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Welcome back to another Music Picks article! A collaborative collection of WMSC’s music recommendations and reviews. This installment’s theme is spooky songs in the spirit of Halloween!   “Baby You’re a Haunted House” – Gerard Way Review by Lara Ziccardi  Oh baby, this is on my fall playlist every year. After My Chemical Romance broke […]

Written by Lizbeth Gomez-Pinacho Opening a show in October, the New Brunswick band Valentine's Day performed their singles “Modelo,” “Spineless,” and “Love Island.” The audience immersed themselves in the performance, bobbing their heads and swaying. The vibrations echoing from the instruments could be felt throughout your whole body. The colorful lights only made you gravitate [...]
Review By Shannon Daly Paramore dropped their first single in five years since 2017’s After Laughter on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, along with a music video and their sixth album announcement. The studio album of the same name is set to be released on February 10th of next year. “This is Why” is divergent from their [...]

Welcome back to another Music Picks article! A collaborative collection of WMSC’s music recommendations and reviews. This installment’s theme was songs of the summer- the old and the new tunes that got our members through the hottest of days!  Time to reflect on our summer faves as we welcome the new season!   “KEEP IT […]

Holley Petrie Reviews Panic! At The Disco's New Album: Viva Las Vengeance Panic! At The Disco’s seventh studio album Viva Las Vengeance conveys a new but timeless sound to 2022. From the band that gave us smash hits such as “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” from A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, to “The Ballad of [...]

Hosts of WMSC’s Heavy Is The Crown, Vector Lynn and Nicole Retrograde, recorded their reaction to Shinedown’s seventh album Planet Zero ! You can watch their review via YouTube!      

Hosts of WMSC’s Heavy Is The Crown, Vector Lynn and Nicole Retrograde, recorded their reaction to Motionless In White’s sixth album Scoring The End Of The World! You can watch their review via YouTube!    

Welcome to WMSC Music Picks – a collaboration of music reviews of members from our radio station! In this article, our members review some tunes that made their spring semester!   “The Number 22” – Ashbury Heights Review By Aidan Ivers “The Number 22” by Swedish dark synth-pop duo Ashbury Heights has had a personal […]

Album artwork from Spotify By Víctor Muñiz Rosa If you want to know what it feels like to be in Puerto Rico during the summer, this is the album for you. Un Verano Sin Ti (A Summer Without You in English) by the Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Bad Bunny was released last Friday with praise […]

Welcome to WMSC Music Picks – a collaboration of music reviews of members from our radio station!   “First Class” – Khruangbin Review By Maya Stolper  The first time I added Khruangbin to a playlist of mine was in January of 2020 and I haven’t been able to stop listening to this Texas based trio […]

Howdy! It’s Emol (also known as Emily McCormack) Lots of amazing music has been released in the past few weeks, and I’m so excited to highlight some of my favorite picks!    Say Something – MISSIO MISSIO is an alternative-rock duo from Austin, Texas. I’ve been listening to Matt and David since 2017, immediately being […]

Kanye West’s 12th album was nothing short of spectacular. Dropping the deluxe version of his most recent album Donda on November 7th, 2021. After initially dropping the album on August 29th, 2021, West dropped four more new songs on the deluxe version. Highlighted by the addition of the song “Life Of The Party” featuring one […]

Photo Courtesy of Aftermath Entertainment / Atlantic Recording Corporation After teasing the world with their first single, “Leave The Door Open” in March 2021, the R&B-Silk Sonic duo consisting of singer Bruno Mars and rapper Anderson .Paak released their debut album, An Evening With Silk Sonic.  Unlike much we hear in today’s music industry, Silk Sonic is […]

By Kyle Pepitone In early February, punk rock band Green Day released their thirteenth studio album titled Father Of All. If you don’t have a lot of time on your hands, that’s okay, because the album only has 10 songs, most of which are under three minutes. Fun fact, the 26-minute runtime of the album […]

By Kyle Pepitone Local New Jersey singer/songwriter Jeff Nelson is at it again. Just this Valentine’s Day, Jeff Nelson released his new original single “Lost All in You.” Just like “Need You,” Nelson’s last original song, “Lost All in You” is a song that looks at the experience the singer has had with relationships. Jeff […]

By Luke Winnicki This is gamer music. Grimes made a gamer music album. This turn of events is especially funny considering Grimes’ rise as electronica’s response to the mid-aughts indie twee. Gone are the days of Grimes sitting anxiously cross-legged on the floor of KEXP surrounded by synths and samplers. Now she has embraced the […]

By Jeffrey Alexander Lopez Margarita Siempre Viva is a band from Medellin Colombia. Using different styles such as dream pop, shoegaze, and post-punk, they have created a unique style. In preparation for their new album, Letanías Del Jardín, they released a song titled “Detrás De La Fachada Está El Jardín. The song creates a wall […]

By Andre Souza             Kyle Lux’s debut album, No Roof Access is the album fans have been waiting for since the release of his first single in the spring of 2019 entitled “Rollin’ Stone.” The album tells a unique story about the struggles of adjusting and feeling out of place, and its instrumental blend of […]

By Gary Brown In the third studio album from R&B artist BJ the Chicago Kid, we hear the artist maturing his sound while continuing to maintain the same boyish personality and goofiness that his fans have heard since his debut effort, Pine-Apple Now-Laters in 2012. Although the artist has not had any major mainstream success […]

By Evan Dekens With a title like House of Sugar, it’s no surprise that (Sandy) Alex G’s new record, like much of his previous albums, lingers on the concept of consumption and pleasure. The allusions to the story of Hansel and Gretel, notable in the song “Gretel”, gesture at the revised compulsions of the fairy […]

By Gary Brown On Danny Brown’s fifth studio album, “unknowhatimsayin?”, we get to hear a side of Danny Brown that was seen in small bits on his previous efforts, “Atrocity Exhibition” and “Old”. Instead of 1 or 2 songs that are lighthearted and comical, we get 11 songs, giving us an album unlike anything he […]

By Sam Delgado      Born out of grateful dead cover band Richard Pictures, Mountain Brews released their bite sized self-titled EP in June this year. John Pullman “Jake” Longstreth, Jr., Richard Pictures’s guitarist, formed Mountain Brews as its frontman and promoted the Mountain Brews EP release on the beats1 radio show Time Crisis, which […]

By Kyle Pepitone Metalcore band Motionless In White (often shortened to MIW) released their fifth studio album, Disguise, this summer on June 7th and it only gets better with each listen. Although some tracks on the band’s previous album, Graveyard Shift, addressed topics about being who you were meant to be, Disguise as a whole focuses […]

By Sam Delgado      I was first blessed by the rich soulful vocals of Brittany Howard in my freshman year of high school. Alabama Shakes’s album Sound & Color revealed a world of new and exciting sounds that I wasn’t getting from repeatedly listening to Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco; Alabama […]

By Mike Stringham I got the chance to see Deafheaven and Baroness at Starland Ballroom on Friday, April 5th. This was my 10thtime (woo!) seeing Deafheaven live within the last 5 years and first time seeing Baroness, even though I’ve been listening to them since the beginning of this decade. I went to the show […]