Artwork by Luke Palermo Written on the cusp of adulthood by Isaac Brock, “Trailer Trash” shows an emotional wisdom well beyond the Modest Mouse frontman's years. Equal parts post-wrongdoing self-reflection and memoir of lower-middle class American living, the...
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WVAU Fall Open Mic: Part II
Join the best "student-run, online-only" radio station in the country for our second Open Mic of the fall semester! WVAU Open Mic Night returns to Battelle Atrium for a night of music, poetry, rapping, reading, and whatever else you want to perform. WVAU is a safe...
Why Snoop Dogg Should be A Feminist
If you know me, you know I love Snoop Dogg. I'm also a women's rights activist. The difficulty of this situation is most likely already apparent. What happens when our favorite artists have views we would never condone? "Can U Control Yo Hoe?" I've rapped every...
On The Talking Heads
Courtesy of retrorebirth.wordpress.com This week I'm continuing the theme of albums that your parents probably listened to in the 70's (if they were cool). That's because Talking Heads: 77 is a seriously cool album. David Byrne is one of those singers who goes 100% on...
RAC @ 9:30 Club on 11/10
Courtesy of 9:30 Club On November 10th the 9:30 Club will be rocked with the sound of the diverse world of electronic music with RAC, Big Data, Filous and Pink Feathers. Originally Andr̩ Allen Anjos started the Remix Artist Collective, or RAC as a group of...
All Time Low @ Echostage on 11/16
Rockstar Energy Drink Presents “Back To The Future Hearts Tour” featuring All Time Low, Sleeping With Sirens and Neck Deep on November 16th at Echostage DC! Formed in 2003 outside of Baltimore, Maryland, All Time Low started out as a high-school cover band before...
Dale Earnhardt JR JR @ 9:30 Club on 11/6
JR JR, also known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., is an indie-pop band from Detroit, Michigan, consisting of Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein. They met each other while playing in other Detroit music projects eventually branching off and creating their own sound in 2009....
Weekend Watch: Reviews from the Week of 10/26
Neon Indian ÛÒ VEGA INTL. Night School (Mom + Pop) By Matt Reise Glitzy, Syrupy Electronic Dance Perfection I have been waiting four long, tiresome years for Neon Indian's third record VEGA INTL. Night School to grace my ears. And damn, waiting made the reunion so...
Why You Should Ask to Borrow Your Dad’s Record Player: A Review of “Madvillainy” by Madvillain
Courtesy of Genius Mad Lib and MF DOOM created one of the best albums of the 2000s in 2004. Madvillainy by Madvillain, the duo's alias, is an album that created such a unique sound that it changed the way that mainstream America saw rap. The New Yorker, a notoriously...
An Analysis of Wave Racer
Artist production I'd like to analyze today is the artist “Wave RacerÛ. A 21-year old artist from Sydney Australia, Thomas Purcell or Wave Racer, uses a blend of 90s gaming synthesizers to add a sense of brightness to his music. The production consists of a...