So for those of you who missed the boat 2 weeks ago (you can hop right on here), this ship is heading towards an ocean of great music of our childhoods (or perhaps adulthoods for some of you out there) that, quite frankly, passed me by. I won’t reenact the lengthy story here, but suffice… Read More
Two WRMC alumni, David Small ‘09.5 (former Business Director and Summer Manager) and Nate Edwards ‘09.5 (former Technical Director), have tackled the airwaves of San Francisco on the Mission District’s independent station Radiovalencia.fm. Their weekly show, Aleatoric Evening, blends an eclectic mix of rock, funk, soul, and electronic music (hence the name). Radio Valencia launched recently, in… Read More
When it comes to musical taste, I was something of a late bloomer. My childhood was spent sitting mindlessly in the back of my family’s white 1988 Dodge Caravan (which had the most geographically accurate paint chipping of Mexico there will ever be on its left side) listening to whatever my parents chose to play…. Read More
Indian music is, in many ways, the meditative sitar. It is also the exuberant overload of senses that is often Bollywood. Our music is and has been culturally defined by these two extremes, one the classical, traditional, largely esoteric approach to an art form of the centuries, the other targeting the mass market with the… Read More
Yet another weird development for a band with one of the least predictable stories out there: three former members of the now-dissolved, tragically short-lived British rock band/cult/gang of hooligans/peddlers of transcendental experience WU LYF (standing for “World United Lucifer Youth Foundation”) have regrouped and formed Los Porcos, a self-described yacht rock band whose terrible name… Read More
Artist: The Black Angels Album: Indigo Meadow Label: Blue Horizon Ventures Release date: 4/2/13 Recommend if you like: The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, The Black Keys Grade B+/A- Who are The Black Angels? It is an obvious fact that music constantly changes over time. New sounds and new influences rise and fall, and today’s rock… Read More
Artist: The Knife Album: Shaking The Habitual Label: Mute/Rabid Released: 9 April, 2013 Genre: Electronic, Experimental Grade: A RIYL: queer theory, radical anticapitalisms, contemporary art, Fever Ray, Bjork, Demdike Stare, M.I.A. (circa /\/\/\Y/\), Raime, Swans, tUnE-yArDs, Xiu Xiu Key tracks: “Full Of Fire,” “Raging Lung” What we talk about when we talk about… Read More
In my second semester at Middlebury, I attended the most emotionally intense musical performance I have ever had the good fortune to see. An audience of about 50 stood in a circle in the stark, entirely white main gallery of the Burlington City Arts Center (formerly Firehouse Gallery) on Church Street, watching with widened… Read More
For the past six months I’ve been really interested in Arbutus Records and all the artists on their label. Based in Montreal, this label developed its connections with the American music scene through Grimes—one of the first artists they signed. Since then many of the label’s bands have successfully made their way to big… Read More
