by snoadmin | Dec 22, 2012 | End of the Year Awards
#8 Album: Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan Wow. Somehow, it’s already been a full decade since David Longstreth originally planted the graceful-fallen-mango seeds of what would eventually become the Dirty Projectors. Listening to this year’s astonishing Swing Lo...
by snoadmin | Dec 21, 2012 | End of the Year Awards
#9 Album: Grizzly Bear – Shields Grizzly Bear has established themselves as one of the most successful indie rock bands with Veckatimest, and Shields has only added to their success, reaching number 7 on the Billboard 200 and number 1 on Billboard’s Independent...
by snoadmin | Dec 21, 2012 | Archives-old
Regents – Antietam After Party 2012, thankfully, was a year full of quality punk albums, and post-hardcore supergroup Regents capped it off with one of the year’s hardest releases, Antietam After Party. Made up of veterans of the fertile D.C.-and-Virginia...
by snoadmin | Dec 20, 2012 | Archives-old
Lambchop Mr. M Is it really any surprise that Lambchop has ended up on a list of overlooked records? After all, Mr. M sounds like some bizarre collaboration between Burt Bacharach and your piss-drunk uncle who claims to have invented the earmuffs. Overlooked, indeed....
by snoadmin | Dec 20, 2012 | End of the Year Awards
Welcome to WVAU’s third annual Top 10 countdown! Every year, WVAU DJs vote on their favorite albums and songs of the previous 12 months. Some make the list – and we write about them in our Top 10s. Some don’t – and we write about them too, in our eccentric and...
