Arianna Reyes hosts Stay WOC, an R&B/Soul show, focusing on music made by women of color. Over spring break, I sat down with Arianna to talk about her show, underrepresentation, and guilty pleasures. WRMC: How would you describe your show? Arianna Reyes: I play music exclusively written, performed, created by women of color. And also… Continue reading SHOW SPOTLIGHT: Stay WOC
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Frankie Cosmos // Next Thing
Tiny green buds and blades sprouting underneath thin veils of crisp white snow are a first sign of the transition to spring. Winter tends to linger, washing the skies with dreadful gray streaks and leaving traces of biting winds. All the while, there is a bright optimism that situates itself amongst it. In it’s transition… Continue reading Frankie Cosmos // Next Thing
UPCOMING CONCERTS: Spring 2016
Welcome to the Spring 2016 edition of WRMC’s concert guide to the Champlain Valley and beyond! Most shows on this list take place at three main Burlington venues – The Monkey House, Signal Kitchen, and Higher Ground, but we’ve also noted a few shows worth going the extra mile (or 200) for. However, some of the… Continue reading UPCOMING CONCERTS: Spring 2016
Andrew Bird // Are You Serious
A great effort by an established indie alt-folk artist, but unfortunately marred by one of his worst songs in years. Before the announcement of Are You Serious earlier this year, Andrew Bird fans were starting to worry he’d never release a proper follow-up to 2012’s excellent LP Break it Yourself. In the four years between… Continue reading Andrew Bird // Are You Serious
Julia Brown // An Abundance of Strawberries
I love lo-fi. There’s a certain warm, human charm to a song that sounds like it could have been recorded in a 17-year-old’s bedroom. Imperfections in the recording of a song can give it life and humanity, the way Monet’s imperfect brushstrokes infuse his energy into the reflections of a pond full of water lilies.… Continue reading Julia Brown // An Abundance of Strawberries
The Top 10 Music Videos of 2015
This past Friday, January 22, WRMC DJs convened in The Mill living room to celebrate the third annual WRMC Video Music Awards Countdown. Continuing the tradition of past countdowns in 2013 and 2014, we asked DJs to vote for their favorite videos of 2015 and compiled a top 10 list based on those votes. Below you’ll find three great… Continue reading The Top 10 Music Videos of 2015
David Bowie // Blackstar
David Bowie’s Blackstar is intricate but desolate, both optimistic and rife with the inevitability of mortality. Sonically, jazz and prog rock electronica prevail. With ample use of saxophone, an instrument he learned to play as a young teenager, Bowie returns to the musical beginnings of his youth. With this final album he also reminds us… Continue reading David Bowie // Blackstar
WRMC’s 2015 in Review
YEAR END WRAP UP Amidst all the shit that went down in the tumultuous year that was 2015, at least there was great music. In Vermont, our frigid first months of the year featured a substantial amount of sparseness and heartbreak with strong releases from Viet Cong, Title Fight, Mount Eerie, and Bjork. We rallied… Continue reading WRMC’s 2015 in Review
A Very College Radio Christmas
This holiday season we’re proud to bring you an angsty alternative to that goddamn Bright Eyes Christmas album. Archers of Loaf – Assassination on X-mas Eve Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight) Bruce Springsteen – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town The Kinks – Father Christmas Modern Baseball – Hours Outside in the Snow Joyce Manor… Continue reading A Very College Radio Christmas
I’m Not With the Band
The first time I heard All Dogs was in the summer of 2014, driving home after a job interview that hadn’t gone well. Something came on WRMC, bursting with reckless energy and harmony in turn. I pulled into the back alley on Bakery Lane to fumble with Shazam without endangering traffic. The band was All Dogs;… Continue reading I’m Not With the Band
Ear Candy: A Semester of Sweet Tunes
The downside to college is that there no rummaging around your candy bag in post Halloween sugar cravings. You may think that sneaking a couple pieces from the kids you babysit for is going to suffice, but at the end of the day you didn’t get the candy yourself and it just doesn’t taste the… Continue reading Ear Candy: A Semester of Sweet Tunes