Jackie Reed

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Mixtapes

Alyssa Casano WGMU Blogger There’s nothing like the gift of music. When you have a message you want to say but are unable to put it into words there is likely a song out there to express the message for you. Want to tell someone that you love them? There are millions of songs for …

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Coachella 2017: Three Artists to Watch

Kaitlyn Koegler WGMU Blogger Under the beating sun of the California desert, famous annual music festival Coachella is just around the corner. And, like many years before, an impressive line-up of well-known superstars and rising underdogs will be taking the stage once again to perform at one pop culture’s most well-known festivals. Sporting a huge …

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Just By Chance: Chance the Rapper’s Rise to Stardom

Kaitlyn Koegler WGMU Blogger It was an unprecedented event; a rapper with no record label behind him winning three Grammys. Becoming the first artist to win a Grammy for a streaming-only album, Chance the Rapper (born as Chancellor Bennett), is a 23 year-old rising star with three mixtape releases under his belt. Releases all pioneered …

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Lit&Local: A Live Set With L.A. Trip

On February 12th, WGMU’s Jackie Reed (Jammin’ with Jackie) interviewed L.A. Trip in WGMU’s live on-air studio, to talk about their upcoming album, Intervals I (2017). From Fredericksburg, Virginia, the rock band came together to put on a live performance showcasing the best of their music. Bobby Barber, guitarist and vocalist, and Sean O’Neill, drummer and …

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Mike On The Mic’s Top 5 Albums & Songs of 2016

Michael Bamarni | Top Five Albums Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool Radiohead’s first release in five years will stand the test of time as being one of their best releases ever. For a band that has been around for over twenty years and with multiple classic albums already in their discography that is quite …

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