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Daylight Savings Time and the Bedroom

November 13, 2016 Nafula (Precious) Kato

Daylight savings time did something to us. Now we wake up… and it’s dark. We go in buildings for the whole day. Then when we walk home it’s dark again. With light only available for a few hours now, it’s easy to slip into playlists that sound well, melancholic. Though the trees are changing colors, their leaves are still falling and dying off. We’re in this place where we need to accept the changes in the day and slowly dive into this new dark lifestyle. The best artist to help us through this is Bedroom, also known as Noah Kittinger.

FIDLAR Concert Turns Into an Anti-Trump Riot

November 9, 2016 Karina Schechter

Also, there was a lot of sweat.

Altering Tracks: A Perspective

November 7, 2016 Bryce Beddard

Originally, this blog post was going to be a review of Tinashe’s newly released commercial mixtape Nightride. While I quite like the mixtape, something so atrocious happened during its production that it entirely consumed the contents of this post.

Young Thug was removed from “Party Favors”.

Nashville Gem: Fela Soul

October 26, 2016 Charles Koepp

In the world of hip-hop, producer mashups are hardly rare. Danger Mouse first made a name for himself in 2004 with The Grey Album, which combined the verses of Jay-Z’s The Black Album with the instrumentals of The Beatles’ The White Album. Tom Caruana did the same with Magical Mystery Tour and Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), deeming it Enter the Magical Mystery Chambers. And the subgenre of plunderphonics revolves around the overlaying of samples over hip-hop verses, leading to classics like Girl Talk’s Night Ripper.

Let Me Launch You Into Your Best Weekend

October 23, 2016 Nafula (Precious) Kato

The weekend is finally here and 5pm is coming faster than ever. Assignments have been turned in. Lunch has never tasted better. Classes are done. Work is finished. And you have plans tonight. Finally, you have plans tonight.

My Current Favorite Artist: WALLA

October 11, 2016 Alyssa Rosenbaum

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Until about three weeks ago, I refused to give in to the Spotify craze. While all my friends were raving about how amazing Spotify was, my stubborn self kept responding by saying how good ol’ iTunes was just fine for me. One day, I was browsing through my computer and stumbled upon the Spotify app that I had downloaded months back and decided to open it. After an hour of scrolling through different artists and playlists, I realized it was time to make the switch. I purchased Spotify premium and haven’t looked back since.

Who is HANA?

October 10, 2016 Bryce Beddard

Opening acts live in a complicated space. In most cases, they’re small acts the crowd doesn’t know just trying to get their name out there. More times than not, they’re almost completely forgotten by the time the main act has taken the stage.

HANA was not one of these opening acts.

Albums That Don’t Suck As Much As I Once Thought

October 8, 2016 Karina Schechter

While on a music-deletion rampage sometime last week, I realized that a lot of the albums I ~~downloaded~~ legally purchased ages ago only had roughly 2 or 3 songs on them that I recognized/ever listened to. I gave some of these albums that I originally didn’t like more of a chance to woo me, and on most accounts I was pleasantly surprised.

The Healing Component Sees Mick Jenkins at His Most Ambitious

October 8, 2016 Charles Koepp

Mick Jenkins, the 25 year-old Chicago rapper, has finally done it — just a week ago, after almost a half-dozen mixtapes and EPs going back to 2012, his debut album, The Healing Component, was released by Cinematic Music Group. It’s a record that channels the youth and vigor of modern Chicago rap in the best possible way.

St. Lucia Kicks Off Their Fall Tour In Nashville

September 27, 2016 Alyssa Rosenbaum

Last Friday, I got the opportunity to see my favorite band, St. Lucia, perform for the third time. When I say favorite band, I mean more along the lines of obsession, so this concert was something that I had been waiting for since the last time that I saw them in November 2014. I saw them open for Foster the People in 2013, and something about their tropical, 80’s-like vibes just got to me, and I fell in love with their colorful, vibrant music.

Joey Bada$$ and ScHoolboy Q Take Nashville

September 27, 2016 Charles Koepp

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Riding fresh off the success of his Blank Face LP, published just two months ago, Top Dawg Entertainment heavy hitter Schoolboy Q played to an absolutely packed Marathon Music Works last night, with Pro Era poster boy Joey Badass opening. Bucket hats abound.

Keaton Henson’s Kindly Now

September 22, 2016 Karina Schechter

Well folks, he’s done it again: Keaton Henson has released an album somehow more depressing than his last….. but, like, in a good way.

WRVU Unplugged: Heena Koona

September 22, 2016 Gracie Gonzalez

Two nights ago I’m sitting at my desk, dead eyed, and I open innumerable Chrome tabs in avoidance of my paper that’s due the next day. I decide to refresh my Vanderbilt gmail inbox for the sixth time, something that traditionally needs to be done after I scroll through my entire Facebook feed. It turns out that neither of the two WRVU DJs I’ve reached out to earlier in the day is able to meet up this week for an interview. I get it. It’s a busy week and I only gave them a few days to clear their schedules for me.

So I think in my head, “What if I interview myself?”

Bonnaroo Experiences

July 6, 2016 Linzy Scott

By Linzy Scott This year’s Bonnaroo was my first time ever going, so it’s safe to say that I had no idea what to expect and no standards to measure…

“The Wilderness” is Explosions in the Sky’s Newest Musical Journey

April 13, 2016 Jordan Nunnelee

Post-rock quartet Explosions in the Sky released their seventh studio album, “The Wilderness” early this April. As a fan and avid listener of their early material, I was skeptical that the group could deliver as engaging and original music as “Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever” or ”The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place.” Their soundtrack material in the interim, such as “Friday Night Lights,” and also tracks off of “All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone,” begin to sound cookie-cutter in their almost melodrama, due only by the group’s early masterful sound.

The Summer Set album that almost didn’t exist: Stories For Monday

April 12, 2016 Breanna Tuck

Stories for Monday is known as The Summer Set album that almost didn’t happen. It had been three years since the band released anything, though the band tried to remain active with the occasional tour during that time. Still, there were a lot of questions about whether or not the band had met its end.

The Birdy is the Wordy: Birdy Releases Third Album “Beautiful Lies”

April 2, 2016 Madeline Goetz

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British indie singer Birdy released her third album last week. Beautiful Lies features her January single “Keeping Your Head Up,” and follows The Fire Within and her self-titled debut album Birdy.

A Musical Comeback: Vinyls Earn More Than Free Streaming

March 27, 2016 Breanna Tuck

It would appear that vinyls are not nearly as old fashioned as my grandfather would have me believe. Earlier this week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released the statistics from the past year and the sale of vinyls for 2015 was the highest it has been since 1988. The sales brought in a total of $416 million, a small fraction of the $7 billion the entire industry brings in. However, what’s notable is that vinyls, the old men of the music world, surpassed free streaming, which only made $385.1 million last year.

Making Long Car Rides Bearable

March 22, 2016 Stanley Chu

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I just got back from a spring break road trip from Nashville to the Grand Canyon, which included way too much sitting in my friend’s car. Whether it was driving for hours and hours on endless country roads or sitting in the passenger seat while traveling across the entirety of Kansas, road trip songs definitely kept me sane. The following playlist was one of the many I made for the 48 hour drive there and back, and I used songs by ODESZA only.

WRVU, Bonnaroo, and You

March 4, 2016 Julia Anderson

WRVU, Bonnaroo, and You: Three great things that are coming together for one big contest. Starting March 21 you will have the chance to win two tickets to the Bonnaroo…

Revisiting The Decemberists’ “What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World”

March 3, 2016 Jamie Stoike

Driving back to Nashville from Lafayette, Indiana this weekend, I decided to revisit the Decemberists’ entire discography on the way down, to listen to each record and then to rank them in a hierarchy. The result was a list ordered as such:

Picaresque (2005)
Castaways and Cutouts (2002)
The Hazards of Love (2009)
The King is Dead (2011)
The Crane Wife (2006)
Her Majesty the Decemberists (2003)
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (2015)

You may notice that their most recent release, What a Terrible World, is at the bottom. What you can’t see is how strikingly large the gap between albums six and seven actually is. Make no mistake — WATW is still a decent album by any standard. But it does stand as the Decemberists’ biggest disappointment, especially given the bands remarkable consistency and excellence. I want to reexamine What a Terrible World a year after its release, unpack its problems, and see if they can be fixed.

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