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  Poster designed by WVAU Art Department/Luke Palermo.WVAU is proud to present this spring's Capitol Punishment concert: The Antlers with Boon on Saturday, April 18th in the Abramson Family Founders Room in SIS at American University.Brooklyn-based indie rock act...

Courtesy of Stereogum. Recently, Pitchfork published an article about what‰'s wrong with women in EDM. They used Skrillex and his label OWSLA as their main example of the problems in this genre. Responses to this article blew up over Twitter and launched another...

Courtesy of BBC Mundo. Too often I bump into 12-year-olds rapping about sex, money and cars as they play catch with their friends and drag an oversized backpack on one hand and a soda on the other. The juxtaposition of this reoccurring event has me wondering what...

Courtesy of Mobile Music. Categories are fun, but they‰'re the most fun when you can use your own powers of persuasion to make up totally arbitrary reasons for why certain things belong in categories. Thus, my friends and I have created the "Pop or Not?"...

  Photo by Andrea PantingDespite the snowy weather, Juan Wauters stopped by the WVAU studio the morning after his show at Comet Ping Pong in February. He played some new tracks off of his upcoming album, Who Me? Check out "Woodside, Queens" below:  And...

Scott Kelly arrived at the International Space Station yesterday and will be the first American to make a yearlong trip to space. This will be the longest journey NASA has taken part in. 365 days and only 230 miles away. In fact, it‰'s a quicker flight from...

   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...

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'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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

  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...

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...