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Artist Interviews and Concert Reviews

An Inside Look at Ms. Worldwide by Reilly Caldwell

On November 10th, The Music Room will host Ms. Worldwide, a house show that highlights underrepresented voices in Nashville. I had the privilege to sit down with performers Jyoti Laverack and Soumya Vytla who gave me the inside scoop about the upcoming show.  Jyoti Laverack - @jyotiigl on Instagram As a member of The Music Room, Jyoti has been hoping to organize an event like Ms. Worldwide for years. She first started playing the guitar and writing songs during COVID […]

todayNovember 8, 2023 22

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The Handling of the WTA Finals Has Exposed Steve Simon by Adain Luckadue

Anyone who knows me knows that I am an avid tennis fan. I play it, I watch it, I discuss it. Anyone who knows me even better knows that I have a very, very strong preference for women’s tennis. I almost never watch men’s tennis, for a variety of reasons. I find men’s tennis to be boring; if I wanted to watch a 50-ball rally that ends with an unforced error or one person being too tired to get what […]

todayNovember 5, 2023 85

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Pete’s Film Journal: Vandy Students’ Free Streaming Access by Peter Sarsfield

Early in the pandemic, I watched the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke on the extremely new platform, HBO Max. The story, along with Paul Newman’s performance, captivated me. I recognized a famous line that my father quoted for years but never knew where it was from: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” After that, I watched Phantom Thread and Barry Lyndon, two movies still among my favorites a few years later. I was hooked to the streaming service’s […]

todayOctober 30, 2023 52

Artist Interviews and Concert Reviews

Introducing Khya by VandyRadio and The Music Room

Meet Khya, a talented singer-songwriter at Belmont University who is already making a splash in the indie pop genre.  Signed with The Convergence Management, she wrote and released her debut song "city lights" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her recent releases "the problem" and "CRIMINAL" secured spots on editorial playlists like Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds Pop, and her self-directed music video earned a spot on Vevo’s New Music Friday.  Her latest and highly anticipated single, "witching season," dropped on October […]

todayOctober 26, 2023 23

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Pete’s Film Journal: Performance in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ by Peter Sarsfield

David Grann’s bestselling book, Killers of the Flower Moon, is a fast-paced investigation of the murders of Osage Native Americans in the 1920s. Scorsese’s new film is a faithful adaptation that expands its scope through an intimate portrayal of its main characters, Ernest and Mollie Burkhart. It is just as fast-paced as the book, and the over 200-minute runtime is not a hindrance.  The plot revolves around the “Reign of Terror” in Osage County. The oil-rich Osage people are murdered […]

todayOctober 23, 2023 13

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Angry Takes by Aiden Rutman: What’s wrong with the Buffalo Bills?

The Buffalo Bills will always share some sort of special connection with VandyRadio for me. For the entire first semester of my show – and you can ask my co-host Owen – I was about as bullish on the Bills as one could be. I was all in on them winning the 2022 Super Bowl from October of 2021 onwards. Looking back at it, I can say that 17-year-old me was simply naive in this belief, because the Bills that […]

todayOctober 23, 2023 22

Artist Interviews and Concert Reviews

Claire Rosinkranz’s Debut Album ‘Just Because’ Makes Me Feel Like I’m 16 Again by Reilly Caldwell

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ArWkmluhZLOmbwCfyKurF?si=XwMJwDNTSySTh0Cg8gaLMQ You probably know “Backyard Boy” by Claire Rosinkranz, the viral indie pop song that made its way to every corner of TikTok and has been used as a sound on the app more than one million times. However, you might not know Rosinkranz recently released her debut album Just Because that features 13 new tracks.  Her songs “Frankenstein” and “i’m too pretty for this” were two of my songs of the summer, so I was so ecstatic to represent […]

todayOctober 17, 2023 131

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