The music of Absu has been described as mysterious, magical, majestic, powerful and progressive, with recognizable elements of death metal, black metal, thrash, Celtic, folk, jazz fusion,…
2015 marked 50 years since Michael Hurley released his first record on Folkways Records, First Songs, recorded on the same reel-to-reel that taped Lead Belly’s Last Sessions. In the…
Ever found yourself ruining a honest and raw performance by one of your favorite musicians by thinking “this is pretty good but where are the…
Maine’s own guiding lights of folk-laden black metal, Falls of Rauros top of a bill of heavy-music purveyors, raw experimentalists, and sonic-adventurers. Krigsgrav is the decade-long project of Fort…
Jonathan Richman has been writing music, recording and touring for most of his life, gathering the loyalty of fans and fellow artists with his warmth, humor…
Rainbow is the new album by Maine-bred composer/performer Robert Stillman. To the extent that music can describe life, Rainbow serves as a window into the past four years of…
Rhys Chatham is a Paris-based and Manhattan-born composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, known internationally for his seminal contributions to no-wave, post-punk, noise, contemporary composition, and avant-garde…
In 1976, Brian Tristan was the 17-year-old president of The Ramones Fan Club. Today, he’s the man we know as Kid Congo Powers, legendary voodoo guitarist…
In a sparsely-populated part of northern Maine, not far from the mountains of the Appalachian Trail, composer and drummer Will Mason secluded himself for eight weeks in…
Brooklyn songwriter Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn and Los Angeles musical polymath Jherek Bischoff have teamed up for an evening of songs arranged for strings. The night will feature sets…