MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The West Virginia Mountaineers women's soccer team are set to take on the Robert Morris Colonials on Sunday, Sep. 1 at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown.

After a two game losing skid against Clemson and #12 Penn State, Nikki Izzo Brown’s Mountaineers looked for their first win since Aug. 18 where they scored five unanswered goals against Radford at home. 

The No. 4 Ranked West Virginia Mountaineers will face The George Washington Revolutionaries
on Friday, Aug. 30, at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown, WV.

Last Monday on Aug. 26, the Mountaineers easily defeated the Saint Francis Red Flash by a
score of 4-0 at home, the team’s second win of the season.

Graduate student Sergio Ors Navarro continued his goal streak by scoring two goals, extending
his goal total this season to five goals. He currently leads the Mountaineers this season in
points with ten.

Ors Navarro’s teammate, graduate student and Georgia State transfer Simon Carlson, scored
two goals and had one assist against the Red Flash, leading the Mountaineers with three assists
this season.

“It is just about contributing to the team and helping us get the three points to start the season
out strong,” Carlson said. “It is nice, obviously. But really all that matters is getting that winning
momentum going into the season.”

Redshirt senior goalkeeper Marc Bonnaire secured his second win of the season without facing
any shots on goal during Monday’s contest.
The Revolutionaries begin their season with a 1-1-0 record. Their most recent win was on
Sunday, Aug. 25 against Saint Peter’s by a score of 2-1. Junior Alex Nicholson and sophomore
Colin Prendergast led the Revolutionaries with one goal each.

George Washington’s head coach Craig Jones is entering his 13th season with the team. During
his tenure, the Revolutionaries have produced thirteen All-Conference honorees, as well as six
first-team picks.

West Virginia will be the first ranked opponent the Revolutionaries play this season. This will be
their first game on the road this season as well.

Join Gabe Schon on play-by-play, Lance Jonzen on color and Andrew Hartlove hosting the pre,
half, and post-game show live from Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium. Coverage starts at 6:45 p.m. and
kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET. The broadcast can be heard locally on 91.7 FM,
u92themoose.com, an Alexa At-Home Device, or the RadioFX and TuneIn apps.

Photo Credits: WVU Athletics

The No. 3 ranked West Virginia Mountaineers will take on The Red Flash of Saint Francis on Monday, Aug. 26, at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium in Morgantown, WV. 

Last Thursday the Mountaineers took to the pitch for the first time in the 2024 campaign against the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons.  

Morgantown, W.Va. (Aug. 24, 2024) - U92 The Moose will broadcast West Virginia University’s first home football game of the 2024 season versus Penn State on Aug. 31, 2024.

West Virginia opened up against Penn State last year but fell short with a final score of 38-15. WVU finished last season with nine wins. 

Northeast PA is mostly known for two things (three, if you count that one town with the big underground fire). While West Virginia’s got them beat in one of those things (coal), they remain unmatched in the other– emo music.

The proof: Wilkes-Barre’s If Kansas Had Trees and their debut studio album "Where You Thought You Would Be." The album is a masterclass in emo, taking from some of the best bands the genre has to offer while still sounding unique.

We’re going to start this off with a little mental exercise. Think back to the first time you felt cool. When I say cool, I don’t mean the mass-produced coolness that gets sold back to everyone in an attempt to sell you the next hot product. I mean the real feeling, the one you get when you sneak into your first “grown up” concert or when you and your friends decide to raid your older sibling’s room for all of the goodies that felt forbidden to you then, even if they seem like such mundane paraphernalia now that you’re older. Got that image in your mind? Good. Keep it there until it feels like it is going to spill out the side of your skull. With this exercise, you would think that I am preparing to tell you all about a movie that places weight on that inherent coolness. In that sense, you could also think I stand at 6 feet tall and have shiny white teeth. But I’m a short angry man with teeth the color of lemons here to let you know that we're talking about being uncool. We’re talking about Almost Famous, the 2000s film directed by Cameron Crowe about a 16-year-old baby faced William Miller coming of age while in the midst of following blooming band Stillwater in the rocking 70s, getting the once in a lifetime chance to write for Rolling Stone Magazine. 

Before we digress into that, however, a quick little note. This is the first part in a weekly series covering the favorite music centric movies of the writer, yours truly, and the things we can at least try to glean from any of them. Next week's diatribe will be on the 90s cult classic Empire Records. When it comes to this piece though, at least half of this will be incoherent. A quarter of it will be downright idiotic. Who knows what the last quarter of this will be, but somewhere in there is some kernel of truth I’m trying to pop. Now that I have finished my expository drivel, let's get onto the rest of the show.  

This past April, a thunderous EP came crashing into U92’s rotation, injuring one DJ and strewing the studio with broken glass and goat hair. Created by Saint Louis, Missouri area punks Inner City Witches, HOOF! presents a unique blend of punk, post-punk, and jazz all fusing together into a sound equally cohesive and coercive. The band describe themselves on Spotify as “Post-Punk/Post-Hardcore,” but this barely scratches the surface. “One Hoof To The Head” opens the album with a heavy, energetic verse featuring hardcore punk drumming and a slower, heavier chorus. “Witch On Film” continues the heat, amping the manic energy up to eleven. “Cloven Hoof” has a calmer energy at first, but slowly builds to a climactic ending. Of the five songs on the EP, four are all time bangers in my heavy listening rotation, with the remaining one likely to join them. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, HOOF! wastes not a single second or song, with each track unique enough to stand on its own while still sounding cohesive. Channeling equal parts post-punk and hardcore, this EP is one of my favorite releases of the year so far, and I’m excited to see the band’s next move.

Examining the history of rock music, it’s easy to identify some of the folks who belong on the “Mount Rushmore” of the genre. Such a topic has been found amongst music fans from record stores to bonfires to everywhere in between. I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent debating between friends who the best drummer of all time is (I’ve established a solid top three: Neil Peart, Dave Grohl, and Karen Carpenter, in no particular order, but that’s not why I’m writing this post). But during such discussions, many fail to bring up one of the most crucial cogs in the music machine: the engineers and producers. 

For my two cents, I’d have to tip my cap to the late, great Steve Albini. Although known for his musical contributions, I actually first found out about Steve from his viral interaction with someone questioning his engagement numbers, but once I heard his songs, I could immediately point them out. The distinctive sounds of drums, the meticulous layouts to achieve some of the crispest sounds known to man. The sketch below is of the layout from the studio recordings of Songs: Ohia’s The Magnolia Electric Co. seems like that of a madman, but if you listen to that record, you’ll understand why such attention to detail was necessary. 

A mere four hours after dropping the lead single, Bladee dropped his latest album at 5 p.m EST on a Tuesday. The shockingly consistent 30-track long Cold Visions is his longest release to date, clocking in at just over an hour long with an average track length of barely over 2 minutes. Despite the shortness of the tracks, none of them ever feel underbaked, with just about every non-interlude track sporting a few memorable lines or awe-inspiring production. Cold Visions is a move away from the happier, more whimsically meditative sounds of recent albums like 2022’s Spiderr and Crest, returning to the vibes of projects like Eversince, Red Light, Icedancer, and most noticeably Working on Dying, the 2017 mixtape built around production from the music collective of the same name (as said on the second track “WODRAINER,” “Working on Dying 2 - You thought I was lying it’s true”).

16 of the 30 tracks on Cold Visions feature production from Working on Dying member F1lthy, best known for the “rage” style beats he has produced for artists like Playboi Carti and Ken Carson, provides some of his best beats possibly ever, including the disorientingly aggressive “KING NOTHINGG” and the throbbing “ONE SECOND.” Other producers present on the album include RipSquad member Lusi, James Ferraro, and Drain Gang affiliates Yung Sherman and Whitearmor. Skrillex is also featured as a producer on the track “D.O.A,”  providing a poppier beat that seems to sample “Trendy,” a track from Bladee’s 2021 album The Fool.

U92 will be broadcasting the Backyard Brawl baseball game from PNC Park on Tuesday, April 30th.

West Virginia (26-16) is coming off a series sweep against the Baylor Bears, WVU was scheduled to play Penn State in a midweek game on April 24th but it was canceled due to field conditions after weather.