2008 Woodie Awards
Not 'Sub'-standard
Station's new compilation disc offers a portable WUAG
Charla Duncan
Issue date: 4/19/05 Section: Lifestyles
Thank goodness for college radio stations. In that deep void of FM radio with its crazy songs and verse-chorus-verse, it's student-run college radio that can get us through the day.
Ok, so maybe it's not that epic, but WUAG does a pretty darn good job of simply making great music accessible.
Now, for all you cats who want to take some of that music with you when you go to visit mom and dad, WUAG in a joint effort with Gate City Noise have put together their second ever compilation disc titled Sub Rosa.
Pulling from a collection of live recordings in Greensboro over the past three years, Sub Rosa is a seventeen-track (with a bonus!) album that has numbers from WUAG Presents shows and concerts at Gate City Noise.
Bands like Iron and Wine, Hope for AGoldenSummer, and Mt. Eerie have played in a location near you, and if you were lucky to be there, you might even hear yourself in the cheering background.
The downside to it all is the songs on Sub Rosa can pretty much be categorized in the same genre of music. While the compilation is the project of a diverse radio station, it doesn't encompass WUAG's diversity. For example, the awesome hip-hop counterpart to the "indie music revolution" or any other genre of music that can be heard on the station is lacking.
WUAG and Gate City Noise are no Hotel 2 Tango or Great Western Record Recorders, but no one really expects them to be. So don't buy this album thinking you're going to hear studio quality recordings, because you're not.
That said, the recordings are pretty decent to be pulled from live shows with what I am sure are limited resources under the circumstances; the circumstances being independent music projects.
But once again, that is what's so awesome about these types of things. When people who appreciate what they create take their music into their own hands, something rad always occurs. With Sub Rosa, Greensboro citizens are able to have something peculiar to their local music scene and for that, WUAG and Gate City Noise are to be commended.
Sub Rosa can be purchased for $5 at any independent record store in Greensboro. Support local music!
Ok, so maybe it's not that epic, but WUAG does a pretty darn good job of simply making great music accessible.
Now, for all you cats who want to take some of that music with you when you go to visit mom and dad, WUAG in a joint effort with Gate City Noise have put together their second ever compilation disc titled Sub Rosa.
Pulling from a collection of live recordings in Greensboro over the past three years, Sub Rosa is a seventeen-track (with a bonus!) album that has numbers from WUAG Presents shows and concerts at Gate City Noise.
Bands like Iron and Wine, Hope for AGoldenSummer, and Mt. Eerie have played in a location near you, and if you were lucky to be there, you might even hear yourself in the cheering background.
The downside to it all is the songs on Sub Rosa can pretty much be categorized in the same genre of music. While the compilation is the project of a diverse radio station, it doesn't encompass WUAG's diversity. For example, the awesome hip-hop counterpart to the "indie music revolution" or any other genre of music that can be heard on the station is lacking.
WUAG and Gate City Noise are no Hotel 2 Tango or Great Western Record Recorders, but no one really expects them to be. So don't buy this album thinking you're going to hear studio quality recordings, because you're not.
That said, the recordings are pretty decent to be pulled from live shows with what I am sure are limited resources under the circumstances; the circumstances being independent music projects.
But once again, that is what's so awesome about these types of things. When people who appreciate what they create take their music into their own hands, something rad always occurs. With Sub Rosa, Greensboro citizens are able to have something peculiar to their local music scene and for that, WUAG and Gate City Noise are to be commended.
Sub Rosa can be purchased for $5 at any independent record store in Greensboro. Support local music!
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