by snoadmin | Feb 12, 2011 | Archives-old
In the early 1960’s jazz scene, freedom reigned, and it was good. The birthing pains of the free jazz movement had ceased, leaving a rich placenta for musicians to feast upon. Emerging from this feast with bloodstained lips of magic came a young tenor...
by snoadmin | Feb 8, 2011 | Archives-old
I have never met you, James Murphy. And I won’t ever be lucky enough to cross paths with you. I’m not reviewing or analyzing or criticizing anything in this ÛÒ I’m just sharing. Since you’re not ever going to read this piece (THAT would be...
by snoadmin | Feb 6, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
With a new year comes new things for WVAU.org. Starting this week, if you visit WVAU.org, you’ll be greeted by articles written by our new web team. In order to give you a little taste of what we have in store for this semester, each member wrote about which albums...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#1 Album: LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening The two things everybody focuses on with This is Happening are that James Murphy is now forty and that this is the last LCD Soundsystem release we’re going to get for a little while. Neither of those ideas really...
by snoadmin | Dec 24, 2010 | End of the Year Awards
#2 Album: Beach House – Teen Dream Last spring, my friend begged me to go to see Beach House with her. I was adamant about not going because all I knew about Beach House was that they had a song about a zebra. “A song about a zebra,” I thought, “I’m not hip...
