Episodes
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
POM85 Carole Wise "Long Way Home"
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
No stranger to the stage, Carole Wise has been composing and performing for over 50 years. Carole began playing guitar at age eight and began a professional path by age 17, performing in local clubs and restaurants in her hometown of Lewiston/Auburn! Her musical journey would eventually trek across the country, spanning many genres and opportunities to share the stage with well-known local and national artists
Carole’s musical tapestry has been woven thread by thread, song by song, year-by-year from a meaningful journey, rich with struggles and discipline, integrity and gratitude. Her rapport with the audience is easy and intimate her voice fluid and soulful. Like Carole herself, her music has incredible energy and intensity as powerful as it is passionate at times it brings a tear to your eye. At times the smile to your heart…but it never leaves you unmoved.
Carole returns to the stage and her musical roots after an eight year caregiving hiatus with a hopeful, positive spirit. She is grateful for this second act and for the love and support of her family and friends
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
POM83 . Chris Kemp White . "(They Can't) Undo This Love"
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Chris performs solo around Maine, sharing acoustic arrangements of original music and rearrangements of popular songs from the 60s to present. He released his first, self-titled, CD in June, 2016, then a 2-song record in partnership with boutique record label Leesta Vall later that year. Since summer 2018, Chris has been digitally releasing his song, making them available on iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, and other streaming formats. His latest song, “(They Can’t) Undo This Love” can be heard on 98.9 WCLZ, Frank FM, and 106.3 The Bone. He also plays bass and sings backing vocals with Portland cover band HausCats.
In spring of 2018, after teaching middle and high school social studies for 6 years, Chris changed careers to pursue music and carpentry full time. White balances his love of music with career and family. Above all, Chris cherishes time with his wife, Rachel, two children, Arran and Alice, and their dog, Ida.
Thursday Sep 26, 2019
POM76 Rick Adam "What Money Won't Buy"
Thursday Sep 26, 2019
Thursday Sep 26, 2019
RICK ADAM has been performing, teaching, and inspiring people of all ages for over 20 years. He has combined his extensive theatrical and musical experience and training with his own life experience to create original theatrical performances that both educate and entertain. Adam has toured widely, from elementary schools to colleges to maximum-security prisons, from Rhode Island to Russia. He has acted with the Trinity Square Repertory Company and has appeared in films and on television. He was featured on a PBS show about one-man bands, which is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute.
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
POM75 Thems That Wait "Nova"
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Saturday Sep 14, 2019
Maine Metal/Stoner Rock band Thems That Wait was formed when longtime friends and songwriting partners Craig Garland and Mat Patterson met Texan Branden Clements through a Craigslist ad in early 2017. The band’s sound has been compared to Black Sabbath, Clutch and Kyuss.
Thems That Wait prides itself on being a solid live rock band that sounds as full as possible as a 3 piece with mammoth drumming by Branden Clements, true bass playing from Mat Patterson who tastefully weaves around guitarist Craig Garland’s heavy handed, memorable riffs and barbaric, guttural vocals. Following the band’s live debut in January 2018 in Portland, Maine, the power trio continued to gig and make connections, and ultimately landed a chance to open for New England Hardcore legend Scissorfight in the fall of 2018. In January 2019, Thems That Wait recorded their debut EP Fiction at The Maine Music Mill in Brunswick, Maine with Andy Porta(Blackcat Sounds).
Andy and the band mixed the EP and Steve Austin(Today Is The Day, Austin Enterprise Recording & Mastering) mastered it. In addition to the band’s arsenal of all original songs, Bass player Mat Patterson designs all of the artwork for the band, including the cover for the FictionEP. The band plans to record the follow up to Fictionbefore the end of 2019 with a tentative 2020 release date but until then, we wait…
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
POM74: Lovelore "Notice Me"
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
POM73: Bill Dwyer Band "South Caroline"
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Saturday Sep 07, 2019
Formed in Boston in 2010. Bill had been primarily playing drums in his friends' bands for years since his art school days (School of The Museum of Fine Art, Boston) but decided to start something brand new after writing a bunch of songs, learning to play the guitar and finding his voice.
He decided to perform as a solo act for a year at first to gauge the response to his material. After repeated warm and positive responses to his solo shows he kept hearing from people that he should "get a band together". So the decision was made. Bill Dwyer Band has been fortunate to have included many amazing people and musicians in it's ranks through the last several years.
Current members include Cullen Corley (Drums), Charles Murphy (Bass), Joe Diaz (fill-in Bass) and Attis Jerrell Clopton (fill-in Drums). BDB is a 3 piece band with heart as its main drive. The band released it's first full-length, 15-song album "Renaissance After Sundown" (iTunes, cdbaby, Amazon, Google) in the Summer of 2015. They completed their first tour of Europe in September 2016 with 10 shows in 14 days with stops in Germany, Lille and Paris France, Amsterdam and London. The band had a BLAST as the shows were ELECTRIC and they were warmly welcomed by audiences everywhere they performed.
BDB performs throughout New England, NYC/Brooklyn and the East Coast for now. Stay tuned!
Thursday Aug 29, 2019
POM70: From Listen Up! Kathleen Shevenell "New York" & David Vail "Stand Up"
Thursday Aug 29, 2019
Thursday Aug 29, 2019
Listen Up! Music is a Portland, ME-based nonprofit community support day program and music studio that supports adult musicians with intellectual uniqueness in making music. Established in 2012, Listen Up! provides opportunities for musicians to work on writing, arranging, recording, performing, and marketing their music to the local music community and beyond. Listen Up! works with musicians of all technical abilities and skills and seeks to promote a musical community based on creativity, excitement, joy, and inclusiveness. They are affiliated with Composition Studio, The Art Department, Publication Studio, and Creative Trails, and collaborate with other organizations and musicians to make their music heard.
Listen Up! Music is proud to celebrate the release of Portland singer/songwriter/bassist Kathleen Shevenell’s “Travel EP.” Kathleen and her fellow musicians at Listen Up have written and recorded a batch of songs chronicling some of Kathleen’s travels over the past six years, with music taking a wide-scale view of North America. The music ranges from country rockers to urban ballads and campfire sing-alongs, with Kathleen’s lyrics detailing the wonder and excitement of seeing new places in each song.
From Kathleen: "At Listen Up I started writing songs that are travel-related. I have written about one each year so far. It gave me the idea of releasing a Travel EP Album. So far I have 5 songs on it which are the best ones from my over six years of being at Listen Up. I hope you enjoy it."
David Vail is a multi-discipline artist, musician, and filmmaker from Portland, ME. He has been writing and recording music in the rock/pop genre with Listen Up! Music since 2012, teaching himself drums and guitar in the process. He has released his solo album “Unvailed” in collaboration with musicians at Listen Up! and performs regularly around Southern Maine. He has more recently released two singles which can be found on Spotify, and feature his trademark soaring vocals and catchy melodies.
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
POM69: Nils Crusberg "Second Praise"
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
POM67: Red Gallager "Crazy About the Girl"
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Wednesday Aug 21, 2019
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
POM68: This World Has Bees "It Was Right Where You Left It"
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
This World Has Bees is a post-rock band from Portland, Maine. Drawing comparisons to Explosions in the Sky and Pelican, they have created music that can sometimes be crushingly heavy, or melodically ambient, but is always dramatic, experimental and bold. They have recently released their new single "It Was Right Where You Left It" in July of this year.