Blogs

Courtesy of Rovicorp This week I have the pleasure of introducing a wonderfully weird and unique album: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) by Brian Eno. The sound of it is quite indescribable, ranging from tracks that seem to be meant for children, such as "Put A...

Courtesy of The Guardian It‰'s 2015, and African Americans still face discrimination in the housing system, (read this interesting article about the insane history behind the non-delegation of essential economic rights to African Americans in the U.S. here), the...

Courtesy of Public Works I am writing this article mainly because Pitchfork and Consequence of Sound decided to emotionally hurt me. Consequence of Sound recently posted that James Murphy‰'s musical brainchild LCD Soundsystem would get back together. They originally...

Courtesy of Redbubble All Time Low not only describes my current state during midterms, but is also the band that was every teenage girls gateway drug to pop punk. For better or for worse, ATL made me want to smudge my eyeliner and leave their song lyrics as my away...

Courtesy of Cheer Sounds When it comes to producing music, there are a couple methods to my madness. I make electronic music, but my methods work for any genre of music. One of my traditions when making music is to find either four chords that sound off key or chords...

Not your traditional live performance, Everything Is Terrible takes forgotten VHS tapes and releases them back out on their website. They're taking the best of their first seven years of discovering the Internet on the road. Performing at the Black Cat on October...

Courtesy of Brightest Young Things The Mowglis performed at Washington DC‰'s first Landmark Festival on September 26th. They‰'re a high-energy band of seven from Venice Beach, California who has recently released their second album, Kids In Love. WVAU DJ and Promo...

Courtesy of U2 Gospel Being fair with myself, I was really a pretentious asshat in my first two years of high school. I still retain a bit of that today, but it definitely shaped my musical tastes (and I‰'ve now learned you can like non-mainstream music without being...

Courtesy of Black Cat If you aren't listening to The Menzingers it's easy to think that middle aged punk has run out steam. But you'd be the only one thinking that. Raised in Scranton but now based in Philadelphia, this band combines great songwriting with tireless...

Mexican-born, Texas-raised Alan Palomo - better known as Neon Indian - will perform at the 9:30 Club on Oct. 13. The artist is set to release his latest album “VEGA INTL. Night School‰” on Oct. 16, Palomo‰'s first since 2011‰'s “Era Extra̱a.‰Û. Singles “Slumlord‰Û,...

Congrats! You made it through the hurricane. So by now you've probably exhausted your music supply from hours of rainy day listening, and are looking forward to getting out and enjoying some nicer weather. But you don't know where to hike, and what to listen to. Like...

Courtesy of Noura Mint Seymali “Noura Mint Seymali" is a psychedelic and worldly experience for your ears. This desert blues-funk band from Mauritania is composed of Noura Mint Seymali and her husband, Jeiche Ould Chigaly. The band has gotten the attention of...

How can song be a medium of protest? Who are the essential songwriters of a generation? If an artist decides to write a song with a “political‰” message, what are the ramifications? All of these questions will be explored today and in the future of "Prophesize With...

Courtesy of Black Cat An experimental rock band from Kyoto, Japan, Tricot blends dynamic vocal styles, unpredictable song transitions, dreamy post-rock melodies, and the complex rhythms of math rock. With a visual style as strong as their musical output, Tricot is...

Like a decent portion of the AU, and WVAU population, I saw Drake last weekend. And while I knew that it would be an experience, I didn‰'t anticipate the intense level of energy, a lot of energy, that would stay with me. Even while staying in the library at 2am. (2am...

Courtesy of Black Cat Hailing from the music town of Athens, Georgia, Futurebirds play a certain style laid-back country-rock that combines backwoods harmonies with pedal steel riffs and atmospheric feedback. Calling their sound "psychedelic country" they are known...

When asked how to describe their vibe, Smallpools said they are a group of brothers with ADD working in their dad's factory on an assembly line. And every now and again everybody just stops production and plays a game of street fighter. Their self titled debut EP was...

Yo La Tengo graced the Lincoln Theater with their presence Friday. The band played a two-set acoustic show surrounded by avant-garde artwork and a poster of The Clean, a legendary indie band from New Zealand. The lineup featured lead guitarist Dave Schramm, who was...

Courtesy of Wikipedia For the first installment of “I‰'m Not Like The Other Girls,‰” I apprehensively dawn my headphones to review the musical works of Kid Cudi. Like many of us, I adopted most of my ‰musical taste‰' from my older sibling, which made for a pretty...

Are you a fan of Pavement, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Tom Petty, John Fahey or The War On Drugs? Then come down to the 9:30 Club on October 8th to see Kurt Vile and the Violators perform songs off of his new album “b'lieve i'm goin down‰” released September 25th....

With festival season coming to a close, I am here as a proud introverted survivor of this year‰'s batch of thrashing fans, hour-long bathroom lines, and endless crowds. And if I did it, then so can you, fellow music fan. 1. Go in prepared Festivals release the line up...

Courtesy of ET Last week, Ryan Adams released 1989, in which he covers Taylor Swift‰'s 1989 in it's entirety as a kind of tribute. Reaction to Adams‰' 1989 has been largely mixed; some publications think it‰'s a triumph, others, a somewhat sexist attempt to...

Courtesy of Bjork If it was 1993, and you were an Icelandic woman who was fed up with the gimmicky dead end band that you were in, and your solo project needed to express something that transcended any single music genre while simultaneously expressing what it is to...

San Diego-based Wavves is headlining The 9:30 Club On October 7th with Twin Peaks. Wavves, named after the lead singer‰'s fear of the ocean, was first noticed by music bloggers who enjoyed the lo-fi, do-it-yourself nature of their work. Wavves' recent release with...

Holly Miranda‰'s sophomore album was release earlier this summer and she started her tour off with us in D.C. Miranda played two new tracks off her self titled album with us Live in the Hive.

October 15th 2015, get ready to see the amazing indie/pop band Cherub at the 9:30 club. The normal duo will be adding two old friends to their show, Jordan Bartlett on guitar and Nick Curtis, their producer, on drum. Get ready to hear old favorites like Doses and...

Does disco-punk spark your interest? This isn‰'t their first time coming through DC, and it won‰'t be their last. The Growlers are back Saturday October 10th at the 9:30 Club and you don‰'t want to miss it. With their fifth album, Chinese Fountain, it has...

Come out and see Steph with Carpark Records October 5th at 8:00pm in MGC 200! Steph is the label manager of Carpark Records and subsidiary label Company Records. She also is the manager of Carpark's publishing house, Carpark Publishing. In her time at Carpark, she has...