I hear a lot of people complaining about Facebook, saying people are wasting their time on it, and although much of that statement is true, there are still some great things about Facebook. Sure it’s a great place to reconnect with old school chums and maybe meet your future ex-wife, but it is also a… Read more →
Back in the day, in my neck of the Northern Maine Woods, when FM stations were The Place to get your music, Bryan Adams was a new rocker coming out of Canada. “Hey, you’ve got to hear this guy.” That was the buzz about his second album, You Want it, You Got It, released in… Read more →
Overlooking the Casco Bay, the Maine State Pier was the landing zone for a night of supreme Ska/Reggae/Punk music delivered by Slightly Stoopid. Following a killer performance by SOJA, Slightly Stoopid took to the stage at 8:00 p.m. to an audience primed for a full evening of singing, dancing, screaming, and, of course, smoking. Keep… Read more →
For fans of rock, soul, and blues inspired jam bands, the Tedeschi Trucks “Wheels of Soul” lineup was sweet music to their ears on a particularly hot and sticky Maine summer evening at Bangor’s Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion. As I am no aficionado of this genre, I will not insult the sensibilities of the diehards who… Read more →
Bro Country – Part Deux Luke Bryan’s “Kill the Lights” tour, his third performance in Bangor, Maine, caught Maine Music News on the tail end of a big weekend that included Daryl Hall & John Oates, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Hope Estey’s 50th birthday bash so we were dragging a bit when we showed up… Read more →
Daryl Hall and John Oates brought their much loved pop hits and a whole lot of soul to Bangor’s Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion Thursday, July 14, 2016. It is always interesting to see the pop icons of the music industry “doing their thing” and tonight’s show was no different, but yet, let’s just say it was… Read more →
Well, well, well, it is a beautiful thing, and as Joe Elliot sings, ‘Let it rock, let it roll, let it go…’ Bangor’s own Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion was packed clear to that pretty new fence Friday night when three of the biggest selling, and most beloved, rock and roll bands of the 1980s – Def… Read more →
Bro Country – Part One Never let it be said that I am unwilling to try new things. When the Machias Savings Bank Summer Concert Series lineup was announced and it was loaded with popular country artists, I knew it was time for me to stop being a country music crank and start figuring out… Read more →
In case anyone was wondering – that’s what it looks and sounds like when 7000plus happy fans fill the air space over Bangor, Maine singing every single word to Journey’s irrepressible favorite, “Don’t Stop Believin’.” I think this may be a Guinness World Record idea, but I’ll leave that up to the folks at Waterfront… Read more →
As a teenager, many years ago, by the time I first heard Jackson Browne, from my older cousin, I was submerged in hard rock and later heavy metal, so far in fact that if you had asked me then what I thought of his stuff I would have answered, “It sucks” or “I hate it.”… Read more →
