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I Declare You Stoked: Sublime announces new record “Until the Sun Explodes”
Yes, the robins have been singing and the cherry blossoms are blooming but the true sign that summer is coming is the announcement of a brand new Sublime album. The pride of Long Beach reunited last year with original drummer Bud Gaugh and bassist Eric Wilson, fronted...
Carter’s Classics, Vol. 5 – “Exmilitary”
Somewhere in Sacramento, Stefan Burnett paced down a workplace hallway wearing all black and a gas mask. He tested every door, with his friend Zach Hill on his tail, recording him for a music video. Eventually a door opened, and an empty printing room sat there. A...
Scoring the Moment: Study Song Recommendations
I don’t know about you, but I need my headphones on and music blasting to get my homework done. And with finals right around the corner, it’s time to lock in on that study playlist. So, if that sounds like something you need, here are some recommendations for you to...
Concert Preview: Wallice @ The Atlantis on 4/15
The U Street Corridor plays host to some of the city’s best music venues – The Lincoln Theatre, The 9:30 Club, and the live music fanatic-favorite, The Atlantis. Nestled behind the iconic 9:30 Club, The Atlantis has embraced its role as a smaller venue that plays host...
Quarterly Report: The 5 Best Electro-pop Albums of 2026
The cherry blossoms have bloomed and fallen; spring's way of telling us the first quarter of 2026 is over. The year so far has been absolutely stacked for electro-pop. Projects that prove the genre isn’t just bedroom-producer territory, but truly the sound of the...
Concert Preview: Alice Phoebe Lou @ Lincoln Theater on 4/15
Alice Phoebe Lou (of Strongboi) is finally gracing D.C. with her presence!! On April 5, Lou will be stopping in town to do a show at the Lincoln Theater. She’s an independent artist with a very soft, intimate sound, blending indie, jazz, blues, and folk influences...
ear: The Most Dear and The Future
I bought my ticket to see ear at DC9 faster than I've ever bought a ticket to anything. It was pure instinct—the kind of instinct that tells you something matters before your brain catches up to explain you actually don’t have $20 to spend. Now, writing this three...
For Fans Of, Vol. 2 – Film & Album Pairings
In an age of playlists and autogenerated ways of finding music, “For Fans Of” is here to suggest album pairings to go along with films beloved by Eagles across campus. Looking through some of the student body’s top films, these pairings intend to capture the sound,...
Offline but Unforgettable; Frank Ocean’s Lasting Impact
Frank Ocean is one of those generational-defining talents, the artists who come onto the music scene and have an impact so significant that they are constantly being brought up. The last music Frank Ocean released was two singles: “Cayendo (Side A- Acoustic)” and...
Concert Review: BENEE @
When New Zealand-born singer BENEE stepped out onto the stage in a Wednesday Addams-esque, quirky and eccentric, black and white outfit, the crowd roared with excitement. I was both buzzing with anticipation for the amazing performance I was about to witness and very...
The Return of the Music Video
The reaction to the music video for “Stateside” by PinkPantheress, featuring Zara Larsson, had me thinking: are we in a new era for music videos? After its release, I saw a complete wealth of fan edits, commentary, and clips of the video circulating on my TikTok “For...
Album Review: Mumford & Sons lean away from folk, into pop in “Prizefighter”
Prizefighter” is a good pop album–just not a great folk one Mumford & Son’s 2009 album “Sigh No More” was revolutionary for folk music and is widely credited with bringing sounds of folk music back into the mainstream, making the band one of the most influential...
Mood Ring: Vol. 4
Thursday March 19th: Asc. Scorpio by Oracle Sisters I drove to school this morning and my roommate played this on the way there. We’re both Scorpio Risings. “You’re Ascendant Scorpio. An element of blunder, a tenement, which number?” I’m not quite sure I love how...
Carter’s Classics, Vol. 4 – “Blonde”
I remember sitting in bed at 2:30 in the morning, glued to my phone a little over halfway through my sophomore year of high school. That night (or morning, if you may) was Frank Ocean’s first live performance in six years: Coachella 2023. But little did people who...
The Top 15 Songs of the 2020s
When discussing the current decade’s best albums, I kept coming back to one thought: “What are the best songs of the 2020s?” With so much music having been released over the course of the last six years, the task felt impossible. How could I narrow it down? Starting...
Concert Preview: Patrick Watson @ 9:30 Club on 3/31
Patrick Watson sits between the mainstream and more avant-garde spaces, and more likely than not you’ve heard his music before without knowing it! Je Te Laisserai Des Mots was the first French language song to amass over a billion streams on Spotify, after going viral...
Scoring the Moment: Spring Song Recommendations
With spring having recently begun, it is the perfect time to curate your personal spring playlist. These are some suggestions for when you want to walk around, look at the flowers and take in the newly warm weather. “Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth”...
Subculture Studies, Vol. 2 – Go-go
Few genres are as dependent on their audience as Go-go, which insists community as a central characteristic. In 1970s Washington, D.C., Washingtonians craved community. The city was divided into two economic classes. The first consisted of those affiliated with the...
Concert Preview: Perfume Genius @ Lincoln Theater on 3/31
The Lincoln Theatre has hosted several incredible artists over its tenure in D.C., including Fiona Apple, Bon Iver, and Duke Ellington. Joining the ranks of these legends and more is the Grammy-nominated Perfume Genius, set to perform Tuesday, March 31. Perfume...
Concert Preview: On Cinema @ Lincoln Theatre on 4/1
For comedy and cinema lovers, On Cinema is the perfect way to spend a night out. Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s show features movie reviews in the form of satire and comedic conflict. Their style is inspired by Siskel and Ebert, a previous and extremely popular...
Carter’s Classics, Vol. 3 – “Heavy Metal”
It seems like everybody and their mother is talking about Geese and their lead singer, Cameron Winter, these days. The band’s sudden emergence in the indie rock scene has come largely due to the success of their 2025 album, “Getting Killed”, but also due to the eyes...
KATTELLE PUNK SHOW THIS FRIDAY 3/27!!!!
Join WVAU for our annual Punk Show in the Battelle Atrium on 3/27! With music by Birdcage, SCORIA and Tripping Corpse, doors at 7:30.
OPINION: K-Pop is Not Afrobeats, it’s Not Salsa, it’s Not Reggae
The Colonial Mindset of “World Music” Persists with Algorithms Several summers ago, my sister and I were scouring the music section at our local library searching for the K-pop genre. We recently learned of the genre and thought it would be a perfect accompaniment to...
Mood Ring: Vol. 3
March 12th: Not Ready To Make Nice by The Chicks Who remembers… Not me particularly, since I was quite young at the time of release. But this song is so important to me. I wrote a paper on the context of this song my sophomore year at AU. If you didn’t know, The...
Concert Preview: BENEE @ 9:30 Club on 3/20
BENEE, despite what she says in her COVID-era hit song, “Supalonely,” from her 2019 EP “STELLA & STEVE,” is not “just a loser.” She’s spent the better part of the last decade piecing together the chaos and anxieties of our modern-day world into sparkly, addictive,...
Concert Preview: Westerman @ The Atlantis on 3/19
On November 7th last year, British singer-songwriter Will Westerman, who performs as Westerman, released his most recent full-length EP, “A Jackal’s Wedding”. It’s 43 minutes of experimental art-rock full of unconventional song structures and heady lyrics that are...
Concert Preview: Mindchatter @ 9:30 Club on 3/21
Mindchatter—the pseudonym for Multi-instrumentalist Bryce Connolly—asks why electronic music and indie songwriting can’t coexist on equal footing. The producer-singer-songwriter, who once joked he nearly went by “DJ People Pleaser,” has built his sound around this...
Concert Review: Blood Orange @ The Anthem
Standing in line for an hour and a half in the cold and rainy weather was all worth it. Other attendees in outfits so unique yet still cohesive with each other filed in, to the point I couldn’t even tell where the line ended. When my friends and I entered The Anthem,...
Songs to Cure Your Seasonal Depression
Every year, there's this horrid and insanely vile horde of emotions that takes over your brain during winter. It feels almost inescapable, some days feel heinous, and others feel like a permanent state of “bleh”. The only thing that can get you out of this endless...
Scoring the Moment: Celebrating Black History Month
As Black History month comes to an end, the first playlist featured in this column will be one celebrating Black voices. “Freedom” by Beyoncé (feat. Kendrick Lamar) may be most famously known as the anthem for Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential election, but it also...