Review: Gaadge – “Yeah?” March 29, 2021 Yeah?, the debut LP from Gaadge, is the sound of a new Pittsburgh. Gone are the “hell with the lid off” steel mills and… Continue Reading
Profile: Dream Home (2021) March 18, 2021 “Forget me not, I’ll always be around,” Jaren Love sang, almost knowingly, on a posthumous single The Lampshades released after the trio called it… Continue Reading
Review: Merce Lemon – “Moonth” August 11, 2020 There’s a clear line between Moonth, the new LP from Pittsburgh singer-songwriter Merce Lemon, and Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville, which hit streets and stereos more… Continue Reading
Profile: Stone Throwers (2020) August 4, 2020 Here’s the set-up. The Pittsburgh-based soul musician known as Dr. D had just gone through a break-up a while back and was looking to… Continue Reading
Review: TRVSS – “New Distances” July 30, 2020 Looking for noise-rock to cut through the film of dusty ear-drums like a straight razor? Well, TRVSS has your number. The trio cuts through… Continue Reading
Profile: TRVSS (2020) July 28, 2020 The new TRVSS song “Malaria” is as infectious as its title indicates. Of course, it falls seven songs into the trio’s second LP –… Continue Reading
Review: Same – “Plastic Western” May 19, 2020 SAME, the post-something quartet with the un-Google-able name, is from southwestern Pennsylvania, the duly coined Paris of Appalachia, but not entirely of the place. Now, Pittsburgh… Continue Reading
Profile: Same (2020) May 5, 2020 Playing guitar in an indie-rock band in 2020 requires some genre knowledge and a lot of muscle memory, that ability to reproduce the fingers… Continue Reading
Review: Murder for Girls – “Done In The Dark” April 22, 2020 When I reviewed Murder for Girls’ last LP, All The Pretty Stars, for the SWPA-based zine Punksburgh back in 2017, I cited as the… Continue Reading
Profile: Merce Lemon (2020) February 11, 2020 “You think you love me. Well, look at me now.” With those simple words, softly cooed over a carefully plucked sequence of acoustic guitar… Continue Reading
