Update your planners and keep checking back to The Monkey Blog for more updates!

September 15: Woods – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

September 23: The Books – University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

September 24: Mates of State – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

September 24: Mastodon – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME. (21+)

September 25: Dr. Dog – Library Quad, Bates College, Lewiston, ME.

September 27: Japanther & Screaming Females – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

September 30: Murder By Death – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

October 11: Deerhoof & Xiu Xiu – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

October 12: Free Energy – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

October 15: My Morning Jacket – State Theatre, Portland, ME.

October 16: moe. – State Theatre, Portland, ME.

October 18: Dark Dark Dark – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

October 19: The Hold Steady – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME. (21+)

October 20: OK GO – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME. (21+)

October 21: High on Fire – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME. (21+)

October 22: Yonder Mountain String Band – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME. (21+)

October 22: Josh Ritter & The Low Anthem – State Theatre, Portland, ME.

October 27: Guster – State Theatre, Portland, ME.

October 29: Lady Lamb The Beekeeper – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

November 2: Land of Talk & Suuns – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

November 3: Matt & Kim – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME. (21+)

November 6: Michael Franti & Spearhead – State Theatre, Portland, ME.

November 27: State Radio – State Theatre, Portland, ME.

November 28: Doomtree – SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.

If you know of any fun or interesting concerts going on close to Bates, please email wrbcmonkey@gmail.com. We’ll add it to the list.

Joanna Newsom announces new triple album, due out Feb. 23. Mp3 streaming here.

New Panda Bear album also (distantly) forthcoming. Album to be released in September and called ‘Tomboy’. New songs available via various YouTubes.

Coachella lineup was announced.

There were many Haiti benefits.

Local Things:

Additionally, Maps and Atlases at SPACE Gallery in Portland on Monday.

Mates of State, February 18^th at Port City Music Hall.

-Charles Thaxton

Charles Thaxton is the co-host of Songs from Mt. David, Sundays 2-4 AM on WRBC.

I think it is a great idea to take a trip down memory land via iTunes. First I organized my entire library by the “Date Added” column. I scrolled through the whole thing trying to remember each day that I uploaded the particular album(s). My library is recently new, as I transferred all my music in one big lump from my old computer to my current one on 5/7/2006. So, I didn’t get to flashback too far. It would have been nice to see all the way back to 2004/2005 when I first got iTunes.

As I went through the library I could actually remember the specific days that I uploaded the music, where I was and who I was with. It is funny to remember your old opinions or your motivations for uploading a particular set of albums. Which music phase was I in back then? Do I still listen to that type of music anymore? It is sort of like meeting new people and making friends which also move to cycles and phases. We share most of our music with our friends, so the two sort of trend together.

Anyhow, here are some things that remind me of high school.

Mates of State (reminds me of Josh Zerangue’s house in 11th grade winter on Saturday mornings doing absolutely nothing, drawing, or putting computers together)

Built to Spill (reminds me of spring 11th grade civil-engineering class. also reminds me of hanging out on the roof of my old house before we moved)

Grandaddy (reminds me of Nick Andersen and his new house back in 9th/10th grade. This was the pre-job era when going for bike rides and playing video games on the weekend were the higlight of my life)

-Bradley McGraw

Bradley McGraw is the co-host of Randy’s Hour of Power, Mondays at 10 PM-12 AM Eastern Time on WRBC.