Blogs
Keep Ya Head Up: Three Women to Watch in Hip Hop
Hip hop has always been a predominantly male art form, especially at its top tier. The more recognized and mainstream hip hop artists get, the fewer the number of female rappers there are. Indeed it seems at any given time only one or two female rappers...
WVAU Presents: SBTRKT "Wonder Where We Land" Listening Party!
Sick poster by our art director Eli Fosl!This Thursday, WVAU is hosting a listening party for SBTRKT's sophomore album, _Wonder Where We Land_. The new record features Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, A$AP Ferg, and Jessie Ware among others. The event is free to the...
WVAU Open Mic Night: Halloween Edition
WVAU's next Open Mic Night will be this Friday, October 28th at 5pm (note the early time) in the SIS Atrium. The Davenport Coffee Lounge will be open late for this event and will be serving coffee, chai and other caffeinated treats until 7pm.Since Halloween is right...
WVAU & ATV Present: No One Dies In Radio – The Future of Broadcast
A Discussion With Jared Rizzi, SiriusXM White House Correspondent, Presented in Collaboration with WVAU ATV Thursday, November 14, 8 p.m., EQB 200Radio may be the last place you can have an entry-level job where you belly-laugh for a living, where shoestring budgets...
WVAU and SUB Present: Chance The Rapper w/ Lyrx & Divided By Zero
For WVAU's spring concert, we're teaming up with SUB to present Chance the Rapper on April 10th in Bender Arena. Tickets and a 1 are free with ID for AU students.Chance is a favorite at the station: his excellent 2013 debut _Acid Rap_ landed at "#8 in our Top Music of...
WVAU Presents: Lindsay Zoladz of Pitchfork
WVAU is thrilled to present Lindsay Zoladz, associate editor at Pitchfork and former WVAU General Manager.Join us for a discussion with Lindsay about music journalism and criticism, careers and the industry, her take-aways from college radio, her experience working at...
WVAU Presents: Ron Ross of Sirius XM
Radio outside of the college sphere is alive and well. Come hear about the business of music and radio as WVAU presents Ron Ross of Sirius XM.Ross is a radio personality on The Pule, Sirius XM's channel devoted to music from the late 2000s to today. Ross works on...
Last Open Mic Night Of The Semester This Friday, April 1!
Come out to WVAU's Open Mic Night! Like it says up there in the subject, this will be our very last one of the semester. It's also our very first Open Mic Night in the SIS Atrium. The Davenport will be extending its hours to be open during the event, so look forward...
First Open Mic This Saturday, September 17th
Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time once again.WVAU will host its first Open Mic of the semester this Saturday, September 17th at 8:00pm in the Tavern. Dust off your acoustic guitars, form your joke bands, go dumpster diving for some children's poems to read,...
Calling All DJs! Mandatory WVAU General Meeting!
The year's first WVAU GENERAL MEETING is Sunday October 2nd, at 5 p.m. in the Hughes Formal Lounge. Swap mixtapes, meet new DJs, catch up with old friends, and (as always) eat eat eat.The meeting is mandatory and you will be struck with a strike if you skip it. If you...
Capital Punishment 2011: The Psychic Paramount
WVAU's concert series Capital Punishment returns this Friday, December 2, featuring instrumental noise-rock group the Psychic Paramount. The band's recent album II was featured in Pitchfork's Overlooked Records of 2011:Riffs churn and bang, guitar leads triumphantly...
OPEN MIC NIGHT
IT'S BACK.On Friday, January 31, WVAU's Open Mic Night triumphantly returns for a night of music, dance, rapping, readings, slam-poetry and whatever else you can throw at us.Want to perform? Email wvauevents@gmail.com. For the sake of time, please limit your act to...
Quick Picks: Four Tet @ U Street Music Hall
Welcome to Quick Picks, where WVAU promo staffer Allen Nguyen shares a few thoughts on the week's best shows. First up - tonight's Four Tet show at U Street Music Hall.*"Four Tet (Live Set), Anthony Naples, Joe...
WVAU Winter/Spring Open Mic
Join the best "student-run, online-only" radio station in the country for our first Open Mic of the spring semester! WVAU Open Mic Night returns to Battelle Atrium for a night of music, poetry, rapping, reading, and whatever else you want to perform.Want a spot...
Capitol Punishment: BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Ace Cosgrove
WVAU is proud to present this fall's Capitol Punishment concert: BadBadNotGood with Ace Cosgrove on Friday, November 14 in the Tavern at Amercan University. Canadian experimental jazz & electronic trio BadBadNotGood (also referred to as BBNG) reinterpret...
Pop Exodus: 25 True (100%!) Pop Facts about Q2
Courtesy of Illuminati Symbols. Investigative journalism is hard, especially when you're an unpaid columnist for a college radio station. But never fear, fellow pop lovers! After some hard-hitting research at the close of the music industry's Q1, I bring you...
Feedback: A Landscape of Boundless Sound
Courtesy of paintingschinese.com In my home state of Indiana we have a few fine museums. Across the entire state of Indiana and the semi-urban interstate sprawl that is Indianapolis no museum stands up so well as the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). Free entry...
Zen Palette: Get to Know Edo Lee
Courtesy of Edo Lee's Facebook. This New York City producer is one that I have shown many people in the past year. Edo Lee is starting to emerge in the online DJ community with recent shouts from a rapper in our own local network, Ace Cosgrove. I discovered...
Modest Mouse, "Strangers To Ourselves" (Epic)
Indie rock veterans return from dormancy, but don't exactly exceed expectationsIt is hard to understate the influence that Modest Mouse has had on indie rock over the course of their long and extremely prolific career, and after several years of musical inactivity...
Kill Lincoln, "Good Riddance To Good Advice" (Jump Start Records)
Ska punk that makes you want to skateboardKill Lincoln's “Good Riddance to Good Advice” isn't your run-of the mill ska album. While at times the band goes along with the stereotypical ska-pop-punk tropes of horns playing in perfect thirds and fifths, twangy guitar...
Corbu, "Everything You Imagine Is Real" (Big Picnic)
I feel like I'm in an 80s space movie, but I'm surprisingly OK with thatCorbu is more than a band—they are the audio and visual art project of British creative mastermind Jonathan Graves. The growing collective creates retro-futuristic sounds to accompany...
We Are The City, "Violent" (Tooth & Nail)
Eclectic music for the adventurous indieWhen listening to Violent, at first it's all very confusing. “What am i doing here? What's going on? Why is everything so choppy yet sparkly? I'm scared but also kind of into it?” We Are The City's second full length album...
Bad Veins, "The Mess Remade" (Dynamite Music)
Typical indie group playing at a small venue — but with a big following Even though I just said it is typical, the Bad Veins are really pretty good. I think they'll soon have a big following because they have a cool sound, that is quite uplifting. It's...
Mitski, "Bury Me At Makeout Creek" (Don Giovanni)
A heart-wrenching catharsis of an album Bury Me at Makeout Creek starts off with false impressions… the beginning of the opening song, “Texas Reznikoff” sounds melancholic, slow, and quiet, luring one into the assumption that this album will be one of those...
Reptar, "Lurid Glow" (Joyful Noise)
Upbeat synth rock constructing genius songsJust like Reptar can “dance with the waltzes in your mind,” listeners can dance with the catchy anthems from Lurid Glow. With smooth, brassy synths and bumping bass, the album has a universal, cohesive sound without all...
JEFF the Brotherhood, "Wasted On The Dream" (Infinity Cat)
Tennessee bros dial back the speed to refocus on the riffageReports of JEFF the Brotherhood's death have been greatly exaggerated. After being dropped by Warner Bros and releasing two underwhelming singles, a full listen of Wasted on the Dream is kind of reassuring....
Chastity Belt, "Time To Go Home" (Hardly Art)
Witty post-punk.Originally from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Chastity Belt didn't find fame until they hit the city of Seattle. Now, on the heels of their 2013 debut No Regerts, Annie Truscott, Gretchen Grimm and Julia Shapiro have many more critiques...
Live in the Hive: Priests
Always a bit brash and a ton of fun, D.C. punk band Priests stopped by WVAU on their way to Black Cat to open for Parquet Courts in February. They blazed through songs mostly from their new album Bodies and Control and Money and Power, ending with a special...
Minutia: The Death and Coming Afterlife of Music Culture
Courtesy of Our Breathing Planet.“For thus you speak: Real we are entirely, without belief or superstition.' Thus you stick out your chests, but alas ÛÒ they are hollow!” -NietzscheMusical culture has been long dead, but only recently has the stench of its...
Another Kind of Currency: Why I Hate Getting Good Advice
Courtesy of Black Cat. I've received nothing but "good advice" from people as I graduated high school, went through my summer internship and began my first and second semesters of college. To be honest, I was pretty sick of it before I even graduated....