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It‰'s a great week to live in D.C. and have enough money (and time) to go to concerts. If that campus job cash is burning a hole if your pocket, then pick a concert off the list and trade your hard earned cash for sweet sweet tunes. Even if you‰'ve already spent all...

You can tell spring is ready to bloom: The traffic of joggers is beginning to increase on campus, around neighborhoods and along trails. You admire their efforts as they run in circles around you. You might even feel inclined to join in and run or go to the gym. While...

The Virginmarys‰'s new album King of Conflict is the unfiltered embodiment of grunge in a new age. The album, released in the United States Feb. 12, seemingly came out of nowhere, but no one is complaining. The Virginmarys are a relatively underground band from the...

Spanish electro-pop has never sounded so good. Alex Anwandter comes back all the way from Chile, three years later after the sudden break up of his first band, Teleradio Donoso. The emperor of Spanish electro-pop returned with his LP Rebeldes, full of youth, idealism...

After a five-year hiatus from the music world, I have missed JT. Besides hosting SNL, starring in Friends with Benefits, being featured on a few tracks and being present on many of my mix CDs, he has not been a large presence in my life. But, if you haven‰'t heard, JT...

Because I‰'ve been ill (not in the cool, street cred way) these past few days, I‰'ve been listening to Frank Ocean‰'s “Forrest Gump‰” on repeat and excessive amounts of emotional music in general. As a result, this playlist was made as an ode to miserable sick days...

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, leaving people talking a lot about love songs, romantic playlists and other wishy-washy goodness. Now is my turn to analyze one of my favorite love songs, its significance and its performers. “Fly By Night‰” by Loma Prieta is the...

The Coheed and Cambria concert started peacefully. A small mosh pit began to gather as their songs rose in intensity. Suddenly the mosh pit inflated with a mess of rolling and tumbling bodies. I watched as it subsumed each row standing before me. I could not tell if...

The good thing about these articles is that I have to do research for “No Cover‰” on Sunday night instead of Tuesday night. The bad thing about these articles is that I start working on them on Sunday night. That being said, I was pleasantly surprised when I hopped on...

In a world of conglomerated music venues and promotion companies like I.M.P. and Live Nation, 9th & Beats stands alone. The brain child of Sweet Tea and Pumpkin Pie Fest (which featured the WVAU-hosted Shark Week Capital Punishment Showcase) founder Dave Mann and...