Every year, WVAU asks its community about the music that moved them, the songs they listened to on repeat, and the albums they’ll never forget. This year, we’re once again highlighting what our community says is this year’s best. These are WVAU’s top albums of the...
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WVAU’s 2020 End of the Year Awards
Every year, WVAU asks its community about the music that moved them, the songs they listened to on repeat, and the albums they’ll never forget. This year we asked for the overrated, the best, and the unforgettable. Most Underrated Album Angel Olsen's Whole New Mess ...
New York’s Allyson: What Jazz Became and Continues To Be For Me
I lost my aunt a while back but don’t worry your silly little head about how that’s got me feeling right now. Aunt Allyson wasn’t particularly close to my family; in fact, she was far, far from us, holding up in New York City for the last decades of her life, really....
Album Review: Wachito Rico by Boy Pablo
It didn’t seem too long ago in 2017 when the group of Norweigen teenage boys Boy Pablo made their way into the indie-pop scene with their viral music video Everytime, assisted by the mysterious Youtube algorithm. Steadily increasing in popularity these past three...
Album Review: Ultra Mono by IDLES
If I had my say I would’ve started and ended this review rather quickly. “It’s IDLES, what more can you say?” then it’s over, done. But of course things aren’t that simple and, to be honest, there’s plenty more to say about this release. As far as I’m concerned, IDLES...
Kodak in the Sun: About 2020
I am writing this from one of my favorite places in DC, a parking lot in Columbia Heights that overlooks the many monuments, now resembling lego pieces of an unfinished set. My friend Katie took me here a few months ago after returning from her home in Russia, and now...
Respect the Classics: Lil’ Kim and Megan Thee Stallion
In the wake of Megan Thee Stallion’s album Good News release, I thought that it was time to have a conversation that strong, black women have been and are currently defining the music industry. The double standards between men and women have always been prominent in...
+84: what it feels like to be falling out of love (or not)
Have you ever listen to a song, and then an entire chapter of your life flashes right in front of your eyes? As if someone takes the words out of your mouth, then puts them into a song and plays it for you at that moment just so that you can relive through that...
Lombardi’s World: The 1TraitDanger Video Game
Recently, I had the opportunity to partake in the “Press Day” for the upcoming video game spearheaded by Andrew Katz, the genius behind 1TraitDanger and the drummer for indie band Car Seat Headrest. Watch my full stream here: This “Press Day,” along with the game...
Down the Dirt Road
Music and song has been prevalent throughout US history. However, much of this music cannot be experienced today as it was neither recorded nor written down. Early musical recordings followed the invention of the phonograph in 1877 but were limited in volume and a...









