St. Lenox – Ten Fables Of Young Ambition And Passionate Love (Anyway Records)
Daniel Sohn, Music Staffer
October 17, 2018
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Andrew Choi is a practicing attorney in NYC who writes and records music during his “off hours, at nights and on weekends”. He is also a gay second-generation Korean immigrant. He studied violin at Juilliard and earned degrees from Princeton, Ohio State, and New York University. His first foray into...
Idle Bloom’s Flood the Dial
Noah Stevens, Music Staffer
October 16, 2018
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There’s something to be said for music that needs to be listened to with the volume all the way up. Nashville rock outfit Idle Bloom’s new record Flood the Dial is nothing if not that kind of music. From the outset, the album is begging to be absolutely blasted from whatever speaker or headphon...
Review: Boy Pablo’s Soy Pablo
Solenne Smith, Music Staffer
October 15, 2018
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Norwegian indie pop star finds his path to fame with the release of “Everytime” in 2017. From there, his self-started career transcended simple Youtube stardom and currently, Boy Pablo holds over 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Recently, Boy Pablo released EP Soy Pablo. Featuring upbeat a...
Review: Jerry Paper – “Like A Baby”
Drew Dawson, Music Staffer
October 11, 2018
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Listening to Jerry Paper is like listening to the elevator music of the future (in a good way). Every track on Like A Baby will have you blinking slower and feeling foggy. There is something special about being able to make music that is some parts spacey, some parts funhouse, and just a touch of Mii ...
Review: Hippo Campus – “Bambi”
Michael Quinn, Music Staffer
October 11, 2018
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I prefer the sound of Bambi over Landmark if we’re comparing. They maintain their former sounds on a few cuts on the album like "Golden" or "Honestly," but it has a few songs that are on another level compared to their former works, like their first track "Mistakes," which has a very echoey, spacey...
Review: Fucked Up – “Dose Your Dreams”
Shannon Durazo, Music Staffer
October 10, 2018
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Fucked Up- Dose Your Dreams (Merge) [punk rock/experimental] The new Fucked Up album is a wild ride from start to finish. What seems like a record that should be hardcore through and through, the listener is instead presented with a project teeming with just as many punk-ethic contradictions. In a genre ...
Review: Holy Fawn – “Death Spells”
August Greenberg, Music Staffer
October 9, 2018
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Holy Fawn - Death Spells (Whelmed) [blackgaze/shoegaze] The easiest way to describe Holy Fawn would be to make the observation that they combine dreamy shoegaze with dark post-rock/metal. Yet if someone were to tell that to me before I heard the music, I would have no idea how that sounds. Assuming this i...
Concert Preview: Junglepussy at Songbyrd Music House
Calkie Fisseha, General Manager
September 18, 2018
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Who do you listen to when you go to Trader Joe’s and don’t want to carry your groceries up the stairs? Junglepussy. Who do you listen to when you want to grow? Junglepussy. Who do you listen to when you realize your ex-boyfriend never took you to the zoo? Junglepussy. She can rap, she can act, a...
Concert Preview: MIGUEL w/ DVSN + NONCHALANT SAVANT
Skylar Tucker
August 22, 2018
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After a two-year break, R&B singer Miguel has reemerged and he comes bearing gifts. Flaunting his soft, coily dreadlocks and slightly gold-capped smile, the R&B free spirit returned to us with his newest album, War & Leisure, on December 1st 2017. The album is strongly represented by songs...
Weekly Album Roundup: March 9
WVAU Music Staff
March 9, 2018
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WVAU Music Staff reviews new albums each week! Here's what the group has reviewed for the week of March 9. Pop/ish Candy Ambulance - Spray [EP] In Tall Buildings - Akinetic Pale Waves - ALL THE THINGS I NEVER SAID Tracey Thorn - Record Lane 8 - Little By Little Hip hop Yarley G - Vivid Echoes ...
Weekly Album Roundup: March 2
WVAU Music Staff
March 2, 2018
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WVAU Music Staff reviews new albums each week! Here's what the group has reviewed for the week of March 2. Pop/ish Charlotte Day Wilson - Nothing New Will Varley - Spirit of Minnie RPM (Electronic) MGMT - Little Dark Age Poppy Ackroyd - Resolve AAA (Guitars and such) Erik Phillips - One Hurry -...
Concert Preview: Kelela at 9:30 Club
Skylar Tucker
February 26, 2018
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Image courtesy of Kelela “Hold up, wait, you're fucking with my groove. Gettin' on this plane, making moves.Û, Kelela puts the world on notice in the hook of her song “Frontline” in the sweetest and most legitimate manner and we're not mad about it. Since the release of her debut album...
