A blurb about Coo Coo Ca-choo: Post-concert depression: it's a real thing. We all know what it is, how it feels, and how it manifests itself. But why does it happen so frequently? Live music is addictive, and for good reason. It transforms audio into a visual...
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Leading Ladies: Wake Up to Aaradhna’s Music
Courtesy of The Vinyl Bridge One of the great musical discoveries that happened this summer was unearthing the gem that is Treble & Reverb, the 2012 album from New Zealand artist Aaradhna. The album made a big impact in its home country, winning several 2013 New...
Minutia: Why Grimes is Better Than the Velvet Underground
Courtesy of Stereogum. First, let's look at some accolades. Who likes the Velvet Underground? Rolling Stone and Andy Warhol, both of whom are mouthpieces that no one cares about except for dead white people and your dad. Who likes Grimes? Grimes is the future, as she...
Vote for Us at CMJ!
Hello everybody! It’s an exciting time here at WVAU at American University – new faces on campus, wonderful new music coming to us and award season is just around the corner. WVAU has been on the air since 1947 but this is the very first year (that we know...
The Tough Crowd: Fall Children
The Tough Crowd this semester will be an exclusive inside look into the musical beginnings of your fellow American University peers. As music lovers, we all experience the same “firsts” during our foray into becoming music aficionados. So, this semesters...
Feedback: The Importance of Being Metal
A friend and I started to talk on music. We talked on the beauty behind new genres we found. Talks of new music led to old. We came back to a common heritage, a genre we loved and never forgot: Metal. What was the reward in the furious grapple of gravelly voice burned...
The Looking Glass: Simian Mobile Disco’s "Whorl"
Courtesy of DJ Mag Italia If the writing and recording of an album is really an ongoing process, then, it is an event that takes place everywhere. This means that both the moments when the artist writes the lyrical forms and expresses these forms in the confines of...
Leading Ladies: Summer Music Recap
A great big welcome back to the school year! I'm super stoked to continue writing “Leading Ladies” and I hope there are some of you out there that are excited to continue reading it! This week, I just wanted to do a quick recap of some of the music that kept me...
Minutia: Music by Numbers Inherently Sucks
Courtesy of AFP/Getty Images If I had my way, there'd be no more award shows, no more grading according to stars or letters or decimal points, no more best of insert arbitrary timeframe here lists. Intentionally or not, all of these practices cultivate a cancerous...
Guest Post: Sydney Gore on Michael Cera’s "true that"
It's no secret that Michael Cera, one of Canada's finest specimens, was born to do great things. When he first emerged on our screens in Arrested Development in 2003, everyone immediately saw that this kid had pure comedic potential. This week, an album called true...