WVCW’s Top 20 : 5/11/2014-5/17/2014

WVCW’S Top 20 of the Week List The list of our favorite top 20 songs of the week …in no particular descending order Song Artist Don’t Sleep for Free You, Me, & Apollo Cavity Hundred Waters Brains Banks Hold Tight Midnight Faces Hundreds of Ways Conor Oberst...

Andrea Wellard: Somewhere Along The Way

Remember the late 90’s teen angst drama Dawson’s Creek? The show was built around stories  about coming of age and dealing with life and love. The show was mostly criticized for its use of borderline pretentious vocabulary but extolled for it use of music to set tone...

Jan St. Werner: Music

This is not a collection of songs. It is a collection of electronic noises. As I listened to this collection of tracks, I had a hard time following them.  if it had not been for the abrupt stop or fade out of the individual tracks I would not know where one track ends...

The Premiere: Antennae

Upon receiving my assignment to review an album entitled Sesame Streetcar Named Disaster I immediately found myself with an overpoweringly negative bias.  I typically don’t mind bands trying to be witty within their work, but something about Milk Carton Superhero’s...

Real Estate: Atlas

MUSIC REVIEW It’s safe to say Real Estate’s album Atlas is easy on the ears… but in my opinion it may be too easy. All the elements are there: soft guitar riffs, silky soprano vocals, a sense of sorrowfulness, perhaps a hint of nostalgia. But it’s nothing that...