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(04/16/25 3:40pm)
During the heyday of “free love” and flower crowns, larger-than-life folk and soft rock icons like James Taylor, Carole King and Jackson Browne were cultivating the soundtrack of a generation – songs that would live on in the hearts of grandparents and music snobs alike. But while these faces adorned tour posters and album covers everywhere, the studio session musicians behind their legendary records remained largely out of the spotlight.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 8, members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Richmond, alongside a spattering of film students, filtered into the Ukrop Auditorium in the Robins School of Business. The matinee was “Immediate Family” (2022), a documentary directed by filmmaker Denny Tedesco about four influential artists who make up the titular unit: Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel, Leland Skar and Waddy Wachtel. The event was co-sponsored by the Film Studies department in partnership with Osher, a member of which gave some opening remarks.
Dr. Monika Siebert, the Interdisciplinary Coordinator of Film Studies, Jennifer Cavanaugh, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Lynn Hardwicke, an Academic Administrative Coordinator, Jennifer Lo Prete, a Communications Manager for the Dean’s Office, and other members of the Osher program were involved in organizing the screening.
Before the film began, Tedesco spoke about his first visit to the University of Richmond nine years ago to show his other music documentary “The Wrecking Crew” (2008) about the collective of artists in the ‘60s who played on seminal albums like The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds.” Tedesco has a special connection to this scene; his father, Tommy Tedesco, was one of the Crew’s guitarists.
(04/10/25 4:01pm)
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.
(04/01/25 2:45am)
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(02/28/25 5:09pm)
It was never originally Dogpark.
(02/24/25 10:40pm)
Hailing from Texas, Xavier Landum aka BigXthaPlug overcame a difficult childhood. He grew up poor and was exposed to many extremes. At the age of five, he recalls seeing his mother fire a gun at a thief during an attempted robbery. BigX considered his mother his best friend while his father took on a more disciplinary role. Both parents were very influential in the cultivation of his music taste by introducing him to the Isley Brothers, Drake and Lil Wayne.
(02/17/25 1:48pm)
It’s easy to fall into the Spotify abyss. I’ve been there the past few months, dwelling in liked songs, daily mixes, and even the occasional AI DJ dalliance. Although safe in the warm embrace of familiar music, I yearned for more. As host of “Feelin’ Good” on Richmond’s own WDCE 90.1 FM, do I have a duty to expose my listeners to the bleeding edge? As listeners, should we prioritize the novel and ambitious? What’s new? What’s fresh? Does it even matter?
(04/09/24 3:54am)
What makes a great movie? Casting, a good story, and cinematography are all important. However, one characteristic that turns a good movie into a phenomenal one is the soundtrack. Music enhances emotions in a way that makes you feel exactly what the character feels. Immediately, you become one with the movie. As summer draws closer, it’s a great time to talk about two of my favorite summer movies and how their soundtracks are perfectly crafted.
(04/17/23 10:50pm)
I talk to myself. Sometimes it helps me stay awake on long drives, sometimes I need to hear myself say my week’s schedule aloud for memory’s sake and sometimes I need to curse my television set after I lose at Hex-A-Gone in Fall Guys (am I right fellas?). I like to think I keep my chatter within the normal bell curve of talking to oneself. For example, I have never created and voiced an imaginary friend, who materializes as a furry, yellow, cigarette-smoking, pig-snouted aardvark and proceeded to converse with it. That would be pretty weird. But when legendary producer Madlib creates and voices an imaginary friend who materializes as a furry, yellow, cigarette-smoking, pig-snouted aardvark and proceeds to converse with it for an hour on his 2000 record “The Unseen,” it’s pretty sick.
(04/10/23 12:00pm)
Swedish musician Benjamin Reichwald, whose moniker Bladee is pronounced more like a Wesley Snipes movie than a child’s nickname for a knife, has emerged from his experimental cocoon. Surfacing onto the scene as an autotune-soaked collaborator of Yung Lean, Bladee and long time friends Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital and producer Whitearmor form the cloud rap supergroup Drain Gang. Although now Bladee would be a team captain for the 2023 Soundcloud all star game, his beginnings were humble. As in his music sounded like shit. For the uninitiated, Bladee’s work, particularly his older music, sounds like something you’d put on as a joke. But when the joke isn’t funny anymore and you keep playing it, you are left with the sad reality that you are a Bladee enjoyer.
(02/27/23 4:28pm)
The days are getting a little longer, the khaki shorts and tennis skirts are coming out and you’re breaking more of a sweat on your walk from Heilman Dining Center to the Humanities Building – you know what that means: spring is coming, and so are Warm Weather Playlists. If you’re anything like me, you start a new playlist for the spring the moment the temperature goes above 65 during a random global warming weather spike in February.
(01/24/23 12:57am)
Kronos Quartet, an award-winning San Francisco based string quartet, performed At War With Ourselves - 400 Years of You at the Modlin Center for the Arts on Jan. 21.
(12/03/22 1:53am)
Wasps in the Booker Hall of Music are disrupting rehearsals and performances, forcing University of Richmond musicians to perform with swatters under their seats to avoid being stung.
(12/05/22 5:00am)
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(11/21/22 5:00am)
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(11/01/22 12:40am)
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(10/03/22 9:18pm)
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(09/28/22 11:44pm)
The Parsons Music Library is usually quiet on a Wednesday evening, filled with students getting work done for their Thursday classes or taking a solitary moment to practice their instruments. But in the music studio on the first floor of Parsons, the sound of music bounces off the walls as the boys of Dogpark, a band made up of five University of Richmond students, practice for their next show. Despite the small space they practice in, the band makes the room feel like a stadium show as they play “Hard to Handle” by The Black Crowes.
(09/19/22 1:37pm)
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(09/12/22 2:21pm)
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(08/29/22 4:00am)
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