The Weekend – Warm fuzzies, ghouls, Company and Bayside High
This Presidents' Day weekend, take time to stop and think about your favorite president. Is it Rutherford B. Hayes, William Howard "Party Boy" Taft, or Dwight "My way is the highway" Eisenhower?
Then again you could always attend a presidents' day party. You know the type, everyone dresses up as their favorite president, makes policy jokes and chases around first ladies.
Hail to the chief indeed.
First things first, make sure to check out this week's new podcast on the Portland Music Foundation's upcoming workshops on Feb. 20 about promoting your band, booking shows and getting your money's worth out of the studio.
Herb Ivy stopped by the studios to talk about the city's music scene, what it takes to get a bunch of musicians together (hint: beer) and what it's like to captain a blimp. (OK that last one is not true, but in hindsight I wish I had asked that.)
If you aren't looking for warm fuzzies, then perhaps you'd be better suited
to head over to the Big Easy where the Maine Roller
Derby is hosting a little "anti–valentine" to the love birds out there.
"Hate The Love," will not only feature public readings of letters of hate
and poetry from the scorned and just plain angry, hand–made hate cards from
the derby squad, and also advertised "looks of disgust." The evening's music
comes from Don Creeper and Feel It Robot. The show begins at 9 p.m. and it's a $5 entry.
The word on the street – and rest assured I always have my ear to the street. Honest – is that Nigel Hall will be doing what he does best, namely making any situation better through soul music, at Local 188 tonight. If you haven't had a chance to check out the new Local yet (and why wouldn't you?) this could be your night. Also good to know – Mr. Hall will be opening up for Soulive next month at the Asylum!
If you go to Geno's tonight do yourself a favor and wear black...and maybe wear a cross...and have some holy water. The lineup tonight includes Massachusetts-based Ghoul's Night Out, Meantone and The Murder Weapon, starting at 9 p.m. It's $5 to get in. So let me see if I've got this straight, a night full of heavy rock, with ghouls and the kings of graveyard blues. I'm just saying, be prepared when you rock.
SATURDAY
By today Valentine's Day will be at least two days past, but that does not matter. The war on Valentine's Day continues tonight at the White Heart with the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" party. The dynamic duo of pop and rock, H++L will be providing the sounds along with Auntie Lavz. What does it all mean you ask? Be prepared for classic horror flicks, drink specials (I'm guessing anything red maybe?) and dancing, dancing and more dancing.
But if you need further convincing, check out this brief advertisement. (Be advised it involves Celine Dion and other elements not suitable for the young or the faint of heart.)
Things start at 9 p.m.
Tonight over at SPACE Company is setting up shop! (Ha-CHA! Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.) Company's got a sound that's something like Folk and rock, or maybe alt–country, but I never really know what is alt–country, so let's just hyphen it up folk-rock. Also tonight you'll get new kids in class, Honey Clouds, (though I guess seeing as they have members from previous bands they're not new kids) and Modern Syndrome. If that made sense, and even if it didn't, head to SPACE. Show's up at 9:30 p.m. and it's $7.
Up on the hill (as in Munjoy) it's a night of blues at the North Star Cafe, with local legend in the making Samuel James and Providence's Wrong Reasons. By all indications this hoot and nanny is free. Read that again. You like free things, especially free music. Show starts at 8 p.m.
Finally, here's the weekend video to send you on your way. It's no Yacht Rock, and for that I am sorry. If you have not yet watched Yacht Rock, then shame on you.
But lucky for you this week's video is another sweet morsel that reminds us that the Internet is good for something other than stealing music, TV shows and ideas. Would you believe you could mix–up an Oscar nominated film and Saved by the Bell? Oh yes, "There Will Be Bayside," or maybe it should be "There will be Saved By The Bell."
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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