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Clues, Goes Cube and Marie Stella

Empire Dine and Dance
Portland, ME

One of the two guys from the Unicorns and a guy who was in Arcade Fire. (Constellation Records)

Clues was founded by Alden Penner and Brendan Reed, both active for years in the Montreal music scene. Alden was one-half of Unicorns, a band that burned bright and fast at the beginning of the century, and Brendan has been a member of a number of groups, including the endless, Endless Forever. They began building Clues quietly and in near-secrecy during the summer of 2007, playing a series of unadvertised shows in small Montreal venues. Their early performances elicited passionate responses and made it clear that Alden had an awesome batch of new tunes in the works, a glorious voice to deliver them with, and a brilliant foil in Brendan as his co-conspirator.

By 2008, friends Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner had been recruited from the Montreal art and music scenes; a few more exuberant shows went down, the sound building and strengthening every time. With the bands foundations fully cemented, Clues began work on a debut record towards the end of the year.

During live shows and on recordings, the band share and trade-off on an extensive array of instruments and create a twitchy, urgent, utterly original music that expands Montreals (already diverse) pop music lexicon. Clues incorporates multiple drummers, horns, a table of fried electronics (including a Commodore 64 and an OLPC), saw and pianette alongside their trusty electric guitars and basses.

Through their founding and early work as a band, Clues has remained close to home, dedicated to collaborating with and supporting fellow independent artists. In 2008, Reed started VillaVillaNola, a digital music store featuring recordings by predominantly local artists who have flourished underground but who otherwise receive sparse attention. Strong ties to the independent music community, together with shared ideals, led Clues to collaborate with Montreals Constellation, who released the bands debut record in May of 2009.

Goes Cube
"Goes Cube (The End Records) has steadily gained attention as one of
the most intense bands in both their hometown of New York City, and
beyond. Their music is a brutal blend of metal, punk, and full-on
rock, and is performed with an urgency rarely witnessed or experienced
anymore. None of the members have any sort of formal or traditional
training on their instruments, and as a result their musicfrom the
dizzying and unexpected drum fills, bizarrely and lowly-tuned guitars,
and unrelenting basshas a singularity in its sound and structure that
simply does not exist elsewhere. Call it metal, call it post-metal,
call it quasi-metal-post-punk-pre-twenty-second-century-independent-art-sounds
if you're into that kind of thing. But just do yourself a favor: Take
a listen. "

Marie Stella

Minimum Age: 21

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

Contact

Who:	Todd Doyle
Phone:	207 879-8988
Email:	booking@portlandempire.com
Web:	http://portlandempire.ning.com/events/clues-goes-cube-and-marie
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