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Inside Portland, Maine’s Wildly Ambitious Music Scene
By Patrick Doyle for Rolling Stone Magazine / Photo by Ryan David Brown
The smaller Portland is being flooded with exciting venues and artists taking big risks — “They might not be killing it financially,” says one venue manager. “You live here because you love it”
Rolling Stone call The Walrus “a mindblowing tribute”…
By Patrick Doyle for Rolling Stone / Photo by John Doyle
Beatles tribute shows have been happening since the band stopped playing, but many veer on parody, with moptop costumes and failure to execute the band’s complex studio arrangements live. Every Thanksgiving weekend in the Northeast, there’s an exception: More than two dozen of New England’s top artists gather for Beatles Night, an arena-size set leaning heavily on late-period songs the Beatles never attempted in concert, with stacked harmonies and full horn and string sections.