This year, WPTS Radio staffers nominated their favorite albums for inclusion on our official year-end list. Here are their top 11 picks... JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES Two of the biggest names in experimental hip-hop combined to make one of the best albums of the year. Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA provide amazing, catchy verses throughout the whole album, all overtop of great production from JPEGMAFIA. I see […]
by Zack Rodick Sprain’s The Lamb as Effigy, or Three Hundred and Fifty XOXOXOs for a Spark Union With My Darling Divine is a winding, sprawling, noise-rock slash post-rock masterpiece about the flailing of all human creatures in our interactions with other people, the insignificance of human concerns, the dwarfing in magnitude of human experience in comparison to the divine—whatever that may be, however divine it may be—and the performative […]
by Courtney Lucier Sufjan Stevens’s latest album, Javelin, is quite an emotional listening experience. Somber and melancholy, with a tinge of nostalgia, the album has a long-solo-car-journey kind of vibe, meant for deep reflection and contemplation as to the actual meaning behind the lyrics. While Stevens is usually known for being quiet about his private life, this time he has let us in on the meaning of his new album: […]
by Julie Rostock - Published June 23, 2023 “Let's Talk: why is E·MO·TION good? Or rather what makes it so good? Carly Rae Jepsen's latest effort was a breath of fresh air for me, but I can't really articulate why. The album was critically acclaimed across the spectrum, adored by fans, eventually voted as Pitchfork's most underrated album of the year. It's definitely my favorite mainstream pop album (snuck into […]
BY NEW MEDIA DIRECTOR · APRIL 18, 2023 Interviewed by Zack Rodick and Bella Lardin Zack Rodick and Bella Lardin interviewing Doug at Club Cafe on January 24th. D: Douglas Dulgarian Z: Zack Rodick B: Bella Lardin B: Our first question is super basic.. We love the band name, how’d you come up with it? D: First of all, I had a dream about it, and then I saw it as a tattoo on […]
An Interview with Kitty Craft by New Media Director - Published April 7, 2023 Interview by Corinne Kerwin Kitty Craft is the alias for Pamela Valfer. Photo taken from Bandcamp. Corinne Kerwin: I guess I’ll just get started. I wanted to ask, starting at the very beginning, was music something that you were always drawn to as a child or had experience with exposure with, like, as a young adult/ […]
Written by Sean Ritchie - Published March 28, 2023 Edited by Sonya Boukengolts Fantastic Planet is a French and Czechoslovakian-produced animated film from 1973 about humans (called Oms) being oppressed by giant blue aliens known as the Draags. Oms are reduced to living as either collared, mistreated pets or as pests hiding from the Draags on the outskirts of their society and avoiding extermination. Throughout the film, Draags openly debate […]
Written by Sean Ritchie - Published March 16, 2023 Cocaine Bear is a very enjoyable horror comedy that is loosely based on the true story of a bear consuming a large amount of cocaine that was dropped out of an airplane. Instead of killing the bear, the cocaine fuels the bear’s rampage in Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. If you have seen the advertisements, then you have a pretty good idea of […]
