The WRMC executive board presents their favorite tracks, albums, artists, and/or music videos of the week, old and new, but mostly new. TRACK: Big Freedia – “Explode” This video explains everything you need to know about Big Freedia. She’s not about silly things like strict gender roles or soft instrumentation, she’s about making you turn up so… Read More
With Ron Liebowitz departing our dear college following this academic year, it is widely acknowledged the school will face a staggering drop in twerking. Fear not, Middleburians, for we have just announced that Big Freedia, world record-holding twerker, Queen of Bounce and transcendent being of light will be headlining our annual fall concert, Grooveyard, on Friday, November 7 in the Bunker. Big Freedia is… Read More
Consistency is key, says the new indie-n proverb I decided was true for the sake of this write up. A well-crafted, unique sound is any musician’s best friend; experimentation is the double-edged résumé-stuffer that critics crave (nay, demand!) but only when done right. Change too little and you’ll become boring and cantankerous. Change too much… Read More
The WRMC executive board presents their favorite tracks, albums, artists, and/or music videos of the week, old and new, but mostly new. TRACK: Tei Shi – “Bassically” Nothing indicates a genuine up-and-comer more than an artist playing a dutiful slew of shows at the annual CMJ festival, and this year the recently signed Tei Shi (Valerie Teicher),… Read More
Wampire’s second album, Bazaar, released October 7th, is all we could hope for and more. The group takes the dancey, synth-psych sound of Curiosity, their first album, and pumps even more energy and innovation into it. From beginning to end, it’s delightful. Various styles are incorporated, from dance, to punk in “Sticking Out,” and even… Read More
The WRMC executive board presents their favorite tracks, albums, artists, and/or music videos of the week, old and new, but mostly new. TRACK: Run the Jewels – “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry” Barring the fact that it has run rampant underground for the better part of a decade, industrial-inspired house-tinged rap has blown up these past few years on… Read More
The WRMC executive board presents their favorite tracks, albums, artists, and/or music videos of the week, old and new, but mostly new. ALBUM: Aphex Twin – Syro (2014) Label: Warp // Genre: Electronic Mr. Twin – no, sorry, Mr. James’s first record under the Aphex Twin moniker in 13 years! Holy cow. Anyway, given the nature of this album, that it… Read More
The WRMC executive board presents their favorite tracks, albums, artists, and/or music videos of the week, old and new, but mostly new. TRACK: Mr. Twin Sister – “Blush” The Long Island dream-pop band Mr Twin Sister (formerly known as Twin Sister, androgyny win) just released an eponymous full length LP. The music is equal parts lovely, dancey,… Read More
This Thursday at 8 pm all Middlebury music lovers and radioheads alike are invited to convene in McCullough Social Space for the biannual WRMC All DJ Meeting. This meeting is a must for anyone and everyone interested in having a radio show for the fall semester. WAIT…MIDDLEBURY HAS A RADIO STATION? Yes. Since 1949. WHAT! WHERE?… Read More
So we have reached it. The final post. What follows are four of the most innovative and exciting albums I’ve heard, period. They bode well for a future that is sure to hold its share of incredible music yet to come, music that I will likely be raising my own children on. That being said,… Read More
Thumbs up if you’re here because of Mac Demarco A slacker sweetheart in his songs and a grimy goofball on stage, the 23 year-old Mac DeMarco is hard to dislike. Within the first lines of his latest album, Salad Days, DeMarco carelessly throws around the idea of mortality as as one might discard a dirty sock; “rolling through life,… Read More
