Review: Mac DeMarco, This Old Dog
By Ryan Sterling
Mac DeMarco, psychedelic indie singer/songwriter and self-described “ape dinky”, released his third full length album “This Old Dog” on May 5th, 2017. The 42-minute album spans across 13 son...
Album Review: HalfNoise “Sudden Feeling”
By: George Bennett
Indie Pop, 4.3 stars
Zac Farro, the drummer of Paramore, is the sole member of the indie-pop band HalfNoise. Sudden Feeling is his third solo project under this moniker, with an EP and ...
Album Review: Ibeyi – Ibeyi
By Sahil Laul
On February 17, 2015, the French-Cuban twin duo Naomi and Lisa Kainde Diaz, otherwise known as Ibeyi (ee-bey-ee), debuted their self-titled album. Strongly influenced by their late father, Anga...
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...
An Interview with Mikal Cronin
By Chad Pope
As the year in music comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on what music will define 2015. Earlier this year Mikal Cronin released his third record under his name, MCIII. He has pro...
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: Radioactivity – Silent Kill
At this point I think we can all agree The Marked Men are one of the most important punk bands of the last fifteen years. I use the present tense since the band still exists in some form, though their most acti...
Album Review: Holly Herndon – Platform
In the summer of 2013, the poet Kenneth Goldsmith curated an odd exhibit in a Mexico City gallery. Given the prosaic title, “Printing Out the Internet,” the project aimed to print out the entire internet in ord...