WVAU’s 2018 Albums of the Year
WVAU Staff
December 31, 2018
Filed under Current Columns, End of the Year Awards
Every year, WVAU asks its community about the music that moved them, the songs they listened to on repeat, and the albums they'll never forget. This year, in a new form, we're highlighting what our community says is this year's best. These are WVAU's albums of the year. 10. Spirit of the Beehive - H...
WVAU’s 2018 Songs of the Year
WVAU Staff
December 30, 2018
Filed under Current Columns, End of the Year Awards
Every year, WVAU asks its community about the music that moved them, the songs they listened to on repeat, and the albums they'll never forget. This year, in a new form, we're highlighting what our community says is this year's best. These are WVAU's songs of the year. 10. Childish Gambino - "This is ...
WVAU’s 2018 End of the Year Awards
WVAU Staff
December 29, 2018
Filed under Current Columns, End of the Year Awards
Every year, WVAU asks its community about the music that moved them, the songs they listened to on repeat, and the albums they'll never forget. This year, in a new form, we're highlighting what our community says is this year's best. For this category, we see new and emerging artists, local heroes, live...
In Our Feelings: Just Groovy
Morgan Bluma
December 17, 2018
Filed under Current Columns
There really isn’t any way I can describe this song clearly. It is basically just one big groovy feel fest. I picked this song because the first line mentions Hermann Hesse who was a German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. This is an arti...
A Band I Should’ve Been Loving For Years
Sam Graziano
December 10, 2018
Filed under Current Columns
I’ve been a drummer for about half my life. My involvement in playing music has greatly influenced the artists I have listened to. Most, if not all, of the music on pop radio in my formative years was rhythmically monotonous. I’m not saying that songs that weren’t catchy or enjoyable didn’t ex...
Mirror Master
Melissa Weinstein
December 7, 2018
Filed under Current Columns
There’s a lot of perks to being short, especially at a concert. For example…… well, I can’t think of any right now. However, it didn’t matter that the tallest people in North America were standing in front of me for the first half of Young the Giant. Front man, Sameer Gadhia, carried eno...
Bohemian Rhapsody For Dummies
Elyssa Dalaker
December 7, 2018
Filed under Current Columns
Is it cheating to talk about a movie on a music column? Especially one that just about everyone has been talking about? This past weekend, I finally found the time to pay a visit to the local movie theater, overpriced popcorn in hand and a purse full of candy from CVS snuck in over my shoulder. With last mo...
An “Alternative” Horoscope Because HARD TIMES Already had a Punk One
Milo Paul
December 4, 2018
Filed under Current Columns
I know you are looking at the picture for this article thinking to yourself, “Wow, this person can really use paint on Windows 10!!” and you are damn right I can use paint. I’m not GOOD at using paint, but I can USE it. What can you say you can use and not be a good at? Few things, I’m sure. ...
Album Review: Lawrence Rotham – I Know I’ve Been Wrong, But Can We Talk?
Shannon Durazo
December 4, 2018
Filed under Music Reviews
Lawrence Rotham- I Know I've Been Wrong, but Can We Talk? (Downtown) [art-pop/alt-electro] In a polished new six-song EP, Lawrence Rotham uses upbeat synth-pop numbers to tackle the most downbeat of topics. From close friend Bobby’s, who the album is dedicated to, untimely suicide in May, to their paren...
Earl Sweatshirt is Back and Better Than Ever
Shannon Durazo, Web Staffer
November 28, 2018
Filed under Current Columns
This Friday, November 30, Earl Sweatshirt will drop his long-anticipated fourth album, Some Rap Songs. It seems like ages since Sweatshirt, full name Thebe Kgositsile, dropped his critically acclaimed, and unapologetically morbid third relese I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside. IDLS, IDGO is a ...
Sample School: Billy Stewart
August Greenberg, Web Staffer
November 26, 2018
Filed under Current Columns
Sampled by: Jay Electronica, DJ Premier, J. Cole, Slick Rick, Ghostface Billy Stewart grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended the Armstrong High School over in Truxton Circle. Born William Larry Stewart II, Billy created the Four Stewart Brothers, a vocal group consisting of himself and his three ...
Vera Sola- Shades
Olivia Heitz, Music Staffer
November 17, 2018
Filed under Music Reviews
Recommended: 2, 6, 8,9; RIYL: Zella Day, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Vera Sola is here with her unique distinctly southern vibe, chilling vocals, and acoustic guitars in her first album Shades, through her label, Spectraphonic. Drawing on folk, southern, and indie styles, she tells a story...
