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Groups from all over head to All Points North
Over 30 acts played at two-day festivalWhen local bands, DJs and reggae, jazz, and rock musicians alike converge to draw crowds to a corner of town for a two-night music festival, all signs point north.
Kingman’s, a Old Town bar, welcomed a total …
For the record
Bangor Bull Moose prepares for Record Store Day, an international celebration of independent music shopsWith the dawn of the digital age, fans of traditional music formats are right to fear the death of physical copies of music and real-life record stores.
iTunes, Spotify and similar services make it so convenient to …
Crossdress for success
Drag Show concludes Pride WeekThe Memorial Union transformed from meeting place and eatery to an elaborate runway surrounded by people waiting to be wowed by professional and student drag queens and kings alike for the University of Maine Drag Show …
(1)CD Reviews
Maine rockers unify variety of influences on cohesive disc
The Running Gags is what happens when music is not placed into just one genre.
The band embraces “no rules” punk, hard rock, pop-punk, reggae and ska. However, the music of this quintuplet can be easily related …
Film Reviews
Plot sometimes thin, but grown-up Efron thrills as lead
By now, renowned romance novelist Nicholas Sparks has played out just about every plotline imaginable to fit within the vanilla, boy-meets-girl confines of what he does best.
Seven of these crowd-pleasing stories have made their ways to …
Style & Culture
With a 45-foot tall stage, giant video screens, music, lights and paint, Dayglow transformed the normally unadorned Field House into a hedonistic paradise on Wednesday night.
Billed as “the world’s largest paint party,” the buzz surrounding Dayglow …
Maine Live Music Summer Preview
Free Range Music Fest – April 28 in Belfast
Just $18 (or $12 for kids) will get you an all-day pass to the Free Range Music Fest, with stages on eight different venues around town. Over 30 …
Prisoner-penned play soon at Pavilion
Cluchey’s ‘The Cage’ a drama about struggles of dominance in prison life, opens this weekend
American playwright Rick Cluchey’s dark drama “The Cage” opens this Friday at the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre. The play centers around the lives of prisoners as they struggle for dominance over one another.
The play has only ever …
How I Hear It: Greatest era for music fans happening now
Resources for music discovery make modern day best time for listeners to develop unique tastes
How can anyone argue the ’60s and ’70s weren’t the best eras for music?
Jimi Hendrix was redefining how every guitarist after him approached the instrument, Black Sabbath was inventing heavy metal, and a certain four blokes …
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