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Monday, October 06, 2025

Jonathan Sackett


Graphic by YounHee Oh, The Collegian

Music Monday: A Glimmer from the north

Glimmer is what you get when four New Yorkers who’ve honed their musicianship come together. The band has now been together since March 2023 or for about two and a half years, Jeff Moore, the band’s founder and composer, said during a phone interview with WDCE.

Photo of The Crystal Casino Band. Photo courtesy of TCCB

Music Mid-Week: A Taste of D.C. at our Doorstep

The vibrant retro red, white and green of Jarrod Hendricks’ windbreaker popped against the sea of gray van-roof directly above him. The window to his right exhibited the tapestry of a road trip: a tree, a building, a dash of purple, another car. The streaks of color in and out of the van were a mimicry of those on the cover of the album he helped create four years ago.

Graphic by YounHee Oh, The Collegian

Music Mondays: Four dollar love

Sometimes falling in love is unexpected, sometimes it comes from a brief meeting and sometimes it’s a combination of the two mixed together in a crusty cardboard box nestled between a few other crusting cardboard boxes. 

Graphic by YounHee Oh, The Collegian

Music Monday: Albums Left Behind

As far as by-the-books alternative albums go, “Friction, Baby” has to be one of the catchiest. Every aspect of the album just works; it does what it needs to do and knows what it is.  

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