Year: 2015
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SPRING PLAYLIST SERIES
With the help of a dedicated e-board, WRUC is still operating virtually as a source for new and underground music. Sure, there’s Spotify and Apple Music, but the experience is often made confusing by algorithms that think they know what you want to listen to, as well as the sheer volume of music available at […]
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Meghan Thee Stallion’s “FEVER” has enough heat to last you all summer
by Bernadette Bruu, WRUC Senior General Manager (This review was originally published in the Union College Concordiensis on May 23, 2019.) You may have only learned about her recently, but she’s been at it for years, her talent bubbling under the surface of an industry that wasn’t ready for her until now: Megan Thee Stallion, […]
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Lana Del Rey’s Norman F*cking Rockwell is Musical Literature Incarnate
by Marie Lindsey, WRUC Music Director (A similar version of this article was published in the Union College Concordiensis on October 3, 2019.) Norman Rockwell, American painter, illustrator, and novelist was born in New York City in 1894. By 1916 Rockwell began his work as a popular illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post. He created […]
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“Nah, actually, this is for me”: Noname’s Room 25 takes on self-care and cartoon disillusionment
by Bernadette Bruu, WRUC Senior General Manager (A version of this article was published in the Union College Concordiensis on September 19, 2018.) “A think piece in the rap song, the new age covenant,” Noname conjectures ironically in “Blaxploitation,” the second track off her self-released Room 25, out September 14. The Chicago-born rapper’s second album is […]
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Post-Hot Girl Summer, here are 5 women rappers to check out this fall
by Bernadette Bruu, WRUC Senior General Manager (Originally published in the Union College Concordiensis on September 19, 2019). This past spring, I wrote a feature on Megan Thee Stallion’s first studio album, Fever. Since then the Houston-based rapper has become one of the biggest names on the hip hop scene, having skyrocketed to broad fame […]
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Drip king Gunna releases first studio album
by Bernadette Bruu, WRUC Senior General Manager (Originally published in the Union College Concordiensis on February 28, 2019.) “To drip is to be a king…to drip is to be a winner,” says Sauce Walka, half of rap duo Sauce Twinz and alleged pioneer of the modern use of the word “drip” in hip hop. Thought […]