Pittsburgh’s consummate garage rockers are back after a long layoff since 2008′s Season of Sweets with a small, but potent, explosion of swagger with the Wandering Eye 7”, out now on These Are Not Records. “Wandering Eye” doesn’t mess with the formula that made The Modey’s so impressive in the first place: snarling chainsaw guitars [...]
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April 8, 2010
Sleigh Bells Show Review
I want to get right into this. I don’t usually write show reviews of bands I have already previewed, but I couldn’t help myself. Sleigh Bells tore through their set at CMU’s CFA Alumni Concert Hall (not Rangos, like I originally reported) in roughly 33 minutes. They played all five songs I came to know and love [...]
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 [...]
October 26, 2009
Holy Shit! A Major Lazer “Keep it Goin’ Louder” Video Exists?
more about “Major Lazer- “Keep It Goin Louder” on…“, posted with vodpod For the first 7.5 seconds of Major Lazer’s video for the dancehall-dub by way of Billboard Hot 100 fever dream that is “Keep it Goin’ Louder,” off this year’s Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do, all seems to be up to code with [...]
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 20, 2009
Washed Out – “Feel it All Around” Video
more about “washed out on MySpace Music – Free St…“, posted with vodpod It’s a bit of a slow news week here in musicburgh. Few national touring acts from now until the new year will warrant my attention. I have at least four local releases from the last three months that I plan on reviewing, [...]
October 6, 2009
Mission of Burma – “1,2,3 Partyy!!”
more about “Pitchfork: TV“, posted with vodpod The fact is, I missed Massachusetts legends Mission of Burma’s sold out show at Club Cafe last month. It’s shocking considering this band was introduced to me at a very critical time concerning my shifting tastes in musical obsessions. Late 2001, my sophomore year in high school had [...]
September 18, 2009
Serengeti & Polyphonic @ Garfield Artworks Sept. 18th
Serengeti and Polyphonic are two components of one symbiotic organism. They are determined to produce essentially the same results through different media : staggeringly heady hip hop ripe with contradiction. The Chicago based MC Serengeti produces rhymes on a Def Jux level of abstraction, carefully spinning together stream of consciousness tongue twisters both paranoid and [...]
September 17, 2009
Video Premiere – Meeting of Important People – “Brittney Lane”
more about “Aimez-vous ça le carton?“, posted with vodpod Someone should hit me. I have put off reviewing Meeting of Important People’s debut album, which came out late last March, for nearly five months now. However, after seeing them close to seven times over the past year, I can certainly attest to their quality. One [...]
August 17, 2009
A Big Ol’ Summer Concert Review pt 1
I apologize to anyone who actually frequents this site for the slow down (the third of its kind) that was due to a number of factors: job transition, hesitation, and, last but not least, laziness. While my writing about music has slowed down, my actual concert attendance has risen over the past couple weeks, culminating [...]
