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Courtesy of  E-Verse Radio Just like any other weekend, my friends and I were in my beat up Volvo cruising around suburban New Jersey with no destination in mind. The routine was simple: pile the whole friend group in the small sedan, fill up on gas, and turn on WFMU....

Courtesy of Rolling Stone The second record from Philly rock band Hop Along starts with an awakening, with a dream immediately tugged away from consciousness in the early morning. From there it moves discordantly, but assuredly. From story to story, from paradox to...

Courtesy of Genius Beneath the modular synth and electronic string construction of “In Time‰” lies the girlfriend you don‰'t want. Like, really don‰'t want. Maybe you‰'ve already even broken up with her, but her texts keep coming in, and she shows up to all the same...

Courtesy of Wikipedia In the penultimate song of Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett somewhat climactically claims, “I‰'m just a reflection of what you want to see, take what you want from me‰Û. While that sounds like something Bob...

Courtesy of Space Bomb I‰'m not entirely sure you can classify “My Baby Don‰'t Understand Me‰” as a “break-up song.‰” Break up songs usually contain a sense of closure: either the singer‰'s left their lover, or the lover‰'s left the singer, and either party can be...

Courtesy of Consequence of Sound Although Pitchfork might‰'ve thought themselves too progressive or cool to include Sound and Color in their list of the 50 best albums of 2015, WVAU did not. Let‰'s face it, though, Alabama Shakes' 2012‰'s debut Boys and Girls made...

Courtesy of Spotify Think back to January 1, 2015. While nursing those NYE hangovers, we were eagerly anticipating chart-topping releases from Kanye West, Drake, Frank Ocean, Adele, Fergie, and Kendrick Lamar (half of which still have not been released yet) If I told...

Courtesy of Pitchfork Almost every review/feature/write-up I find about Ezra Furman‰'s Perpetual Motion People uses the word “outsider.‰” Ezra Furman writes “outsider music‰” or from an “outsider‰'s perspective.‰” And, to a degree, I understand. Furman is a gender...

Courtesy of Buffablog I was sitting on a deflated air mattress in my best friend‰'s dorm in Boston the first time I heard "Broken Necks." While that maybe isn‰'t the most picturesque setting, I like having a memory attached to a song. It is the kind of song I knew...

Courtesy of Empire Radio It‰'s ironic that I was asked to write an article about a song from Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album To Pimp a Butterfly because I had not actually listened to the album until about a month ago. Although Kendrick is one of my favorite rappers,...

One of the most hotly contested indie albums of 2015, a lot has been said about Toro Y Moi‰'s fourth studio album What For?. Drastically different than anything frontman Chaz Bundick had ever released, the band‰'s new sound caught the indie music community totally...

T R A P S O U L is not only novel and exciting, but it is a display of how much Bryson Tiller has advanced since his last mixtape, Killer Instinct, was released in 2011. All 14 tracks featured on T R A P S O U L are a little bit out of this world: spacey, cosmic,...

Royal Headache- High Courtesy of  Stereogum I was rummaging through the rack looking for material for my first show when I stumbled upon Royal Headache. Although High was put on the rack at the beginning of the semester with no review, the album unexpectedly became...

Genocide Pact Courtesy of Decibel Magazine As a long-haired metalhead freak, the first thing I did when I came to AU was try to connect with the local scene. And although DC is rich with musical history and has a thriving punk and hardcore scene, I was disappointed to...

Titus Andronicus ‰ÛÒ The Magic Morning As my entire cohort of Facebook friends and Twitter followers probably know, I was super excited for the release of Titus Andronicus‰'s fourth LP, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, and freaked out when a few lead singles dropped, hung...

Lil B The Based God @LILBTHEBASEDGOD Possibly the only rapper that follows (1.31 million) more people than follow him (1.2 million) on twitter. People today are awfully concerned with their ratios on social media. Lil B is not one of those people. Lil B is not afraid...

The Beef of Our Generation: Meek Mill and Drake                It seems like a millennium ago… rolling through my neighborhood on a beautiful July morning bumping Dreams Worth More Than Money in my parent‰'s mini van. Singing along to “R.I.C.O‰Û, trading off Meek and...