Author: Lee Hurley

Lee Hurley
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Lee Hurley is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying Communications and Media Studies. A self-proclaimed "expert" on local music scenes, they're passionate about media theory, music, film, art, and, in general, filling the gap in arts coverage within our province. Lee is usually haunting the Communications wing of the arts building or blasting painstakingly curated playlists in the Muse office, and they're incredibly honoured to take on the role of Managing Editor for the 2025-2026 editorial year. Lee is reachable at managing@themuse.ca

Muse-ic Review: “Rick Nielsen” by Sick Puppy

Arts & CultureLee Hurley -
St. John’s alt-rock/punk four-piece Sick Puppy calls themselves “your girlfriend’s favourite band,” but I respectfully disagree — they should be “everyone’s favourite band” instead.  The band just released the first single from their upcoming album NOBODY GETS...

Everything you can’t miss at Lawnya Vawnya music festival

Arts & CultureLee Hurley -
Newfoundland’s premier multidisciplinary independent arts and music festival, Lawnya Vawnya, is back for its sixteenth year with delightfully whimsical Medieval-themed branding and an absolutely stellar lineup of events.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again,...

Muse-ic Review: ‘No Matter The Time’ by Bread Clip

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Max Steffan, otherwise known as Bread Clip, self-produces what he calls “avant-garde Atlantic power pop” from his bedroom in St. John's. If Bread Clip’s...

Muse-ic Review: self-titled EP by Suburban Architecture

Arts & CultureLee Hurley -
Unlike the actual architecture commonplace in the suburbs, Suburban Architecture’s self-titled EP is honest, and full of soul.  Independently released on February 1, Suburban Architecture...

The Canadian media renaissance continues with Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

Arts & CultureLee Hurley -
If you could time-travel back to 2008 Toronto in an RV powered by a discontinued drink that looks like a lava lamp with boba...

GSU’s AGM adjourned early, dissolution vote pushed to April

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The Graduate Students' Union (GSU) Annual General Meeting had been planned to address proposed fee increases and the petition for dissolution. It adjourned early...

GSU and CFS respond to debt crisis ahead of dissolution vote

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The Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) has issued another statement addressing common questions amid a petition raised by TAUMUN executive calling for a vote on...

OPINION: CHMR isn’t perfect, but voting to close it would be irrational 

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MUNSU has recently announced that after surveying students about their use of MUNSU-run services, its executive committee unanimously voted to recommend the discontinuation of...

Muse-ic Reviews: Fairweather, LFB, John Moran & DOBERMAN

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*This article first appeared in The Muse’s 75th Anniversary Print Supplement magazine, published January 2026. Four Songs — Fairweather Power pop/punk is alive and well in St....

GSU says dissolution would end health insurance coverage

NewsLee Hurley -
The Graduate Student’s Union (GSU) has responded to the petition put forward by the TAUMUN calling for a vote on its dissolution.  The petition calls...

‘A clean slate’: TAUMUN puts forth petition to dissolve GSU

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Graduate Students may soon have a chance to vote for the dissolution of their union, which is in at least $2 million of debt...

Collected Pulp talks nostalgia and media ownership

Arts & CultureLee Hurley -
*This article first appeared in The Muse’s 75th Anniversary Print Supplement magazine, published January 2026. Self-proclaimed 'conduit' for books, Josh Hutchings, runs curated secondhand haven Collected...

‘Not a porno magazine’: The Muse’s sexy and controversial past

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“Vulgarity is neither fashionable nor intellectual,” claimed a blistering letter to the Editor in a February 1991 issue of The Muse.   This was in direct...

‘Majored in The Muse’: Michael Connors on cultivating his career, finding himself, and finding love at MUN’s student paper

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*This article first appeared in The Muse's 75th Anniversary Print Supplement magazine, published January 2026. “I started at MUN in 1994, and I walked...
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