Grand Hotel with Crystal Canyon & Snake Lips

375 Forest Avenue,Portland ME 04101

08 April, 2022

Description

Grand Hotel with Crystal Canyon & Snake Lips ALL AGES Grand Hotel with Crystal Canyon & Snake Lips Grand Hotel is a five-piece power-pop act from Southern Maine. They broke up about 10 years ago, but are now playing together again. Crystal Canyon is an American Shoegaze band from Portland, Maine. In 2014, lead vocalist and guitarist Lynda Mandolyn met guitarist and vocalist Todd Hutchisen in a recording session at Todd’s Acadia Recording Company studios. She was recording an album with her group Tiger Bomb when the two hit it off, bonding over a shared love of classic shoegaze albums. They formed Crystal Canyon shortly after, bringing in a rhythm section composed of Todd’s former collaborators, which featured Jeremy Smith on bass and Hayes Porterfield on drums. The group won fans domestically and abroad with their 2018 independently released, self-titled album, owing much of their early radio success from the support of DKFM Shoegaze Radio. Crystal Canyon has shared the stage with bands such as Stars, PVRIS, Weakened Friends, and Ratboys among many others. They are infamous for their intricately sculpted guitar tones, ethereal vocals, and Todd’s frequent destruction of guitars on stage. Crystal Canyon shows weave expertly between a gentle hush and a wall of loud shimmering noise. Released on January 29th 2021, yours with affection and sorrow, was two years in the making and has been recently released via Portland’s indie record label Repeating Cloud. Following the conclusion of the recording, drummer Hayes Porterfield left the band and was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Nate Manning. Their most accomplished album yet, yours with affection and sorrow is dedicated to the memory of Lynda’s friend and mentor Christopher Girard. They are currently working on writing songs for their third album. The members of Crystal Canyon are all lifetime vets of the indie music scene and have played in Seekonk, The Baltic Sea, Loomer, Bane, Cruel Hand, and Fabulous Disaster. Snake Lips is a four piece punk band from Portland Maine. Guitar player Cody Mitchell writes tightly wound songs about anxiety, disillusionment, alcoholism and his cat. Their debut EP was released collaboratively by Repeating Cloud and Totally Real Records. They are currently writing and recording a follow up album to be released later in 2022.