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Geronimo Getty, "Greyhound Blues" (self-released)

Geronimo Getty, "Greyhound Blues" (self-released)

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...

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 Open Mic Night: Halloween Edition

WVAU's next Open Mic Night will be this Friday, October 28th at 5pm (note the early time) in the SIS Atrium. The Davenport Coffee Lounge will be open late for this event and will be serving coffee, chai and other caffeinated treats until 7pm.Since Halloween is right...