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A Final Fare Thee Well: Celebrate 50 Years of Grateful Dead with Mexicali...
Come celebrate 50 years of the Grateful Dead at the historic Lincoln Theater! We will be live-streaming the final show of the Fare Thee Well concert run featuring the “Core Four” members of the...
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Mexicali Loves Music: Summer Concert Ticket Giveaways
Mexicali Blues loves music, and we’re pairing up with Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion to share the love with YOU! All summer long, we’ll be giving away over 200 tickets to the hottest concerts at the...
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Summer Festival Essentials: Boho Chic Concert Style Guide
Click to view slideshow. Get ready to rock summer concert season in a rainbow of boho good vibes–with clothing, accessories, and other essential festival gear from Mexicali Blues! SHOP THE LOOKS HERE:...
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Mexicali Loves Music: Happy Winners & Rock n’ Rollers
We’re sharing the love of live music this summer with the Mexicali Loves Music Concert Ticket Giveaway, and we just ADORE when happy winners and other rock n’ rollers tell share pics and stories about...
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Your Oasis on Route One: The Mexicali Blues Yurt Sets Up at the Newcastle...
A traditional yurt is built to travel with nomadic tribes, and Caleb Erskine of Living Intent Yurt Company built the Mexicali Blues yurt to follow ours. We’re creating another oasis for the Mexicali...
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Mexicali Loves Music: Midcoast Maine Music Festival This Week!
One of our very favorite annual local events, theMidcoast Music Festival, is this week–Thursday July 14th and Saturday the 16th–and if you’re in (or can get to) the area, it is a truly magical summer...
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Mexicali Loves Music: Win Free Tickets to Dark Star Orchestra in Portland,...
Mexicali’s sharing the Live Music Love all summer long, and this week, we’re giving away 5 pairs of tickets to see Dark Star Orchestra at the Maine State Pier in Portland! Click here to enter:...
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August 21, 2016 Maine Event: Hidden Valley Nature Center’s Live Edge Music...
Mexicali Blues is thrilled to be working with the Hidden Valley Nature Center as a sponsor for the 2016 Live Edge Music Festival! This fabulous Maine festival will boast awesome music, delicious local...
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The Mexicali Blues Yurt Sets Up at Our Bangor Store this Thursday, August 18th!
Bangor is so much fun (and a little bit frenzied) on Thursdays in the summertime, with music and merriment filling the streets as revelers boogie down at the free shows of the Cool Sounds Concert...
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Mexicali Drumming: How to Play the Djembe Drum
Traditional Djembe Drum Handpainted Djembe Drums Djembes are played by hand and are capable of producing a large variety of sounds, making it one of the most versatile drums in the world!...
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Music Mondays: Playing for Change
Playing for Change is a multimedia music project created to bring together musicians from all over the world to “inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music.” It began with a mobile...
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Music Mondays: Beirut
Beirut was originally the solo music project of New Mexico native Zach Condon. Only 19 at the time, Condon recorded much of the first Beirut album, Gulag Orkestar, alone in his bedroom, playing all the...
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Music Monday: The Brew
The Brew are a quartet from Amesbury, Massachusetts that cull their inspiration and influence from a variety of genres. Flowing from rock to funk to reggae to jazz, sometimes in a single song, these...
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Music for Action: Take Action on Climate Change, Download Bonnaroo Music
photo by Gilbert R., via Flickr In June, the House of Representatives passed legislation to cut global warming pollution, build a clean energy economy and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Now it...
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Music Monday: Artistry Beyond the Tunes, Part 1
This week, we thought we would show you another side of musical acts: awesome videos and hilariously terrible album covers! First up, what happens when things go awry. Stay tuned for awesome music...
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Music Monday: Artistry Beyond the Tunes, Part 2
Here are some of the coolest music videos out there (we think so, anyway)! Sugarcube by Yo La Tengo [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgpQBaziy0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Also, Let Forever Be...
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Music Monday: Easy Star All-Stars
The EasyStar All-Stars are a reggae collective with a rotating cast of singers and musicians from New York’s reggae, ska, jazz, and dub scene. Using their musical skills and reggae roots, they...
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Music Monday: Hot Day at the Zoo
photo via hotdayatthezoo.com A high-energy quartet from Lowell, Massachusetts, Hot Day at the Zoo mixes ragtime, folk, blues and jazz with rocking bluegrass for a listening and concert experience that...
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Music Monday: Best Free Ways to Discover Music Online
Whether you’re tired of the music you always listen to or want to add some variety to your next mixtape, discovering a new band that you really dig is always an awesome feeling! The internet is a...
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Music Monday: Ukulele Yeehaw!
photo via americansongwriter.com If you aren’t familiar with this cool little music-maker, the ukulele is a small guitar-like instrument with four strings. They are fun to play, supremely portable,...
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Music Monday: Recycled Instruments
This pipe organ, or “beergan”, has been made with beer bottles instead of pipes! Made by Peterson Tuners, click here to hear it play Eleanor Rigby. To make music, you don’t really need separate...
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Music Monday: Andrew Bird
photo via JimNewberry.com Andrew Bird is a Chicago singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who plays primarily violin and guitar. Trained in the Suzuki method from the age of four, Bird steps up...
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Music Monday: The Black Keys
photo via last.fm Formed in 2001 in Akron, Ohio, The Black Keys are the blues-rock musical duo of guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach and producer/drummer Patrick Carney. Their songs are often rough and...
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Music Monday: Grizzly Bear
The music of Grizzly Bear is filled with surprising turns of melody and unique, lovely harmonies that sweep you up like waves. The songs that start to feel too epic and prog-rock-ish always swing back...
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Music Monday: She & Him
She & Him is a indie-folk duo who plays cheerful retro pop that sounds like a Summer afternoon. Zooey Deschanel writes songs, sings and plays piano, while M. Ward plays guitar, produces, and sings...
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Music Monday: Gorillaz
picture by dwinch via photobucket Gorillaz is a music project created by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book Tank Girl. Gorillaz are known as a...
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Music Monday: What to Bring to a Festival
all your bohemian friends and a hippie bus! Those of us Mexicali folk who are going to the Nateva Festival this weekend can think of hardly anything else! To benefit those who might be heading up that...
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Music Monday: Thievery Corporation & Ween
Nobody can resist dancing at the Pier Review! photo via pizza comedy Good times are fast approaching, as we count down the days to the 2010 Pier Review at the Maine State Pier in Portland’s Old Port....
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Music Monday: LCD Soundsystem
The music of LCD Soundsystem could be catagorized as something like dance-punk-electronic-pop-indie-rocktastic. Led by the clever and often self-effacing James Murphy, this is music with a...
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Music Monday: Ghostland Observatory
Many of us who were at the first Nateva festival this past 4th of July had our minds melted a little bit by the electrifying performance of this musical duo. A combination of electronica and straight...
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Music Monday: Arcade Fire
The Arcade Fire hails from Montreal and are fronted by married couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne with an oft changing cast of super-talented multi-instrumentalist collaborators singing and playing...
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Music Monday: Music Movies You Should See
The nights are cooling and crab-apples are thunking to the ground; the first whispers of Fall are in the air. Now don’t get scared; it’s still summer! But it is good to be prepared, and since Winter...
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Music Monday: Broken Bells
Broken Bells is the musical duo of Brian Burton (better known as Danger Mouse) and The Shins frontman James Mercer. They describe their music as “melodic, yet experimental” with Mercer’s distinctively...
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Music Monday: Hanging Out with Young Jerry!
Jerry Garcia tribute poster It’s no secret that all of us at Mexicali love the Grateful Dead and their unimitable frontman, Jerry Garcia. Today we want to share with you a bunch of cool videos of...
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Bonnaroo: Festival Fashion
Bonnaroo is coming up in just a few days, and if you’re heading down to Tennessee to rock out with all the awesome bands and groovy people, you’ve got to be ready with some stylish and comfortable...
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Jerry Garcia: Happy Birthday! We still miss you!
(Image via Cuckoo Bird) Jerry Garcia was an inimitable presence and amazing musician, with a voice and guitar style that stands out like no other–you hear just a couple of notes, and you know that’s...
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