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Sharon Van Etten – Tramp We can thank heartbreak for an endless wealth of classic albums‰ÛÓ Blue, On the Beach, Funeral, For Emma. But rarely has an album inhabited heartbreak so well that it universalized it. And rarely has one succeeded with such fire and passion as...

Regents – Antietam After Party 2012, thankfully, was a year full of quality punk albums, and post-hardcore supergroup Regents capped it off with one of the year‰'s hardest releases, Antietam After Party. Made up of veterans of the fertile D.C.-and-Virginia hardcore...

Lambchop  Mr. M Is it really any surprise that Lambchop has ended up on a list of overlooked records? After all, Mr. M sounds like some bizarre collaboration between Burt Bacharach and your piss-drunk uncle who claims to have invented the earmuffs. Overlooked, indeed....

As part of la nouvelle rock sc̬ne fran̤aise (“the new French rock scene”), BB Brunes formed in 2005, joining the ranks of what the French media called Les BÌ©bÌ©s Rockers (“Baby Rockers”), marked by their youth, good looks and post-punk influence. Lead singer Adrien...

If you wanted to dive into the world of K-Pop and were turned off by PSY‰'s atrocious foray into the music industry (please do not even try to defend “Gangnam Style”), give it a second chance and start off with BIGBANG. While the rest of the world was slowly warming...

I was first drawn to the music of Oddisee through his uniquely focused album, Traveling Man. This D.C. artist hopes to explain the world through his music, labeling the tracks in this album after different cites he visited while on the road. Oddisee describes his...

Hailing from sunny Mexico City, Hello Seahorse! (exclamation point always included) reminds us how globalized this world has become. Images of mariachi bands and suave Spanish guitars have been replaced by a new generation of young musicians with more international...

Name of show:åÊSeventh Inning Stretch, Mondays 12-2 p.m.! (Like and follow me on Facebook!) Three words to describe your show:åÊVaried, rambling and cheerful. What can we expect to hear on your show? Sort of like alternative rock like The Black Keys and The Arctic...

Happy Holidays from WVAU! This year went by so quickly — and there’s still so much to be thankful for. Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone and folks are heading home for winter break, the WVAU staff wanted to share that overwhelming feeling of thankfulness that...

For WVAU’s FREE YEAR-END SHOW, we’re hosting a warped beats-frenzied tripleheader with D.C. acts Heavy Breathing and Misun and AU’s own DJ BCKWTR on Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Kay Basement. After all, this is WVAU’s last Capital Punishment before the Mayan...