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Porque no los Dos: Diego Torres

Apr 6, 2015 |

Courtesy of BBC Mundo. Too often I bump into 12-year-olds rapping about sex, money and cars as they play catch with their friends and drag an oversized backpack on one hand and a soda on the other. The juxtaposition of this reoccurring event has me wondering what...

Pop Exodus: Let’s Play "Pop or Not?"

Apr 6, 2015 |

Courtesy of Mobile Music. Categories are fun, but they‰'re the most fun when you can use your own powers of persuasion to make up totally arbitrary reasons for why certain things belong in categories. Thus, my friends and I have created the "Pop or Not?"...

Live in the Hive: Juan Wauters

Apr 4, 2015 |

  Photo by Andrea PantingDespite the snowy weather, Juan Wauters stopped by the WVAU studio the morning after his show at Comet Ping Pong in February. He played some new tracks off of his upcoming album, Who Me? Check out "Woodside, Queens" below:  And...

The Current: Space Jam

Apr 3, 2015 |

Scott Kelly arrived at the International Space Station yesterday and will be the first American to make a yearlong trip to space. This will be the longest journey NASA has taken part in. 365 days and only 230 miles away. In fact, it‰'s a quicker flight from...

Keep Ya Head Up: Three Women to Watch in Hip Hop

Apr 2, 2015 |

   Hip hop has always been a predominantly male art form, especially at its top tier. The more recognized and mainstream hip hop artists get, the fewer the number of female rappers there are. Indeed it seems at any given time only one or two female rappers...

WVAU Presents: Lindsay Zoladz of Pitchfork

Apr 1, 2015 |

WVAU is thrilled to present Lindsay Zoladz, associate editor at Pitchfork and former WVAU General Manager.Join us for a discussion with Lindsay about music journalism and criticism, careers and the industry, her take-aways from college radio, her experience working at...

WVAU Presents: Ron Ross of Sirius XM

Apr 1, 2015 |

Radio outside of the college sphere is alive and well. Come hear about the business of music and radio as WVAU presents Ron Ross of Sirius XM.Ross is a radio personality on The Pule, Sirius XM's channel devoted to music from the late 2000s to today. Ross works on...