Kendrick Lamar is a veteran of creating groundbreaking visuals to pair with his infectious albums. From creating an instagram style video for “King Kunta” to releasing four back to back music videos that ignited his latest album, DAMN., Lamar lacks no ambition in...
Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr played a killer set at Rock and Roll Hotel on October 26. It was so good that the WVAU community voted it Best Live Show' of 2017. If you missed out on this show, hopefully I can do it some justice. Protomartyr had just...
Many musical powerhouses had comebacks and album releases this year, but none shone as bright as those by new artists. 2017 was the year of the up and coming musician. Artists like Dua Lipa, Post Malone, Sza, and Cardi B were wildly popular this year and had been...
He's come a long way from performing to the aroma of Elevation Burger fries and the screams of Centennial residents. In the span of 365 days, GoldLink has gone from performing in the Tavern by the way of WVAU (you're welcome!) to a Grammy nomination for his hit...
Jay Som's sophomore album Everybody Works is one of the best indie rock albums of 2017. The project of California singer-songwriter Melina Duterte is detailed, thoughtful and intimate while still being a great guitar rock album. I'm on WVAU's music staff, so when I...
It is an understatement to say Take Me Apart is a perfect album. With crystals dangling from her locs and nails and her stylish all white-outfits, Kelela is not a force to be reckoned with. Her debut, Take Me Apart, is one of the most beautiful albums of 2017. The...
Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986), known mononymously as Drake, is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur who has released four full length albums, one EP and two mix tapes has now released a playlist called “More...
“IGH! IGH! IGH!Û Three noises ÛÒ not even words, and we already know. It's Chance the Rapper, Lil Chano from the 79th, Chancellor Bennett ÛÒ the voice of a generation, the star of 2016. Coloring Book was a mixtape everyone anticipated, but quickly became...
This is the opening track to Kanye West's seventh studio album, The Life of Pablo, and it serves as a sample for what one can expect for the rest of the album ÛÒ a rapper reflecting on life through a God-fearing lens that seems so deeply rooted within him it may be...
Oh, high school me. How naÌøve you were. I now laugh at the amount of times I turned up my nose at the fantastic music that Kanye put out, while secretly hoping that “ Gold Digger” would come on the school bus radio, or that the DJ at my junior prom would put on “...