I Hope One Day To Get To America

That’s the reply to David Bowie’s first piece of fan mail, from the daughter of a radio station manager in New Mexico. Apparently, when Bowie got it, he immediately wrote a response in his manager’s office. How quaint. But it’s pretty cool to see how endering Bowie is in this letter.
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-Dylan Hill

A.V. Club Madison and WUD Music present The AV Club’s Jarringly Obscure Trivia Challenge

Have an intense knowledge of useless information? Come down to the A.V. Club’s Jarringly Obscure Trivia Challenge this Friday at 5:00 at Der Rathskeller. Winning team of five gets a cool WUD Music Prize Pack. For more information, email jeash [at] wisc.edu.

Norway

Since pretty much every source on the internet seems to be gushing over the new Beach House album, I might as well, too. Beach House have been one of my favorite bands for a while — Devotion still gets plenty of plays around these parts. And Norway, the first track that I’ve heard from their [...]

Summer

Yea, I know it’s November out. But couldn’t we pretend it’s summer? Because, I’ll be honest, winter fucking sucks.
Velvet (Gang Gang Dance Remix) — Big Pink
Surfin’ (Sail A Whale Version) — Memory Cassette
Deli — Delorean
Ambling Alp — Yeasayer
Spring (Air France Remix) — St. Etienne
Sunlight — tUnE-YaRdS
Walkabout — Atlas Sound (ft. Noah Lennox)
Summer Song — YACHT
Blessa [...]

Good Cover? Bad Cover?

The blogosphere has been all hyped up on Solange (little sis of Beyonce) releasing a cover of Stillness is the Move by the Dirty Projectors. She brings it a more contemporary R&B styling than the original song. It relies less on the quirky hooks that define the Dirty Projectors music, and instead focuses more on [...]

Steve Aoki in…29 days!

hey hey
I would just like to remind everyone to get their tickets early for what will be the greatest night you could have a week before finals start and everyone closes themselves off in whatever is their favorite library. 

MBAR

Margaret covered our Friday show with Real Estate, so I’ve got the Saturday show with Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Jeremiah Nelson and the Achilles Heel. I remember, back in 2008 (such a long time ago), I heard his self-titled debut album. It did many things well — Robinson captured the urgency of his lyrics, [...]

IllinoiZe? whaa?

So my friend sent me this and I thought it was pretty tight, so I thought what could be a better idea than post this on the blog and share it with everyone?? And I couldnt think of anything, so here it is…http://www.illinoize.biz/download.html I’m sure there’s another way to post links, but not sure how [...]

This Weekend’s Shows

FRIDAY:
El Ten Eleven is going to rock…they remind me a lot of Ratatat with a little bit more bite and more of an electronic element. Don’t sleep on the opener either…Basic Physics is a DJ duo that will surely get the dance party started. You can expect to hear a Daft Punk remix among other [...]

How you got here

Ok, I realize that you probably started reading our blog because you’re a member of WUD music, or clicked a link on Facebook, or have an intense interest in the Mayercraft Carrier (Our top three search terms: John Mayer, Mayercraft, John Mayer cruise. This is depressing). But I sincerely hope you’re the guy who found [...]