Music Mondays: From UR to 'Killing the Bear'
By Jonathan Sackett | May 5, 2025Brian Pagels, ‘03, reflects on his time at UR and starting a band, Brian K & The Parkway.
Brian Pagels, ‘03, reflects on his time at UR and starting a band, Brian K & The Parkway.
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.
Don’t try to be perfectly objective or neutral when covering far-right extremism and don’t expect that the cops will respect your rights, said a citizen journalist and neo-Nazi expert Molly Conger at a talk at the University of Richmond on April 2.
Wyatt Clem and Shawn Abhari are The Ivy, an indie synth-pop duo from Tulsa, Okla.
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.
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.