Album Review: Porches – Pool
From the very first moments of Pool, Aaron Maine’s fourth full length under the moniker Porches, you get the immediate sense that you are in for something very different from Maine. Pool is a step in a new dire...
WHUS STAFF LISTS: Favorite Albums of 2015
Wow, what a wonderful year for music. If you've been anywhere on the internet over the past few weeks you've most definitely been inundated with various end of the year lists from various publications. Well, no...
WHUS RECAP: CMJ Music Marathon 2015
By Dan Manning, WHUS Music Director
Every year, hundreds of different college radio stations descend upon New York City for the annual CMJ Music Marathon. CMJ is essentially the king of college music; it is ...
Album Review: Homeshake- Midnight Snack
By Mitch Britton
I first heard of HOMESHAKE after watching our favorite indie poster-boy Mac DeMarco give them a shout out during a 2014 Salad Days Q & A. At the time, I didn’t realize that the band was ...
Album Review: TWIABP- Harmlessness
By Colin Hyde
The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die’s sophomore full
length is one of the most ambitious emo revival records of recent years. At almost 54 minutes in
...
Album Review: Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
By Dan Manning
At its core, Father John Misty’s I love You Honeybear is an album composed of mostly love songs (as its title implies). It tells the story of how Misty, or Josh Tillman, came to meet, fall in lo...
Album Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong
By Dan Manning
Viet Cong's self-titled LP opens with an immense, industrial booming, as if someone at the other end of the factory is banging their head against a stack of the heaviest sheet metal. The opening...
Studio A Adds 1/29/15
Hey all! We got a bunch of cool stuff going into Studio A this week, including some great singer-songwriter love songs courtesy of Natalie Prass, as well as some weirdo psych-rock from Jib Kidder. In addition t...
Album Review: Celestial Shore- “Enter Ghost”
It's hard to place Celestial Shore's most recent effort into any particular musical box. "Enter Ghost" is equal parts post punk as it is math rock as it is noodly indie rock. The album's opening track starts of...
Album Review: Iceage – “Plowing Into The Field of Love”
Danish post-punkers Iceage have always had a propensity for the chaotic. Their debut album New Brigade was an impressive collection of hectic post-punk tracks that certainly stood out amongst most other punk re...