Courtesy of True Endeavors. In case you missed it, the Antlers will be performing at American University as part of WVAU's semesterly Capitol Punishment series. The Antlers were last in D.C. during 2014, playing at the 9:30 Club, and they will be back...
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Keep Ya Head Up: Chance the Rapper Socially Experiments
Courtesy of Consequence of Sound.Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment released the video for their song “Sunday Candy" this past Sunday, appropriately. The single is the first off the group's much anticipated album Surf, set to be released...
Live in the Hive: Craft Spells
Craft Spells stopped by our studio recently and turned the lights down nice and low for their mellow sound. We recommend you do the same, so dim those lights, sit back, and listen to the five-piece perform tracks off of their latest release, Nausea....
Feedback: Are Music Reviews Meaningless?
Courtesy of p4k.In the middle of March Modest Mouse released their newest album, Strangers To Ourselves, after a long break. The hype mounted up something immense and the album quickly became beyond anticipated. When it broke so did some expectations. Pitchfork...
WVAU Spring Prom
On April 24, we're excited to present WVAU PROM, a night of student DJ sets and a celebration of our community. If you missed out on Founder's Day, have no fear: WVAU Prom is here. Want to dance? Want to take fun photos with your friends Want to start those...
Zen Palette: An Exclusive Interview with Moving Castle
You'll always be able to find the squad lingering in the WVAU studio now with a can of QT. If you listen to my Sunday radio show Smoove Grooves, you might find that at least one song I play is usually from an artist that's part of the Internet-based,...
Live in the Hive: Quarterbacks
A few months back, Dean Engle of QUARTERBACKS dropped by the WVAU studio for a private session before the release of the band's debut self-titled album. In-between an intimate acoustic performance, Engle sat down with us and talked in detail about piecing the...
Joel Michael Howard, "Love as First Response" (Ernest Jenning)
A Journey from upbeat love to depressing heartbreak The organ, the quick strums of the guitar, and the keys. The instrumentation of Love as First Response sounds more like a 70s funk band than any indie band or artist that Joel Michael Howard has been opening for....
Weed, "Running Back" (Lefse)
“Dream-grungeÛTerrorbird Radio described Weed's sound as “dream-grunge,Ûand I think that's very accurate. There's a lot in their music that speaks to the dark, cold climate of the Pacific Northwest (I think, although I've never lived there) while drawing...
Nadine Shah, "Fast Food" (R&S/Apollo)
Can't fit this girl in a box!Fast Food opens with a very western, sort of galloping sound that makes a listener believe that we're about to go on a tour of the wild, wild west. But fear not (or lament depending on what you like, idk)! Shah, instead, paints a very...