You know that time of year when you just stop caring? You visit your friends less because maybe it's snowing and you have too much homework then all of a sudden your dog has the runs all while your mom is calling to tell you that bitch across the street has the same...
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CMJ 2011: Twin Shadow @ Santos Party Haus
A new wave prince of the 2010s, George Lewis Jr. is the captivating lead singer and musical intellect behind current Brooklyn-based band Twin Shadow. Closing the last hour and a half of a Wednesday night with soft, sparkly melodies at the Santos Party House, Twin...
From the Outside: ??????????
Chelsea Wolfe is truly something demonic. In her follow up to her 2010 debut The Grime and the Glow, ?????????? (pronounced ‘Apokalypsis’), Wolfe engages in a forlorn study of absolute darkness in all of its many aspects. The result is a gripping, deep,...
Spin of the Week: Undun
The Roots- Undun After seeing the Roots live this summer and watching them perform mischievously on Jimmy Fallon's show, I'd expect their new album to be a big showy, brassy affair. Instead, it's scaled down, condensed, distilled. At 39 minutes it's their shortest...
Mixtape: Italy Playlist
As I near my final weeks in Florence, Italy, the cradle of the Renaissance, studying art conservation and art history, I pause to write for you, dear DJ, a playlist that conveys for your some sense of my experiences in a foreign land. Though I could go on and on about...
Label Fables: Jagjaguwar
The role of the independent record label in the 21st century is to curate and to catalog music, even through the great multitude of pressures and distractions of society. Their mission is to represent a group of bands that set themselves apart and share an interest in...
Spin of the Week: King Krule
King Krule- King Krule EP This EP is awfully hard to pin down, for many reasons. First of all, blatant Brit Archy “King Krule” Marshall is only 17, but he has the voice of a 40-year old. Perhaps I’m biased, but it seems like he's got a lot more on his mind...
London Calling: Johnny Foreigner @ Relentless Garage
English indie punk rock trio Johnny Foreigner played Islington venue Relentless Garage earlier this month to a mixed crowd with demographics ranging from Warped Tour teenagers to normal twenty-somethings to a significantly older couple who I'm pretty sure weren't...
A Word From Our GM: Defending WVAU’s Strange Tunes
Right now the most popular section of AU's student newspaper is Eagle Rants, a daily opinion column where anybody can anonymously post their thoughts on anything. On November 16, in between notes about being lonely in the dorms and arguments that communications...
From the Outside: The Shape of Jazz to Come
When Ornette Coleman's now classic The Shape of Jazz to Come was released on May 22nd, 1959, no one was quite sure how to react. At the time, bebop was the dominant form of jazz, reaching its second wave of popularity, and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was to be...