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» Retribution Gospel Choir brings thoughtful power pop to Thunderbird Cafe
Although capable of something approaching power pop on songs like "Hide It Away," RGC isn't exactly a happy-go-lucky band.
By Andy Mulkerin |
January 21, 2010
(Music: Music Features)
» Local Beat
By Andy Mulkerin |
January 21, 2010
(Music: Local Beat)
» Chicago's Velcro Lewis Group unleashes primordial roots rock at Howlers
In addition to his caterwauls, the band's legally blind frontman Velcro Lewis plays an electric diddley bow, a rudimentary one-string guitar.
By Andy Mulkerin |
January 7, 2010
(Music: Music Features)
» Dutch classical guitar prodigy Bram Stadhouders plays Garfield Artworks
The music he's creating now, at age 22, combines classical themes, improvisational freedom and ambient beauty.
By Andy Mulkerin |
December 24, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Get a whiff of Rot Shit, the self-proclaimed best band in Pittsburgh
For Rot Shit, practice is nearly nonexistent. "It usually involves drinking as much beer as we can and talking about how good every song is."
By Andy Mulkerin |
December 10, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» The Happiness Project explores the music of everyday speech
"It's funny how musical people are without really knowing it. They might think they can't sing, but they're singing all the time, in the way they speak."
By Andy Mulkerin |
November 26, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Lo-fi indie darling Jay Reatard: media manipulator, or simply dense?
The new record preserves both the awkward angst with which Reatard's made a name for himself and the incredibly simple and sensible pop structure he's long hung it upon.
By Andy Mulkerin |
November 19, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» A local Joni Mitchell tribute concert features well-known performers and a unique story
Ruby Vere, a longtime Joni fan, spent some years in the '90s in L.A., and returned to Pittsburgh ... having swum in her idol's pool.
By Andy Mulkerin |
November 5, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» NYC's Wetnurse fuses disparate metallic elements into the acclaimed Invisible City
In "Life at Stake," amid the frustration rises a riff that wouldn't be out of place on a Yes album.
By Andy Mulkerin |
November 5, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Chicago's Helen Money brings one-woman cello-rock to Brillobox
"I want to make music that's intense and dark and makes me feel the way the music I like to listen to makes me feel."
By Andy Mulkerin |
October 29, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Ocote Soul Sounds brings political Latin and Afrobeat grooves to Thunderbird Café
The funk backbeat makes movement seductive regardless of your take on contested lands.
By Andy Mulkerin |
October 15, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Guitarist Kelli Rudick incorporates unusual instruments into her complex compositions
Rather than the classic repetitive build-and-washout, climax-and-denouement of the casual looping artist, Rudick's works deal in nuance and subtle alteration.
By Andy Mulkerin |
October 8, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Early Day Miners play Thunderbird Café, supporting new album The Treatment
Even on a pop record, Daniel Burton can't resist the call of nuance, in songwriting and production.
By Andy Mulkerin |
September 24, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» G-20 Activism
A list of events in the days leading up to the summit
By Andy Mulkerin |
September 17, 2009
(News: News)
» Local acoustic trio The Weathered Road releases debut, A New Road Home
What The Weathered Road has working for it is both instrumental and vocal proficiency.
By Andy Mulkerin |
September 17, 2009
(Music: CD Reviews)
» Local band Good Night, States expands its sound with a new EP and techie tinkering
"One band member referred to this record as 'Good Night, States with the rock 'n' roll taken out.'"
By Andy Mulkerin |
September 3, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Brooklyn trio Vivian Girls plays the Warhol Museum
Far from naïve and angelic, Vivian Girls present a view of the world that's playfully jaded, pleasantly cynical.
By Andy Mulkerin |
August 20, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers bring mournful Americana to South Park
Despite her youth, Crain sings and writes with a confidence that betrays maturity.
By Andy Mulkerin |
August 13, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» A Conversation with Slim Cessna
"It's something that I wrestle with -- my faith, or whether there even is such thing as faith."
By Andy Mulkerin |
July 23, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
» Recent Sub Pop signing Obits brings the choogle to Brillobox
On a track like "Lilies in the Street," Froberg's Alex Chilton-esque delivery is what makes an otherwise simply good song a fantastic one.
By Andy Mulkerin |
July 23, 2009
(Music: Music Features)
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