Review: The Turbosonics – “Bedrock Stomp” b/w “Journey to the Center of the Sun” August 30, 2019 The Turbosonics, one of Pittsburgh’s more reliable surf bands, always has been a bit of a cultural throwback for me, and I don’t mean… Continue Reading
Review: The Lampshades – “Forget Me Not” b/w “Sadly True” August 30, 2019 As posthumous releases go, the new 7-inch from Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona’s The Lampshades, out today, is the exception to the rule in this fatalistic sub-genre: an… Continue Reading
Profile: Beach Blanket Blowout (2019) August 7, 2019 Any musician’s urge to worship at the altar of Dick Dale has to start somewhere. For Kevin Koch, drummer for Los Vampiros Amarillos, the… Continue Reading
Profile: Urns (2019) August 6, 2019 Pittsburgh’s Urns descends from the dirgy, often glacially paced punk-metal of Melvins, Earth, Sunn O))) and other icons whose guitar riffs are sludgy and… Continue Reading
Review: MELK – “Listen” July 18, 2019 There’s not very much that’s astounding about “Listen,” the one-song debut from Reno soul quartet MELK, released yesterday on streaming services. That is, there’s… Continue Reading
Profile: Spotlights (2019) July 16, 2019 The band Spotlights played its first show in Pittsburgh in 2017, opening for Melvins at Rex Theater in South Side. At the time, the… Continue Reading
Review: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Energetic Bursts” July 10, 2019 Guitarist-composer Aaron Myers-Brooks constructs mathy, even obtuse, metal for listeners who appreciate the genre’s technical virtuosity but take issue with its faux-evil strutting and… Continue Reading
Profile: Deutschtown Music Festival (2019) July 9, 2019 Almost a decade ago, Cody Walters and Ben Soltesz saw a transformation on the horizon in Pittsburgh and they wanted to make sure their… Continue Reading
Profile: Wild Kindness Records relaunches July 5, 2019 Wild Kindness, the Pittsburgh label that once defined the city’s alt-pop aspirations through records by Andre Costello and Chet Vincent & The Big Bend,… Continue Reading
Profile: David Mnemo (2019) June 28, 2019 At a Pennsylvania house party around 2007, Penn State students John Dubosky and Eric Goeller heard a sound that blew their minds. “There was… Continue Reading
