[The Lookahead is a monthly segment where we get to be all newsy and point out cool stuff going down in the next 30 days or so. We'll have cool Pittsburgh music shows and events, local album releases, and some national releases of interest. This is the good stuff we've heard about. Come back on [...]

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Words by Jim My inbox gets annihilated by emails on a daily basis. I almost feel bad for it. PR people from around the globe send us the most random stuff. Seriously, I’m not saying that we are super important and we have PR agents banging our door down, because that’s definitely not the case. [...]

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Hung On You from New Shouts on Vimeo. We are super psyched to premiere this new music video from Pittsburgh’s best retro soul-rockers, New Shouts! Their fantastic debut EP, Sing New Shouts, was one of our local faves of last year, and we’ve caught some stripped-down versions of their tunes on tape for their Echo [...]

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Words by Brendan I sat down with Josh Verbanets, guitarist/singer/songwriter from Meeting of Important People, at Kiva Han the other day to shoot the shit and chat about the band’s plans for a new album and their corresponding Kickstarter campaign. I am a huge MOIP fan, like a lot of folks I know around town, [...]

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Song: Catalpa Artist: Young Brokaw I’m a sucker for songs with spelling lessons.”C-A-T-A-L-P-A” shouted over eighth note guitar strums is music to my ears. Young Brokaw transport me back to mid ’90s awesomeness with this careening indie pop rock gem about a certain genus of flowering plants (or an album by Jolie Holland or a [...]

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So we typically toss a video onto a post when highlighting a new band or a show preview or something and let you draw your own conclusion about it. Sometimes we throw a change-up… strike that — let’s call it a round up. Most of these videos are of bands we have previously talked about [...]

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Photo by Lauren Gosninski from VIA Words by Brendan What a way to start off a year of concertgoing. I’ve never seen a show end due to a band injury before, but that’s exactly what happened here. Kim Phuc – Copsucker LP by Kim Phuc

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About a month ago we announced a super duper holiday giveaway, asking you all for a paragraph about your favorite musical moment of 2011. We received a lot of great submissions. Seriously, we are stunned and humbled by what you’ve shared with us, dear readers. We wish we could print all of the stories we [...]

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Artist / Donora
Songs / “Boom Boom” & “Mancini’s Dance Hall”
Location / Unfinished Floor, River Walk Corporate Centre 333 East Carson Street
Time / November 28, 2011

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Words by Jim Growing up, I played a lot of music. I remember countless evenings forgoing homework to practice guitar in my half-lit bedroom, destroying my hearing frequency by frequency. My band in high school “practiced”, but that’s just what we called it. Too young to play bars, too few places other than basements and [...]

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