Remember that time when you heard about that awesome show, but only after the fact, and then you got that weird feeling in your stomach, like when you went too high on the playground swings? Plan Your Week Accordingly is a new feature of Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound which aims to help you never [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Club Cafe’
October 28, 2009
“That S**t is Haunting” – Nicole Atkins and The Black Sea Show Review – 10/27 Club Cafe
Yeah, I’m a novice. Nicole Atkins is one of those dark, smoldering ingenues who converts humans into disciples with no more than a fiery glance. During her live shows these humans, guys and gals alike, swoon in measured droves, pray for their favorite songs and stand mystified, religiously mystified, as Ms. Atkins seduces the stage. [...]
April 14, 2009
Gentleman Auction House at Club Cafe, April 14, 8pm
Like the Arcade Fire and Flaming Lips before them, Gentleman Auction House have an uncanny knack for constructing an eclectic musical setting rich in detail and mood. The band name alone manages to evoke, for me at least, a weirdly specific sense of time and place: Gilded Age St. Louis, a large wooden town hall [...]
March 11, 2009
Coltrane Motion and The Year Without Summer
Bands have been pillaging 60′s pop music, from girl groups to The Beatles to Phil Spector, for decades, turning what could the most down right sunny tunes of the past 50 years into a provocative, avant-garde reinterpretation where feedback and noise all but drowned out the faintest structure of melody and themes brimming with sex, [...]
March 10, 2009
The Heligoats Hurt Me
Chris Otepka’s vocals hurt and hurt deep. With a voice that churns out exhausted disillusionment like it was his second language, every track he writes easily takes on a dimension of quiet desperation without breaking a sweat. With his latest one-man, indie folk project The Heligoats, Otepka’s vocals still retain that cautious draw that can [...]
