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I‰'m going to be doing something slightly different for this week‰'s column. No, don‰'t worry, I‰'m not completely changing my column or anything, but this week, instead of looking for the meanings behind the lyrics as you would in an English class, but instead as you...

AU is all about politics. WVAU is all about music. This week's The Tough Crowd interview combines both, plus it includes my personal love of punk. Everyone knows punk and politics go hand in hand but how does one get involved with the political side of punk? Kristen...

Courtesy of Last.fm. One could think that the only things that would come out of Versailles are Rococo paintings, bourgeois aspirations and gruesome French Revolution memories. Nevertheless, by some chance in life, two tr̬s tr̬s beau hommes have embodied the royal...

Courtesy of Clash Music. The Great Gatsby is a lurid story, one read over and over in English classes in the USA, but despite its repute it belongs to a different time. The movie version tries to modernize the story by changing up some details, but also through music....

I‰'m choosing to write about “Check It Out‰” because it is such a Pop song; a co-writing feature from Pop Legend will.i.am., focus on a sugary beat, heavy on the auto-tune, light on the rapping (though the rapping that‰'s still on the track is as aggressive as ever)....

Courtesy of The Urban Daily. Congratulations, everyone. Midterms are finally over! In keeping with the excitement of this time of the semester, I thought I would give you all some music to help you celebrate. In the 1970s, the American music television show, Soul...

If you‰'re reading this column, then you‰'re most likely aware of the current Ebola crisis. This virus has seemingly created a virus of its own in its spread over all outlets of media, from the tweets of overdramatic teens claiming their common cold is a new strain of...

When I say talking, I also mean writing, sharing, seeing shows, really anything you can do in the company of others with music. Don‰'t get me wrong, I still enjoy the art as much as ever, but the culture surrounding it is largely counterproductive bullshit. I‰'m sick...

It is a common trope in music, especially in music popular with many Millennials, to include lyrics about wishing to get away from home, and those lyrics seem to resonate very well with many people who live in towns like where I grew up: Johnstown, Pennsylvania (Where...

Moving to a new place is hard. Moving to a new music scene is even harder. This is especially so in punk. Punk kids like to hide, keep things DIY and typically lurk in the underbelly of big cities. Finding your first few shows with no connections can certainly be a...