A Comprehensive List of Artists Confirmed or Slated to Drop Music in 2024

By Michael Bonsangue 2024 is turning out to be a packed year for music from artists across all genres. Some have announced projects dropping as soon as next month while others are still in the studio merely teasing their eager fans.  CONFIRMED SZA With the performance and subsequent release of “Saturn,” SZA is finally working…

The Significance of Cohesive Music Visuals and the Absence of Them In the Industry

By Michael Bonsangue It’s no secret that music videos, album covers and the like have always been culturally significant in pop culture and important to fans. However, the art of creating a well-thought out aesthetic across all visuals belonging to a respective era seems to be underappreciated and even hard to come by. With the…

UMCA 60 Years of Collecting

Over the last 60 years, the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art has amassed a collection of over 3,600 prints, drawings, photographs, and three dimensional multiples. In comparison to other university museums in the five colleges area, like the Smith College Museum of Art and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, UMass…

Professor Appy on UMass “Confronting Empire” Lecture Series

Last semester, WMUA Reporter Flynn Fatur spoke with UMass Amherst professor and author Chris Appy, widely regarded as a leading expert on the Vietnam War experience. He has received the Chancellor’s Medal, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award here at UMass. His most recent efforts include pioneering the Ellsberg Initiative, a…

Remembering David Berman

Between 1994 and 1996, poet and songwriter David Berman made his home at the University of Massachusetts Amherst while pursuing a masters in poetry under Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Tate. By then, his band Silver Jews had already released two EP’s, Dime Map of the Reef and The Arizona Record, through the Chicago label…

A Conversation with Matt Farley

Over three decades Matt Farley has written and produced over 23,000 songs. His work, scattered across 80 different artist names, includes popular tracks entitled "The Poop Song" and "Best Song About Chicago". A majority of his most streamed songs are what he refers to as "joke songs", those that he creates in mass to be…

The War in Ukraine, Parts One and Two

Anti-war demonstrators gathered in Amherst center to express solidarity with the people of Ukraine as the war intensifies. Photo by Catherine Hurley. In Part one: "There is going to be a point at which it is impossible to hide the cost of this war because someone is going to know someone whose son died." We're…

Access UMass: Disability advocacy reaches campus

Disability activist and Access UMass founder Maya Pol joins student protestors at a college affordability rally. Pol is a wheelchair user and documents the challenges mobility aid-users face on campus through her TikTok account. Photo by Rebeca Pereira Access UMass, a student organization advocating for disability rights on campus, surfaced in Amherst this semester, utilizing…

Professor Paul Collins on Justice Stephen Breyer’s Retirement

Justice Stephen Breyer announced last week that he plans on retiring from the Supreme Court of the United States, freeing up a vacancy that President Biden has pledged to fill with the Court’s first Black female justice. News Editor Rebeca Pereira spoke to Political Science professor Paul Collins about Justice Breyer’s retirement and what it…

Groundhog Day: UMass Unions United rallies for fair contracts

Dozens of unionized UMass faculty and staff marched a rally-route demanding raises and a healthier workplace environment. Photos by Rebeca Pereira. It’s Groundhog Day, but UMass campus workers say the nightmare they’re reliving daily is a cycle of idleness, where managers are unresponsive to union workers’ demands and reckless with their health. 200 unionized on-campus…