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A great big welcome back to the school year! I‰'m super stoked to continue writing “Leading Ladies‰” and I hope there are some of you out there that are excited to continue reading it! This week, I just wanted to do a quick recap of some of the music that kept me...

Courtesy of AFP/Getty Images If I had my way, there‰'d be no more award shows, no more grading according to stars or letters or decimal points, no more best of insert arbitrary timeframe here lists. Intentionally or not, all of these practices cultivate a cancerous...

It‰'s no secret that Michael Cera, one of Canada‰'s finest specimens, was born to do great things. When he first emerged on our screens in Arrested Development in 2003, everyone immediately saw that this kid had pure comedic potential. This week, an album called true...

Courtesy of Billboard Let it be known; as August rattles its last breath and we're plunged from a dream of summer into the cruel ice bucket challenge of fall semester, WVAU.org will raise its sleepy head in service of the better things. After all, going back to school...

Courtesy of The Chicago Sun-Times At this year’s 9th installment of Pitchfork Music Festival, held in Chicago‰'s west side Union Park, yearly attendees and concert officials found themselves drowning in the claustrophobic masses of new concertgoers. On three...

Our first international guests, PAWS, graced our cozy studio for some pop-punk straight out of Glasgow. You can listen to an innocent pre-Morrissey PAWS, before they were burdened by BUZZ, SOCIAL MEDIA, and DRAMA. Regardless of whatever beef (he he) Moz may have with...

Over the last ten years, The Hold Steady have established themselves as one of America’s most joyous, intelligent, and overall best rock and roll bands. Between the combination of singer Craig Finn’s hyper-literate lyrical narratives and lead guitarist Tad...

If you’ve tuned into WVAU at any point this semester, it’s safe to say you heard a track off of Natural Child’s latest record Dancin’ With Wolves. The record’s been played non-stop since we’ve received it and to have the Nashville...

Right off the bat, “Cowboy Dan” sets the thematic tone of 1997‰'s The Lonesome Crowded West perfectly. It sounds western, it sounds like open skies, it sounds fragile and pretty, but it also sounds menacing and dark. The song‰'s title character is easily...

Before I dive into in this, I wanted to start out by saying thank you to those of you who have taken the time to read my pieces either from Shaken Not Stirred or Jazz Up Your Day from last semester. Prior to joining WVAU, I had no prior experience in creative,...