• The MAINE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION released some big news lately. The long-time free membership of the MSA will be broken into tiers starting August 1. Standard membership will continue to be free and get you a profile page on the Web site. Yearly membership dues of $20 a year, meanwhile, allow you to play the MSA showcases that happen each week, plus get you discounts on songwriting workshops (we'll get to that). Finally, lifetime memberships are a one-time $200 payment, get you into everything for free, and get your names in some special places. New president BOB MCKILLOP is charged with leading the organization into the not-all-free future. JUD CASWELL leads the group's next workshop, where can get songwriting tips from a guy who's got trophies sitting on his mantle from many of the major songwriting contests out there. It's May 16 at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Pleasant Street in Brunswick.
• AUTHENTIK ARTISTS, the label that recently released the new work by GRAHAM ISAACSON, will re-release PETE KILPATRICK's Hope in Our Hearts on April 21, to a nationwide distribution base. Dude's already sold more than 17,000 discs independently. Who knows what he can do with a little label support? Pete doesn't have a bad winter gig, either, as he's been touring ski resorts with EVE 6, TEA LEAF GREEN, and the WAILERS.
• We've had a HACHE sighting in New Orleans.
• BEBE BUELL is no longer a Portland-area resident. She and husband JIM WALLERSTEIN have moved back to NYC. No worries, though, you can still check out Bebe's new single at www.bebebuell.org. Worth a listen.
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- New England Music News: March 6, 2009
Sorry we didn't have time to give you the heads-up before the show, but the BALTIC SEA debuted a new five-man lineup Sunday night at the Big Easy.
- What are the odds?
Ten years! When we organized our first Best Music Poll, way back in the day, we could only hope that it would one day wind up the institution it is today, with the annual Portland Music Awards ceremony drawing the best collection of musical talent Maine can produce.
- Bebe’s back
“Remember what you used to do before there were computers?” Bebe Buell asks. “Start living your life like that again.”
- Hearts of gold
Pete Kilpatrick’s burgeoning career is a microcosm of the near-chaos that is the current state of the music industry.
- Multi-faceted
How we think about making and consuming music is changing. It is not news that labels, albums, and record stores are dying, pushed aside by new ways of conducting the commerce of music. (Though at the turn of the 20th century the song was king and the trade was in sheet-music publishing rights, so maybe this is all a return to form, just with new technology.)
- Boston music news - June 16, 2006
Iconic rock groupie Bebe Buell taps the Rudds; Bleu heads to LA.
- Sibilance starts now
Word is leaking out that Bebe Buell will be playing some local dates this summer and fall.
- Bebe does the Middle East
Dressed in blue jeans and a tight black top, Bebe Buell is in the dressing room last Saturday at the Middle East downstairs, applying make-up and massaging her bare feet.
- Ballot crunching
For the sake of whetting your whistles, here is a brief primer to the Portland Best Music Poll ballot’s major categories.
- Portland scene report: September 14, 2006
Sibilance
- Portland scene report: November 9, 2007
Surprise, surprise, Pete Kilpatrick is one of 10 semifinalists.
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