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For WVAU’s spring concert, we’re teaming up with SUB to present Chance the Rapper on April 10 in Bender Arena. Tickets and a 1 are free with ID for AU students. Chance is a favorite at the station: his excellent 2013 debut Acid Rap landed at #8 in our Top...

If you’re no music nerd, but want to impress that cute “Hipster‰” girl or guy in class with your taste in music, look no further than the Internet. Priceonomics.com, a polling and research website has created what it believes to be a formula to determine whether...

I don‰'t usually like to place the word “favorite‰” on any musician, any album, or any song. “Favorite‰” is too strong of a word for the vast quantities of great music that exists in the world. However, I am willing to make an exception for one particular song. The...

What’s up DJs?! One more week ‘till we can party again with James Franco. Someone say “Springggg Breaaaak!” ? While you’re counting down, check out these sweet new adds to the rack: silver goddess St. Vincent, finally some more rap with...

A scene from the music video for Lykke Li’s new song, “Love Me Like I’m Not Made of Stone”. Her new album, I Never Learn will be released in North America on May 6. The first time I heard a Lykke Li song was when I was in Australia, scrolling...

DC’s ethereal slow-mo pop purveyors Cigarette stopped by our studio for an enchanting set filled with new material and songs off of 2013’s ‘gush’. Based out of DC, Cigarette have already achieved a sound distinctly their own. With hushed...

Yesterday‰'s jet-grey, somber rain was the perfect setting for this album, my little brother‰'s Rainy Day pick. Last week‰'s album (Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol) painted a picture of urban depression in big-budget sonic glory. Elliott Smith‰'s self-titled...

Despite the band‰'s screwball titling, this closing track to their 2013 release Bad History Month reeks of existential, universal agony. The song opens with warm synthetic distortion and a meandering guitar, gradually transforming its single note melodies into chords....

Spotify is a great tool to discover music. Enter a musician‰'s name, search related artists, and within seconds you find yourself grooving to new beats. That was what happened when one fine day at work, when I was searching for something fresh with a good tempo for a...