Houston transplant Wise Blood made himself visible in Pittsburgh at the perfect time. It’s early May and the summer needs a soundtrack. Living in Pittsburgh, I don’t need all that jazz about the beach and surfing and taking drugs, blah blah blah; we have water sure, but being landlocked is the name of the game. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Feature’
May 4, 2010
Mother Sun’s Upcoming Full-Length Out 6/22, Two New Tracks
I need to apologize first. After featuring Mother Sun‘s self-titled EP on speed of the pittsburgh sound last summer, I stupidly left them off the Steel City’s Top 20 Tracks of 2009. It was a mistake fueled by negligence and if I had a second chance to do 2009 over again, Mother Sun’s “Phantasmagoria” would land [...]
April 22, 2010
The Ceiling Stares and the Spirit of Analog
The Ceiling Stares, Pittsburgh’s newest underground rock heroes, embrace the lo-fi movement in the correct manner. Less-than-polished, analog-sounding recording techniques shouldn’t be used to mask the deficiencies of the band that utilizes them, nor should they be employed because the current wave of indie music trends indicate lo-fi’s (supposed) importance. The rough, distorted haze of [...]
March 10, 2010
The Seven Fields of Aphelion Debut Release – Periphery
The Seven Fields of Aphelion steps out from the shadows (in a manner of speaking) of Tobacco and Black Moth Super Rainbow to release Periphery, out now on Graveface Records. An angelic album of ambient moods and textures, impressionistic, sweeping and intimate in the same breath, Periphery personifies dream-like. As Aaron Jentzen mentioned in his [...]
February 10, 2010
Dan Koshute’s Birthday Party, Saturday @ Garfield Artworks, 7pm
With a birthday on February 13th, Pittsburgh’s live-in rock god Dan Koshute plans to have a concert bash at Garfield Artworks this Saturday opening for Destry along with Mean Creek and Joy Toujours & The Toys Du Jours. Even with the snowpocalypse in full swing, I really hope the city gets its shit together by [...]
February 3, 2010
February Album Writing Month Has Arrived
If you’re reading this website, chances are you and I share similar tastes in music. The similarities don’t end with the way the music sounds, it includes how the music is made, who is making it, and where it is being performed. The artists who I pay attention to, I mean really pay attention to, [...]
September 14, 2009
Stream Girls’ Debut Album in Full
Anyone who has been perusing the indie music blogosphere for the past year has probably been bludgeoned, more than a few times, with the immense hype machine that is San Fransisco sun rockers Girls. With that said, eager listeners can finally get the full picture of Girls’ highly anticipated debut album, Album, which is currently [...]
April 13, 2009
Nirvana Redux: A Revisionist Take on Kurt Cobain’s Legacy
Ward “All Apologies” Sutton, resident comic/satirist for The Village Voice, imagines a “what if” scenario for the patron saint of tortured musicians, Kurt Cobain, in the form of a 17-panel webcomic entitled In Bloom:The Alternate History of Kurt Cobain. It details the life and legacy Cobain would have left behind had he lived well in [...]
February 24, 2009
Track Reviews: Dark Was the Night
The Red Hot Organization has put together a stunning, 31 track, double sided compilation entitled Dark Was the Night, released in stores, digitally, and triple vinyl formats on February 13. The Red Hot Organization is the leading international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture, according to their website. Since 1989, they have produced [...]
February 23, 2009
Grand Buffet Baffles Me
It’s intimidating to stumble across a rap group that has as much history as Pittsburgh based Grand Buffet. Underground rap artists are notorious for pumping out crates of impenetrable mix tapes, remixes, 12” vinyls and any other self-produced materials hungry heads at indie-hop shows are ready to devour. Grand Buffet is in no way the [...]
