Professors make music together with local artist
By day, they teach classes at Ithaca College. By night, two professors join forces with an Ithaca singer/songwriter’s band to perform music together.
By day, they teach classes at Ithaca College. By night, two professors join forces with an Ithaca singer/songwriter’s band to perform music together.
After Oakland-based punk-rock group SWMRS signed with New York City–based record label Fueled By Ramen and released its record label debut and overall third LP, “Drive North,” the band has returned to the punk scene with its follow-up, “Berkeley’s On Fire.”
The band itself initially got attention because of its drummer, Joey Armstrong — Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s son — but “Berkeley’s On Fire” combines eccentric tracks that blend together a multitude of punk, alt-rock and surf-rock elements, giving the band a separate, personal identity.
It’s not every day that songs like “Nasty Women Grab Back” and “Feminist AF” are performed in the James J.
Ithaca College junior Kyra Skye approaches the microphone at The Haunt, greeting her audience with a smile.
Alice Merton broke onto the music scene in 2016 when she went straight to the top of the charts with her powerful single “No Roots.” Merton also released two other singles, “Why So Serious” and “Funny Business” in 2018.
Two students create a cassette-based music label.
Dan Mills ’07, actor and musician, will return to the college with his band, Dan Mills and the Fairweather Band, at 7 p.m. March 27 in IC Square.
Freshman Harrison Lindsay performs classic rock on guitar and harmonica.
