[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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Eureka Birds + Horse or Cycle + Bluebird Midwest Brillobox (21+) / 9:30 / $6 Words by Brendan Draw Us Lines Presents … This is the beginning of something beautiful and you can be a part of it. Alright, that’s fairly presumptuous. Here’s the main point: WE LOVE LIVE MUSIC and WE LOVE THESE THREE [...]

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Essay Test is a segment in which we assault a band/artist with questions in an essay test format. You remember that shit, right? We let the bands roam, wander, and trail off. We encourage run-on sentences and love fragments. We may or may not take points off for spelling mistakes. Here’s how More Humans did. [...]

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Song: “Dracula” Artist: More Humans With a song entitled “Dracula”, you’re expecting something dark and gloomy, a little goth, perhaps. Not so with this opening cut from More Humans recent Demon Station EP. Rather than focus on the sinister aspects of a dude who sucks your blood, these three guys mimic the sharpness of teeth [...]

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Words by Raymond Morin Ed. note: We love when Pittsburgh people ask to write something special for us, so when our friend Raymond Morin, from the incredible guitar duo Pairdown, offered to review the new Triggers album, we couldn’t resist. Aside from being a guitar virtuoso, Morin has his own guitar-based blog called Work and [...]

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Words by Brendan There are many adjecives I could use to describe Pet Clinic and their debut EP—talented, purposeful, confident, moody—but I’m choosing this one above all: energetic. This six song EP is the culmination of years of work and it seriously shows, with nary a second of filler, nor a misplaced sound. Even the [...]

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[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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