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For WVAU.org’s newest feature, we quizzed DJs about their shows, their most embarrassing on-air moments, their favorite 8th grade tunes, and everything in between. First up is Luisa Armijo, the host of Chido Cheverisimo with with Ana Sabalvarro on Mondays from...

Haaaaaaaay Justin, Too much, I know. Allow me to try again, Dearest Mr. Timberlake, We can all agree that 2011 was a pretty great year for you. You were still riding the hype-waves from “The Social Network‰” through awards season. Your name made top-billing on two...

Join Electric Factory with Louise Brask today from 6pm-8pm for an exclusive DJ set with Chris Nitti (Lost & Sound, D.C.) Nitti is a rising local DJ who is slated to open for Ewan Pearson 2/22 at U Street Music Hall next week. He is a resident DJ at DC’s very...

Poli̤a- Give You The Ghost I‰'d call it post-rock, but somebody sings. I‰'d call it R&B, but it‰'s got too much drumming. I‰'d say it‰'s Bon Iver, but the singer is a girl. And yeah, she sounds a lot like Justin Vernon, probably because Poli̤a (pronounced...

Royal Baths are nothing if not unconventional. Their live performances are unpredictable and spontaneous, with very clear disregard for how things are supposed to be done. Their drummer sits atop what is, apparently, a small tall wooden side-table, and there is not a...

Neil Young has spent almost half a century compiling a catalog that is nothing less than extraordinary. It’s difficult to explain exactly what is so extraordinary about his music without blatantly contradicting myself: it’s straightforward, yet imbued with...

I have been in love very few times in my life. It is odd to say a few times because every happily married couple I have met (only one and they are my grandparents) has said they have only been in love once and that‰'s only if you‰'re lucky. To them the mere thought of...

Dr. Dog – Be The Void Let‰'s be clear, Dr. Dog aren‰'t reinventing the wheel here. Their latest release follows the same psychedelic, ’60s-style rock radio as their previous releases. It might seem easy for this band to grow tedious by their seventh...

This Friday, December 10 at 8:30 p.m, WVAU is hosting the semester’s first Capital Punishment, featuring three of WVAU’s finest student bands for one night in Kay Basement. Headlining is the Neologians, the afro-funk legionnaires who we first saw last...

Winter break is over, and all we have to show for it is a stack of books to read, memories of sleep, and stale Christmas cookies. This depressing state of affairs led me to listen to almost exclusively slow, quiet Paul Simon songs. Fortunately, there are only so many...