Alex Silver
@halfvivid.bsky.social
Folk music experimentalist and French teacher. Portland, Maine area.
https://halfvividsongs.com
https://alexsilver.bandcamp.com/
https://halfvividsongs.com
https://alexsilver.bandcamp.com/
I hadn't noticed this, but @pressherald.com published a write-up on @goldfishbloom.bsky.social's powerful Gaza benefit compilation, written by @aimsel.bsky.social. You can get it for a dollar and it's 33 very significant songs. Got into some new artists this way.
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/10/m...
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/10/m...
Maine musicians contribute to Palestinian relief album
The album 'Songs of Hope for Gaza' is available on Bandcamp.
www.pressherald.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I hadn't noticed this, but @pressherald.com published a write-up on @goldfishbloom.bsky.social's powerful Gaza benefit compilation, written by @aimsel.bsky.social. You can get it for a dollar and it's 33 very significant songs. Got into some new artists this way.
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/10/m...
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/10/m...
Our local alt-weekly @the-bollard.bsky.social wrote the most perceptive, flat-out entertaining review of our band's latest record. Super grateful, mostly on behalf of my friend Joe, the songwriter. No one has matched Chris Busby's close reading 🤯
Wherein I pretend to be Tommy Mottola or some shit like that...
The Bollard Bulletin for Nov. 3, 2025
Local Music Monday: Would you sign Chico States?
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November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Our local alt-weekly @the-bollard.bsky.social wrote the most perceptive, flat-out entertaining review of our band's latest record. Super grateful, mostly on behalf of my friend Joe, the songwriter. No one has matched Chris Busby's close reading 🤯
Thank you 💘 Reminds me another time someone "won the internet," linked below. Let's just pin this one globally at Google.com and we can all catch up with the cavemen in terms of graciousness today.
Instead of watching "journalists" with sloppy "gotcha" videos and other forms of contemporary internet miseries, you can just watch Cocteau Twins' "Iceblink Luck."
youtu.be/L_Tj4bJ0VFw
youtu.be/L_Tj4bJ0VFw
Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck (Official Video)
YouTube video by Cocteau Twins
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October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thank you 💘 Reminds me another time someone "won the internet," linked below. Let's just pin this one globally at Google.com and we can all catch up with the cavemen in terms of graciousness today.
Watch out for this Cuban artist. Love this. Bought the track and planning to blast this several times on the way to the staff breakfast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-P1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-P1...
EIDI - El Güinche (feat JD Asere) (Video Oficial)
YouTube video by EIDI Oficial
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October 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Watch out for this Cuban artist. Love this. Bought the track and planning to blast this several times on the way to the staff breakfast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-P1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-P1...
Friday night in a small city
Friday, October 24th
*underlining represents Maine based musicians
*underlining represents Maine based musicians
October 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Friday night in a small city
New Chico States album is out today! Nothing quite like my friend Joe's meticulous surveys of this world through a country-western lens.
anythingbagel.bandcamp.com/music
anythingbagel.bandcamp.com/music
Anything Bagel
we are a diy record label focused on limited run screen-printed cassettes and other goodies!
thanks for being here :) <3
contact: anythingbagelemail@gmail.com
anythingbagel.bandcamp.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New Chico States album is out today! Nothing quite like my friend Joe's meticulous surveys of this world through a country-western lens.
anythingbagel.bandcamp.com/music
anythingbagel.bandcamp.com/music
Yes, we premiered the album in Spain because the weather was more suitable to the sound.
www.mindies.es/2025/10/estr...
www.mindies.es/2025/10/estr...
Estrenamos el nuevo disco de Chico States | Mindies
Hoy tenemos el placer de estrena en exclusiva ‘I Saw A Galloping Horse Cover No Ground’, el nuevo álbum de Joseph Barresi con su proyecto Chico States, publicado a través del sello Anything Bagel. Est...
www.mindies.es
October 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Yes, we premiered the album in Spain because the weather was more suitable to the sound.
www.mindies.es/2025/10/estr...
www.mindies.es/2025/10/estr...
New Chico States drops this Thursday! Release show in Portland with old friends and new, including several on tour.
www.blueportlandmaine.org/events/chico...
www.blueportlandmaine.org/events/chico...
Chico States + Will Lawrence + Dee Dee Sea + Number One Babe | BPM
www.blueportlandmaine.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
New Chico States drops this Thursday! Release show in Portland with old friends and new, including several on tour.
www.blueportlandmaine.org/events/chico...
www.blueportlandmaine.org/events/chico...
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Frey's stuff is perplexingly gorgeous. I loved his show at Portland Museum of Art last year.
www.pressherald.com/2025/10/08/t...
Frey's stuff is perplexingly gorgeous. I loved his show at Portland Museum of Art last year.
www.pressherald.com/2025/10/08/t...
Two Mainers awarded prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius grants’
Jeremy Frey, a Passamaquoddy artist, and Indigenous cartographer Margaret Wickens Pearce both received the $800,000 award.
www.pressherald.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Frey's stuff is perplexingly gorgeous. I loved his show at Portland Museum of Art last year.
www.pressherald.com/2025/10/08/t...
Frey's stuff is perplexingly gorgeous. I loved his show at Portland Museum of Art last year.
www.pressherald.com/2025/10/08/t...
Gah! Why didn't I know about this till seeing my email just now? I could've gone. If you live near Boston, FYI. I only know 'On A Moonlit Hill in Slovenia' but it's wonderful.
October 14th! Thrilled to co-present this special free event inside Boston City Hall with @rpmfestival.bsky.social, featuring cellist Lori Goldston and trumpeter Greg Kelley, performing Goldston's live scores along with 10 contemporary silent films. www.nonevent.org/concerts/202...
Greg Kelley + Lori Goldston: Sound + Light + Movement — Non-Event
Revolutions per Minute, Engauge Experimental Film Series, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, and Non-Event present a free evening of live performance and experimental silent film inside Boston’s icon...
www.nonevent.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Gah! Why didn't I know about this till seeing my email just now? I could've gone. If you live near Boston, FYI. I only know 'On A Moonlit Hill in Slovenia' but it's wonderful.
After giving it some time, this is absolutely my favorite song of the fall. It seizes me every time I hear it. I love it so much.
Thank you @orindal.bsky.social Records. Also, read reviews by @jenpkelly.bsky.social, who did one for this album.
"Driving slow / to a bridge / I kinda know / where."
Thank you @orindal.bsky.social Records. Also, read reviews by @jenpkelly.bsky.social, who did one for this album.
"Driving slow / to a bridge / I kinda know / where."
"wistful, bittersweet, and deeply nostalgic, like flipping through an old photo book of half-forgotten memories."
Thanks @undertheradar.bsky.social for premiering "Driving Slow" the final single/video from 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐚's debut album 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙀𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙚𝙨.
www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premier...
Thanks @undertheradar.bsky.social for premiering "Driving Slow" the final single/video from 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐚's debut album 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙀𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙚𝙨.
www.undertheradarmag.com/news/premier...
Premiere: herbal tea Shares New Track, “Driving Slow”
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October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
After giving it some time, this is absolutely my favorite song of the fall. It seizes me every time I hear it. I love it so much.
Thank you @orindal.bsky.social Records. Also, read reviews by @jenpkelly.bsky.social, who did one for this album.
"Driving slow / to a bridge / I kinda know / where."
Thank you @orindal.bsky.social Records. Also, read reviews by @jenpkelly.bsky.social, who did one for this album.
"Driving slow / to a bridge / I kinda know / where."
The world was fragrant, dense, and multi-dimensional until what, like 2014?
October 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The world was fragrant, dense, and multi-dimensional until what, like 2014?
This is a lovely, patient album that "makes sense" whether you play it in the trees or the dark fold of an idea-world. Calming and I love "A Vivid Imagination" for its images.
I'm back with a new release, under the new alias Forest Dweller!
Mastered by @exitchamber.bsky.social / Out now on CS/DL on Peak.
juliendemoulin.bandcamp.com/album/foreve...
Mastered by @exitchamber.bsky.social / Out now on CS/DL on Peak.
juliendemoulin.bandcamp.com/album/foreve...
Forever Elusive, by Forest Dweller
9 track album
juliendemoulin.bandcamp.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is a lovely, patient album that "makes sense" whether you play it in the trees or the dark fold of an idea-world. Calming and I love "A Vivid Imagination" for its images.
Awesome background on Portland, Maine's (so-far) successful effort to prevent a Live Nation venue.
See @spacegallery.bsky.social,
@umaw.bsky.social, and Maine Music Alliance
#portlandme #music #arts
jacobin.com/2025/10/live...
See @spacegallery.bsky.social,
@umaw.bsky.social, and Maine Music Alliance
#portlandme #music #arts
jacobin.com/2025/10/live...
Musicians Against Live Nation–Ticketmaster
Live Nation–Ticketmaster controls nearly every corner of the US live music business, from ticketing to touring. In Portland, Maine, a coalition of venues, musicians, and art workers rallied the city a...
jacobin.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Awesome background on Portland, Maine's (so-far) successful effort to prevent a Live Nation venue.
See @spacegallery.bsky.social,
@umaw.bsky.social, and Maine Music Alliance
#portlandme #music #arts
jacobin.com/2025/10/live...
See @spacegallery.bsky.social,
@umaw.bsky.social, and Maine Music Alliance
#portlandme #music #arts
jacobin.com/2025/10/live...
"In the latest case for East Coast Country music"
Them Blundstones, they ain't cowboy boots / Me and you, we’re just blundering on through / A dozen beers ahead of most of the rest of the world
Thanks Ugly Hug!
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Them Blundstones, they ain't cowboy boots / Me and you, we’re just blundering on through / A dozen beers ahead of most of the rest of the world
Thanks Ugly Hug!
uglyhug.com/2025/10/01/c...
Chico States Share “A Dozen Beers”, Announce New Album | Single Premiere
In the latest case for East Coast country music, Chico States shares “A Dozen Beers”, the first single from their upcoming album I Saw A Galloping Horse Cover No Ground out October 23rd via Anythin…
uglyhug.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"In the latest case for East Coast Country music"
Them Blundstones, they ain't cowboy boots / Me and you, we’re just blundering on through / A dozen beers ahead of most of the rest of the world
Thanks Ugly Hug!
uglyhug.com/2025/10/01/c...
Them Blundstones, they ain't cowboy boots / Me and you, we’re just blundering on through / A dozen beers ahead of most of the rest of the world
Thanks Ugly Hug!
uglyhug.com/2025/10/01/c...
Chico States has a new single out today through The Ugly Hug. I wrote the blurb for this album. Can't wait for you to hear the whole thing on Oct. 23.
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uglyhug.com/2025/10/01/c...
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Chico States has a new single out today through The Ugly Hug. I wrote the blurb for this album. Can't wait for you to hear the whole thing on Oct. 23.
uglyhug.com/2025/10/01/c...
uglyhug.com/2025/10/01/c...
The joys of finding the quiet, lucid people in the world.
"Ça c'est un album. C'est l'album." That's an album. That's the album. [Laughter]
More wonder here in 5 tracks and 8 minutes than...
aglaeetroxane.bandcamp.com/album/passio...
"Ça c'est un album. C'est l'album." That's an album. That's the album. [Laughter]
More wonder here in 5 tracks and 8 minutes than...
aglaeetroxane.bandcamp.com/album/passio...
Passions simples, by Aglaë Brown & Roxane Lafrance
5 track album
aglaeetroxane.bandcamp.com
September 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The joys of finding the quiet, lucid people in the world.
"Ça c'est un album. C'est l'album." That's an album. That's the album. [Laughter]
More wonder here in 5 tracks and 8 minutes than...
aglaeetroxane.bandcamp.com/album/passio...
"Ça c'est un album. C'est l'album." That's an album. That's the album. [Laughter]
More wonder here in 5 tracks and 8 minutes than...
aglaeetroxane.bandcamp.com/album/passio...
The clouds are a different shape today!
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The clouds are a different shape today!
Recently read a lot of @jenpkelly.bsky.social's music writing, so I was excited to see her write about someone I know for Aquarium Drunkard! Greg is very singular and was gracious to our band several times. Kelly's portrayal of his rural realism has me excited.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/22/g...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/22/g...
Greg Freeman :: Burnover - Aquarium Drunkard
This second album from Greg Freeman finds northern New England’s hard, un-Instagram-able side, the parking lots of dollar stores, the sooty remnants of burnt-out forests, the single gnarly trees left ...
aquariumdrunkard.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Recently read a lot of @jenpkelly.bsky.social's music writing, so I was excited to see her write about someone I know for Aquarium Drunkard! Greg is very singular and was gracious to our band several times. Kelly's portrayal of his rural realism has me excited.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/22/g...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/22/g...
"And as Godfrey-Smith notes, the thought that we’re 'responding to only a small sliver of what is going on—and other animals will respond to a different sliver and process it differently—is not an easy idea to take on board.'”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘Such Flexible Intensity of Life’ | Verlyn Klinkenborg
Their striking intelligence makes octopuses tempting subjects for wishful anthropomorphism and uncanny reminders of nature’s mysteries.
www.nybooks.com
September 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"And as Godfrey-Smith notes, the thought that we’re 'responding to only a small sliver of what is going on—and other animals will respond to a different sliver and process it differently—is not an easy idea to take on board.'”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Reposted by Alex Silver
Toronto (Friday Sept 26)
@subvert.fm 🤝 @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
This event brings together Subvert and New Feeling for a conversation about the future of worker and artist ownership in music.
Join us. RSVP: luma.com/subvert
@subvert.fm 🤝 @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
This event brings together Subvert and New Feeling for a conversation about the future of worker and artist ownership in music.
Join us. RSVP: luma.com/subvert
September 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Toronto (Friday Sept 26)
@subvert.fm 🤝 @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
This event brings together Subvert and New Feeling for a conversation about the future of worker and artist ownership in music.
Join us. RSVP: luma.com/subvert
@subvert.fm 🤝 @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
This event brings together Subvert and New Feeling for a conversation about the future of worker and artist ownership in music.
Join us. RSVP: luma.com/subvert
Headed in. This is a great label. Do not miss Nick Dunston's Colla Voce in particular. He's with Mary Halvorson in Portland, ME tomorrow @spacegallery.bsky.social, along with many other OOYH artists!
Webber/Morris Big Band - Unseparate listening party tomorrow 9/16 at 7:30pm EST! Hear the full album before 9/26 release. “as cinematic a listening experience as anything since Charlie Haden's 1970 epic Liberation Music Orchestra." —DownBeat
webbermorrisbigband.bandcamp.com/album/unsepa...
webbermorrisbigband.bandcamp.com/album/unsepa...
Unseparate, by Webber/Morris Big Band
11 track album
webbermorrisbigband.bandcamp.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Headed in. This is a great label. Do not miss Nick Dunston's Colla Voce in particular. He's with Mary Halvorson in Portland, ME tomorrow @spacegallery.bsky.social, along with many other OOYH artists!
Reposted by Alex Silver
tour dates for my band Portals comin' up.
September 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
tour dates for my band Portals comin' up.
This is an incredibly mature piece of art. I found it by happenstance and I'm very excited. There's been some music journalism about it (@spinal-bap.bsky.social, @callinamagician.bsky.social, @paddyclarke.bsky.social), but I think it merits more.
wormery.bandcamp.com/album/pantilde
wormery.bandcamp.com/album/pantilde
Pantilde, by The Worm
12 track album
wormery.bandcamp.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is an incredibly mature piece of art. I found it by happenstance and I'm very excited. There's been some music journalism about it (@spinal-bap.bsky.social, @callinamagician.bsky.social, @paddyclarke.bsky.social), but I think it merits more.
wormery.bandcamp.com/album/pantilde
wormery.bandcamp.com/album/pantilde
I'm "reissuing" this two-part collection of draft recordings as Exactly and However in 34 tracks. I put it out very quietly but it's really my favorite. Come chat, give impressions, hear why I made it. Pay $5 and get a physical copy when I print them.
alexsilver.bandcamp.com/merch/exactl...
alexsilver.bandcamp.com/merch/exactl...
Exactly and However Listening Party from Alex Silver
Listening Party from Alex Silver.
alexsilver.bandcamp.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm "reissuing" this two-part collection of draft recordings as Exactly and However in 34 tracks. I put it out very quietly but it's really my favorite. Come chat, give impressions, hear why I made it. Pay $5 and get a physical copy when I print them.
alexsilver.bandcamp.com/merch/exactl...
alexsilver.bandcamp.com/merch/exactl...