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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...

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?"...

  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...

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...

   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...

Sick poster by our art director Eli Fosl!This Thursday, WVAU is hosting a listening party for SBTRKT's sophomore album, _Wonder Where We Land_. The new record features Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, A$AP Ferg, and Jessie Ware among others. The event is free to the...

WVAU's next Open Mic Night will be this Friday, October 28th at 5pm (note the early time) in the SIS Atrium. The Davenport Coffee Lounge will be open late for this event and will be serving coffee, chai and other caffeinated treats until 7pm.Since Halloween is right...

A Discussion With Jared Rizzi, SiriusXM White House Correspondent, Presented in Collaboration with WVAU ATV Thursday, November 14, 8 p.m., EQB 200Radio may be the last place you can have an entry-level job where you belly-laugh for a living, where shoestring budgets...

For WVAU's spring concert, we're teaming up with SUB to present Chance the Rapper on April 10th in Bender Arena. Tickets and a 1 are free with ID for AU students.Chance is a favorite at the station: his excellent 2013 debut _Acid Rap_ landed at "#8 in our Top Music of...

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...