Vote for Us at CMJ!

Hello everybody! It’s an exciting time here at WVAU at American University – new faces on campus, wonderful new music coming to us and award season is just around the corner. WVAU has been on the air since 1947 but this is the very first year (that we know...

The Tough Crowd: Fall Children

The Tough Crowd this semester will be an exclusive inside look into the musical beginnings of your fellow American University peers. As music lovers, we all experience the same “firsts” during our foray into becoming music aficionados. So, this semesters...

Feedback: The Importance of Being Metal

A friend and I started to talk on music. We talked on the beauty behind new genres we found. Talks of new music led to old. We came back to a common heritage, a genre we loved and never forgot: Metal. What was the reward in the furious grapple of gravelly voice burned...

The Looking Glass: Simian Mobile Disco‰’s "Whorl"

Courtesy of DJ Mag Italia If the writing and recording of an album is really an ongoing process, then, it is an event that takes place everywhere. This means that both the moments when the artist writes the lyrical forms and expresses these forms in the confines of...