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Jess and Janasa

Green Gourmet market owners

transcribed by Brandon Carter
Coastal Journal Staff

The way it all came about was we both moved to Maine with the intention of opening something together, not necessarily a food store, but something. It was put on hold for awhile because we had children and jobs and money to deal with, but I would pass this building everyday on my way to work, and I thought, “This place would make a great natural foods market.” I brought it up to Jess one day, and we decided to go look at it since it was for sale.

Massive Attack's Protection

By Brandon Carter
Coastal Journal Staff

When Massive Attack dropped their debut album Blue Lines in 1991, it changed the landscape of popular music, inventing what is generally called the “trip-hop” genre, as well as sibling genres like “chill out.” Grant Marshal (Daddy Gee), Robert Del Naja (3D), and Andrew Vowels (Mushroom) became local heroes in Bristol and critical darlings of the U.K. press. Artists like Tricky (who featured on the album) and Portishead would go on to make the “Bristol sound” more popular in America, but Blue Lines is unquestionably the blueprint album.

Ryan Adams' 29

By B. J. Carter Coastal Journal Staff I wonder what Stehen King thinks of 29. If you look up Ryan Adams’ latest release Easy Tiger on Amazon.com, you will find that the author has written the album’s description. Apparantley, he’s a big Ryan Adams fan, coming just short of calling him “the best North American singer-songwriter since Neil Young. ”
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Babyshambles' Down on Albion

by Brandon Carter Coastal Journal Staff With the arrival of Babyshambles' new album Shotter's Nation this last Monday will surely come a new round of intense scrutiny of the band's chief songwriter Pete Doherty. Maybe you've heard of him.
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Joanna Newsome's Milk-Eyed Mender

by Brandon Carter
Coastal Journal Staff

Several autumns ago, I had a great, unformed idea for a script. It would be about autumn and adolescence, the relationship between human life cycles and seasonal cycles, and growing up in New England. It wouldn't be idyllic or nostalgic; the landscapes would be beautiful but desolate, and it would be a film about loneliness and lying under the stars to dream of escape.