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Time is a Flat Circle: The AU Dog Park and Civil War Music

Time is a Flat Circle: The AU Dog Park and Civil War Music

Courtesy of the Washington Post Last Night in the Dog Park An area all AU students know and love is Battery Kemble Park, or, as it‰'s known better, simply “the dog park." Go there on a breezy mid-afternoon to feel like you aren‰'t in DC anymore, get some exercise, and...

Best at Urban Outfitters the Musical ’17

Courtesy of Coachella One of my favorite tweets of all time is one by Braden Graeber, "Coachella is just 'Urban Outfitters: The Musical.'‰” And while I love to poke fun at Coachella, and how it really is an event for rich white people, the lineup for this year‰'s...

“Now or Never:‰” Violent Delights, Violent Ends

Fun fact: I may or may not have scared three businessmen with my excited yelling when I was watching this video in a gym parking lot. That‰'s how serious I took the release of Halsey‰'s new single: I planned my day out so that I finished working out the same time it...

(Can‰’t wake up)

Part of me is kind of angry that "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence became a meme. There‰'s lots of Linkin Park and Breaking Benjamin songs that are just as hilariously overdramatic and edgy and even include white rappers, but, somehow this work of art, this tour de...

Apathetic Nostalgia: Flake Music‰’s “Spanway Hits‰Û

Apathetic Nostalgia: Flake Music‰’s “Spanway Hits‰Û

I wore flip-flops outside for the first time on Sunday, so that means Spring has sprung and my music listening habits have taken a minor turn. Namely, I listen to A LOT more indie rock. It just matches the weather so well. I may be walking to take a massive accounting...

A Conversation with Common

All photos courtesy of Marguerite Tucker When Common stopped by AU, we got the opportunity to talk to him about activism, Noname, and believing in yourself--all while he was sippin' on a green smoothie. Here is the exclusive WVAU/The Blackprint interview: Skylar: So...

A Song’s Purpose: For Me

A Song’s Purpose: For Me

Credit: Emily Langlois Music is my method of telling time. (Don‰'t worry, I still know how clocks work!) Time has just always been a very abstract concept to me. I could never fully wrap my head around how sometimes a minute can feel like days, or how days can feel...

I Think You‰’re Cute: The Inconvenience of Crushes

I Think You‰’re Cute: The Inconvenience of Crushes

Courtesy of Billboard So, you‰'ve got a crush: a bona fide, sweaty palms, poem-writing, want-to-talk-to-them-and-only-them-for-48-hours-straight type of crush. But what‰'s a girl to do when Venus is in retrograde and your only flirting skills consist of sharing fun...

Hippo Campus and Portugal. the Man Take D.C.

Hippo Campus and Portugal. the Man Take D.C.

Credit: Hippo Campus‰' Landmark album cover and Portugal. the Man‰'s Evil Friends album cover During last week, indie rock bands Hippo Campus and Portugal. the Man made stops in Washington D.C. Up first was Hippo Campus on Wednesday, March 29 at the Black Cat. I had...