Is that. . . New Music I smell! I hope you're as excited as I am for our new music selection this week. See you next time!
Knitting - Some Kind of Heaven
Label: Mint Genre: Indie / Slacker Rock Reviewed by: Edison Lee For Fans Of: Sonic Youth, Ride, Feeble Little Horse, Sebadoh, Pixies, Pavement Knitting’s sophomore album blends dreamy indie rock atmospheres with noisy slacker rock guitar work to create a pleasant, albeit monotonous, album. Nothing is revolutionary about any of these songs, but much like other noisy pieces of indie rock tinged with dream-pop/shoegaze elements, they get the job done. The guitars are generally thin and bouncy, contrasted with thick and noisy effects. This, along with dreamy vocals, makes for a slightly shoegaze feel reminiscent of bands like Ride, Lush, and Slowdive, but the songs aren't fuzzy/dreamy enough to be considered shoegaze or dream pop. I would compare them to more traditional indie rock acts like Pavement and Pixies. The songs are solid and dynamic, but they tend to bleed into one another. While it's nothing groundbreaking, there's enough fun indie rock antics and hazy guitar noise to keep it interesting throughout its half-hour runtime.
WUVT is teaming up with Students for Sensible Drug Policy to host artists Amanda Bocchi, Amelia Empson, Cat White, Robin Hubert, and Reed Yearwood! at the Southpaw Café on September 28th! Doors are at 7PM and the show starts at 7:30PM. The cover fee is $7. We hope to see you there!
Another week, another roundup of awesome new music being played on-air! See you next week!
Magdalena Bay- Imaginal disK
Label: Mom + Pop Genre: Left Field Pop Reviewed by: Griffin Paddock Imaginal disK is the best album from Magdelena Bay so far. It very much has their synthwave/pop citypop style heavily featured, but it also feels a little bit matured from minimix and Mercurial World. Tracks like 6 have these really beautiful harmonies with just the right amount of dissonance over the gliding and airy synths that form the backbone of the album. The tracks are wispy and drifting but never aimless, each song taking a wonderful journey to it's peak. Overall chill and honestly just gorgeous sound design, this is SO good!
Hello show goers! WUVT has no shortage of live events planned this semester, andDJ Daniel Kimhas written a review of our show fromThe Milk Parlor
It felt like all of blacksburg showed up on a random monday night to see WUVT's second Milk Parlor show of the semester.
Up first was Smooth Brain, who performed an amazing classic rock set. Their guitarist was racking up killer guitar solos, and their drummer was keeping great tempo (And was jamming out on the cowbell). The venue was packed, and it felt like everyone was on the dancefloor. The highlight of their set was definitely their cover of Metallica's Master of Puppets. People were stacked and packed forming a moshpit and throwing elbows!
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