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A Look Inside 103.5 KTU

This past week, I was given the incredible opportunity to represent VandyRadio at the CMA Spring National College Media Convention in New York City. In addition to sitting seventh row at Madison Square Garden and riding on an indoor Ferris wheel in Toys R Us, I was able to check out one on New York’s better known FM radio stations, 103.5 KTU “The Beat of New York”. Here’s a brief […]

todayMarch 17, 2014 18

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The Supergroup

A few days ago, the great classic rock band Queen announced a North American tour set for this summer. However, die hard Queen fans had mixed feelings when Queen also announced that former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert would be joining them on vocals to replace the legendary Freddie Mercury, who passed away in 1991. This got me thinking, why do old bands still tour? More times than not, they […]

todayMarch 10, 2014

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The Beauty of Match Play

Golf features two prominent tournament formats: stroke play and match play.  Stroke play is generally highlighted throughout the season, as it is the format for all 4 majors and for the majority of the other tournaments.  However, the Ryder Cup and the President’s Cup, biennial tournaments that feature the United States vs. Europe and the United States vs. the rest of world excluding Europe, respectively, are conducted in match play […]

todayFebruary 28, 2014 2

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The Best & Worst Music Collaborations

One of my favorite things about music is when two seemingly different artists combine to make one killer song. And I’m not talking Eminem and Rihanna here. I’m talking about the crazy, the wacky, the original. Without further ado, I present to you my list of the best and worst music collaborations (Click the songs for the hyperlinks). Best Coldplay ft. Rihanna, Princess of China: Let’s start it off with […]

todayFebruary 24, 2014 25

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30 shades of Green

$1.7 billion, $2.5 billion, $3.2  billion, $6 billion; these are the TV deal sizes of the Angels, the Phillies, the Astros, and the Dodgers. This is all additional income that is tacked on to the money that is allocated to each team by the MLB. In some cases, teams are getting north of 75 million dollars per year. Notably, the highlights among these absurd figures center on the two biggest […]

todayFebruary 20, 2014 8

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Exclusive Tyler Beede interview Tonight!

The hosts from the Sports ReVU will be interviewing Vandy Baseball ace Tyler Beede tonight at 8 pm.  Beede was a first-round draft pick for the Major Leagues in 2011, but turned down the Toronto Blue Jays in favor of studying (and playing) at Vanderbilt.   Check out his official bio here. Remember to tune in here on vandyradio.com tonight at 8 pm as Vivek, Thomas, and Dan talk with […]

todayFebruary 20, 2014

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“Just a Beautiful Liar”: Not Your ‘Modern Harem’

In a recent InsideVandy op-ed, Danny Lee outlined the problems that the recently uploaded music video of Shakira and Rhianna ("Can't Remember to Forget You" pose-- that their portrayal of causal lesbian action because they'd "do anything for the boy" plays into a certain type of male-dominated-lesbian-homoeroticism. I'd like to draw attention to another Shakira collaboration: "Beautiful Liar" with Beyonce from 2009. Once again, we have two beautiful dancer-songstresses singing […]

todayFebruary 20, 2014

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