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Just to prep y‰'all, this post sort of relates to my last one, so check it out. I remember the first time I saw this band. They opened for The Neighbourhood (another great band) at Summerfest in Milwaukee some years ago. It was my first concert ever, and I was not...

Still taken by in-studio shot by Brian Harrington Morgan Saint is awesome. She‰'s talented, stylish, and dedicated. Although she‰'s quiet, she knows what she wants. Her debut EP, 17 Hero, dropped in mid-October and she‰'s ready to show the world what she‰'s about....

Matt Nathanson is one of the few acts I have had the privilege of seeing live more than once. So far the only others are Frank Turner and Frightened Rabbit. But he has the special distinction of both times occurring when I was still in high school. I‰'ve mentioned...

The past few days I‰'ve been making plans for Thanksgiving break, which is only ten sleeps away! The closer it gets, the more I start to think about seeing my family, and the more one specific album has started popping up in my mind and in my headphones. Free to Be…...

Art by Suah Cheong Kari Faux doesn‰'t have time for small talk. You‰'ve heard her music on insecure, Childish Gambino‰'s mixtape STN MTN, and seen her tweets on the popular page. She‰'s a self-described “rap sanger, game changer, flame branger‰” and we see no lies....

Photo: Wordpress Are you into music from other countries? Do you consider yourself a connoisseur of hits that make you feel like you “were born in the wrong decade‰Û? Well, do I have the app for you! Radiooooo (yes, with that many o‰'s), is an app that allows you to...

Photo: Stereogum A bad trip has never sounded so cool. Car Seat Headrest‰'s album Teens of Denial slips your drugged induced panic attack into a leather jacket and gives it a swipe of oxblood lipstick. Maybe it‰'s not a true concept album, but all 12 songs revolve...

Photo: Vevo Lorde isn‰'t your average musician. She is effervescent. A phenomenal woman. Despite starting in the music industry at fourteen, an age usually ripe of neon braces and awkward romantic encounters, she irrevocably had “it.‰” Je ne sais quoi. Divine energy....

Photo: Glen E Friedman It‰'s about time we talked about Bad Brains here. After all, they are one of the biggest influences on the rock and punk scene even still today, and they come from our very own D.C. I can‰'t help but say, their 1982 self-titled album has been...

I had never been super into Tyler the Creator until I heard Goblin earlier this year - yes, very late to the game, I know. However it really got me thinking about what it means to be politically correct in music - and if political correctness is necessary in art....

Photo courtesy of Rap Music Guide For years, R&B has been directly equated to Black culture. Society seems to be in the dark about the diversity in R&B (past and present). As an African American, I personally treasure R&B (I mean, hello, my column), and I...

Last week, Trashcan Sam, and I, Milo, your resident hipster trash, reviewed the first 14 tracks of the Guided By Voices album Alien Lanes, my favorite out of the band‰'s long and winding discography. This time around, we will review the remaining tracks, as well as...

The doubtless blurry picture above is the only photo of myself in my favorite outfit from when I was thirteen that survived the redactions I made to my online presence to make sure no one knows I existed between the ages of ten to fourteen. As you can see I‰'m rocking...

Lavender‰'s “You Are In The Right Place‰” - Charming, Polished Indie Pop That Hits Home (Literally) RIYL: The 1975, Wolf Alice, The Naked and Famous Local garage pop band Lavender have released their debut EP, entitled, “You Are In The Right Place.‰” The EP is aptly...

You know how essentially everyone has three personalities: with their friends, family, and by themselves. In different spaces, we present different parts of ourselves to fit the situation. There‰'s always that idea of whether to follow your head or your heart. It‰'s...

If you haven‰'t somehow heard the 1999 massive hit “All Star,‰” off of Smash Mouth‰'s sophomore record, Astro Lounge, please show me the rock you called out from under so I can use it to escape from distractions while I‰'m studying. All joking aside, the song has been...

By now, the term softboy has become a ubiquitous part of millennial vernacular. Popular discourse hypothesizes that the softboy is the antithesis of the f-boy. However, I argue that softboys are the “sensitive‰” foils to f-boys that wield their emotions in a...

MAX and Rozes put on an energetic display of showmanship at U Street Music Hall on the 26th of October. In his first headlining show in D.C, Max Schneider put on a concert that will certainly be remembered. I love how there was definitely a link between the two sets...

These days it seems everyone has been reveling in the coming of autumn, with its cooler temperatures, thick sweaters, pumpkin spice everything, and general spookiness. Hear me out, though. While I‰'m happy to do the Monster Mash and go apple picking with the best of...

Happy Halloweekend people! Whether you‰'re going to a costume party, trick-or-treating on Embassy Row, or watching a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight (which is what yours truly is doing), Halloween is the time to live your best and weirdest life....

Photo: Mr Hipster Bob Pollard is something of a God to me. An elementary school teacher with a penchant for the Who and booze, Pollard started “Guided By Voices‰” as a little hobby for himself and his friends when they were drunk. Most agree that the albums they...

I‰'m pretty sure I‰'m TV Girl‰'s biggest fan. Granted, there‰'s like, 30 of us, so that‰'s not a huge accomplishment. 50 other people and I huddled in the basement of Comet Ping Pong on Monday. A single color changing light hung above the stage. The venue was small...

Joe Casey at Rock and Roll Hotel//Photo:Tessa Dolt After Protomartyr's soundcheck at Rock and Roll Hotel on Thursday, frontman Joe Casey sat down with us to talk about Protomartyr's latest album release off Domino Records, Relatives in Descent.  Max: Besides being on...

From left to right, Chris, Mikey, Peter, & Neil All of my articles for WVAU can be put into this one single tweet by the Tyler, The Creator: Un-Follow Me Now, This Is Gonna Be the Only Thing I Tweet About For The Next Week. Ive Wanted This For Years Fuck. What The...

The Black Cat was sold out for a night of creative music on October 22nd. If I could sum up the night I would say eccentric in all the right ways. My musical horizons were pushed well outside of their original parameters. To say the least, I‰'m a new fan of both Wolf...

Photo by Shawn Brackbill <a href="http://qandnotu.bandcamp.com/album/different-damage">Different Damage by Q and Not U</a> Welcome to the world in 2002, where people were discovering the new millennium with generally horrible fashion taste. George W Bush...

Photo by Maria Carrasco If there‰'s one word I can use to describe the King Krule show at Black Cat on Saturday, it would be unexpected. Archy Marshall, who goes by the stage name of King Krule, broke from his seemingly suave and sedated image to play a powerhouse set...