We are going to go a little mainstream with the music this week. But this album was just released so it seems appropriate. I am looking at one specific song from the album but you should definitely listen to the entire album as it is fairly well done. I wanted to...
A few weeks ago, on March 24, third-wave ska classic Keasbey Nights celebrated its 20th birthday. It initially served as Catch 22's debut record, as well as only with Tomas Kalnoky as the lead singer. He later went on to become the lead singer and primary songwriter...
Kurt Cobain has been dead for a while now. 24 years to the day to be exact, and since his highly-publicized suicide in 1994 there have been just as many conspiracies as obituaries. Underneath all the loose ends surrounding his death though, one thing is clear in his...
This past month in DC, thousands of young people descended on the Mall for the March for our Lives. Howard University students stormed their financial aid office after half a million dollars was stolen from their student aid funds. In Sacramento, California, hundreds...
Few things are unequivocally true in the world of music, but at least two are heralded as unspoken rules as. One: music is a game of power. Two: power is not meant for the marginalized. The intersections of power and voice allow for non-men and LGBT+ individuals to be...
In which we take a look at the overrated “Runaway” and the underrated “Pinocchio StoryÛ We sure do love confessional songs. Maybe it's the idea of humanizing celebrities—just as paparazzi candids of stars pumping gas allow us to peel away at the lifestyles of the...
WVAU Music Staff reviews new albums each week! Here's what the group has reviewed for the week of March 30. Capital Boogie Ravyn Lenae - Crush EP Raveena - I Won't Mind/Wherever You Go Popish Rhye - Blood AAA (Guitars and such) Frankie Cosmos - Vessel (Sub Pop)...
Upon deciding what to write this week, I became inspired by thinking all of the people i've met at AU. Though American is not the most racially diverse place, it is pretty geographically diverse. I've met people here from Missouri to Hawaii to South Korea, and most...
“Ribs” is from Lorde's debut album, Pure Heroine, and is often overshadowed by the more popular “Royals.” Of course, when a such a song receives a Grammy, it's hard to ignore. Nonetheless, it is a song I find deeply underappreciated because it is a rava avis, a...
We live in harsh times. The weather lies to the weatherman, the mailman bites the dog, a pornstar has more power than the president… yessir, these are strange, harsh times. But! We still have astrology to distract from the cognitive ineptitude plummeting this here...