Niche that stars are made of. Ryan Hemsworth stands, deliberately, as a counterpoint to popular club oriented style of electronic music, choosing to go intimate where others may go big, discreet where others go massive, and charming where others go intimidating. While...
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Leading Ladies: Dance and Feel Good!
British singer Moko shows us how to get down. (Courtesy of DJ Semtex.) Finals are nearing, deadlines are looming and your life force is steadily dwindling to zero. You want to go to the gym but that's too much effort and going outside now would leave you as a...
The Tough Crowd: Beagle Edition
Courtesy of Bunk Blog. If you have spent any amount of time aimlessly wandering around campus for something to do, you've probably come across a copy of The Beagle. In case you haven't had the pleasure of finding this gem, its American's premier (and unofficial)...
Another Kind of Currency: The Wordplay in "Dog Problems"
Courtesy of It's a Fabulous Life. One of the many things I owe my older brother for would be introducing of me to some of the music that has become my personal favorite to this day. Most of it happened when he was in high school and I, being five years his junior, in...
Feedback | The Anaconda in the Room: How Nicki Minaj Fuses Style & Substance
Oh man have I learned to love Nicki Minaj. Pop never sunk its hooks deep into my musical sensibilities, but I cannot resist a lightning rod like Nicki Minaj. Convinced by boredom and an odd itch, I tried to quantify the raw rage over Nicki Minaj. I did so by...
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Haven't you always dreamed of SUBMITTING WORK TO THE WVAU ZINE? Well now you CAN! Read the details below and submit! Submissions are open to ALL AU students. Submission guidelines: SUBMISSIONS ARE TO BE EMAILED TO WVAUART@GMAIL.COM BY 11:59 ON NOVEMBER 23 Due to...
The Looking Glass: Les Sins, "Michael"
Courtesy of Last.fm.What is at stake in the latest album put forth by Chaz Bundick ÛÒ under the alias Les Sins å_ÛÒ is no doubt the collective future of the entire genre of chillwave; musician, and album alike. The aesthetic scene we are confronted with in...
Pop Exodus: An Open Letter to Roger Daltrey
Courtesy of We Know Memes. Hey Roger, how's life? Congrats on the release of your new album (even though it's just a glorified Greatest Hits Record). Now, don't get me wrong, I love you and the rest of The Who as much as the next college student but I have...
The Current: Laughing with Tyler, the Creator and Remembering Elliott Smith
The form of documentaries about musicians is changing. The days of just performance footage are long past, due to the ability of viewers to access clips of concerts on their own all over the internet. Now, it is crucial for these documentaries to show a side of the...
Coo Coo Cachoo: The Music of "Nowhere Boy"
Courtesy of IMDB. Not very many people know the story behind the Beatles, the famous British group that changed the course of rock & roll forever. I didn't either until I saw the film Nowhere Boy, the story of young John Lennon and the formation of his...
