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| 10.2.2007 | Tues |
Josh Ritter
Doors open at 8pm,
music begins at 8:30, $10, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order over the telephone. |
Recently deemed DETAILS magazine's "Next Big Thing", Josh Ritter writes songs that are rare gifts of natural, intuitive beauty. He has been praised for his beautifully spare, timeless songwriting and is winning comparisons to Nick Drake, Will Oldham, and Leonard Cohen. A native of Moscow, Idaho, Josh has a full-blown cult following in Ireland (complete with his very own cover band!), and sells out clubs and theatres there. Whether opening a tour for Joan Baez (Ms. Baez recorded one of Josh's songs WINGS), or rocking out with indie band The Frames, Josh can seamlessly appeal to fans of all types of music. The Village Voice raved, "Ritter's is the rare type of songwriting: untouched by affectation, embroidered with a quietly plaintive voice and smart melodies (think Dylan and Drake) and with words expressive of another time and place--intangible and idyllic, full of longing and nostalgia, with imagery that awakens even the inanimate."
http://www.joshritter.com |
| 10.3.2007 | Wed |
Free People Read Freely
Doors open at 6:30pm,
readings start at 7pm, $6 or FREE for SPACE members or MCLU members, all ages |
Join SPACE and the Maine Civil Liberties Union in celebrating the most loved and feared books in our history and our right to read them. In observance of Banned Books Week, some of Maine’s best writers of novels, stories, poems and songs will read selections from their favorite banned works. In addition to honoring banned books and celebrating our freedom to read what we choose, this event is a celebration of the amazing collection of people who call Maine home. Featuring Edgar Allen Beem, Emilia Dahlin, Patty Hagge, and Lewis Robinson. |
| 10.4.2007 | Thurs |
New Maps of the New World: Experimental Short Films of Roger Beebe
Doors open at 7pm,
films start at 7:30pm, $6, $5 for members, All ages
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As part of his 55-day East Coast tour, filmmaker/programmer/ professor/video store owner Roger Beebe will be presenting a program of his short films and videos, all of which attempt to marry experimental forms with a documentary interest in a cinema. If the works are diverse in subject matter—covering such disparate topics as women in the air force in World War II, the origin of Shaquille O’Neal’s last name, and the horrors (and beauties) of suburban sprawl—and are equally diverse in format—with work in both film (16mm, super 8mm, regular 8mm) and video—they are united by their use of an ironizing poetics to cast a sidelong glance on some often overlooked realities of 20th and 21st Century Americana. |
| 10.5.2007 | Fri |
First Friday Art Walk
5-9pm, free, all ages |
Ken Gonzales-Day: The Wonder Gaze, an exhibition of photographs by the Los Angeles based artist that examines the history of lynching in California, a largely unknown chapter of the American West. While researching the omission of Latinos in California's published histories, Gonzales-Day discovered a large number of names mentioned in documents associated with lynching accounts. Sorting through newspapers, court records, periodicals, first hand accounts, historical photographs and souvenir postcards, he began to uncover a hidden legacy of lynching in California. Gonzales-Day identified over 350 separate occurrences of lynching in California, a number that was previously cited at 50. Featuring digitally altered souvenir lynching postcards, large-format color photographs of oak trees, and a full scale wallpaper installation of a historic lynching image. |
| 10.5.2007 | Fri |
Fire on Fire w/ Death Vessel
Doors open at 9:30pm,
music begins at 10:00, $8, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order over the telephone.
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Death Vessel is the bewitching and melancholy project of songwriter Joel Thibodeau. We used to hear Joel play at Free Street with his brother sometimes, and now he's plays around the country with national touring bands. Thibodeau’s vocal delivery is astonishing. Perhaps his singing is best-described as descendent from “the high lonesome sound” – unleashed upon the world by Roscoe Holcomb in the early 1960’s. With this voice, Death Vessel delivers stunning lyrical poetry that transcends the “whisky ‘n’ haystack” imagery of its neo-folk contemporaries. Fire on Fire is the latest project emanating from what may be the most creative household in the greater Portland area. With three parts Cerberus Shoal, one part tarpigh and a dash of Micah Blue Smalldone, this supergroup songcircle has a new (long awaited) ep coming on Young God Records some time this fall.
http://www.deathvessel.com/
http://www.myspace.com/threadsofmaine |
| 10.6.2007 | Sat |
Brown Bird w/ Matt Bauer and Arborea
Doors open at 9pm,
music starts at 9:30, $7, 18+ |
Singer/songwriter David Lamb, cellist Jerusha Robinson, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Robinson are known as the dark americana trio Brown Bird. The band begun with a simple guitar/vocal/cello/accordion arrangement and later added banjo, toy piano, vocals, and minimal percussion, creating a sound that ranges from simple sea-shanty style folk to complex counterpoints with an eastern european flavor. Matt Bauer grew up surrounded by the Daniel Boone National Forest in easten Kentucky. His songs reflect on the beauty in bleakness and the strange terror in nature's beauty and abundance. A vital part of the San Francisco music scene for years, Matt now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Combining the common emotional thread running through ancient British murder ballads and the more evocative music found deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Maine folk duo Arborea creates timeless music, haunted by deep shadows. Featuring Buck Curran on acoustic, slide, and electric guitars, flutes, banjo, and vocals, along with Shanti Curran, who sings lead and plays banjo, percussion, gutiar, bowed strings, and ukulele. |
10.7.2007 | Sun |
Black Mountain and The Cave Singers
Doors open at 9:00pm,
music starts at 9:30, $10, 18+
Sorry. This event has been canceled. We are super-bummed about it. |
Drawing on blues, psychedelia, acid rock, and The Velvet Underground, Black Mountain's sound is a cross between the darkness and grit of The Warlocks and Brian Jonestown Massacre's trippiness. This band of Canadians has a new record due on Jagjaguwar this coming January, so we're hoping for some advance listens on some of that new material. Here is the mystery of Seattle’s Cave Singers: They never listened to much folk music, they never intended to play folk music, and more importantly, their guitarist never picked up the instrument until recently. Yet, this strange trio is writing and performing some of the most hypnotizing folk music we have today. http://www.myspace.com/thecavesingers |
| 10.8.2007 | Mon |
Oakley Hall with Chris Teret and Micah Blue Smaldone and Christy and Emily
Doors open at 9:00pm,
music starts at 9:30, $10, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com
or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order
over the telephone. |
Oakley Hall is a folk-rock band based in Brooklyn whose songs combine elements of rock, bluegrass, and old-time, prominently featuring the male-female vocal harmonies of lead vocalists Patrick Sullivan and Rachel Cox. Rather than imitating the style of commercial country or bluegrass, the group's melodies more closely recall old American folk songs and ballads, though often supported by a driving rock beat. The band has toured with M. Ward, The Constantines, Calexico, Bright Eyes, and Gillian Welch. Christy & Emily are a Folk / Psychedelic / Experimental duo from Brooklyn. Chris Teret and Micah Blue Smaldone are two fantastic guitar players who live around here. They're both stellar musicians, and it's a treat to hear them play together. |
| 10.12.2007 | Fri |
Pecha Kucha Night
Doors open at 7:00pm,
slides start at 8:20, $5, all ages. |
Join Mark Dytham, Architalx, Portland Society of
Architects, Maine Center for Creativity, the Art and Architecture Society of
University of Maine at Augusta and the University of Maine at Augusta
Chapter of AIAS in launching Portland’s first Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese
for the sound of conversation and pronounced peh-chak-cha)
Pecha Kucha Night, a global sensation begun by KDa in Tokyo, is an
opportunity for a wide variety of creative types to socialize and to present
or get inspired by the work of their peers. The format is quick and concise
to keep things upbeat and interesting. http://www.pechakuchaportland.org |
| 10.13.2007 | Sat |
Anders Parker w/ Walter Salas-Humara
Doors open at 9pm,
music begins at 9:30, $8, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com
or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order
over the telephone. |
Like his occasional touring partner and now bandmate in Gob Iron, Jay Farrar, Anders Parker is cursed with being always respected but forever uncool. The un-ironic, workingman’s rock of Farrar’s Son Volt and Parker’s Varnaline has long garnered critical praise and devout, plaid-flannelled followings, but never the white-hot adoration of hipsters and tastemakers. And damn if that isn’t a great curse to have. Singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, drummer and horticulturist, Walter Salas-Humara reflects a diversity of musical inspirations and experiences which mark his sound as unique. For Salas-Humara, one can cite everything from the musical gatherings of his expatriate Cuban family to the Velvet Undeground to Big Star to Pavement. |
| 10.15.2007 | Mon |
The Cliks
Doors open at 9pm,
music starts at 9:30, $8, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com
or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order
over the telephone.
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Gutsy, melodic, dramatic, and dark, Toronto's The Cliks arrived on the scene covering Justin Timberlake's hit "Cry Me a River" in a White Stripes meets the Pretenders style. Lucas Silveira, a transgendered FTM (female-to-male) leads this all-female, androgynous band with music that seems to emanate from a parallel universe, one where fundamental distinctions are blurred, living passionately is the highest level of existence and rock & roll is the ultimate form of expression. |
| 10.18.2007 | Thurs |
Artist Talk with Ken Gonzales-Day
6:00pm Members reception
Talk is at 7:00pm, $5, free for members, All ages |
Ken Gonzales-Day is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UC Urvine and his MA in Art History from Hunter College. He was a fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. Other fellowships include the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy and the American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, where Gonzales-Day was a Senior Fellow in Latino Studies. His writing has appeared in various arts publications and journals including: Art & Text, Artissues, Art Journal, Art Papers, ArtPress, Aztlán, Exposure, Poliester, and NYQ. His book, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 was published by Duke University Press in 2006. His exhibit "The Wonder Gaze" will be on exhibit at SPACE through November 17. This talk is presented with the Bakery Photo Collective: http://www.bakeryphoto.com |
| 10.19.2007 | Fri |
Melissa Ferrick
2 limited seating performances
7:00pm and 10:00pm
$18, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com
or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order
over the telephone. |
Don't miss this rare opportunity to see Melissa Ferrick in a limited-seating performance! There are two shows, 7:00pm and 10:00pm and tickets to each show must be purchased separately.
Melissa Ferrick emerged in 1994 as part of a group of new female alternative singer/songwriters, much in the vein of Liz Phair. Her latest release and seventh album, The Other Side, Ferrick gets in touch with her inner control freak, producing, arranging, recording, mixing, and playing every note. The aggressive, albeit mostly acoustic, sound suits the sexual and personal confidence of her lyrics. Many call it her most ambitious album. Intensely personal songs that dig deep emotionally and come up with pain in one hand and hope in the other, Ferrick's gritty realism truly sets her apart. |
| 10.23.2007 | Tues |
Small Sins
Doors open at 9pm, music starts at 9:30, $7, 18+
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Small Sins has a likeable chamber electro-pop sound, but it's no Postal Service knockoff -- frontman Thomas D’Arcy is concerned with perfectly expressing the intricate details of emotion through electro-pop rather than creating soaring cliche-driven hyperballads. The effect: shimmering electronics meets infectious pop guitar hooks. |
| 10.24.2007 | Wed |
Astronautalis w/ Alias and jdwalker
Doors open at 9pm, music starts at 9:30, $8, 18+ |
Astronautalis has said that he is "trying to be the Van Morrison of rap" -- though one reviewer says his music is more like spoken-word café rap. Alias grew up in Hollis and somewhere along the way hooked up with an MPC beat machine to become Anticon's poster boy for dark, emotive downbeats. He has a new record of collected remixes. jdwalker has produced a collection of collaborations with Anticon co-founder sole, bleubird, k-the-I, alias and Sontiago, capitalizing on his deep voice, bass-filled beats and spiritual melodies. |
| 10.25.2007 | Thurs |
Jenny Owen Youngs and Sean Hayes
Doors open at 9pm,
music starts at 9:30, $8, 18+
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Jenny Owen Youngs is a feisty, hyper-sensitive, free singer/songwriter/ former girl scout who claims influences from Beck to Jesus Christ Superstar to Britney Spears. Her music is an echo of Erin Mckeown hopping into Jeff Buckley's Pontiac, cruising backwoods Alabama red dirt roads and singing along to The Sundays and Nick Drake. Sean Hayes has recently been seen touring the US, UK and Europe – headlining, playing residencies, sharing co-bills or support slots and sometimes with frequent touring partner Jolie Holland. His soulful, rattlesnake charm comes forth in a variety of straight-up, hook-laden pop/rock tunes, melancholy ballads, solo acoustic rants, and even a few dance numbers. |
| 10.26.2007 | Fri |
Tungg
Doors open at 9pm,
music begins at 9:30, $7, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com
or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order
over the telephone. |
Tunng is every inch the *collective*, coming out of the fringes of scenes - fringes where people collaborate to survive. It's partly the post-rave soundsystem ethos where everyone contributes according to their skills and wishes. Partly it's the world of underground art music where the idea of the band as singer-guitarist-bassist-drummer standing in a row simply seems an obsolete conceit. And partly it's the folk model where people play together as and when they want to and songs are reinterpreted as they want. But more than any of that, it's just six people who get on well pooling their collective cultural and personal resources to make pop music the way they always dreamed it could sound.
http://www.tunng.co.uk |
| 10.29.2007 | Mon |
The Thermals
Doors open at 9pm,
music begins at 9:30, $7, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com
or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order
over the telephone. |
The Thermals are a three piece post-pop-punk band from Portland, Oregon. Formed in early 2002, The Thermals signed to Sub Pop Records that fall, on the recommendation of Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie). They have since released three records on the label, the latest of which appeared on many best-of lists in 2006, including Pitchfork, Spin, NPR, and The Onion's A.V. Club. The band is probably most famous for its contributions to three-chord punk, though they've since discovered a fourth (F#). |
| 12.2.2007 | Sun |
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Doors open at 8pm,
music begins at 8:30, $10, 18+
Buy tickets at brownpapertickets.com
or call them at 1-800-838-3006 to order
over the telephone. |
info TBA
http://www.tedleo.com |
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