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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...

Come to the All DJ meeting to learn what's going on with the station and to hear announcements! And at 7pm, James Howard the program director for DC101, an iHeartRadio station will be giving a talk about his current position and past experiences. Modern-rock station...

Although the Fall equinox was almost a month ago, it‰'s finally starting to feel like the changing of the seasons we all anticipate as we make it through the seemingly endless dog days. The annual switching of tank tops to sweaters in my closet and stocking up on...

Los York‰'s are a psychedelic-garage band from the 60s in Peru. Their melancholy lyrics and voices are emotive and hit deep. In “Solo Estoy‰” (“Only I am‰Û), almost a Cartesian ballad, the singer talks about how his lover is leaving him: she represents life and...

Courtesy of Radio Survivor Last April, Radio Survivor dropped by the WVAU studio to hang out with then Promo Director Allen Nguyen and General Manager Hyunjin Park. The article was just published yesterday, which seems to be the perfect timing considering last week's...

  I am a firm believer that music can be an immense tool of support in anything that you are going through. A messy break-up, getting pumped before a soccer game, studying for a final exam. Perhaps even a change in diet?             For a lot of reasons, I have...

Crater dropped by the studio the other week to preview some tracks off their upcoming debut album.

Hey all! I'm sure we're all directly in the midst of fighting our midterms tooth and nail, which can only mean one thing - it's time to open submissions for the Fall 2k15 issue of WVAU's official zine, The Stream!!!! Submissions open today and last until midnight on...

Courtesy of  Mind Equals Blown San Francisco shoegaze band  Whirr was dropped by Run For Cover Records, through whom the band released two splits and an EP, for recent transphobic tweets targeting punk band G.L.O.S.S. G.L.O.S.S. (which stands for Girls Living Outside...