Carroll ÛÒ Carroll (Entertainment One) By Matt Reise Passively Trippy Indie Rock To Take a Bath To Four Minnesota sad boys formed Carroll to release their feels in the form of trippy indie rock, which their first full-length album Carroll does flawlessly. The sound...
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For The Girls About To Rock
Courtesy of Huffington Post This week we look past the modern musical mistakes of my childhood, and investigate a little bit of classic rock. When I was in middle school, my friend group was inexplicably and obsessively obsessed with the movie School Of Rock. If we...
Listens of the Week: BreakBot & LXURY
BreakBot I'd like to write about the electronic funk producer BreakBot, who, in 2009 got signed to Ed Banger Records. This 34-year-old French DJ adds a distorted aspect to classic funk music, and makes it feel current by using syncopation, and digital crunchiness....
The NBHD: The Band that DGAF What You Think of Them
I think my favorite thing in the world is to listen to bangers. Bangers are songs that will get you off your feet, move your hands in various directions, and most importantly, get you HYPED. It is almost impossible not to get up and make a fool of yourself while a...
“Christian” Music isn’t Always Heavy-handedÛ_or Awful
Courtesy of Wow Moscow Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists have given me some very interesting things. Ranging from new discoveries that I'll probably treasure forever, to the same bands I've repeatedly tried and failed to get into. The service at least knows what...
WVAU Capitol Punishment 2015: Alex G and Hop Along
WVAU is proud to announce that it will be hosting its winter Capital Punishment concert with Alex G and Hop Along on Saturday, December 5th. Join us in Tavern at 8pm for the show of the semester! The concert is open to American University students and is free with...
I Swear I Don’t Glorify Ian Curtis from Joy Division: A Review of Unknown Pleasures
Courtesy of Spin T/W: Suicide It's weird to be in America and talk about the importance of a band that never toured in America. Oddly, Joy Divison's Ian Curtis has a very American story. 138 days into the year 1980, Ian Curtis hung himself in the kitchen...
Why one must listen to “Strange FruitÛ
Originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol about the horrors of the lynching of African Americans, the song has since become an essential in the musical protest cannon, and a constant reminder of America's dark and troubled past. Most famously performed by Billie...
Weekend Watch: Reviews from the Week of 11/4
Decorations Girls EP (French Kiss Records) By Krystal Chong Liberating post-breakup songs everywhere If this is what breakups do to music, then count me in! A result of mainman Devon Geyers' nasty breakup, Decorations' Girls EP takes all of the sadness out of...
‘Tis the Season for Shows
Courtesy of Emily It seems as if the day October ended, a big bug full of cheer crawled up everyone's butt and the Extra Festive Version of Mariah Carey's “All I Want For Christmas Is You” starts playing at full blast. Tis the Season, of course. The catch,...
