Studio A Album Reviews, 4/2/14
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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
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)
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
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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
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
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
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
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...
Trevor’s SXSW Diary: Day 1
Welcome to Trevor’s SXSW Diaries, a day-by-day recollection of events that the WHUS Music Director attended.
The first day of SXSW has been basically what I expected in some aspects: it’s a giant festival, whic...
Studio A Adds – 3/4/14
It's Aislinn again, the Assistant Music Director here at WHUS. Nice to be back bringing some more interesting new releases. We've got Tacocat - NVM, a fun surfy garage rock band. Their song "Crimson Wave" is a ...