronted powerpop/punk band Rotundo Sealeg for an early all-ages show guaranteed to get everyone screaming with happiness and joy! |
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The Thinking Heart & Casco Bay Tummlers: History in Poetry and Music - a CD Release Concert Thursday 04.30.2009, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12, All Ages Join us for a journey into one of history ’s darkest passages and the stirring and heart-spirited music of Jewish jazz: The Thinking Heart, a performance in two voices, with cello, based on the writings of a Dutch woman, Etty Hillesum, who died in the Holocaust. |
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Tuesday 04.28.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 18+ Milled Pavement Records brings a host of performers from around the globe together to send the rhinosaurus of alternative rap music running loose in our hometown. |
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The Pack A.D. with Dead End Armory, Prism Camp and Samuel James Monday 04.27.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Come on down for a night of musical variety with rock from The Pack A.D., indie alt-rock-country with Dead End Armory, experimental with Prism Camp; and straight Soul and blues with Samuel James all under the same roof. |
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Wednesday 04.22.2009, Doors at 07:00, Starts at 07:30, $7, All Ages Local punk band A Primitive and Savage Land and Dylan Bredeau play SPACE for the first time, joined by Lewiston hardcore punks to the barricades! and hometown post-punk phenomenon Huak. This all-ages Earth Day show will benefit local arts collective The Dooryard. Come one & all! |
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Saturday 04.18.2009, Doors at 1:30 PM, Starts at 2:00 PM, $8, All Ages Morgan Taylor returns to SPACE with the latest installment in the story of Gustafer Yellowgold, a golden alien who comes to life in a “moving book” of songs and pictures; a show for the whole family to enjoy. |
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Emiliah Dahlin CD release show Saturday 04.18.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ Tonight come in to hear the newest from local songstress Emiliah Dahlin. Also in the house this evening will be singer-songwriter Mieka Pauley. |
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The Lord Dog Bird & Micah Blue Smaldone Friday 04.17.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Come in and enjoy some wonderiful music of the singer/songwriter type with The Lord Dog Bird, Micah Blue Smaldone, and Tom K of Fire on Fire. |
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The Jason Spooner Trio, Adam James Frederick with The Hippie Killers, and The Toughcats. Thursday 04.09.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Come on down for an evening with The Jason Spooner Trio, Adam James Frederick with The Hippie Killers, and The Toughcats. A night of good ole' fashioned rock and roll for your your inner hobo.
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Friday 03.27.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, Ends at 1:00 AM, $10, 18+ What started as a trickle became a hurricane as a dancing craze is sweeping the city. If you’re already in the know, you’ve got plans to be at SPACE tonight with your dancing shoes on. If you’re new to the game, we’ll have Tango and Salsa lessons at the beginning of the night, alternating with dj’s and warm-up sets by the bands and then... full sets of the hottest music in Portland to heat up the early spring weather. |
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Kris Clark presents: CHANGE UP! Equinox Party! Saturday 03.21.2009, Doors at 9:00pm, Starts at 9:30pm, Ends at 12:30am, free, 18+ Kris Clark invites you to celebrate the first day of spring and the new spirit of change. Brooklyn’s DJ NILES reprise set of soulful, uplifitng house is guaranteed to fire up your feet and rejuvenate your soul. PLUS special guest DJ. Are you Ready To Go, Portland?asdfsadfsadf |
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Hometown Heroes: Chriss Sutherland CD Release with Brown Bird and Christopher Teret Friday 03.20.2009, Doors at 8:30pm, Starts at 9:00pm, Ends at 12:30am, $7, 18+ Chriss Sutherland (Fire on Fire/Cerberus Shoal) celebrates his second full-length solo record Worried Love, released March 17th on Peapod Recordings. Sutherland will play both solo and accompanied by a gaggle of friends. The music and the performance promise to be loaded with complicated and conflicting emotions. Opening the night will be the hard fought songs and voice of Christopher Teret and the lively heart of Brown Bird. Sutherland and Brown Bird launch a string of east coast tour dates with this show. |
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Sister Suvi with Shapes and Sizes and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Friday 03.13.2009, Doors at 9:00pm, Starts at 9:30pm, , 18+ If you didn’t catch Sister Suvi’s frontwoman Merrill Garbus doing her solo project called Tune Yards here last fall, you missed one of the best performances on our stage in 2008! She’s back with her Montreal/Toronto full band, featuring a member of Islands, that locomotes like Deerhoof, folks-out like Akron Family and has been called the best unsigned band in North America. We’d like to suggest another contender for that title: Portland’s own Lady Lamb the Beekeeper who open the night along with Montreal popsters Shapes and Sizes. |
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Thursday 03.12.2009, Doors at 7:00pm, Starts at , , 18+
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Saturday 03.07.2009, Doors at 7:00pm, Starts at 7:30pm, , All Ages Ocean “crawl through big riffs, rewarding the attentive with method and nuance, an achievement that recalls the subtle payoffs of classical composers Arvo Pärt and Philip Glass.... Imagine the climax of your favorite post-rock explosion lasting longer and gilded with the heavy elements and themes of desperation. Indeed, among the relatively crowded field of viscous, torpid metal ... Pantheon of the Lesser feels like a new benchmark.” (Pitchfork). Junius puncture each track with unshakable singularity until it turns into something addictive and encompassing.” (Exclaim! Magazine) |
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Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia with Sara Hallie Richardson Saturday 02.28.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+
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THE FEEL GOOD PARTY OF THE WINTER Friday 02.27.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+
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Hometown Heroes: 48 Hour Music Festival Saturday 02.21.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+
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Sam Roberts Band with Mother Mother Tuesday 02.17.2009, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ Sam Roberts, dubbed “The best live frontman in music” by Esquire Magazine, makes his first stop in the USA here in Portland |
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HEARTBREAKS & CRATES - Songs for the Grown and Sexy with DOCKS79 and PORE Saturday 02.14.2009, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Valentine’s Day presented by SPACE and Imperial Dynasty: HEARTBREAKS & CRATES, DJ’d by local Portland crate diggers Boondocks and Pore. |
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Saturday 02.07.2009, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $10, All Ages Girls Rock! is a showcase of female talent from the Maine Academy of Modern Music. |
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Middle Eastern Night with Turgay Ertürk and Alhan Saturday 01.31.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Turgay Ertürk was born and raised in Urgup, a small town in Central Anatolia, Cappadocia, Turkey. He started playing the longed neck lute saz (baglama) at the age of fifteen. |
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Baltic Sea with Arms and Sleepers, Hadoken Friday 01.30.2009, Doors at 9:00pm, Starts at 9:30pm, , 18+ Deep orchestral atmospheres crossed with hard playing make The Baltic Sea Portland’s premier post-rockers. They team up with Boston’s Arms and Sleepers who utilize electronic sources to create rich, brassy textures, choppy beats and ethereal vocals. Brooding Amherst newcomers, Hadoken, open. The whole evening will be filled with music combined with live video. |
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Baltic Sea with Arms and Sleepers, Hadoken Friday 01.30.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Deep orchestral atmospheres crossed with hard playing make The Baltic Sea Portland’s premier post-rockers. |
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Mission of Burma with Huak and The Rattlesnakes Sunday 01.25.2009, Starts at 8:30 PM, $15, 18+ Yes, THE Mission of Burma! |
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Hometown Heroes presents the 3rd annual Dead of Winter Saturday 01.24.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $5, 18+ A couple years ago, we got a good idea. Warm up these darkest days by cramming a ton of Portland songwriters into one night |
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Fucked Up with Cougars Kill Cobras Sunday 01.18.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Matador Records recent signees, Fucked Up, are a bunch of noisy Canadians adept at face-melting during live shows. |
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Larkin Grimm with Beat Circus and Chriss Sutherland Saturday 01.17.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+
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MV & EE with Attar Cups and The Red F Friday 01.16.2009, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+
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Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int’l with Grupo Esperanza Saturday 01.10.2009, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Chicago’s Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int’l plays classic Central and West African dance music-specializing in soukous, Highlife, Rumba, Dry Guitar, and other delights from the great continent. |
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New Year's Eve: WALL STREET PARTY!! Wednesday 12.31.2008, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 21+ Sometimes there's a bubble. Sometimes it bursts. The good news is, either way it's a good excuse to party! |
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Hometown Heroes: Graeme K., Brenda, Eggbot, and Computer at Sea Friday 12.19.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Portland’s prodigal son, Graeme K., returns for a special Hometown Heroes. |
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WCYY Holiday Bizarre: Loverless and Dominic and the Lucid’s SUNSHINE PARTY Saturday 12.13.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, free, 18+ It’s December and you’re cold and it’s 4 o’clock and it’s already dark! Don’t be bummed out, come to the SUNSHINE PARTY! |
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Friday 12.12.2008, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10 in advance, $15 at the door, 18+ Dimensions in Jazz delivers another heavy night at SPACE for the jazz-heads! Snowmonks are a five piece ensemble |
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The Howlies, Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia, and The King Left Thursday 12.11.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Atlanta’s The Howlies are cut from the same analog cloth as their city-mates The Black Lips. |
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The Spinto Band with Oxford Collapse and Phantom Buffalo Tuesday 12.09.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ Bacharach, Beatles, Berlin, Bowie... all B words brought to mind by the mighty Spinto Band! |
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Pete Kilpatrick with Roy Davis and the Dregs and Marie Moreshead Friday 11.28.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ It’s time to get out of the house after a lazy holiday, and what better reason than Pete Kilpatrick’s long-overdue return to SPACE? |
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Dracula Zombie USA with Jerk Off Jack Off Frig Face, Feel it Robot, and Miss Amanda Jones Thursday 11.20.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Portland’s DraculaZombieUSA Yankee Ingenuity is the third branch of the legendary DraculaZombieUSA franchise, which began in Brooklyn and spread to San Francisco. |
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Saturday 11.15.2008, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $5, 18+ WePushButtons is Portland’s one stop shop for electronic music and hip hop communities. The 2nd annual Awards Show honors the cream of the crop in all areas of the local electronic music, including categories for Best Hip Hop Act, Best House Act and Best Club DJ. |
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Friday 11.14.2008, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8, 18+ 7 SIRENS is just what it sounds like: Seven of the most sonorous voices in Portland with two X chromosomes sharing the stage. |
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Fredrik with Plains and Lady Lamb The Beekeeper Thursday 11.13.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Sweden’s Fredrik is the more acoustically oriented Swedish sextet from the men behind previously loved electro pop outfit the LK. They make pitch-perfect folk songs somewhere between Aerial M, Magnetic Fields and Panda Bear. |
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Reggae for Haiti, a benefit for Haitian flood relief Thursday 11.06.2008, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7-15 suggested donation, 18+ SPACE teams up with Peace Action Maine to present a benefit for Haitian flood relief featuring Baraka Oyuru from the Wailers Band, Jamaican vocal sensation Fitzie Niceness, Portland’s legendary Mystic Vibes, Tuf (featuring members of Rockin Vibration) and and DJ Lukaduke from Cognizant Sound. |
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World/Inferno Friendship Society with The Swaggerin' Growlers Wednesday 11.05.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ World/Inferno is a cabaret punk band from Brooklyn, merging punk, klezmer, and gospel. |
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Friday 10.31.2008, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 21+ Yes, friends, it’s a time-honored SPACE tradition: your favorite local bands as your favorite all-time bands for Halloween! Darien Brahms as David Bowie! The Toughcats with Emilia Dahlin as Cyndi Lauper! Computer at Sea as Kraftwerk! Conifer as CAN! |
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My Brightest Diamond with Clare & The Reasons - Halloween-Eve Bash! Thursday 10.30.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ My Brightest Diamond is spearheaded by Shara Worden whose vocal style and stage theatrics channel Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone and Portishead, backed up by the band’s Mancini-esque string arrangements. |
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Conifer CD Release with Akimbo Monday 10.20.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Finally! Our local ministers of LOUD, Conifer, are throwing their CD release party at SPACE for their long awaited sophmore effort entitled Crown Fire, released by Important Records. |
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LIVE! ON STAGE JONATHAN RICHMAN featuring TOMMY LARKINS on the drums, with Hilton Valentine Saturday 10.18.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $12, 18+ Jonathan Richman has been writing songs, making records and performing live for most of his life, winning fans and making friends around the world with his guileless honesty and playfully catchy compositions. |
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Cougars Kill Cobras CD Release Party w/ Guillermo Sexo and SHELLSHAG Friday 10.17.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ It’s not a secret anymore that Cougars Kill Cobras rock really really… really hard. They haven’t even properly released an album and they’ve launched to the top of everyone’s list of contenders for the title of Best Rock Band in Portland. |
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Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour Tuesday 10.14.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ A traveling variety show featuring Julian Koster, William Cullen Hart, Scott Spillane, Laura Carter, Eric Harris and many more members of The Elephant 6 collective performing the music of The Music Tapes, Circulatory System, Scott Spillane, The Gerbils, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, Nesey Gallons and more. |
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Citay w/ Tempera and tUnE-YaRdS Monday 10.13.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Citay is the project of San Francisco’s Ezra Feinberg and his cadre of “goddam hippies”. The result is sweeping psychedelia with Byrds harmonies and Floyd-ed out guitar wails somehow compacted into tight pop gems. |
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Sunday 10.12.2008, Starts at 12:00 PM, $5 and available first-come, first-serve at the door only. , All Ages The Time of Rivers Festival focuses on exploratory stringed instrumental soloists with an emphasis on the guitar. There are however a few ensembles who round things out a bit and hopefully complement the other musicians. Last year's inaugural festival was a huge success with locals and visitors from all over due to the the diversity of the players and the various approaches to their instrument(s). |
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Sunday 10.12.2008, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, $15 advance, $18 at the festival. Passes for all three evening shows are $35 in advance and $45 at the festival., All Ages The Time of Rivers Festival focuses on exploratory stringed instrumental soloists with an emphasis on the guitar. There are however a few ensembles who round things out a bit and hopefully complement the other musicians. Last year's inaugural festival was a huge success with locals and visitors from all over due to the the diversity of the players and the various approaches to their instrument(s). |
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Saturday 10.11.2008, Starts at 12:00 PM, $5 and available first-come, first-serve at the door only. , All Ages The Time of Rivers Festival focuses on exploratory stringed instrumental soloists with an emphasis on the guitar. There are however a few ensembles who round things out a bit and hopefully complement the other musicians. Last year's inaugural festival was a huge success with locals and visitors from all over due to the the diversity of the players and the various approaches to their instrument(s). |
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Saturday 10.11.2008, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, $15 advance, $18 at the festival. Passes for all three evening shows are $35 in advance and $45 at the festival. , All Ages The Time of Rivers Festival focuses on exploratory stringed instrumental soloists with an emphasis on the guitar. There are however a few ensembles who round things out a bit and hopefully complement the other musicians. Last year's inaugural festival was a huge success with locals and visitors from all over due to the the diversity of the players and the various approaches to their instrument(s). |
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Friday 10.10.2008, Doors at 5:30 PM, Starts at 6:00 PM, $15 advance, $18 at the festival. Passes for all three evening shows are $35 in advance and $45 at the festival., All Ages The Time of Rivers Festival focuses on exploratory stringed instrumental soloists with an emphasis on the guitar. There are however a few ensembles who round things out a bit and hopefully complement the other musicians. Last year's inaugural festival was a huge success with locals and visitors from all over due to the the diversity of the players and the various approaches to their instrument(s). |
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Wednesday 10.08.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ New Zealand's Liam Finn is going to be freakin' huge once he's done touring with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, though he already has a head start after that sweet duet of “Two of Us” with dad, Neil Finn (Crowded House), on the I Am Sam soundtrack and an “Artist to Watch” nod from Rolling Stone that calls his sound “Elliot Smith - despair + a leprechaun”! |
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PSO @ SPACE: Untitled No. 1 featuring dj Masonic and the Improvisational String Quartet Sunday 10.05.2008, Starts at 7:00 PM, $5, All Ages The Portland Symphony Orchestra will perform Mason Bates’ “Liquid Interface” on their season opening concert at Merrill Auditorium, but for the first ever PSO @ SPACE program, Bates, aka dj Masonic, will collaborate with the Improvisational String Quartet (Yasmin Craig Vitalius, PSO violinist, Nathan Kolosko, classical guitar, Al Giusto, resonator guitar and Catherine Stambach, acoustic bass). |
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Japanther with Matt & Kim and Black Label NYC DJs Saturday 10.04.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ Brooklyn invades Portland tonight for the best party in town. For photographer Tod Seelie's gallery show this month, we've brought together some of Tod's closest musical friends to celebrate a great installation. |
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Black Label Bicycle Club DJs Dirtyfinger, Stache & Porkchop Friday 10.03.2008, Doors at 9:30 PM, Starts at 10:00 PM, $5, Free for SPACE Members, 18+ The Black Label Bicycle Club is a national network of seriously dedicated bicycle modifiers and riders. From the ranks of the Brooklyn chapter, the club has also spawned some outrageous DJs like Dirtyfinger, Stache and Porkchop who have been making loft parties and clubs all over the Boroughs sweat to a gritty mix of '80s Euro new wave, dancey edits of early rock jams, hip-hop booty bass and Latin soul classics. |
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Dark Meat w/ The Loom and Metal Feathers Thursday 10.02.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Vice Records' Dark Meat are an Athens ensemble mixing elements of blues, punk rock, psychedelic jams, jazz and Zappa/Beefheart styled explosions. |
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These Are Powers with The Rattlesnakes Tuesday 09.30.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Brooklyn's These Are Powers are a group of future primitives that can't seem to stop touring and getting better at making noise-infused, madness invoking no-wave rock n' roll that brings to mind Deerhoof, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Boredoms. |
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Moses Atwood with Samuel James and Johnson's Crossroad Friday 09.26.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ It's the return of the mighty Moses Atwood! He's been spending his days in Asheville, NC, but Portland's "heir apparent to Ray LaMontagne" can't seem to leave for too long, especially with good friends like Samuel James able to lend a hand with a concert. |
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Death Vessel w/ Micah Blue Smaldone (CD Release) Wednesday 09.24.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ Kennebunkport raised Joel Thibodeau has come along way since he left these parts, now touring his band Death Vessel with the likes of Low, Jose Gonzalez, and Iron & Wine. The same growth can be said for Fire on Fire member Micah Blue Smaldone who's been honing his set all over Europe and the U.S. |
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The League of Young Voters Presents RECLAIM your world: registration to ROCK concert Monday 09.22.2008, Starts at 6:00 PM, Free, All Ages What's that? A free rock concert? The League of Young Voters partners with rockin' musicians and rollin' local organizations to bring you an evening of sweet tunes and everything you'd ever wanted to know about voting in Maine. |
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Saturday 09.20.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ Anticon’s WHY? are the kings of jangle-rap, equally at home sharing the stage with their hip-hop labelmates or touring with Yo La Tengo and Islands. They roll through town to support their third LP of hard rhymes and raw-spun songs, Alopecia. |
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Melissa Ferrick CD release with Michelle Malone Wednesday 09.17.2008, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $18 in advance, $20 at the door, 18+ Melissa Ferrick returns to SPACE for a special, solo-acoustic CD release show for her yet to be titled 8th album. Don't miss this opportunity to see this legendary singer/songwriter - as she has sold out the last three shows she has played in Portland. |
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Indian Jewelry with Mmoss and Planets Around The Sun Tuesday 09.16.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ If the castaways from "The Lord of the Flies" had guitars and messed up keyboards, they would have formed Indian Jewelry. But they didn't. Some kids from Texas did and their music has been called anything from ethno-voodoo, industrial death disco or other dumb phrases that might bring to mind Suicide or Throbbing Gristle. |
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Saturday 09.13.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ We've been saving our energy up for a good ol' fashioned SPACE party so let's get one thing straight: This is a SEMI-FORMAL dance, okay? No baggy jeans, and get a haircut young man! |
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Hometown Heroes: Darien Brahms CD Release with The Hot Tarts Saturday 09.06.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+
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Peapod Recordings Showcase - featuring a million bands! Saturday 08.30.2008, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8, 18+ We give the reigns over to Ron Harrity and his homegrown record label’s amazing lineup of talent from as close as Portland and as far away as Berlin. |
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Roy Davis & The Dregs with The Everyday Visuals and Tree By Leaf Friday 08.29.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Roy Davis & the Dregs bring a warming mix of alt-country and Americana pop-rock to SPACE Gallery in support of his new album, Deadweight. Think Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics over Neil Young & Crazy Horse after three beers. |
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B-Boys in Arms Presents… A Hip-Hop Jam for Justice Saturday 08.23.2008, Starts at 8:00 PM, Free, All Ages B-Boys in Arms Presents… A Hip-Hop Jam for Justice is a fund-raising exhibition of local visual and performing Hip-Hop artists, through which we will be raising money for the Darfur region of Sudan. |
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Thursday 08.21.2008, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $10, All Ages Bluntfest is back! The music festival that rocked you in the late 90s with the sounds of youthful and local talent is reemerging with diverse music from across the city. |
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Tuesday 08.19.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Parachutes (based in Reykjavik, Iceland) is the music of Alex Somers and Scott Alario, taking their name from the seeds of a dandelion flower. They play lots of different toys and instruments and often sample objects from around the house. |
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SPACE Gallery and Portland’s Downtown District present The Toughcats Friday 08.15.2008, Starts at 12:00 PM, Free, All Ages The Toughcats, a trio from midcoast Maine, play a unique brand of rock n’ roll. Their songs are slow waltzes, banjo-pickers and steel guitar rockers. |
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Portland Popfest: Bears, Ghosty, PWRFL Power, The 500s and more! Thursday 08.14.2008, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ This is one gigantic humongous night of pop and twee featuring the music of Cleveland, Ohio’s Bears, melodic technicians Ghosty, one man superman PWRFL Power, and the local punk pop of The 500s. |
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Alina Simone with Adam Kurtz (CD release) and Matt Rock Saturday 08.09.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Alina Simone brings a folk-oriented sensibility to her songs about ordinary places and strange meetings. Her style brings to mind both Cat Power and PJ Harvey, but it’s her recent project of Russian punk covers that separates her from the pack. |
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SPACE Gallery and Portland’s Downtown District present Phantom Buffalo Friday 08.08.2008, Starts at 12:00 PM, Free, All Ages What more do you want us to say about Phantom Buffalo? You scream, we all scream for pretty pop tunes drenched in psychedelic effects. It’s better than a Fudgsicle. |
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Surprise Me Mr. Davis with The Low Anthem and Whitehouse on Trial Friday 08.08.2008, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Surprise Me Mr. Davis is an electro-folk collaboration between singer-songwriter Nathan Moore and members of the contemporary avant-rock trip The Slip. The band heard Moore singing in the shower while on tour, and during a blizzard in 2003 they recorded some tracks while they were snowed in. |
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In the Window - GC Typhois goes for the WORLD RECORD Thursday 08.07.2008, Starts at 4:00 PM, Free, All Ages R. Riley Chaisson is GC Typhois, a one-man band from Portland, ME. He will spend the next four days, a total of 60 hours, attempting to break the world record for longest continuously played solo guitar performance, currently held by James Brister of Louisiana (Jan 29, 2006 at 50 hours). |
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The Baltic Sea Album Release with The Cambiata and The Informati Saturday 08.02.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ For fans of Mogwai, Hum and Sunny Day Real Estate. SPACE proudly presents the CD Release of “Through Scenic Heights and Days Regrets”, the new album by Portland post-rockers The Baltic Sea. |
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SPACE Gallery and Portland’s Downtown District present Brenda Friday 08.01.2008, Starts at 12:00 PM, Free, All Ages From the ashes of Cult Maze comes Brenda! This indie rock trio is cut from the classic mold, tipping its hat with equal reverence to Pavement and the Beach Boys, Elvis and the Walkmen. |
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First Friday: Detached Sentiments closing reception Friday 08.01.2008, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 9:00pm, Free, All Ages Artist Patrick Corrigan is one of SPACE’s favorite local renaissance men, working out of his Bayside studio, Fort Awesome, on a variety of music projects, paintings and mixed media pieces, silk-screened prints, illustrations and hand-painted custom guitar pedals. |
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Dog Day Afternoons with Vince Nez Wednesday 07.30.2008, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Who better to wrap up the Dog Day Afternoon series than the genre-defying, mind-bending musician known to the rest of us as Vince Nez? Vince is sure to pack in a set of surprise guests to help with his unique, playful songs, written on anything from an acoustic guitar to a trombone. |
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Vetiver with Arborea and Saint Disaster Tuesday 07.29.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8.00, 18+ San Francisco's Vetiver just released Things of the Past, a covers album feauring their major influences including Loudon Wainwright III and Bobby Charles. |
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Friday 07.25.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Wisconsin's Bon Iver stole the show this winter when they opened for Black Mountain and couldn't wait to come back. Frontman Justin Vernon isolated himself in an old cabin for four months to write and record his latest album, For Emma, Forever Ago. |
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Dog Day Afternoons with South China and White Light Wednesday 07.23.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Biddeford duo South China will someday not be referred to as 2/3rds of Brown Bird because the momentum of Jeremy and Jerusha Robinson's new project seems to be superceding the reputation of their well received Americana outfit. Expect cello, banjo, subtle guitar effects and beautiful harmonies. They'll then join the rotating cast of White Light for a psych-pop set featuring members of the L'Animaux Tryst collective. |
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Phantom Buffalo CD release with Metal Feathers and Honey Clouds Saturday 07.19.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8.00, 18+ Local indie legends Phantom Buffalo celebrate the release of their long-awaited next album entitled Take To The Trees. Described as The Beach Boys meets The Shins, the band creates their own version of pop music, tricked out with effects and guided by the gentle vocals of Jon Balzono-Brookes. |
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SPACE and Portland's Downtown District present Chriss Sutherland Friday 07.18.2008, Starts at 12:00 PM, Free, All Ages Chriss Sutherland is just as much a solo artist these days as he is a member of Portland all-stars Fire on Fire. His solo debut, “Me In a Field,” offers up songs that first appear folky and then develop into something freer and more exciting with strains of Spain and psychedelia in the mix. |
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The Ladybug Transistor with Winterpills and Gully Friday 07.18.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8.00, 18+ As members of the Elephant Six Collective, Ladybug Transistor brushes shoulders with bands like Of Montreal and The Apples in Stereo. |
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Dog Day Afternoons with Computer at Sea and The Red F Wednesday 07.16.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Galen Richmond (the Enchantments, Same Basic Bear) just returned from NYC's The Bent Festival, where his new glitchy analog pop tunes, derived from modified toys and keyboards, won him praise from the Village Voice. Tim Burns (Phantom Buffalo) calls himself The Red F when he plays on his own. It's your best chance to hear his beautiful voice over pop-oriented fingerpicking compositions. |
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Miss Fairchild with rocket.one and Sammy Bananas Saturday 07.12.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7.00, 18+ Miss Fairchild is a five-piece modern pop and soul band that’s been setting dance floors on fire! On a mission to put the K back in FUN, the band has been traveling the US and Canada in support of their sophomore release, “Ooh La La Sha Sha.” Miss Fairchild mixes the electricity of James Brown, the undeniable funk of Sly and the Family Stone, the New Jack sensibility of Bel Biv DeVoe and modern flavors. Opening set by rocket.one (wepushbuttons) and dance set by Sammy Bananas. |
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SPACE Gallery and Portland's Downtown District present Chris Teret Friday 07.11.2008, Starts at 12:00 PM, Free, All Ages SPACE is pleased to curate the Weekday Music Series with the Portland Downtown District. Kicking off the outdoor series, every Friday in July in Tommy's Park, is Chris Teret. Chris last graced our stage with his band, Company, but it's his solo set that really brings out the Americana in him, channeling the spirit of Woody Guthrie. |
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Can Kickers with The Toughcats and The Weird Beards Friday 07.11.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7.00, 18+ Self-described as "Old timey riot music for dancing", The Can Kickers are a live trio from New London, Connecticut. The three-man group plays on washboards, banjos, fiddles, and one of the fellas yodels. Expect a hootin' good ol' night with fellow Connecticut band The Weird Bears and Phoenix BMP Best Roots Act winners The Toughcats. |
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Dog Day Afternoons with Plains Wednesday 07.09.2008, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Patrick Corrigan, the artist currently featured in our gallery, had a good idea: free music and soup in the lobby of SPACE, lovingly transformed into a small venue by Corrigan. His new band with Seekonk buddy Dave Noyes, called Plains, will kick off the series which runs every Wednesday in July. |
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Impossible Shapes w/ Robert Stillman + Pepi Ginsberg & Hacienda Thursday 07.03.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, 6.00, 18+ Indiana's The Impossible Shapes are on tour supporting their recently released self-titled album recorded on "extra sticky analog tape." |
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Dog Day Afternoons with Visitations Wednesday 07.02.2008, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Patrick Corrigan, the artist currently featured in our gallery, had a good idea: free music and soup watermelon in the lobby of SPACE, lovingly transformed into a small venue by Corrigan. Visitations are one of Portland's best bands you still haven't heard. Their recent Time-Lag Records release prompted Thurston Moore and Byron Coley to exclaim "we NEED to hear more!" Well here's your chance. It's free... and there's soup watermelon. |
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Covered in Bees, Confusatron and Man-Witch Sunday 06.29.2008, Doors at 4:00 PM, Starts at 5:00 PM, $6, All Ages The Entertainment Experiment presents: Portland punk-rock veterans Covered in Bees will be teaming up with theatrical-thrash titans Man-Witch and robot prog-monsters Confusatron for the first in a series of long overdue all-ages rock shows here at SPACE. |
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Harry and the Potters - Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo! Thursday 06.26.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, $10, All Ages Harry and the Potters are pioneers of wizard rock, a form of indie rock with themes inspired by the J.K. Rowling book series and lyrics usually from the point of view of the fictional protagonist, Harry Potter. |
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Grupo Esperanza - Summer Solstice Dance Party Saturday 06.21.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8.00, 18+ Join Portland’s own Grupo Esperanza for this Summer Solstice Dance Party! The band, if you don’t know, is dance-powered: the more you dance, the better the night. |
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Brothers Unconnected: A Tribute To Charles Gocher & Sun City Girls with Fire On Fire Friday 06.20.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Formed in 1981 by brothers Richard and Alan Bishop and percussionist Charlie Gocher, Sun City Girls rendered an eclectic mix of every musical style one can think of -- demented surf, Indian and Asian improvisation, free-form noise, fractured folk, you name it -- with doses of kabuki theater, shadow puppetry, and maverick guerilla stagecraft thrown in. |
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Blake/e/e/e with Yeti and Estrella Norte Tuesday 06.10.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 18+ Some say the dark folk music of Chicago’s Blake/e/e/e sounds like Sonic Youth on opium or the Staple Singers on acid. “The Beach Boys going to church if the church was a mutant disco” seems the most appropriate |
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Time-Lag Presents: Kemialliset Ystävät with The Skaters and Cursillistas Thursday 05.29.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Local psych purveyor Time-Lag Records presents a rare opportunity to see a group from waaay across the pond. |
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Joe Lally with The Glorytellers and Huak Saturday 05.24.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8 in advance, $10 at the door, 18+ You’ve most likely enjoyed the sound of Joe Lally’s bass guitar from his days in Fugazi. Since then he’s been releasing solo records on Dischord, but they’re never really solo, instead featuring collaborations with D.C. music scene friends using his bass lines as an anchor. He’s got friends with him for the tour, too. |
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Saturday 05.17.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 18+ We're combining our monthly, all-local Hometown Heroes series with the Phoenix BMP Festival. Come check out why these bands are nominees. Local favorites The Cambiata always win big with their intelligent, evolved brand of modern rock. |
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Beat Circus with Over a Cardboard Sea and The Gargoylez Wednesday 05.14.2008, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Boston's Beat Circus got snowed out from a show here in February and we're glad they get a second shot to support their new record called "Dreamland", frontman Brian Carpenter's bizarre old-time gypsy and carnival exploration of personal songs about family and fatherhood in the tradition of Southern Gospel songwriters and Southern Gothic literature. |
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Dead End Armory CD Release w/ Honey Clouds, South China Friday 05.09.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $5, 18+ At last! Local alt-country troubadours Dead End Armory have completed "Hope You're Good" and it's a masterpiece! |
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The Cave Singers with Brenda and Dominic and the Lucid Saturday 05.03.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8.00, 18+ Seattle’s The Cave Singers are Matador Records new sweethearts with an astonishingly polished debut record called “Invitation Songs”, lovingly recorded by Black Mountain producer Colin Stewart. |
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Ghettosocks with Sontiago + Dilly Dilly Friday 03.28.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Ghettosocks has been touted as one of the hottest properties on the Canadian hip-hop scene. Halifax’s Tony Bennett of the rap game lyrically pushes, shoves, romances, and shoplifts his way on the mic. |
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Major Stars with Cult Maze and Baltic Sea Saturday 03.22.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Fader Magazine calls Major Stars "the best rock band in the world" and we won't argue. Boston-based Twisted Villagers Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar added young blood to their lineup with Sandra Barrett (LA Drugs) and former-Portlander Casey Keenan to make "Mirror Messenger", their first album for Drag City. |
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Hometown Heroes: Christopher Teret with The Red F and Adam Kurtz Saturday 03.15.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Christopher Teret, who last month wowed a great SPACE audience with his band Company, plays a solo set of his thoughtful songs. Chris Darling of WMPG's "Us Folk" says of Teret "a profoundly gifted writer . . . his arrangements and playing garner respect and admiration from this host." |
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Wilderness with Micah Blue Smaldone Wednesday 03.12.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7, 18+ Wilderness is an unconventional band from Baltimore, Maryland, whose apparent musical pedigree stems from the likes of the Fall, This Heat, Savage Republic, Public Image Limited and Joy Division--without sounding like any of them --and whose music is every bit as spiritual as it is visceral, as nuanced as it is overt, and as communal and all-embracing as it is culturally alienating and nihilistic. |
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Oxford Collapse with Diamond Sharp and The 500s Tuesday 03.11.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ From SPIN: "Three Brooklyn boys with perpetual nervousness launch the '80s Amerindie revival: Michael Pace jams econo-lines onto his Gibson Marauder, Dan Fetherston sprays high-hats and cymbals over a mostly 4/4 gallop, and Adam Rizer proves once and for all that repeated listening to R.E.M.'s Reckoning is a good way to learn how to play bass." |
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Samuel James CD release: Songs Famed for Sorrow & Joy Saturday 03.08.2008, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ The official release of Portland delta blues-messiah Samuel James' new CD isn't technically until April, but that's not stopping him from throwing a serious release party this month. |
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Friday 03.07.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $6, 18+ Following our First Friday Arcade event, SPACE turns its night eye to some live, circuit-based music. 8BITches hail from the island of North Haven and perform their pixellated sonance, analog romance, break dance enhanced, supreme dream of a chip hop machine on electronics and modified Nintendo Gameboys. |
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