Slacker Sunday is back with a woozy playlist to warm your heart and sooth your ears. Listen to the Spotify playlist below and let your spring stresses melt away. The Wrens – “The House That Guilt Built” (The Meadowlands) Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Cold Spring” (Why There Are Mountains) Fred Thomas – “Bed Bugs” (All Are Saved) Julian Lynch –… Read More
Proctor at this hour is a mixed bag. There are mornings where the energy in the booth room is focused and calm. Sunlight trickles in from the emergency exit and somehow it doesn’t matter that your booth is too small. Then there are mornings like today. Into my happy cave (á la Fight Club) stumble… Read More
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. It may be April 3rd, but our Music Director Meridith is still crying over Sharon Van Etten and the never ending music madness will continue long after the ides of March have passed. After much excitement and many a double-overtime nail-biters, the final round of WRMC March Madness… Read More
Aureate Gloom is of Montreal’s thirteenth LP, and lead singer/band leader Kevin Barnes continues to be a musical genius. Though he has changed the band’s line up once again, the infectious melodies, esoteric references (get your dictionary), and vocal harmonies we’ve come to expect from of Montreal are all still here. Aureate means golden and… Read More
ALBUM: Modest Mouse – Strangers to Ourselves (2015) Label: Glacial Pace // Genre: Indie Rock // Best Tracks: N/A // Grade: FFFFFF holy shit this album sucks, were they even trying?
Late winter mood swings. Midterms. Moon cycles. The mating season of the European hare. It can only mean one thing: MARCH MADNESS SEASON. Every March, Div. I basketball teams face off in a tourney and fans are called upon to fill out brackets with their guesses as to who will win. Here at WRMC, we wanted… Read More
It’s been a good month for women and it’s been a good month for music. Kim Gordon‘s memoir, Girl in a Band, hit bookstore shelves in late February, and this past week Carrie Brownstein announced that her memoir, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, will come out in the fall. Brownstein recently did a hilarious live interview with Gordon, in which the two discuss the pervasive and engrained… Read More
Tobias Jesso Jr. Sunday mornings blow chunks. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the feeling of waking up with what feels like a small army of gerbils stomping on your brain and a mélange of grille items fermenting in your gut. As the haze of last night’s meeker soiree fades from your bloodshot eyes, the… Read More
Mitski‘s Bury Me At Makeout Creek was one of the most heartbreaking and revealing rock records released in 2014. The album received positive attention from critics and WRMC DJs, but got somewhat lost in the end of the year shuffle. This April, Makeout Creek is getting a well deserved reissue on the esteemed Don Giovanni… Read More
At the tiny bar/music venue called the Monkey House in Winooski, VT, there’s a bathroom stall in the girl’s room that has some graffiti scrawled about Screaming Females frontperson Marissa Paternoster. It reads “M. PATERNOSTER IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TALENTED LADY I KNOW” Every time I go to the Monkey House for a show I use this stall, and every time… Read More
Welcome to the Spring 2015 edition of WRMC’s concert guide to the Champlain Valley and beyond! Most shows on this list take place at the three main Burlington venues – The Monkey House, Signal Kitchen, and Higher Ground. Some major must sees include: the Cloud Nothings and T-Pain shows here at Midd, St. Vincent and Jenny Hval tearing it… Read More
