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Writers block. It‰'s a hard thing to overcome. It‰'s quite strange, actually. There is so much to talk about in regards to protest—especially now in regards to the events at Mizzou, Yale, and the scores of other college campuses across the country. I could write about...

Carroll ‰ÛÒ Carroll (Entertainment One) By Matt Reise Passively Trippy Indie Rock To Take a Bath To Four Minnesota sad boys formed Carroll to release their feels in the form of trippy indie rock, which their first full-length album Carroll does flawlessly. The sound...

Courtesy of Huffington Post This week we look past the modern musical mistakes of my childhood, and investigate a little bit of classic rock. When I was in middle school, my friend group was inexplicably and obsessively obsessed with the movie School Of Rock. If we...

BreakBot I‰'d like to write about the electronic funk producer BreakBot, who, in 2009 got signed to Ed Banger Records. This 34-year-old French DJ adds a distorted aspect to classic funk music, and makes it feel current by using syncopation, and digital crunchiness....

I think my favorite thing in the world is to listen to bangers. Bangers are songs that will get you off your feet, move your hands in various directions, and most importantly, get you HYPED. It is almost impossible not to get up and make a fool of yourself while a...

Courtesy of  Wow Moscow Spotify‰'s Discover Weekly playlists have given me some very interesting things. Ranging from new discoveries that I‰'ll probably treasure forever, to the same bands I‰'ve repeatedly tried and failed to get into. The service at least knows what...

WVAU is proud to announce that it will be hosting its winter Capital Punishment concert with Alex G and Hop Along on Saturday, December 5th. Join us in Tavern at 8pm for the show of the semester! The concert is open to American University students and is free with...

  Courtesy of Spin T/W: Suicide It‰'s weird to be in America and talk about the importance of a band that never toured in America. Oddly, Joy Divison‰'s Ian Curtis has a very American story. 138 days into the year 1980, Ian Curtis hung himself in the kitchen...

Originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol about the horrors of the lynching of African Americans, the song has since become an essential in the musical protest cannon, and a constant reminder of America‰'s dark and troubled past. Most famously performed by Billie...

Courtesy of Emily It seems as if the day October ended, a big bug full of cheer crawled up everyone‰'s butt and the Extra Festive Version of Mariah Carey‰'s “All I Want For Christmas Is You‰” starts playing at full blast. ‰Tis the Season, of course. The catch,...

Courtesy of 9:30 Club Rachael Yamagata is coming to D.C. with her TIGHTROPE WALKER HEADLINING FALL TOUR on November 12th! The singer-songwriter and former front-woman of the Chicago funk group Bumpus will be playing at the 9:30 club. Sadly, the band joining her on...

Originally from Los Angeles, now residing in Brooklyn, the Honduran-American female artist Empress Of is taking the pop genre to another, spacier level. Empress Of‰'s debut, full-length album Me released on Terrible Records is glitchy, alluring, and hard-hitting....

Artwork by Luke Palermo Written on the cusp of adulthood by Isaac Brock, “Trailer Trash‰” shows an emotional wisdom well beyond the Modest Mouse frontman‰'s years. Equal parts post-wrongdoing self-reflection and memoir of lower-middle class American living, the...

If you know me, you know I love Snoop Dogg. I‰'m also a women‰'s rights activist. The difficulty of this situation is most likely already apparent. What happens when our favorite artists have views we would never condone? "Can U Control Yo Hoe?" I‰'ve rapped every...

Courtesy of retrorebirth.wordpress.com This week I'm continuing the theme of albums that your parents probably listened to in the 70's (if they were cool). That's because Talking Heads: 77 is a seriously cool album. David Byrne is one of those singers who goes 100% on...

Courtesy of 9:30 Club On November 10th the 9:30 Club will be rocked with the sound of the diverse world of electronic music with RAC, Big Data, Filous and Pink Feathers. Originally AndrÌ© Allen Anjos started the Remix Artist Collective, or RAC as a group of...

Rockstar Energy Drink Presents “Back To The Future Hearts Tour‰” featuring All Time Low, Sleeping With Sirens and Neck Deep on November 16th at Echostage DC! Formed in 2003 outside of Baltimore, Maryland, All Time Low started out as a high-school cover band before...

JR JR, also known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., is an indie-pop band from Detroit, Michigan, consisting of Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein. They met each other while playing in other Detroit music projects eventually branching off and creating their own sound in 2009....

Courtesy of Genius Mad Lib and MF DOOM created one of the best albums of the 2000s in 2004. Madvillainy by Madvillain, the duo‰'s alias, is an album that created such a unique sound that it changed the way that mainstream America saw rap. The New Yorker, a notoriously...

Artist production I‰'d like to analyze today is the artist “Wave Racer‰Û. A 21-year old artist from Sydney Australia, Thomas Purcell or Wave Racer, uses a blend of 90s gaming synthesizers to add a sense of brightness to his music. The production consists of a...

On Sunday November 2nd, The Districts will be playing the 9:30 Club with songs off their latest album A Flourish and A Spoil which came to this past February. Themes of Americana, blues, and folk are spun so uniquely together throughout the album that a truly unique...

On Sunday November 1st, Youth Lagoon will be playing the 9:30 Club with songs off his new album Savage Hills Ballroom which was released in September of this year. The dream pop vibe that this album gives off caps off a perfect trifecta of albums. The neo psychedelic...

Courtesy of Dave Mathews Band For the third installment of I‰'m Not Like The Other Girls, I‰'m delving deep into the acoustic, mumbling, saxophone solo-filled world of The Dave Matthews Band. I remember seeing a poster of Dave Matthews, himself, on the walls of my...

Dirty Dishes dropped by our studio the other week for a quick jam session that including a rousing rendition of their single "Red Roulette" off their latest album Guilty.

Courtesy of Fast Horse Inc Nine times out of ten, if you see me on the quad walking to class, I‰'m wearing an unbuttoned flannel with a t-shirt underneath, jeans, and my beat-up gray canvas shoes. I‰'m not necessarily trying to put forth any kind of aesthetic—it‰'s...