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Courtesy of Young God Records.It seems that many of the year's most memorable stories in the musical world had near-nothing to do with music. From celebrity romances to meme-ready remixes, the experience of sitting down and listening to an album in its entirety seems...

Courtesy of Posh Isolation. The referent ‰post-industrialism‰' defines a situation within music that has disavowed all contingencies of the past, while facilitating a condition of the present, as necessarily confrontational to the present culture. This style is...

Courtesy of Quarterbacks' Bandcamp. Quarterbacks, one of New York's most underrated indie rock bands, released a very overlooked record in 2014. Granted, the Quarterboy cassette was quietly released on Double Double Whammy at the end of July, with little of the...

Courtesy of Innovative Leisure. In 2010 three students at Humber College in Toronto decided to forsake degrees and education to pursue fusion jazz. Matthew Tavares, Chester Hansen and Alexander Sowinski met in the university‰'s jazz program, bonding...

Thanks to the Miami Herald for this image. Happy New Year, Pitbull! Hello, people of 2015! If you're too pressed for time to open thirty different pages to see how our 2014 year-end lists turned out, here's a quick, compact reference for you! We've included...

Brooklyn-based Future Punx stopped by the WVAU studio to play a few songs off their latest EP, I‰'m So Inspired. Get an earful of the rich post-wave sounds and be sure to download their complete discography on Bandcamp. Here's their EP on Bandcamp. I'm So...

Rock musician  Strand of Oaks, otherwise known as Timothy Showalter, stopped by WVAU on his way to DC9 during his tour with Christopher Denny back in September. He played songs from his latest album, Heal, and a track from his debut album. Listen to his in-studio...

Ruby Fray stopped by the WVAU studio to talk “would you rather‰” before a show at Comet Ping Pong. Check out the new album Crackle, and preview standout tracks “Barabara‰” and “Photograph‰” off the record. Listen to their in-studio performance: Check out their ...

Courtesy of NPR. In step with many of the best bands of today, Two Inch Astronaut take their already immaculate sound and find ways to push it further and further into greatness. The songs on their latest record  Foulbrood are filled with immediately...

Courtesy of Tumblr. RIP the Haunted Graffiti. It‰'s sad to accept, but Ariel Rosenberg‰'s decade long project, Ariel Pink‰'s Haunted Graffiti, takes a tiny hiatus for his new solo album, pom pom. Ariel Pink‰'s Haunted Graffiti gave us great party/karaoke classics like...