Join WVAU in celebrating our second CMJ win as best student-run, internet-only station with a dance party. Holly Kaplan and Garrett Doyle will be DJing so get ready for an awesome night! Check out our Facebook event for more details and to RSVP.
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Rachael Yamagata @ 9:30 Club on 11/12
Courtesy of 9:30 Club Rachael Yamagata is coming to D.C. with her TIGHTROPE WALKER HEADLINING FALL TOUR on November 12th! The singer-songwriter and former front-woman of the Chicago funk group Bumpus will be playing at the 9:30 club. Sadly, the band joining her on...
Empress Of: bringing female self-love back into music
Originally from Los Angeles, now residing in Brooklyn, the Honduran-American female artist Empress Of is taking the pop genre to another, spacier level. Empress Of's debut, full-length album Me released on Terrible Records is glitchy, alluring, and hard-hitting....
Sorry If I Dissed You: An Unnecessarily Close Look at My Favorite Song to Come Out of the 90s
Artwork by Luke Palermo Written on the cusp of adulthood by Isaac Brock, “Trailer Trash” shows an emotional wisdom well beyond the Modest Mouse frontman's years. Equal parts post-wrongdoing self-reflection and memoir of lower-middle class American living, the...
WVAU Fall Open Mic: Part II
Join the best "student-run, online-only" radio station in the country for our second Open Mic of the fall semester! WVAU Open Mic Night returns to Battelle Atrium for a night of music, poetry, rapping, reading, and whatever else you want to perform. WVAU is a safe...
Why Snoop Dogg Should be A Feminist
If you know me, you know I love Snoop Dogg. I'm also a women's rights activist. The difficulty of this situation is most likely already apparent. What happens when our favorite artists have views we would never condone? "Can U Control Yo Hoe?" I've rapped every...
On The Talking Heads
Courtesy of retrorebirth.wordpress.com This week I'm continuing the theme of albums that your parents probably listened to in the 70's (if they were cool). That's because Talking Heads: 77 is a seriously cool album. David Byrne is one of those singers who goes 100% on...
RAC @ 9:30 Club on 11/10
Courtesy of 9:30 Club On November 10th the 9:30 Club will be rocked with the sound of the diverse world of electronic music with RAC, Big Data, Filous and Pink Feathers. Originally Andr̩ Allen Anjos started the Remix Artist Collective, or RAC as a group of...
All Time Low @ Echostage on 11/16
Rockstar Energy Drink Presents “Back To The Future Hearts Tour” featuring All Time Low, Sleeping With Sirens and Neck Deep on November 16th at Echostage DC! Formed in 2003 outside of Baltimore, Maryland, All Time Low started out as a high-school cover band before...
Dale Earnhardt JR JR @ 9:30 Club on 11/6
JR JR, also known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., is an indie-pop band from Detroit, Michigan, consisting of Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein. They met each other while playing in other Detroit music projects eventually branching off and creating their own sound in 2009....