We woke up to some great news! Sam Pfeifle, the Portland Phoenix’s music editor, just printed a wonderfully insightful review of the new There Is No Sin CD in this week’s edition. One of our favorite quotes reads: The result is a multi-media (in the old sense) presentation that is filled with the kind of literary melancholy that Hemingway captured in A Moveable Feast, a reveling in the spare and severe. Yeah! We love that people are starting to hear about the...
Read MorePortland Maine Live with There Is No Sin
It was a rather intimate affair at Geno’s in Portland last week. Joshua Madore and his band hosted a fun show. It was the last of 2009′s music for There Is No Sin. On the heels of the debut CD, it was fun to hear the music played live for the first time. The crowd was great and they were drinking heavily which I’m sure Geno’s enjoyed. Troy played with a music stand. It interesting to see since the songs were so fresh. It was fun to hear how...
Read MoreWill Gattis at “Hell No On 1″
Portland has a few exceptional talents and Will Gattis is one of them. Most recently performing as the Gattis Band, his solo stop at yesterday’s Hell No On 1 Benefit Concert was just, plain crazy. We’d love to see him put out a solo album featuring just him and his keyboard. Maybe record each track in single takes. Whatever it takes to let the honesty of his songwriting shine. Will’s MySpace mentions Ben Folds as an influence and as much as the analogy...
Read MoreNew Video on YouTube
...
Read More