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Liliac: The five-part family band championing vamp metal music

January 28, 2021

Liliac, the five-part family rock band hailing from California, is to vamp metal as the Mikaelson family is to vampires. All of the supernatural teen drama from the CW series “The Vampire Diaries” aside, t...

COIN creates a dreamland of their own

Sasha Goldblatt

May 6, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Sasha Goldblatt On February 21, 2020 COIN released their third full length album, Dreamland. It follows the typical uplifting, love-focused themes that COIN enjoys dwelling on, but still contains some of...

What does social distancing mean for the music industry?

Rita Plante

April 30, 2020

Featured, Music, News, Opinion

It’s an unprecedented time in the music industry. Concert venues across the country have shut down indefinitely due to COVID-19, leaving thousands of artists without work and millions of fans with no access to...

Nightwish continues to dominate the soundscape of symphonic metal

WHUS Staff

April 23, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Ally Urban Special thanks to Sonja for all her help in writing this review. When I first started listening to Nightwish back in 2015, I was completely transfixed by their incredibly unique sound. Flo...

The Strokes return with a new LP for a new generation

WHUS Staff

April 17, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Kyle Jackson The Strokes are a band defined by the personalities of the members. When a new album comes out, the music changes with the lives of each of them. The New Abnormal is perhaps the most impacte...

Inner Wave balances funk, electronic, and bedroom pop on new EP

WHUS Staff

April 16, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Kyle Jackson Inner Wave has never been a stranger to experimenting with digital implementation in their recordings. Previous work like Six AM expressed the group's affinity for the abnormal instrumental ...

Myrkur’s “Folkesange” blends atmospheric folk with black metal

WHUS Staff

April 7, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Ally Urban It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in the album reviewer’s seat, but I’m incredibly glad to be back at it! As an added bonus, the album I’ll be reviewing today is particularly fantastic. ...

Crisp, clean, precise: “It Is What It Is” is a mix of all things Thundercat

WHUS Staff

April 5, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Faisal Rajan I remember reading a Hannibal Burress interview where he said that everyone who reviews music should give some context of what they were doing when they listened to the album, because as he ...

#1 Dads sets the precedent for underground songwriting

WHUS Staff

March 20, 2020

Album Review, Featured, Music

By Kyle Jackson #1 Dads is the solo project of Big Scary’s lead man Tom Iansek. Iansek has been known all across Australia for his groundbreaking atmospheric pop production and artistry over the past two de...

070 Shake Brings Hip-Hop to a New Level

Sasha Goldblatt

March 10, 2020

Album Review, Music

By Sasha Goldblatt “Modus Vivendi” is a Latin phrase that translates to “mode of living” or “way of life.” 070 Shake’s first official album expresses a way of life that revolves around recovering from heart...

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