Last night, our college radio team got a chance to listen to several tracks from the upcoming album from Portugal. The Man. (Spoiler alert: What we heard? Was absolutely fantastic). Evil Friends, the band’s seventh album (and second release on Atlantic Records), was produced by Danger Mouse and will feature 12 new tracks from these intense Alaskan rockers. The first [...]
The 2013 mtvU Woodie Awards are back and bigger than ever! Returning to Austin, Texas, the Woodie Awards will take place during the SXSW Music Festival, airing on Sunday, March 17th at 8/7c on MTV and mtvU. The mtvU Woodie Awards were started in 2004, meant to award the music voted best by college students, [...]
Another year, another batch of lists! 2012 was full of chart-topping successes, up & coming artists, new jams, old favorites, and releases so good that we’re still keeping them on repeat. Here’s a collection of The Syndicate staff’s picks of the best releases of 2012 – take a look: Andrew Galvan (Marketing Coordinator) Kendrick Lamar, good kid, [...]
Ahh, Bonnaroo. The music festival that’s home to a history of stellar musicians and comedians, the hot Tennessee sun, an overwhelming feeling of love and friendship – and it all takes place on a giant farm. Our very own Claire, Graham, and Kaity took the Bonnaroo challenge and camped out last weekend while taking in amazing performances from acts [...]
It’s 2012. While some of us are still waiting for jet-packs and flying cars, the world at large can agree that we are indeed in the land of the future – cell phones outnumber any other form of communication, e-readers helped close down brick & mortar book stores, digital music sales are soaring, and you’re [...]
After a year filled with amazing music and laughter, The Syndicate staff searched far back into our Spotify playlists, Last.fm charts, vinyl additions, and ever-growing CD/MP3 collections to form, what we believe to be, the Top Music & Comedy of 2011. Take a look: Andrew Galvan (Marketing Coordinator) 1. J. Cole, Cole World: The Sideline [...]
YESTERDAY, TODAY Servers at Fordham's WFUV, right, store the music that once was spun on vinyl. The two corners of the station make for a fitting symbol of the changes in college radio. (Michael Appleton for The New York Times) In a world where college radio is moving further from the traditional terrestrial format, it’s [...]
In a time when college radio stations across the country are seeing slashes in their funding, changes in their line-ups, and fellow stations disappearing overnight, an idea arose. From the minds of two general managers wanting to unite college stations across North America, College Radio Day began to form. Rob Quicke of WPSC (William Paterson [...]
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