Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time once again.WVAU will host its first Open Mic of the semester this Saturday, September 17th at 8:00pm in the Tavern. Dust off your acoustic guitars, form your joke bands, go dumpster diving for some children's poems to read,...
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Capitol Punishment: BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Ace Cosgrove
WVAU is proud to present this fall's Capitol Punishment concert: BadBadNotGood with Ace Cosgrove on Friday, November 14 in the Tavern at Amercan University. Canadian experimental jazz & electronic trio BadBadNotGood (also referred to as BBNG) reinterpret...
Pop Exodus: 25 True (100%!) Pop Facts about Q2
Courtesy of Illuminati Symbols. Investigative journalism is hard, especially when you're an unpaid columnist for a college radio station. But never fear, fellow pop lovers! After some hard-hitting research at the close of the music industry's Q1, I bring you...
Feedback: A Landscape of Boundless Sound
Courtesy of paintingschinese.com In my home state of Indiana we have a few fine museums. Across the entire state of Indiana and the semi-urban interstate sprawl that is Indianapolis no museum stands up so well as the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). Free entry...
Zen Palette: Get to Know Edo Lee
Courtesy of Edo Lee's Facebook. This New York City producer is one that I have shown many people in the past year. Edo Lee is starting to emerge in the online DJ community with recent shouts from a rapper in our own local network, Ace Cosgrove. I discovered...
Modest Mouse, "Strangers To Ourselves" (Epic)
Indie rock veterans return from dormancy, but don't exactly exceed expectationsIt is hard to understate the influence that Modest Mouse has had on indie rock over the course of their long and extremely prolific career, and after several years of musical inactivity...
Kill Lincoln, "Good Riddance To Good Advice" (Jump Start Records)
Ska punk that makes you want to skateboardKill Lincoln's “Good Riddance to Good Advice” isn't your run-of the mill ska album. While at times the band goes along with the stereotypical ska-pop-punk tropes of horns playing in perfect thirds and fifths, twangy guitar...
Corbu, "Everything You Imagine Is Real" (Big Picnic)
I feel like I'm in an 80s space movie, but I'm surprisingly OK with thatCorbu is more than a band—they are the audio and visual art project of British creative mastermind Jonathan Graves. The growing collective creates retro-futuristic sounds to accompany...
We Are The City, "Violent" (Tooth & Nail)
Eclectic music for the adventurous indieWhen listening to Violent, at first it's all very confusing. “What am i doing here? What's going on? Why is everything so choppy yet sparkly? I'm scared but also kind of into it?” We Are The City's second full length album...
Bad Veins, "The Mess Remade" (Dynamite Music)
Typical indie group playing at a small venue — but with a big following Even though I just said it is typical, the Bad Veins are really pretty good. I think they'll soon have a big following because they have a cool sound, that is quite uplifting. It's...