#10 Album: Future Islands – On the Water Future Islands' On the Water isn't particularly long, but it still manages to takes its time. Like the best break-up records, it knows you don't have anything better to do with your day than sit around listening to...
End of the Year Awards
Best of Rack 2011: Jesse Paller’s Playlist
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Best of Rack 2011: Camilia Alavi’s Playlist
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Best of Rack 2011: Cameron Meindl’s Playlist
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Best of Rack 2011: Maxwell Tani’s Playlist
Overwhelmed by the rack? Having trouble unearthing the hidden gems buried in the studio shelves? We’ve recruited the WVAU Assistant Music Directors to help us unpack the rack and share their favorite spins. First up is Music Director Maxwell Tani, who gives us...
The Year Ahead, In Albums
With a new year comes new things for WVAU.org. Starting this week, if you visit WVAU.org, you’ll be greeted by articles written by our new web team. In order to give you a little taste of what we have in store for this semester, each member wrote about which albums...
WVAU Top Music of 2010: #1
#1 Album: LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening The two things everybody focuses on with This is Happening are that James Murphy is now forty and that this is the last LCD Soundsystem release we're going to get for a little while. Neither of those ideas really matters....
WVAU Top Music of 2010: #2
#2 Album: Beach House – Teen Dream Last spring, my friend begged me to go to see Beach House with her. I was adamant about not going because all I knew about Beach House was that they had a song about a zebra. “A song about a zebra,” I thought, “I'm not hip enough...
WVAU Top Music of 2010: #3
#3 Album: Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz Sufjan said fuck. The news came in the heart of autumn and trumped all tales of midterm smackdowns, TSA patdowns, or intelligence file crackdowns. My headline of the moment became Sufjan Stevens, Americana's altar boy of...
WVAU Top Music of 2010: #4
#4 Album: Arcade Fire – The Suburbs When Arcade Fire played Merriweather Post Pavilion this past summer, I got a ride back to the Metro from a fellow fan. Naturally we started talking about The Suburbs, Arcade Fire's third album. He summed up the album quite nicely:...