Time is a peculiar thing. My thoughts are not thinking straight, therefore I am writing this in bullets because that's how I'm thinking. I'm feeling hazy. Like smoke. Whatever, here is a list of my thoughts on Pinegroves' Old Friends. The name of the album is...
While writing “Landslide,” Stevie Nicks most likely did not anticipate the impact that it would have upon endless generations of young people who were desperate to understand the endless changes in the transition into adulthood. At 25, she was going through these...
I went to the Acid Dad show for Teen Mortgage, not going to lie. I knew the latter band way better than the former, and I felt like free tickets to interview some relatively unknown group would just mean a free Teen Mortgage show. This isn't wrong, but it also isn't...
We are going to go a little mainstream with the music this week. But this album was just released so it seems appropriate. I am looking at one specific song from the album but you should definitely listen to the entire album as it is fairly well done. I wanted to...
A few weeks ago, on March 24, third-wave ska classic Keasbey Nights celebrated its 20th birthday. It initially served as Catch 22's debut record, as well as only with Tomas Kalnoky as the lead singer. He later went on to become the lead singer and primary songwriter...
Kurt Cobain has been dead for a while now. 24 years to the day to be exact, and since his highly-publicized suicide in 1994 there have been just as many conspiracies as obituaries. Underneath all the loose ends surrounding his death though, one thing is clear in his...
This past month in DC, thousands of young people descended on the Mall for the March for our Lives. Howard University students stormed their financial aid office after half a million dollars was stolen from their student aid funds. In Sacramento, California, hundreds...
Few things are unequivocally true in the world of music, but at least two are heralded as unspoken rules as. One: music is a game of power. Two: power is not meant for the marginalized. The intersections of power and voice allow for non-men and LGBT+ individuals to be...
In which we take a look at the overrated “Runaway” and the underrated “Pinocchio StoryÛ We sure do love confessional songs. Maybe it's the idea of humanizing celebrities—just as paparazzi candids of stars pumping gas allow us to peel away at the lifestyles of the...
WVAU Music Staff reviews new albums each week! Here's what the group has reviewed for the week of March 30. Capital Boogie Ravyn Lenae - Crush EP Raveena - I Won't Mind/Wherever You Go Popish Rhye - Blood AAA (Guitars and such) Frankie Cosmos - Vessel (Sub Pop)...