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Courtesy of Windish Agency, diymag & Chicago Innerview Edited by: Maria Carrasco Before you start reading and join me on my adventure in Adams Morgan, I suggest listening to this song by Miami Horror. “All It Ever Was‰” is my favorite song of all time and it...

Courtesy of Ross Wolfe My music tastes since childhood have changed and developed along a logical line. When I was five years old, my favorite band was the Ramones. When I was thirteen, it was probably… My Chemical Romance or Shinedown or something. Sixteen I had...

Courtesy of Wallpaper Up There is something inexplicably intoxicating about the haze of city lights. This is the quintessential playlist to accompany your midnight highway car rides past rows of interminably tall skyscrapers and neon radiance ‰ÛÒ or escape to the very...

Courtesy of Lulus It‰'s weird how music or a song can bring an entire set of memories with it. I was standing/rocking/trying not to make eye contact on the metro after another glorious day of unpaid work and Trouble by Cage the Elephant came on shuffle. However, this...

Courtesy of Ed Roman Alright ya‰'ll, you‰'ve either just had a very stressful week or are about to have one; what can I say it‰'s midterms. However, I have some relaxing tunes for your twisted souls. The Strawberry Alarm Clock is band for folks who need to relax. They...

Freshman and upperclassmen alike: Beware. The plague is pervading the campus and I‰'m not talking about strep throat (but seriously, y‰'all, wash your hands). I‰'m talking about the MUSIC RUT. If you‰'re fixated on the same four songs, not able to escape “Closer‰” by...

PWR BTTM is a queer punk band comprised of Ben Hopkins and Liv Bruce, who met at Bard College in New York. While performing, the duo can be found clad in copious amounts of glitter. “For me, the most badass thing you can do is to be embarrassing,‰” Ben Hopkins,...

The first time I really got a glimpse of what kind of person my dad really is was when I was twelve years old. He pulled me aside from whatever I was doing to sit down in front of a speaker in our living room and listen to something. I heard one twenty-minute-long...

Hello and welcome to Just Press Play! Let‰'s take a little trip back to 2012: the year of “Call Me Maybe," “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," and, yes, “Gangnam Style." Oh, what a year in music. But, at the end of that glorious year came a song that would...

Appropriately described as a “ Finnish dream-pop mystery man," Jaakko Eino Kalevi‰'s electronic sound has this way of bringing you into a nightmarish daze. Listening to his music makes me feel like I‰'m existing in this in-between space where I‰'m connecting with my...

Long-time readers of “Another Kind of Currency‰” may recall a column I wrote my freshman year about Frightened Rabbit‰'s “Poke,‰” which I always considered not only one of their most depressing songs (saying something if you know FR‰'s catalog), but also one of the...

Courtesy of Whrhsarrowhead, Edited by: Maria Carrasco This past Saturday I spent my afternoon in glorious Georgetown, surrounded by bermuda pink shorts and a wave of mint green accessories. Now this might not be the cup of tea for everyone, but I‰'ve come to...

Courtesy of Rackcdn In coming to AU this fall, I‰'ve found out that everyone here is from suburban Philly and/or New Jersey. The effect of this is that everyone thinks that the midwest is one giant cornfield, and that there is a shared consensus that most of the...

Courtesy of bouquetofparantheses With the first day of autumn behind us, some people yearn to cling to the vestigial sun rays, warm summer breeze, and the sun glinting off of anything gold. The following playlist is ideal to relax in a hammock or on a rooftop to, mint...

Courtesy of @bouquetofparantheses With the first day of autumn behind us, some people yearn to cling to the vestigial sunrays, warm summer breeze, and the sun glinting off of anything gold. The following playlist is ideal to relax in a hammock or on a rooftop to, mint...

Courtesy of Culturated The overly optimistic piano from Matt and Kim‰'s Daylight played through my best friends iHome and rung throughout her refurbished basement. I specifically remember learning that my eighth grade crush also liked this song, so we were definitely...

Courtesy of Pitchfork I‰'m going to be blunt and argue that if anyone ever started a conversation with you with the opening lines "If you will suck my soul, I will lick your funky emotions", you probably wouldn‰'t continue the conversation. However, George Clinton, in...

The All Things Go Fall Classic is back on October 8th, 2016 for its third year in Washington, DC as the festival you never knew you needed until you saw the lineup. We‰'re here to provide you with the information you need for the fall‰'s hottest festival to come to...

Last month, the Minneapolis garage rock group, Frankie Teardrop called it quits with the release of their final album and a string of live shows. The album Hell Yep, released in May, puts an end to the band‰'s three-year career playing mostly in the Twin Cities and...

Courtesy of Ultimate Classic Rock A concept album is defined as an album where all musical or lyrical ideas contribute to a single overall theme or unified story. In contrast, typical studio albums consist of a number of unconnected songs performed by the artist....

Courtesy of fanart.tv My Chemical Romance‰'s 2006 album,  The Black Parade, is one of my favorites of all time. And, while I haven‰'t listened to it in its entirety in a couple years, I‰'m still just as familiar with the songs as I was in 2007. And so this is me, as...

It‰'s that time of the year again. Time to find a floor length gala dress, your most comfortable CÌ©line stilettos and head to the dancefloor for a night full of purple mellow lighting and vodka.  WVAU will be hosting their annual Prom and there is not better way of...

Finals are fast approaching, but WVAU Prom is this Friday. What better way to kick off the end of the semester than with drinks, dancing and disco ? And while Comet Ping Pong is more known for pizza and DIY punk bands than for eight-balls and celebrity sightings, it...

We are proud to present WVAU PROM: a groovy night of student DJ sets in celebration of WVAU and the Student Media Community. Want to Boogie down? Want to take far out photos with your friends? Want to feel nostalgic for the era of disco you are too young to have...

WVAU is proud to announce that it will be hosting its spring Capital Punishment concert with Open Mike Eagle and Junglepussy on Saturday, April 16th. Join us in Battelle Atrium at 8pm for the show of the semester, and let us know you're coming via the Facebook event!...