In the News

This week Portland Phoenix has a great article on the rise of cassette culture among local music labels. Among the featured cassettes is l'animaux tryst's beautiful Chakra Ledge, recorded last year at the Building of Song. Check out the article here. Eternal Otters' first cassette release, Panda Bandits' Revolver EP, will be available for online order in June.

Today's featured show in the Portland Daily Sun is "Maine Radio Project presents Aleric Nez". The show, featuring the category-defying Nez, takes place at vinyl record/vintage clothing store Moody Lords. It is a great opportunity to suppport community radio, local business, and hear a great Portland musician. Moody Lords is located at 578 Congress St above Strange Maine. Show at 8 pm. $5 donation at the door.

Tune into the Maine Radio Project today at 3 pm to listen to Moody Lords co-owner Andrew Change play tracks from his favorite vinyl available at the store.

Maine Radio Project presents Aleric Nez at Moody Lords

The Maine Radio Project is a free form internet radio station supporting the creative community of Portland, Maine and beyond. Next Friday, May 13th, they are hosting a show at Moody Lords featuring a performance by Aleric Nez.

Moody Lords is an awesome vinyl record and vintage clothing store, located at 578 Congress St above Strange Maine. Next week, the owners of Moody Lords will be presenting a special one hour broadcast of tracks from their favorite records available at the store. This special program will rebroadcast broadcast every weekday at 3 pm. Be sure to tune in!

Aleric Nez was recently nominated for Best Category Defying Act by the Portland Phoenix (You can still vote here!). Come find out why no category can contain him, and pick up a copy of his excellent new vinyl release, and search for more hidden treasures at Moody Lords.

Show starts promptly at 8 pm. $5.

Record Store Day! Special Deal from Eternal Otter Records

Saturday, April 16th is Record Store Day, and we are excited here at Eternal Otter Records! Across the country independent record stores will be celebrating great music with over a hundred exclusive releases from 7" singles, to special edition LPs, to exciting new compilations. Eternal Otter Records is getting in on the action by offering a special deal at Bull Moose Records in Portland, Maine.

If you buy Jesse Pilgrim and the Bonfire's excellent new CD "Trial & Error" from Bull Moose on Saturday, you will get to pick up a FREE copy of their Eternal Otter Records 7" vinyl single "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure" when you check out.

Additionally, if you buy any of the great CDs from blues troubadours Samuel James or D. Gross, you get a free copy of the split single they released from Eternal Otter Records. Awesome!

This offer is only good at the Bull Moose location in Portland, Maine, while supplies last.

Portland Phoenix Music Awards 2011

It's time to vote in the Phoenix Portland Music Awards! Eternal Otter Records is very proud to have worked with a number of artists that have been honored with nominations this year.

We released the album Samples for Handsome Animals (only a few copies left of our final run - order here) by "Best Local Act" nominee Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. This is the last year you will be able to vote for Lady Lamb in the local category because she is blowing up! You can also grab the 7" split single Lady Lamb's Aly Spaltro did with her former bandmate TJ Metcalfe (now of Dead Man's Clothes).

Samuel James was also nominated for "Best Local Act" and "Best Blues Act" and you can pick up the split single he shares with D. Gross, another "Best Blues Act" nominee. You can vote everyday, so I recommend alternating between the two.

Jesse Pilgrim also picked up a nomination for "Best Roots Act", and you should definitely get your hands on his vinyl single "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure", as well as his self-released killer new debut album Trial & Error. And if you missed his release show on Saturday then you missed one of the absolute best shows of the year.

Eternal Otter Records also wishes all the luck to the Lucid (Building of Song headliners), Meghan Yates (another Tower of Song/Building of Song alum), Dead Man's Clothes (who the Panda Bandits just played a show with at the Oak + the Ax), Jakob Battick + Friends (who invited the Panda Bandits to play Slainte and released an excellent new album), Portland Jazz Orchestra (who played the Casablanca screening we programmed at the State), and Big Blood & Olas, both made up of former members of Cerberus Shoal.

Jesse Pilgrim & the Bonfire CD Release

We are very excited for tonight's show at SPACE with Jesse Pilgrim & the Bonfire. Eternal Otter Records released their 7" single "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure" last year, and we are now thrilled for the new release of their debut album Trial & Error (with Shackleton b-side "Lead Me Down", featuring Lady Lamb the Beekeeper's Aly Spaltro).

The show starts at 8, and Jesse Pilgrim & the Bonfire will be joined by openers Butcher Boy and Grant Street Orchestra, as well as Eternal Otter Records' Panda Bandits.

check out the promo video here

Also, if you missed it yesterday, check out this very funny rap album that Jesse put out for April Fool's day.

New Release: REVOLVER by Panda Bandits

"Arthaus Chaos Unit" Panda Bandits will be releasing their EP Cassette REVOLVER tomorrow at the Oak & the Ax in Biddeford this Saturday. The creation of Waisely "Scar" Lighthead & Marie "Minnie" Pistola (whose names just happen to be an anagram for William Thayer Ethridge & Alicia Ines Sampson), Panda Bandits have evolved from an "imaginary band", to "Johnny Cash tribute act", to "Portland's strangest animal collective". With this EP, you now can revisit all the hits, including "When the Panda Bandits Come to Town", "Henry Ford Is Coming Back", "Oso", and "You Know What I Mean, Jelly Bean?".

This is an extremely limited edition, so come out to the show to pick one up. Get your tickets here. Advanced ticket holders get $1 off the price of the cassette (normally $6).

Panda Bandits will be joined by recent Phoenix cover story rockers Dead Man's Clothes, returning from their SXSW tour, and the ever delightful Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue. Check out this great interview the Dirty Dishes did with the Portland Press Herald. The event is called "Bad Seeds" and you don't want to miss it. Good Seeds get in for $10 (and get a flower at the door), Bad Seeds can slink in for $6. Doors 7:30 / Show 8:30

Panda Bandits on the March

Who are the Panda Bandits? They have been called "Portland's Strangest Animal Collective", "Like a fish gasping for water", "a celebration", and "some wonderful cult". Lead by Waisely "Scar" Lighthead and his Bandit Queen, Marie "Minnie" Pistola, they present to you the following trilogy of upcoming shows.



Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
Panda Bandits / Jakob Battick & Friends
Friday, March 11th, 9 PM at Slainte in Portland
FREE

Thunder meets Lightning as Jakob Battick & Friends team up with the Panda Bandits for a night of dark country magic*. Cohen and Cave disciple Jakob Battick celebrates the release of his Bloodworm Songs EP before he and his friends disband to various corners of the world (Russia, the Appalachian Trail, the dark recesses of the mind) for an extended hiatus. Check out the video for Three Orphans, the single from Bloodworm Songs.

Jakob Battick & Friends- 'Three Orphans' (Bloodworm Songs) from JakobBattick&Friends on Vimeo.

The Panda Bandits will be presenting material old and new, including work commissioned for last year's Vampire Musical Rock n Roll & the Immortal Soul, tales of revenge, stolen songs, and the Ballad of Marie Pistola. Get in the mood for a moody night with this promo video, directed by Jakob Battick.

Jakob Battick & Friends/Panda Bandits 03/11/11 from JakobBattick&Friends on Vimeo.

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Bad Seeds
Dead Man's Clothes/ The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue / Panda Bandits
Saturday, March 26th, 7:30 PM at The Oak & the Ax in Biddeford
Bad Seeds: $6 / Good Seeds $10

For this show, the Panda Bandits will be releasing their debut cassette EP, titled REVOLVER. The seductive and subversive Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue offer an inspired feast. And Dead Man's Clothes return home from their SXSW tour. Has there ever been a better reason to venture down the back alleys of Biddeford? Email your mailing address to theottersden@gmail.com to request a hand printed show invitation designed Kris Johnsen's Emblem Studios.



TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW via BROWN PAPER TICKETS. $10 if you are a Good Seed. $6 if you are Bad Seed. Good Seeds will receive a flower at the door. All advance ticket holders will receive $1 off the purchase of the Panda Bandit's REVOLVER EP. Get your tickets here.

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Jesse Pilgrim and the Bonfire CD Release Show
Jesse Pilgrim and the Bonfire / Panda Bandits / Grant Street Orchestra / Butcher Boy
Saturday, April 2nd, 8 PM at SPACE Gallery in Portland
$8 18+

Jesse Pilgrim and the Bonfire celebrate the release of their debut full-length Trial & Error. I've heard it, and this album kicks, punches, falls down, and gets up to take another swig of whiskey. Panda Bandits join a trio of fearsome openers, before the man himself takes the stage to burn down the house with the Bonfire.

Check out Jesse Pilgrim performing at last year's Building of Song Festival, and grab a copy of his 7" vingle single, "Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure", from Eternal Otter Records.

Building of Song 2010 - Jesse Pilgrim from House Productions on Vimeo.

Eternal Otter Records has a new Facebook Page - LIKE IT here to stay up to date on Eternal Otter Records and the Panda Bandits... you wouldn't want us to catch you unawares...

Regards,
Waisely Lighthead

* genre name stolen from Big Blood's excellent new album, Dark Country Magic.