What is Liz Phair to a girl like me? Phair was making manic-pixie claims of being your “average everyday sane psycho supergoddess” when I was 10 years old and struggling to get my mom to let me buy my first training bra. At that point, she’d already run around the feminist block and come out… Read More
I’ll be frank with you: Boston gets a pretty bad rap here on campus. More specifically, the city’s metropolitan area–popularly known as JOB (Just Outside of Boston)–is particularly stigmatized, its natives burdened with the stereotypes of wealth, privilege, genericness and creative vacuity. This mini-series of blog posts, From the 617, is intended to debunk these conceptions… Read More
Nick Koenig aka Hot Sugar self-released his EP Made Man TODAY. It features a lot of artists we heard on his “Midi Murder” EP like Antwon, Lakutis, KOOL AD, and Chippy Nonstop. We even hear an extended version of “56k,” which was originally released on “Midi Murder.” Some of my favorite tracks feature new artists… Read More
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers from seasons 1-5 of Breaking Bad Well, this is it…..the end of Breaking Bad. While I know people cringe at the thought of any show – or anything, ever – surpassing “The Wire” or “The Sopranos”, I can’t lie when I say that Breaking Bad is without a… Read More
Arcade Fire are rapidly gearing up for the release of their fourth LP, Reflektor, out October 29th via Merge. We’ve already heard a great, disco-inspired single, also called “Reflektor”. They’re playing the season premiere of SNL tonight (hosted by Tina Fey) and will be sticking around for a special, 30-minute performance starting at 1am. Check out… Read More
ATTENTION MIDDLEBURY! Wanna be a DJ!?! Heck yes you do! The Fall all-DJ meeting will be held TOMORROW (Thurs 9/14) at… Read More
I and WRMC’s creative directors Moss and Alan spent yesterday at Phono Del Sol Music and Food Festival. The Bay Bridged & Tiny Telephone gathered a bunch of bands to play at two stages in the Mission District’s Portero Del Sol park. The venue was great for two reasons: awesome people watching and great seating. The two… Read More
Hi cultural critics! Boy, I know this might not be news to you, but I just have to say it again: you know who is lame lame lame? That Miley Cyrus character and her new song, “We Can’t Stop.” Ugh. Drunk, no-talent, Disney-vom, mildly-racist-definitely-ignorant dum-dum. Ugh. You know what else is lame and stupid and… Read More
HEY! GUESS WHAT? Finally, the day you’ve all been waiting for is here! Today, WRMC’s summer programming goes LIVE. Tune in at WRMC 91.1 FM within our service area or listen using our online stream (top left corner of our website). WRMC is very proud of its summer programming. Unlike most of our peer… Read More
Artist: Thundercat Album: Apocalypse Record Label: Brainfeeder Release Date: June 4th, 2013 Genre: Neo-Soul Grade: B+ RIYL: Flying Lotus, SBTRKT, D’Angelo, Herbie Hancock As a huge fan of Flying Lotus and his various side-projects, proteges and alter-egos, I was ecstatic to discover that not only does he own and curate the record label Brainfeeder, but that… Read More
Let’s be honest. The fact that Kanye West’s Yeezus leaked last Friday is going to overshadow pretty much all other recent happenings in the music world. Apparently it’s supposed to be really good, too. So after I did a little digging and couldn’t find much new music to share from the chillout world, I decided to… Read More
