In the Burlington, VT area tonight? You’re in luck — South Burlington’s Palace 9 Cinemas is one of the  theatres across the nation that’s been selected to show the brand-new LCD Soundsystem concert documentary Shut Up And Play The Hits. The film chronicles the band’s epic final show in Madison Square Garden, NYC, interspersed with… Read More

In June, SoCal-based sometime-outsider-artist, occasional political theory professor/cultural theorist, and perpetual weirdo John Maus (pictured above) released a track called “Bennington” as a single from his recently released collection of rarities and previously unreleased material (titled, helpfully, A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material). AdHoc writer Ric Leichtung decided to pen an open letter to… Read More

Look, Gwen Stefani’s had an enjoyable solo career, but her two full-lengths weren’t exactly masterpieces…and honestly, when you’re responsible for possibly the biggest, brashest, most inane, most ubiquitous, and most deliriously — even unfairly, I mean, come on, show some mercy, Gwen — catchy single of the 2000s (by which I mean the Queen-meets-Bring It… Read More

Odd Future’s peace-loving R&B wunderkind Frank Ocean decided to push up the release date for his first proper LP, channel ORANGE (following the excellent 2011 mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra.) to…three days ago! Sorry WRMC is late to inform you of this fact, but we were busy listening to the album. It is sooooooo good you guys…. Read More

Barely-legal U.K. goth-pop princess Charli XCX is on one serious hot streak. She released two incredible singles in 2011 (“Stay Away” and “Nuclear Seasons”), penned one of 2012’s best songs for Swedish duo Icona Pop (“I Love It”), and just released her second EP, titled You’re The One after its lead single. She also admitted to… Read More

Hot on the heels of Lana del Rey’s debacle of a JFK-themed music video for “National Anthem”(scroll down the blog to view, if you dare) comes the Fourth of July! Lana be danged, fact: WRMC is located in Vermont, which is one of the United States of America. Therefore we are fervently patriotic, just in… Read More

|:-|<:-( <:'-( <:,"-( (these emoticons are crying) Let the wails of protest and lament commence, for I deeply regret to inform the WRMC community that San Francisco-via-the Children of God cult  (no, but really) garage-rock duo Girls is no longer an active music-making unit. Founder and frontman Christopher Owens announced that he would no longer be… Read More

The “gangster Nancy Sinatra” strikes again! Oh, Lana Del Rey. Can you believe she once charted here at WRMC? Where to begin with her… the name change or the makeover? The SNL debacle? The really great singles (“Video Games” 4ever) and the really bad album that followed? The apparent replacement of her personality with what… Read More

M.I.A.’s excellent January 2012 single “Bad Girls” is still picking up steam between its awesome Romain Gavras-directed video, Middle Eastern-tinged riff, and stupidly cool lyrics about how bad girls live fast and die young. Just last week, frequent M.I.A. collaborator Switch remixed the track and included verses from Missy Elliott (!!!!!!!) and M.I.A.’s Baltimore club-scene protegee Rye… Read More

“In a statement released after Beach House publicly protested the ad, a VW spokesperson said the corporation was seeking “something from the dream-pop genre” for the ad. Clearly, few people who would eventually see the ad are going to understand the cultural context of “dream-pop” or even know who Beach House are. This is the… Read More

You’ve seen the predictions for twelve of this summer’s sure-to-be-hits; now check out seventeen albums out this summer that are likely candidates for WRMC’s highly coveted “Rotation” shelf. Summer 2012 (weirdly, July 24 in particular…) is shaping up to be a good season for good music — don’t fall out of the loop! Without further… Read More