Concert Review: Thom Yorke (2019) October 2, 2019 There’s something, I don’t know, almost phosphorescent about Thom Yorke, the iconic Radiohead frontman who brought his new solo tour right to the doorstep… 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
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
Review: Old Game – “Lunatics” June 11, 2019 Lunatics, the excellent new four-song EP from Pittsburgh-based quartet Old Game, out June 22, starts with the thump-thump-thump of bass guitar and drums in… Continue Reading
Profile: Old Game (2019) June 11, 2019 Brenda Leeds knows about the feeling. The vocalist and rhythm guitarist of Pittsburgh underground rock band, Old Game, has felt it sneak unsuspectingly, like a… Continue Reading
