Archive for Kegan Zema
Ripping off The Beatles is a highly acceptable but often castigated practice. Do it right and listeners will take the good with the bad — music still hasn’t caught up with what the fab four were …
Last semester, Ludacris came to the Alfond Arena. This semester, we get to hear Ludacris’ voice blaring out of the loudspeakers in the Field House with one major difference — he’ll probably be rapping over Black …
From “Survivor” to “The Bachelorette” to the Discovery Channel, Maine residents are getting their fair share of reality show screen time. But few can match the back story and on-camera antics of the state’s latest cultural …
There’s a lot of music out there. Often it’s a chore just to stay on top of it all.
Flavors of the week tend to come and go and I’ll usually take them for a test …
The brackets have been filled out, bets (may or may not) have been placed and for those who are in on the action, March Madness is in full swing. What does that mean for students at …
When indie rockers The Decemberists played to a small crowd inside Bull Moose Music’s Scarborough warehouse Jan. 30, they had the No. 1 album in the country. A band that successful playing in an independent record …
On last year’s “Heavy the Mountains, Heavy are the Seas,” atmospheric folk artist Jakob Battick was finding solace in his creations, singing, “These songs, they are my home.” But on his latest release, “Bloodworm Songs,” we …
So, you’re stuck in Orono for spring break. The good news is that not all is lost. Your peers may be back home or partying at destinations across the country, but there will still be plenty …
One of the best parts of Grand Hotel’s “In Color” comes at the very end during the song “Thanks!” As the band plays out, lead singer Kyle Gervais repeatedly spits out “thanks to you”s of varying …
Beat Report by Kegan Zema
Before last week, no one knew when the world would receive the next Radiohead album. Fans knew the band had an album’s worth of material finished, but there was no mention of …
