Though Scott Hansen, aka Tycho, has been making hazy, pleasant chillwave and dream-pop tracks by himself for years now, somewhere in the past two years he took it upon himself to flesh out his project from just himself to a fully realized, traditionally instrumented...
“Movies and Krishna and hardcore and Jesus and joyÛ If (as a poster in my 11th grade English teacher's room claimed) Bruce Springsteen is Steinbeck in leather, then surely The Hold Steady's Craig Finn is Fitzgerald in a Twins jersey. Instead of writing about the...
RX: feel good grooves Aussie electro-pop lads, Panama, have found the cure for the winter woes with the perfect prescription of dreamy dance beats and ready-for-sun remixes that will have you up and going in no time. Once the burnt orange chord progressions of opener...
Synth-pop til you drop Architecture in Helsinki has been on the indie-synth-pop scene since 2000, making this their fourteenth release. With happy, synth heavy pop music, this Australian band reimagines some original 80s songs between their synths, vocals, and lyrics....
Dark Indie Folk After seeing Saintseneca play a live in-studio session here at WVAU… I kind of fell in love. This was before their first full-length album, Dark Arc, had dropped. When I heard them live, I knew I was really going to dig this album. Dark Arc is a...
Sad Black Lips with more of a southern influence The Black Lips are a rock group from Georgia that have been part of the garage rock scene since 1999. Their songs are influenced by classic rock, punk, and even a little bit of country. Their newest album, “Underneath...
Last week's Rainy Day album, High Violet by the National, was chosen by one of the Camerons in my life and dealt with rain concretely, as a recurring lyrical theme. This week's pick is Dilute's second and last release, 2001's Grape Blueprints Pour Spinach Olive...
The more I think about it, the more I become convinced that Don Caballero is the best musical outlet that Pittsburgh has ever seen. Granted, that thought is contingent on the band's immense influence on my musical development. Before I found Don Cab, I was invested...
I have respect for many musicians not just because of their musical nous, but also how they manage to make a living for themselves by writing tunes for the better good of humanity. Top the feat of overcoming cancer, and it sounds even more terrific. Enter Andrew...
Get familiar with American University's very own ambient pop duo, VEDAS. Their debut EP will be independently released by the band on April 15th and their first single, “RuinÛ, is already out now. Their five-track endeavor is marked with spacious sounds, precise...