Courtesy of Truly Gadgets It's almost clichÌ© at this point to say that music “does things” to you. We all know it can affect one's mood, often independent of the lyrical subject matter that may or may not be present. And it goes without saying that there...
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Weekend Watch: Reviews from the Week of 10/16
Grimes Art Angels (4AD) By Max Gowan Appealing, Heavily-Produced Pop A few years ago I saw a Nardwuar interview with Claire Boucher where she claimed that Mariah Carey was her favorite artist in the world. This statement seemed surprising coming from the dark,...
Dancing with the Stars
Lately I've been coming to terms with my guilty pleasures and proudly admitting my love for them (ie Twilight, Justin Bieber), and right now I'll just come out and say that I'm pretty obsessed with astrology. It's really fun to read into people's personalities...
What do you get when you mix jazz, funk, pop and latin beats? Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux
Courtesy of HKW “Les Ambassadeurs” is a jazzy, afro-pop funk group from Mali, headed by Mali music legend Salif Keita. The group fled Mali during the 70s in order to escape political unrest, heading to Ivory Coast, and later to Paris in the 80s. It was after this...
Interviews: Sun Club
Sun Club is an experimental indie pop project based out of Baltimore Maryland, and has received a lot of hype over the past few weeks from the release of their first full length album The Dongo Durango. WVAU DJ and music staffer Matt Reise got to meet with band...
Re-envisioning Solidarity
In the wake of a tumultuous, tragedy-filled week, a word, well maybe more of a concept, has been flowing through my mind and surely the minds of others: Solidarity. Solidarity has been said so frequently in response to violent racism on college campuses and terrorist...
Musicians don’t always need to be the voice of a generation
Writers block. It's a hard thing to overcome. It's quite strange, actually. There is so much to talk about in regards to protest—especially now in regards to the events at Mizzou, Yale, and the scores of other college campuses across the country. I could write about...
Weekend Watch: Reviews from the Week of 11/9
Carroll ÛÒ Carroll (Entertainment One) By Matt Reise Passively Trippy Indie Rock To Take a Bath To Four Minnesota sad boys formed Carroll to release their feels in the form of trippy indie rock, which their first full-length album Carroll does flawlessly. The sound...
For The Girls About To Rock
Courtesy of Huffington Post This week we look past the modern musical mistakes of my childhood, and investigate a little bit of classic rock. When I was in middle school, my friend group was inexplicably and obsessively obsessed with the movie School Of Rock. If we...
Listens of the Week: BreakBot & LXURY
BreakBot I'd like to write about the electronic funk producer BreakBot, who, in 2009 got signed to Ed Banger Records. This 34-year-old French DJ adds a distorted aspect to classic funk music, and makes it feel current by using syncopation, and digital crunchiness....