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First Friday Artwalk: Everyday Inside Out
5pm, free, All ages
Common stationery-store labels, stickers, and burst signs have been a primary source of imagery in Bradley Wester’s work. Using painting, collage, and digital technology, the labels are transformed into abstract images that reference a diversity of icons— from the modernist grid to computer circuitry, from the Italian Baroque to Japanese Anime. The work blurs the line between ‘dumb’ and ‘high-tech’ information architectures, between ‘low’ and ‘fine’ art. When Wester’s early drawing/collages, using actual paper labels, began to mimic the look and geometry of computer circuit boards, he was inspired to enlist real computer circuitry to ‘re-draw’ the label and sticker designs as digital files: the paper label, a low-tech information architecture, mimicking circuitry, a hi-tech information architecture, which in turn mimics the original paper label—full circle.
Elizabeth Duffy’s work resurfaces themes of transience and transformation, using objects and drawings made with labor-intensive methods. Her sources are the overlooked remnants of things we use in our daily routines. Business envelopes, cleaning products, lint, straws and office supplies are accumulated and manipulated to bring out their alternate lives and to draw attention to what we use and discard.
The Best of Greetings From Area Code 207
Doors at 8pm, starts at 8:30, $10, 18+
This evening of local music celebrates Greetings from Area Code 207, the popular series of music compilations which support the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center. The Joyce Andersen Band features Honytonk, blues, cry-in-your-beer-ballads, rockin’ Irish fiddle tunes with a New Orleans beat, and Andersen’s own country/folk/pop originals. Spencer Albee joined the regionally popular Rustic Overtones when he was 18. After rubbing elbows with the likes of David Bowie and Funk Master Flex, he formed Rocktopus (now As Fast As), which recorded two albums and toured extensively around the U.S. Jon Nolan’s good songs, and compelling performances will always have a place in rock and roll. Steve Jones played with the Boneheads before forming The Coming Grass in the late 1990’s, later forming his own band.
http://www.stlawrencearts.org/
Storytelling for Film and Television
5pm, Free for MFVA members, $5.00 for non-members, All ages
Join the Maine Film and Video Association for its first event of the new season. The evening’s meeting will feature a panel of filmmakers from around the state discussing the craft of storytelling in documentary and narrative film, and will include screenings of the panelists’ work. The event is open to the public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend. There will be complimentary food and a cash bar.
http://www.mainefilm.com
Sara Cox CD release with Sarah Jaffe
Doors at 8pm, starts at 8:30pm, $7, 18+
After a long winter hiatus, Sara Cox has finished her 3rd CD, titled “Crowded is the New Lonely.” Lauded nationally by independent press and music industry insiders, Cox has won awards for her voice, her songwriting, and her graceful style. Sarah Jaffe is a 21- year old phenomenon from Texas. She’s not to be considered a marvel just because she sings and plays her own songs; it’s because of the way she does it.
http://www.saracox.net
http://www.myspace.com/sjaffe
Listen to Sara Cox (link to mp3)
Great Northern
Doors at 9pm, starts at 9:30pm, $7, 18+
http://www.myspace.com/greatnorthern
http://www.greatnorthernmusic.com
Hiss & Chambers with Cult Maze and The Information
Doors at 9pm, starts at 9:30pm, $5 (includes their new EP), 18+
Hiss and Chambers is a Portland-based quartet combining anthemic rock and dark retro dance stylings. Featuring Shawn Saindon (Vacationland, Thruthewires) on vox/guitars, Ryan Dolan (The Shelia Divine, Lincolnville) on drums, Mike Hamlin (Peepshow,Vespertine) on guitars, and Jasper Rice (Figurehead) on bass.
This show marks the rellease of the band's new EP, which will be given away with each ticket purchase.
http://www.myspace.com/hissandchambers
http://www.myspace.com/cultmaze
SPACE Gallery Benefit with the Toughcats and Emilia Dahlin
Doors at 8pm, starts at 8:30pm, $10, 18+
SPONSORED by
Jeremy Moser and Laura Kittle
and the generous folks at
THE WHITE HEART
Join us for an evening of fun and music by friends The Toughcats and Emilia Dahlin, in efforts to support your local gallery / non-gallery art space. The Toughcats lend a contemporary and interesting feel to Scruggs-style bluegrass, deep South ragtime, and singer-songwritery folk that shows a great feel for songwriting and fine musicianship. Enter The Toughcats Music Video Contest! Details at space538.com. Wielding a voice that defies the size of her body and strong storytelling sensibilities, Emilia Dahlin weaves mesmerizing tales (complete with Greek myths, robotic messiahs, epic floods, and tax evaders) with raw, rootsy folk and dynamic jazz vocals. Her well-crafted songs sound as if they’ve been left outside where time and weather have worn cracks for the wind to whip through.
http://toughcats.com/
http://www.emiliadahlin.com
Doc film: Darkon
Doors at 7pm, starts at 7:30pm, $6, $5 for members, All ages
http://www.darkonthemovie.com/
6.22.2007 | Fri
The Evens
Doors at 8pm, starts at 8:30pm, $5, all ages
The Evens are a band from Washington, D.C. Ian MacKaye (Fugazi / Minor Threat) plays baritone guitar and Amy Farina (The Warmers) plays drums. They both sing. "The Evens, Get Evens", the band's second full-length release, was entirely self recorded in the basement of the Dischord House in the summer of 2006. The Evens have toured parts of the U.S. and Europe and are now traveling extensively in the, including tour dates in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and the southwestern United States.
http://www.dischord.com/band/evens
Get Him Eat Him
Doors at 9pm, starts at 9:30pm, $7, 18+
Formed in February of 2004, Get Him Eat Him consists of five young men with passable small motor skills playing big, confusing music. Paroxysm-laden pop that balances gravity and gratuitousness, the music of Get Him Eat Him has been described as “a hybrid of The Wrens, Enon, and Weezer’s pop sensibility.” In July of 2004, Get Him Eat Him signed to Absolutely Kosher Records, home of The Wrens, Frog Eyes, and Sunset Rubdown (Spencer from Wolf Parade). The band released their debut album in 2005, recorded at John Vanderslice’s Tiny Telephone Studios by Jay Pellicci (Deerhoof, Erase Errata), on Absolutely Kosher. Three tour EPs followed in late 2005 and early 2006. On June 5th, Get Him Eat Him will release their second full-length Arms Down, co-produced by former Dismemberment Plan guitarist Jason Caddell.
http://www.gethimeathim.com/
Listen to Get Him Eat Him (link to mp3)
The Slip with Bobby Bare, Jr.
Doors at 9pm, starts at 9:30pm, $15, 18+
Contemporary avant-rock trio The Slip formed when bassist Marc Friedman and brothers Andrew and Brad Barr (drums and guitar/vox, respectively) moved to Boston together after graduating from high school, where they had met and first began playing music as a group. The trio of recent Berklee dropouts put out their first studio album as a self-release and began establishing a dedicated fan-base through relentless touring in and around the northeast. A late-nineties blend of extended roots pop compositions and experimental rhythmic approaches, the band developed and found their sound--an eclectic new brand of exploratory roots psych-rock emerged; Van Morrison meets Coltrane meets Talking Heads.
Nominated for a Grammy at age five for doing a duo with his renowned county music dad, Bobby Bare, Jr., also managed to sing on the Ryman Auditorium stage on its closing night. Although his dad is remembered for contemporary country songs like "500 Miles Away from Home" and "Houston," Bare Jr. took off in a different direction, reflected in the name of his CD Young Criminals' Starvation League, released in 2002 by Bloodshot. While his music picks up the flavor of early-'70s classic country with Nashville soul, it also testifies to an angry and sad type of humor. An oddball combination of post-punk and psychedelic melancholy, his music reflects Bare Jr.'s skill and depth as a musical artist who doesn't have to slouch in his father's shadow.
http://www.myspace.com/theslipmusic
http://www.bobbybarejr.com/
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: The Summer Variety Show Tour
Doors at 8pm, starts at 8:30pm, $10 adv(or in costume) $12 general, 18+
As part of a 35-city tour up and down the East Coast celebrating the launch of the Magic Hat Summer Variety Show 12 Pack, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus will be rolling into Portland for one stellar night with a classic variety show that promises something for everyone: circus, sideshow, vaudeville and burlesque presented in unique Bindlestiff style. Since 1995 the Cirkus has traveled the world, bringing its unique hybrid performance to innumerable cabaret shows, custom performances for special audiences, all-ages and family productions, and sophisticated adult shows. Over the last five years the company has begun developing more theatrical productions, including 2001’s Buckaroo Bindlestiff’s Wild West Gender Bender Jamboree, 2003’s High Heels & Red Noses, and 2005’s From the Gutter to the Glitter: A Night Out with the Bindlestiffs.
http://www.bindlestiff.org/
Bleubird w/ Jesse Dangerously
Doors at 9pm, starts at 9:30pm, $5, 18+
http://myspace.com/bleubird
http://www.bleubird.org/
http://myspace.com/jessedangerously
http://www.dangerously.ca/
Miss Fairchild
Doors at 9pm, starts at 9:30pm, $7, 18+
http://www.missfairchild.com/
