Hippo Campus reminds me of the dudes you went to high school with that were best friends and decided to start a band one day, creating funky, lo-fi music. Well at least for me, Hippo Campus are the type of dudes I wish I went to school with. They're a real hometown...
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“Love DroughtÛ: Sunsets, Symbolism, and Sun Goddesses
Source: "Love Drought" music video Everyone knows that Beyonc̩ is queen, but the past few weeks have secured her royal status. Between the announcement of her pregnancy (WITH TWINS) and her ethereal performance at the Grammys (again WITH TWINS), many of us fans are...
Spring Break, baby! Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa and Vineyard Vines Dreams
Edit by Maria Carrasco Okay so I'd like to just make it clear: I'm not going on a tropical destination for my spring break. I mean, considering I go to AU for practically free because of how little my family makes, I don't think I was ever destined for Cancun 2K17...
The Best Of: Breakup Albums
Any album can be a breakup album depending on personal experience, but certain albums have a way of resonating with our collective emotional consciousness more so than others. And no matter how amicable the breakup, sometimes you just need to blast “Go Your Own Way”...
Gin Blossoms’s New Miserable Experience and How the Lyrics of our Favorite Records can be Forgotten
Anybody who has ever read any of my columns knows that lyrical analysis is very much one of my favorite activities. But that was not always true. Especially when I was 8— which was one of the first times I remember hearing the phenomenal breakthrough record from...
GOLDLINK, CISCERO, and DJ AYES COLD Upcoming Show in the Tavern
Courtesy of Billboard TOMORROW, SATURDAY the 25th, DC rapper Goldlink will be coming to THE TAVERN for a FREE show for all AU students, co-sponsored by AU Student Union Board (SUB) and WVAU. Come before 8:30PM with your AU ID and get ready to BUMP. GoldLink instantly...
How HOMESHAKE’s Fresh Air Would Help Me Seduce A Robot
Courtesy of HOMESHAKE's Bandcamp I'm not saying I would boink a robot, but if I were to ever venture for the mechanical man, Fresh Air would be the album I put on while doing it. Here's how HOMESHAKE's latest album, Fresh Air would help me in my pursuit of robotic...
A Punk Analysis of Lil Yachty
Courtesy of High Snobiety People have been mostly pretty quick to shrug off new-on-the-limelight artists such as Lil Yachty as “badÛ, and “not interestingÛ, and “not goodÛ, and asking questions like “why is this popular?Û Punk rock and Lil Yachty do not seem...
So Many Colours Fill the Sky: Miami Horror, Whitney & More
Edit by Maria Carrasco I was originally going to do something different for today's post, but the weather was so nice Saturday and Sunday, I figured I should dedicate something to that. I mean, it's February and it was 70 degrees (but also, climate change is real...
Liv Takes a Crash Course in Egyptian Mythology To Satisfy Her Compulsive Need to Know What Songs Mean
The Pica Beats isn't the easiest band to find information about, but, after all, if the band you like has a Wikipedia page you lose indie points anyways. As the musical project of Ryan Barrett, they could arguably hail from Portland, Seattle, or Vermont depending on...









