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When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, two childhood friends and folk connoisseurs from Queens, New York, released their 1970 record, Bridge Over Troubled Waters it was their most ambitious and experimental work to date. The duo spent the majority of the 1960‰'s, and the...

WVAU Music Staff reviews new albums each week! Here‰'s what the group has reviewed for the week of March 9. Pop/ish Candy Ambulance - Spray [EP]   In Tall Buildings - Akinetic Pale Waves - ALL THE THINGS I NEVER SAID Tracey Thorn - Record Lane 8 - Little By Little Hip...

I have listened to Lindsey Stirling since she first started and dropped her first songs. I remember when she appeared on American's Got Talent and she just got crushed by the judges. I couldn't believe their responses to her unique talent that I instantly feel in love...

Every year on March 8th, the international community celebrates women‰'s accomplishments throughout history and across nations. Social media timelines are filled with only a few of the most inspiring and courageous women to walk this planet. It‰'s no secret that the...

I‰'ve written extensively about how much I love concept records and rock operas. I‰'ve also lamented how the album as an art form has not been as appreciated by the general public as it has in the past (although that is slowly changing—we‰'ll discuss later). And I was...

Image courtesy of Consequence of Sound America‰'s isolating political climate and the resurgence of garage and grunge sounds has proven one thing: punk is far from dead. Part of the Chapel Hill, NC DIY foundation, Superchunk are true veterans in their field, churning...

Photo by Michael Cantor Spring is coming, which means it‰'s about time that you find your windows down joyride playlist. Today, I found my own addition. Bad Moves is a DC-based power pop band with angsty charisma.Their first self-titled single was released on Don...

It was August 23rd, and I had found out that a band I enjoy would be playing at DC9 a few weeks back. I had to go, I just didn‰'t know when they‰'d return to the DMV, and was too excited by the prospect of hearing their music live. Discovering them during a time where...

If you thought Donald Glover couldn‰'t be more of an icon, you clearly didn‰'t watch the season 2 premiere of‰Atlanta‰' on Thursday. Nearly two years since the release of season 1 - fans were more than excited to finally continue the story of modern-day Ed, Edd, and...

With clarity, I remember the day my relationship with music changed permanently. In a crowded high school cafeteria, one of my friends paged through my saved albums on Spotify. These were the days of The Front Bottoms and Modern Baseball. I went to concerts full of...

(In which we take a look at the overrated OK Computer and the underrated Parklife) Looking back at the turn of the millennium is a strange thing to do. The digital revolution, poised to usher in a futuristic new era of civilization, was met with ambivalence by many...

Anyone paying attention to r&b or hip-hop has to know the name Kehlani. She‰'s had chart successes to a certain extent but most know her for her more recent, hip-hop focused album SweetSexySavage, Distraction and Undercover being the more popular tracks. But I...

WVAU Music Staff reviews new albums each week! Here‰'s what the group has reviewed for the week of March 2. Pop/ish Charlotte Day Wilson - Nothing New Will Varley - Spirit of Minnie RPM (Electronic) MGMT - Little Dark Age Poppy Ackroyd - Resolve AAA (Guitars and such)...

There‰'s something different about local music. A tiny part of you feels indebted to them, like it‰'s your duty to listen for the sake of repping where you come from. The listener and the artist have both driven down the same roads, eaten at the same restaurants, and...

Remember One Direction? Well even if you do I am going to remind you; they were a British boy band put together on the singing competition show “The X-Factor‰” that has since lost a member and gone on a hiatus. Now I am not here to tell you the history of One...

The Asian identity is fragment in popular culture. The stories, music, and culture have never been adequately told and how can it be when there are is such little representation. Just recently the Asian community has gained traction in the music industry with the...

Pop-punk may not be dead, but its big players seem to be going through an identity crisis. Searching “pop-punk bands‰” into Google first gives you a list of these bigger names like Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Paramore, All Time Low, and others. Bands like these...

Photo courtesy of Indie Guides It was August 23rd. Teen Mortgage walked off the stage at DC9 with the gaits of soldiers leaving a battlefield- accomplished and certain of victory even if they had poured out the Pacific in terms of the combined sweat between the two of...

Image courtesy of Kelela “Hold up, wait, you‰'re fucking with my groove. Gettin‰' on this plane, making moves.‰Û, Kelela puts the world on notice in the hook of her song “Frontline‰” in the sweetest and most legitimate manner and we‰'re not mad about it. Since the...

Y‰'all need to stop what you‰'re doing and read this thought-provoking journal for today‰'s column. I just discovered this song the other day and I cannot stop listening to it. This artist is not well known and so therefore there is not a lot written about him or the...

A new segment from us! WVAU Music Staff reviews new albums each week - here‰'s what the group has reviewed from the start of January to now, February 23. From now on, we'll be publishing their weekly reviews, weekly. Enjoy! Pop/ish Danielle Duval ‰ÛÒ Lose It...

Image courtesy of BBC Despite not having as large a following as genre-mates Frightened Rabbit, Scottish indie-folk band Admiral Fallows has always had a special place in my heart. From the moment I first hear the bombastic chorus of their first single “Squealing...

Will Toledo released Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror) in 2011 under the name Car Seat Headrest. And now that Car Seat Headrest has expanded to a band, Toledo made it his mission to re-work the first album that put him on the map, titled Twin Fantasy (Face to Face),...

Mac Ayres is the soulful, musical magician that‰'s here to save the day. Though he is relatively new to the scene, he is clearly having no trouble making ground. So, who is this man? He‰'s a 21-year-old, self-taught producer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. A...

Brent Faiyaz succeeded in selling out the DC show on his tour, filling Union Stage, a fairly new venue with excited fans. While at first impatient, expressing disdain for having to wait for his appearance with comments like “I wish he didn‰'t have an opener,‰” or...

It is about time that I wrote about The Smiths. The Manchester band have been my favorite since at least the summer before my junior year of high school. I listen to them all the time, they are great for when you are sad and just want to mope in it and they are good...

Lately I‰'ve been feeling nostalgia. Maybe it‰'s because we are more than a month into the New Year. Maybe it‰'s because its my first year of college. Maybe it's just because and there is no rhyme or reason to these kind of things. We just feel how we feel sometimes...

Time for story time again! My newest installment involves a homeless man, Diana Gordon, and the ever-changing qualities of friendship. Most recently, I have found college life to be, for lack of a better word, tumultuous. Let‰'s just say it‰'s been a bit messy! To...

Image link It was August 23rd. I remember being anxious as all hell- I would be starting my first semester at American University and college in general in about a day or two. I brought the person I was dating with me at the time in part because I thought they‰'d...