Words by Brendan It’s another one of those weekends, folks. The stars have aligned, or there’s something in the water, or the gods must be crazy, who really knows. The bottom line is this: there are a ton of shows going down in the next few days that you should go to. You can’t see [...]

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Wye Oak with Sleep Experiments / Club Cafe / Tuesday August 2/ Doors 7:00 PM / $8-$10 Words by Jim Sometimes a special concert comes to town and you get pretty fucking excited about it, right? I remember when Spoon came to town a while back and played at CMU’s summer festival. It was like [...]

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Words by Brendan The Coathangers have attitude. Just listen to the screamed vocal strains of “Hurricane”, roaring over an undercurrent of rumbling bass and percussion. But The Coathangers also have a softer side. Just listen to the bouncy melodies and girl-group-style backing vocals in “Go Away”. (They also have a sense of humor. Just see [...]

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Words by Jim I didn’t know it could get this hot in Pennsylvania. The past couple weeks have been brutal and we’ve all come to terms that every waking moment outside of air conditioning will leave us feeling disgusting and disturbingly fragrant. That’s gross, but them’s the breaks. When it’s too hot too move, I [...]

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Words by Rick Moslen I strolled through Pittsburgh on my lunch break with the raw gust of Dope Body’s album rupturing my headphones. Suddenly, as I passed this open plaza, a young flash mob birthed from the bushes and came to life. I’m not kidding—it was just like all those YouTube clips. So, I mean, [...]

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Words by Jacob Barron

Artist: Liars
Albums: They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2001) & They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (2004)

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Words by Jim There are a couple places in the United States that have a fabled music scene that hipster mothers tell stories of to their hipster toddlers at night to help them fall asleep. Brooklyn comes to mind. That’s easy. Portland? Yes, sure, absolutely. Austin is a must. Denton, Texas…excuse me. What? Seriously. Denton [...]

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Words by Brendan / Photo above by Hugh “The Man” Twyman This story begins and ends with a cup of coffee, but not the same one, of course. On Friday, July 8, I stayed on campus into the early evening, grading some homeworks (ugh), then dashed home for a quick cup of coffee. I was [...]

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Times New Viking, with Passengers / Andy Warhol Museum / Friday 07.22.2011 / 8:00 / $12-$15 Words by Brendan With a band like Times New Viking, you might have an idea of what you’re gonna hear ahead of time, but there’s really so much more underneath. Broad genre strokes like “lo-fi” and “pop” get slabbed [...]

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