Every year Spotify comes out with Spotify Wrapped, your music year in review. And everyone goes crazy for it. We post it on Instagram, share it with our friends, and make it into memes. We are obsessed, but why? Music is a very personal topic. That’s why many people say, “I listen to everything” when […]
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WXTJ Writes! by Mary Hall: “From Rap to R&B: An Analysis of Childish Gambino’s Music Over Time”
If you’ve followed Donald Glover’s career as long as I have, you know of his plethora of successes in several entertainment arenas. An accomplished director, producer, comedian, and most notably actor and musician, Donald Glover is a renaissance man through and through. If you don’t know or haven’t heard the name Donald Glover, you may […]
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WXTJ Writes! by Paul Karhnak: “An Evening With Silk Sonic” reviewed
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak appear to have mastered quantum superposition, because they exist simultaneously in 2021 and the 1970s on the new album An Evening With Silk Sonic. The album is a fascinating instrument-by-instrument recreation of classic funk that incorporates both the obvious cliches and the more subtle touches that distinguish the 1970s in […]
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WXTJ Writes! by Hannan Mumtaz: “rolling stoned 3.0” playlist
The first iteration of this playlist came in 2018 — I had just transferred high schools in the middle of my sophomore year, with little to do but what this playlist encapsulates. I passed the link to a few friends, and soon it had made its way around an entire community at school. A hastily […]
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WXTJ Writes! by Guest Writer Fi O’Reilly: Argentine Rock Sampler
Argentina has marked for itself a place as the home of some of the most remarkable musical talents of rock en español, whose brash imagination has continued to be a force to be reckoned with over the decades. And with the dog days of summer nearing their end, but the cool days of Autumn still […]
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WXTJ 100.1 FM is UVA’s freeform student radio. DJ your own radio show. Organize live music events. Connect with UVA’s music and arts community. We broadcast live to 100.1 FM Charlottesville! You can also stream all of our radio shows online at wxtj.fm. This past year, our DJs either had the opportunity to either broadcast […]
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WXTJ Writes! dj nematode’s Most Anticipated Spring Releases
Buckle up, WXTJ-ers. We are gonna go through my most anticipated releases for the spring. Yes, the spring has already begun, and there are a ton of really awesome spring releases that I missed (I’m looking at you Xiu Xiu and Sharon van Etten), but you will just have to forgive me for that. Crumb Ice […]
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WXTJ Writes! by Max Russ: on his debut single “Stressin.,” Tre. Charles reflects upon our current moment
Tre. Charles is a driven, charismatic, and thoughtful artist who connects with his audience through music that’s both warm and deeply personal. His debut single ‘Stressin.,’ which drops on April 26, embodies the personal and social struggles that he has faced throughout his life as a young black man in America, along with capturing the […]
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WXTJ Writes! by Fiona O’Reilly: “Purge the Poison” – Fear, Loathing, and Ecofascism in MARINA’s Newest Single
“Purge the Poison,” the latest single off of MARINA’s forthcoming album Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land (to be released June 11th — you can preorder here) sounds like the auditory embodiment of reselling thrifted clothes on Depop for twice their original price. Mind you, it’s a decidedly catchy track, the driving drum […]