Concept album about a man with a hidden violent nature Greyhound Blues is the debut album from singer-songwriter Aaron Kyle's newish project Geronimo Getty. It is a concept album about the journey of a man with a hidden violent nature, though the music is more...
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WVAU Presents: The Antlers with Boon
Poster designed by WVAU Art Department/Luke Palermo.WVAU is proud to present this spring's Capitol Punishment concert: The Antlers with Boon on Saturday, April 18th in the Abramson Family Founders Room in SIS at American University.Brooklyn-based indie rock act...
Zen Palette: Let’s Talk about the Women of Secret Songs
Courtesy of Stereogum. Recently, Pitchfork published an article about what's wrong with women in EDM. They used Skrillex and his label OWSLA as their main example of the problems in this genre. Responses to this article blew up over Twitter and launched another...
Porque no los Dos: Diego Torres
Courtesy of BBC Mundo. Too often I bump into 12-year-olds rapping about sex, money and cars as they play catch with their friends and drag an oversized backpack on one hand and a soda on the other. The juxtaposition of this reoccurring event has me wondering what...
Pop Exodus: Let’s Play "Pop or Not?"
Courtesy of Mobile Music. Categories are fun, but they're the most fun when you can use your own powers of persuasion to make up totally arbitrary reasons for why certain things belong in categories. Thus, my friends and I have created the "Pop or Not?"...
Live in the Hive: Juan Wauters
Photo by Andrea PantingDespite the snowy weather, Juan Wauters stopped by the WVAU studio the morning after his show at Comet Ping Pong in February. He played some new tracks off of his upcoming album, Who Me? Check out "Woodside, Queens" below: And...
The Current: Space Jam
Scott Kelly arrived at the International Space Station yesterday and will be the first American to make a yearlong trip to space. This will be the longest journey NASA has taken part in. 365 days and only 230 miles away. In fact, it's a quicker flight from...
Keep Ya Head Up: Three Women to Watch in Hip Hop
Hip hop has always been a predominantly male art form, especially at its top tier. The more recognized and mainstream hip hop artists get, the fewer the number of female rappers there are. Indeed it seems at any given time only one or two female rappers...
WVAU and SUB Present: Chance The Rapper w/ Lyrx & Divided By Zero
For WVAU's spring concert, we're teaming up with SUB to present Chance the Rapper on April 10th in Bender Arena. Tickets and a 1 are free with ID for AU students.Chance is a favorite at the station: his excellent 2013 debut _Acid Rap_ landed at "#8 in our Top Music of...
WVAU Presents: Lindsay Zoladz of Pitchfork
WVAU is thrilled to present Lindsay Zoladz, associate editor at Pitchfork and former WVAU General Manager.Join us for a discussion with Lindsay about music journalism and criticism, careers and the industry, her take-aways from college radio, her experience working at...
