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Album of the Week: Mac DeMarco – Salad Days

April 11, 2014

The title of the third full length from the Canadian musician, "Salad Days," is an idiomatic expression that refers to a time of youthful ignorance where the lack of general knowledge of the world doesn't wei...

Studio A Adds – 4/7/14

Aislinn Walsh

April 7, 2014

Albums You Might Hear This Week, Music

Starting off, let's send good vibes to UConn basketball - men's and women's - in the hopes that we're crowned National Champs/the best. I hope everyone has a good time watching the games! Now with what you're ...

Studio A Album Reviews, 4/2/14

Trevor Morrison

April 2, 2014

Album Review

Howdy, Here's all the albums that were reviewed before a few weeks before Spring Break, but due to me going to SXSW and everyone going on Spring Break, some of these albums were delayed. The biggest thing that...

Album of the Week: Future Islands – Singles

Trevor Morrison

March 26, 2014

Album Review, Music

Baltimore, MD synth pop group are poised to break out into the big time with their powerhouse of an album, Singles. The instrumentals provide an environment for lead singer Samuel Herring to destroy with his po...

Trevor’s SXSW Diary – The Final Day (5)

Trevor Morrison

March 26, 2014

Concert Reviews, Music

SXSW: The Final Day I woke up on the last day of South By Southwest to the sound of rain, a sound alien to many Texans. I found that after talking with the house owners, this is the Southern equivalent of snow...

NB’s Ripples

Ken Laster

March 23, 2014

Album Review, Music

- Noah Baerman joins our program to celebrate the release of his new CD Ripples. Noah and I discuss not only the music on this fine recording, but the interaction of music with activism to strive for a bette...

Trevor’s SXSW Diary – Day 4

Trevor Morrison

March 22, 2014

Concert Reviews, Music

A week late, but here’s my fourth day of South By Southwest. On the Friday of SXSW I started to really feel the weight of the days previous on me. I was slow to get out of bed, but that was okay because the ...

Trevor’s SXSW Diary – Day 3

The News Desk

March 15, 2014

Concert Reviews, Headlines, Music, News

Thursday was the day that I had the most on my schedule, and it was most definitely the most intense day. I walked downtown from the house I’m staying at again, which was pretty enjoyable, despite the fact tha...

Trevor’s SXSW Diary: Day 2

Trevor Morrison

March 15, 2014

Concert Reviews, Music

The second day of SXSW was marked with euphoric highs and one, catastrophic low. Thankfully, there were many more highs than that one low, causing my brain to drift back towards the goodness of the day befor...

Conversation with Noah Preminger

Ken Laster

March 15, 2014

Album Review, Music

In the Groove hosted by Ken Laster, interviews jazz artist Noah Preminger prior to his gigs in Connecticut and New York City. We speak of expanding the jazz audience, various influences that shaped Noah’s pla...