Aimsel Ponti is a music writer and content producer for the Portland Press Herald. She has been obsessed with – and inspired by – music since she listened to Monkees records borrowed from the town library when she was 6 years old. She bought her first Rolling Stones record at a flea market when she was in 7th grade and discovered David Bowie a year later. She's a huge fan of the local music scene and covers it along with national musical happenings in her column. You'll also find her out and about absorbing live music and shopping for vinyl at local record shops and flea markets. Aimsel regularly appears on the News Center Maine TV show “207” to preview upcoming concerts.
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PublishedMay 7, 2012
Waterville’s The Resistance named ‘Best Young Band’
The alternative/hard rock quartet wins Reindeer Records’ statewide high school band competition.
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PublishedMay 3, 2012
Making Noise: Maine refugee Efron bringing her lyrical ‘art-pop’ to town
Rachel Efron will celebrate the release of her third CD with a show at One Longfellow Square on Saturday.
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PublishedApril 26, 2012
Making Noise: With new CD, Whitcomb aiming for the life of Riley
The CD-release party is May 12 at Asylum.
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PublishedApril 26, 2012
Queen: The singing drunk guy – and so much more
Here’s a look at some of the ways the music of Queen has been immortalized in various pop culture ways: • “WAYNE’S WORLD”: It was 1992, and Freddie Mercury had been dead for less than a year when characters Wayne and Garth made the triumphant leap from the small screen of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” […]
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PublishedApril 23, 2012
Sinèad O’Connor cancels spring tour dates
The Sinèad O’Connor concert scheduled for May 23 at the House of Blues in Boston has been canceled along with all of the dates of her upcoming tour in support of the new record “How About I Be Me (And You Be You).” Here’s what was posted on O’Connor’s Facebook page earlier today: “With […]
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PublishedApril 21, 2012
Review: Benatar rocks the State
Multiple Grammy winner and ’80s rock icon Pat Benatar played a sold-out show at the State Theatre Saturday night. It was a co-headliner affair with her longtime guitarist – and husband of 30 years – Neil “Spyder” Giraldo. Although her Top 40 glory days are a thing of the past, Benatar’s career is anything but. […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2012
Making Noise: From tunes to Titanic for sound wizard
Jim Begley works with local bands, mixes sound at Port City Music Hall and engineers sound for TV documentaries.
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PublishedApril 5, 2012
Making Noise: Bending, blending and warping into new sounds
Jeff Beam releases his third album Friday.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2012
Making Noise: Evan Casas can do it all, and he can do it live
Evan Casas has written and recorded numerous songs and played in several bands.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2012
Making Noise: New CD reflects Torres’ evolution as seeker, seer
Vanessa Torres grew up on a “diet of Latin American folk music.”
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