Album Review: Yowler – The Offer
Yowler is the pseudonym of Columbus, OH, resident Maryn Jones. She’s also in the bands Saintseneca and All Dogs, the former being the creators of my favorite album of 2014, Dark Arc. This album, The Offer, is h...
EP Review: Sunflower Bean – Show Me Your Seven Secrets
By Trevor Morrison
Young, NYC-based band Sunflower Bean have a lot to brag about. For one, they’re all either going to high school at this moment or they just graduated high school, were deemed the “hardest-wo...
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: Mount Eerie – Sauna
By Trevor Morrison
How frightening is the thought of your own death, alone, in remote wilderness with only a barely flickering fire to keep you company? Not a soul is near. You are alone. There’s snow on the g...
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...
Album Review: Björk – Vulnicura
By Trevor Morrison
The break up album has been made time and time again, basically since famous composers were professionally making music. Breakups are inevitable most of the time and can wreak havoc on the l...
Album Review: Two Inch Astronaut – “Foulbrood”
By Louie Durango, DJ Famous Warrior
Two Inch Astronaut’s latest album, Foulbrood is one loaded with infectious melody channeled through ferocious riffs and lyrical apathy. They apply the interchanging dynamic o...
Best Albums, Songs & Items of 2014 by WHUS Staff
Hey there readers, DJ Expensive Haircut here, AKA Trevor Morrison, the WHUS Music Director. It's that time of year again - the second annual Best Of 2014 blog post! Last year's was a success, so I thought that ...
Album Review: James Farm – “City Folk”
James Farm – City Folk - Nonesuch
By Chris Colgan
James Farm’s City Folk is definitely an album that captures the simpler, yet beautifully melodic side of jazz quartets of its kind. It opens with “Two Steps”, ...
Album Review: Marianne Faithfull – “Give My Love To London”
Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love To London - Dramatico Records
by Shaine Scarminach
Among the waves of new, hip, and cool washing over music this year, a few cultural stalwarts also chose to cast anchor: Leona...