Courtesy of La Reputada. I first heard Julieta Venegas on the radio when her album, Si, had just come out in 2003. Following widespread success, the album won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album. It was rock enough to be in...
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The Current: Coyote Ugly Casanova
Courtesy of Pitchfork. Coming off an eight year hiatus, my favorite band, Modest Mouse, are officially putting out a new album. The new album, Strangers to Ourselves, will be released on March 3. So far, two singles have been released, “Lampshades on Fire” and...
Keep Ya Head Up: BestCoast Connection Tour Remembers A$AP Yams
Courtesy of NYT.This past Sunday the hip hop community was shocked by the death of one Steven Rodriguez, better known as A$AP Yams. Yams was one of the original cofounders of the Harlem-based A$AP Mob, a hip hop collective home to, most notably, rappers A$AP...
Another Kind of Currency: Is Visiting the Past Worth the Hassle?
Courtesy of Giant Freakin Robot. Welcome back! It's the spring semester, students are back at college and I'm mourning the loss of my free time, but now it's time for you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the return of Another Kind of Currency. The song that...
Feedback: A Progressive Rock Ghost Story
Courtesy of Progsphere.Progressive rock band the Mars Volta occupy an almost unfillable niche for their fans. For some sweet few years the band's driving forces, guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, created a stream of innovative albums....
The Tough Crowd: The "In The Bin" Challenge
Papa Kelly hangs out at Joe's Record Paradise - Silver Spring.In case you didn't hear, 2014 was a huge year for vinyl. Overall vinyl sales jumped 49%, Jack White sold zillions of copies of his hit record Lazaretto, and the continent's largest pressing plant can't even...
Pop Exodus: The Great Punk Direction Controversy of 2015
Courtesy of Redbubble. The story goes like this: some One Direction fan in some nether region of the Internet decided that they wanted to make bootleg t-shirts of other bands with 1D's name on them. At first, it seemed that everyone was in on the joke: these...
Overlooked by WVAU 2014: Prince – ART OFFICIAL AGE
Courtesy of HipHop-n-more. Let me take you back to Tuesday, September 30, 2014. I woke up from a tumultuous dream and realized the date was one that signified an important birth that will be remembered and celebrated in musical history. You may be...
Overlooked by WVAU 2014: Naomi Punk – Television Man
Courtesy of Captured Tracks. Naomi Punk's sound can be metaphorically compared to Woody Allen's favorite font, Windsor: “Windsor is an unusual design cut by Stephenson Blake in 1905. Windsor is a bold face with heavy rounded serifs and strong diagonal stress”...
Overlooked by WVAU 2014: The War on Drugs – "Under the Pressure"
Courtesy of Stereogum."I hate that beer commercial lead-guitar shit. This next song is called The War on Drugs Can Suck My Fucking Dick.'Û-Mark KozelekFor the rest of us that love lead-guitar shit, groovy '80s drums, echoey keys, and Bruce Springsteen, “Under...