The time has come! Vote for your top album of 2017 now! Winner announced Friday, January 12th! VOTE HERE
2017 Album of the Year ROUND TWO is here!! The TOP 4 will be sent out January 5th to determine a winner! Vote Now! Choose your Top 4 albums of…
The Greatest Gift, Sufjan Stevens’s new mixtape — consisting of outtakes, remixes, and demos from his 2016 studio album Carrie & Lowell — is equal parts haunting and beautiful.
WRVU has voted to create a list of the top 16 albums of 2017 and from here you can vote to narrow it down to 8. (The next round will…
Spread some holiday cheer with some different seasonal tunes
On Tuesday (Nov. 28), Allan Rayman began the final leg of his Hotel Tour with a sold out show at The High Watt. Within the past two years, the Toronto-based…
Next up for Cranberry Jam we have Nashville’s own Arlie! Formed in 2016 around singer-songwriter Nathaniel Banks and featuring WRVU’s Carson Lystad, Arlie specializes in creating a smooth blend of…
The boys of Snake Cheney are from right here in Nashville, Tennessee. After meeting and starting to play together at MTSU, they’ve quickly found a sound that dubs them the kings of keeping it dreamy.
Hey all you Nash-villains, if you haven’t heard already WRVU is hosting a show at Drkmtter on November 30th at 8pm (Doors at 7pm) and you are all invited! In keeping with tradition, we’re going to countdown the days to the show with some highlights of these local, WRVU favorites playing the show, and first up is: CHICO.
As winter arrives and the days get darker, melancholy music creeps its way back into that special place in our hearts. That place we’ve kept locked away during the summer season of pop anthems and EDM drops. November is well under way, and now is the time that indie-folk and alternative anthems reclaim their space, ruling our winters.
You’re invited to WRVU Nashville’s 2nd Annual Cranberry Jam!! Come on out to Drkmttr on November 30th to this COMPLETELY FREE SHOW to see four of our favorite Nashville bands:…
Last week, I went out on a Tuesday for the first time since freshman year to catch electronic duo Snakehips at Exit/In. The late-night set on November 7th was my second Snakehips show, the first an impulse buy to justify missing their set at Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival 2016. Oliver Lee and James Carter started making music together in 2012, their stage name a reference to Carter’s shimmying dance when he puts on a tight pair of jeans.
This Halloween weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Suwannee Hulaween music and arts festival in Live Oak, Florida. A “feel-good” festival of sorts, the artists were mostly categorized as either jam bands or electronic acts/DJs, with a fair number of hip-hop artists interspersed throughout. Besides the expertly cultivated lineup/musical experience, the three main stages are situated around the ‘Spirit Lake’- a forested area full of art installations, live performances, workshops, and hammock spots with a beautiful Florida lake centerpiece. The inspiration I was able to reap from the weekend was unreal, as festival-goers were decidedly there to kick back, connect with like-minded humans, and express themselves at their fullest.
It’s been twenty-seven years since the formation of the seminal Massachusetts metalcore outfit Converge, and twenty-three years since their first album. When bands this heavy and aggressive stay around for…
In the 1970s, prolific musician, composer, and producer Brian Eno helped to define the budding genre of ambient music. Throughout the decades, Eno has continued to deliver quality experimental music,…
Not many moments in my life have caused me to shake with excitement. In fact, the most recent I can think of is when I got into Vanderbilt with the…
Hey there pilgrims: spooky season has passed, and that means it’s turkey time.
Esketit. Yeezys. YOLO. Twerk. Absolutely none of these phrases, and many more, would’ve made any tidbit of sense 20 years ago. Whether it be Lil Pump, Kanye West, Drake, or multiple other artists, hip hop has begun to encompass more and more of our language, interactions, and views on the world.
All of these songs are must-listens, and as such, you *must* listen to them.
I have a theory for why people don’t listen to albums all the way through. Anthony Fantano recently addressed the ongoing “death of the album” discussion—he argues that albums have in fact saturated the market, but people rarely listen to them cover to cover because they rely too much on the strength of their singles or repeat monotonous formulas song by song. Nevertheless, artists still need more than singles to support tours, and labels ultimately can’t decide which song ends up a hit—so the album persists.
Despite some wonderful hedonic highlight tracks, Super Slimey runs into the same issue many projects by prolific trap rappers suffer from: a lack of time and effort. It’s still enjoyable.