For the first time since like June of 2009, the updated concert calendar through April is available for your viewing pleasure. I also made a point to include Morgantown fixture 123 Pleasant Street as a concert venue worth your attention, considering they get just as many national tours, Pittsburgh acts and home grown bands from [...]
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February 11, 2010
Cold Cave Ticket Giveaway, 2/22 @ Garfield Artworks
Philadelphia synth-darkwave artistes Cold Cave come to Garfield Artworks on February 22 along with Hair Police and Lookbook. I have two tickets to give away for the show, so the first two lucky souls to email me (bowmanpatrick@ymail.com) with “cold cave tickets” in the subject header get the prizes. Love Comes Close, the group’s Jan [...]
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 [...]
January 15, 2010
Bear in Heaven, Freelance Whales, Mariage Blanc @ Brillobox 1/16, 10pm
Just as the post-holiday, winter doldrums, snowy-cold malaise begins to truly take hold, the exhilarating prospect of a new year worth of quality shows begins to materialize. None more promising than the solid line up the Brillobox has ready for Saturday as Pitchfork darlings Bear in Heaven make a mid winter pit stop in the [...]
December 16, 2009
Yeasayer New Track from Odd Blood – “ONE”
Okay, I swear I won’t be updating this blog every time a new Yeasayer track comes out. The only reason I did it this morning is because for the first time in three months I checked out Le Blogotheque and even though the entire site is in French, the first story concerned something about Yeasayer. [...]
November 11, 2009
Lights, Saadi @ Garfield Artworks 11/14
Brooklyn bands Lights and Saadi make their way to Garfield artworks this Saturday which comes in the middle of an already busy November for the Pittsburgh music scene. But even as the Steel City continues to thrive, the music world’s attention is once again fixated on the Scene of scenes: Brooklyn. The indie music blogosphere [...]
November 6, 2009
The Spinto Band @ Garfield Artworks, 11/7
When I think of Delaware, I think of a beautifully manicured college campus in the northeast somewhere, complete with ivy-coated brick buildings, pretentious coffee shops and an easy going, all be it progressive, student population. For all I know, the entire state is like a sprawling, commonwealth version of Williams. A ridiculous day dream I [...]
November 4, 2009
Jookabox @ Thunderbird Cafe 11/4, 10PM
David Adamson, the man/ beat boy/freak folk/ hazed-out shaman behind Asthmatic Kitty’s Jookabox knows something about drums and bass. His reckless, primordial rhythms perforate the negative spaces of his music like steady cacophonies of jack hammers working simultaneously on parallel city streets. Separately, the isolated layers of percussion may only appear to be dumb, blunt [...]
October 23, 2009
Lohio New Track “Waiting for the End of the Summertime,” @ CMU’s Rangos Ballroom 10/23
I’ve always suffer from a hazy splash of deja vu when I listen to Lohio. Unfortunately, my initial response when listening to new music is fairly academic. I unconsciously begin to pick apart influences, arrangements, compositional elements and production touches when, before long, I missed any emotional resonance the song had to offer. I have [...]
October 13, 2009
Spider (a.k.a. Jane Herships) @ Garfield Artworks 10/14 9PM
As October creeps into my consciousness and the days get shorter, I find myself in a massive transitional period. October is a heavy month, maybe the heaviest. Weighted down by the unfamiliar cold, abrupt fits of loneliness and the general mass of my life accumulating before year’s end, I unknowingly wait for something in the [...]
