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....
View ArticleFebruary 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...
View ArticleDan 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMother 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...
View ArticleThe City’s Summer According to Wise Blood
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...
View ArticleTop Tracks of 2011
Even though I don’t post on this site regularly, I couldn’t help but make a massive year end list of the 80-ish songs I obsessed over in 2011. The tracks are not numbered in a countdown format or even...
View ArticleTop Steel City Tracks of 2011
I think my favorite part about living in Pittsburgh and keeping up with the music scene here is making annual year end lists of my favorite local music (if you’re curious, here are my 2009 and 2010...
View ArticleTop Tracks of 2012
I’ve tried to make listening to this year’s top tracks as easy as possible. Along with an embedded SoundCloud player, which has an accompanying primer due to the erratic track title formatting,...
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