Portland Public Library bookmobile is on the road
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Sam Hill in Arts & Culture, Features
The Portland Public Library’s new “mobile branch” visited USM on Wednesday for the first time, showing off their customized Mercedes-Benz mobile library and spreading the word on what they have in store for Portland. “A lot of people in the city have busy schedules, and one too many things on their plates,” said Portland Public [...]
National Review: #willpower by will.i.am
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Sam Hill in Album Reviews, Arts & Culture
Let’s just say that will.i.am’s fourth solo album #willpower will never be trending on Twitter, despite its not-so-subtle marketing scheme of the album’s title. You’d think after founding the Black Eyed Peas, releasing three previous solo albums, winning seven Grammy Awards and being given the position of creative director of innovation at Intel Corporation that [...]
National Review: Indicud by Kid Cudi
Posted on April 29, 2013 by Sam Hill in Album Reviews, Arts & Culture, Music
Kid Cudi tweeted last June that his next release, Indicud, would be his own version of Dr. Dre’s 2001. Sounds like it’d be quite the undertaking, right? Well it seems Cudi forgot when he started this project that, unlike Dre, he’s a really weird dude. Indicud opens up with a heavy instrumental track titled “The [...]
School of Music receives $1 million bequest to be used in music scholarships
Posted on April 22, 2013 by Sam Hill in Arts & Culture, Features, Music
In a press release posted by the Office of Public Affairs on April 12, USM announced that the School of Music would be the beneficiary of a $1 million bequest from the estate of Anne Randolph Henry. But many music students are still stuck worried about the future of the music program. In the wake [...]
Local Top 5: Places for one and two on campus
Posted on April 16, 2013 by Sam Hill, and Andrew Henry in Arts & Culture
1.) Abromson Center Do yourself a favor – drink a lot of water during the school day and visit the Abromson bathrooms on your way to the parking garage. We swear a top-notch custodian must clean these every ten minutes, because they’re always so clean. It might also be because students don’t often have class [...]
Local Album Review: Burrow by Max Garcia Conover
Posted on April 16, 2013 by Sam Hill in Album Reviews, Arts & Culture
Guys with guitars are a dime a dozen. Who cares how good their “Wonderwall” covers are, you just don’t want to deal with them, right? Well, let’s just say if Maine-based songwriter Max Garcia Conover showed up at a party offering to play songs off of his full-length debut album Burrow, you wouldn’t tell him [...]
National Album Review: Tell Where I Lie by Fossil Collective
Posted on April 16, 2013 by Sam Hill in Album Reviews, Arts & Culture
Fossil Collective’s debut album Tell Where I Lie is a great listen, but it’s not anything you haven’t heard before. The duo Jonny Hooker and David Fendick have been toeing the line of commercial success with this band for years now, gaining internet buzz and collecting a slew of followers on essentially every social media [...]
Senior art students celebrate, open end of the year gallery
Posted on April 16, 2013 by Sam Hill in Arts & Culture, Features
The Gorham Art Gallery was packed on Friday night as graduating studio art majors gathered for the art program’s annual BFA exhibition in a both a celebration and a culmination of their undergraduate careers The exhibition is part of a senior seminar class taught by Distinguished Professor of Art Rose Marasco, and represents the culminating [...]
National Album Review: Wolf by Tyler, the Creator
Posted on April 08, 2013 by Sam Hill in Arts & Culture, Music
Tyler, the Creator has outdone himself with Wolf, which sounds like his most engrossing work yet. The eccentric, foul-mouthed Odd Future ringleader is still rapping without a filter, but he seems to be more focused in his third release (as focused as he can be, at least). A collection of misanthropic confessions and, of course, [...]
Music education faculty halved due to university budget cuts
Posted on April 08, 2013 by Sam Hill in Arts & Culture, Features, Music
Budget cuts at the university have affected all departments, but the School of Music may have taken a heavier blow. At the end of the semester, lecturer of music education Steve Bizub’s position will be cut, leaving the program to one professor. On Wednesday night the entrance to Corthell Hall was flooded with boisterous USM [...]
