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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...

Photo: Brooklyn Vegan The entertainment industry is built off the expectation that artists will present their bodies of work in a timely, readily-consumable manner for the public. Artists are welcome to innovate within the boundaries of the public‰'s comfort zone, and...

Photo credit We meet again! This week I would like to expand upon one of music‰'s most wonderful pairings: R&B and rap. Many of the songs that fall under this category are so good at morphing together that you don‰'t even notice they‰'re two separate entities....

It is October 8th, 2017. It is today that I declare that metal is far from dead, despite its bastardization by larger records labels. I sit here, having enjoyed a “Meatlover‰'s‰” burger at “The Pinch‰Û, a name that I‰'ve only heard of today. I find my eardrums, as...

Jill is my sister and we‰'ve never really clicked. Not because of something that an ABC family screenwriter would think of like “she likes dresses and I like dirt‰” but because we are both competitive by nature and highly judgemental people. That being said she is a...

Photo by Miguel Wilson It was around two years ago when I miraculously happened upon Kali Uchis. Then, she was being promoted as the “spicy Amy Winehouse.‰” Thankfully, today she is being held in her own category. To say the least, it has been so rewarding to see her...

Archy Marshall, better known by his stage name King Krule has been making music since he was a kid. After going through a few stage names King Krule was the one that stuck when after he released an EP entitled King Krule‰'s EP in 2011. King Krule has been known to mix...

If there is one song in the entire world that I could listen on loop forever, it would be this song. This song appears in one of the best films in the world, In the Mood for Love, where it is repeated several times throughout the film‰'s fairly small soundtrack. Even...

On the 29th of September, the band Protomartyr unleashed their fourth album Relatives In Descent into the world. The album is the band‰'s first “major‰” indie label release on Domino records. Their previous two albums Agent Intellect and Under Cover of Official...

It‰'s a cold November morning, the time of year when it would still be dark on the bus ride to school. My normal group of neighborhood friends have either missed their buses or have been lovingly driven to school by their mothers; thus leaving me alone to ponder...

Set the scene: you‰'re at a high school party, feeling much cooler in the moment than you ever will looking back on it, when you look over and see someone you kind-of sort-of have a crush on flirting with someone else. Catastrophe. Pandemonium. Later when you go home,...

The emo scene is evolving. It used to be middle schoolers with jet black jagged hair writing Never Shout Never lyrics on their hands. In the early 2010s, it slid into bed with indie rock after a night of too many menthols and PBRs. Out popped greater. This new...

Photo by Rosa Pyo. From left to right: Chris, Mikey, Peter, & Neil Sitting in the back parking lot of Comet Ping Pong, yes the one that had “pizzagate," I sat down with the band Peach Pit, a chewed bubble gum pop band that hails from Vancouver, Canada to ask them...

Photo by Brightest Young Things Okay, but can we talk about The Bam Bams? The duo of Gabriela Torres and Ivy Lopez released their single through DC‰'s own Cricket Cemetery Records in 2012. Although The Bam Bams may have been a shooting star of a band, their music has...

You are missing out if you haven‰'t heard of T-Rextasy. I remember the first time I listened to T-Rextasy: it was not at some house show or tiny venue pressed between other sweaty teens, or even a music recommendation from one of my friends. I was in the gym, working...

Photo by Criterion Production Director, screenwriter, and producer Robert Altman‰'s auteur style can be described as meticulously laid out chaos, with intertwining narratives built to display webs of relationships. Altman applied his vision to a film revolving around...

Photo by Miguel Wilson They say the best things in life are born from spontaneity. My experience at Kid Cudi‰'s A Night of Passion, Pain, and Demon Slayin‰' show at Echostage on October 8 proved this idea true. I found out that I had a ticket at 8:00p.m., made it to...

Contrary to its succinct, blunt definition on Urban Dictionary (made by someone named Keith in 2004), “Nayhoo‰” has nothing to do with being a “very uncool person of African American heritage.‰” I know, you‰'re scratching your head thinking “What is ‰nayhoo‰'?‰”...

Trashcan Sam: Sellout, rich boy, and the child of a diplomat. Those are the least “punk‰” sounding labels I have ever heard, so why bother with Mr.Mellor? Guy‰'s a hippie who had a punk phase. He couldn‰'t play guitar, so he literally changed his name to “Strummer‰Û....

After teasing fans via social media Wolf Alice finally released their latest LP, Visions of a Life on Friday, September 29. While extremely different from their first LP, My Love is Cool, released in 2015, Visions of a Life has a good variety of sounds, but still...