Courtesy of Tumblr. My initial reaction to this dry, uninspiring choice of a group name immediately set my gears running into overdrive. Was it going to be a musical duo whose songs play off romantically, albeit with a cheesy yet truthful tinge to it, or would it be a...
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Moi Non Plus: Serge Gainsbourg
Courtesy of Tumblr “If I had to choose between a woman and a final cigarette, I would choose the cigarette. You can throw it away easier!Û If there was someone that could say that phrase with class, meanwhile holding a cigarette and laughing about how true it is, it...
Porque no los Dos: Secreto de Amor
Let me start off with a disclaimer: I am here to bring you the best of the best in terms of Spanish music. You can use this as an excuse to seem cultured and cool. Let's be real, you probably only listen to songs in English, rightfully so, it IS your language. But...
Coo Coo Ca-choo: Introductions and Arctic Monkeys
A blurb about Coo Coo Ca-choo: Post-concert depression: it's a real thing. We all know what it is, how it feels, and how it manifests itself. But why does it happen so frequently? Live music is addictive, and for good reason. It transforms audio into a visual...
Leading Ladies: Wake Up to Aaradhna’s Music
Courtesy of The Vinyl Bridge One of the great musical discoveries that happened this summer was unearthing the gem that is Treble & Reverb, the 2012 album from New Zealand artist Aaradhna. The album made a big impact in its home country, winning several 2013 New...
Minutia: Why Grimes is Better Than the Velvet Underground
Courtesy of Stereogum. First, let's look at some accolades. Who likes the Velvet Underground? Rolling Stone and Andy Warhol, both of whom are mouthpieces that no one cares about except for dead white people and your dad. Who likes Grimes? Grimes is the future, as she...
Vote for Us at CMJ!
Hello everybody! It’s an exciting time here at WVAU at American University – new faces on campus, wonderful new music coming to us and award season is just around the corner. WVAU has been on the air since 1947 but this is the very first year (that we know...
The Tough Crowd: Fall Children
The Tough Crowd this semester will be an exclusive inside look into the musical beginnings of your fellow American University peers. As music lovers, we all experience the same “firsts” during our foray into becoming music aficionados. So, this semesters...
Feedback: The Importance of Being Metal
A friend and I started to talk on music. We talked on the beauty behind new genres we found. Talks of new music led to old. We came back to a common heritage, a genre we loved and never forgot: Metal. What was the reward in the furious grapple of gravelly voice burned...
The Looking Glass: Simian Mobile Disco’s "Whorl"
Courtesy of DJ Mag Italia If the writing and recording of an album is really an ongoing process, then, it is an event that takes place everywhere. This means that both the moments when the artist writes the lyrical forms and expresses these forms in the confines of...