Best of 2011 / Vicki’s Top 5 Lists

Soundtracking: Your Thanksgiving (II)

Words by Jacob Barron To my knowledge, no artist has risen to the challenge I issued in last year’s edition of Soundtracking: Your Thanksgiving to create music endemic to this most gluttonous of holidays. There’s apparently now a best Thanksgiving movie, at least according to this person, but still no Thanksgiving album. And so we [...]

Crazy Concert Weekend / 11.10.2011 – 11.14.2011

Words by Brendan This is the kind of weekend where I wish I had a time-turner, like Hermione. (Nerd alert!) There are several shows I want to see on each of the next few nights, including a bunch of album release shows from local bands. Unfortunately, I don’t have such a device, and neither do [...]

5 Songs / Dark Love Songs by Chicks That Feature Some Kind of Distressed Animal

5 Songs is a weekly series where we point out the strange, the grand, and the unique connections between our favorite songs. Let’s get weird. Words by Chris Carosi It’s a drag to think about love sometimes, and these 5 songs take into account the fragility of love in the form of li’l animals, and [...]

Halloween Concerts in Pittsburgh / 10.28.2011 – 10.29.2011

  Words by Brendan Halloween is a strange holiday, when you think about it. For kids, it’s that magical day when you can ask your neighbors for candy and they have to give you some! (Fuck that guy who gave you raisins.) For teens, it’s that awkward day where you’re too old to trick or [...]

Soundtracking: Your Autumn (II)

Words by Jacob Barron Last year was the first complete year of soundtracking and yea, our earth continued to spin, and we are hence blessed to find ourselves faced with yet another autumn. The same pile of leaves that you raked up last year will soon form in your backyards and the same bittersweet feeling [...]

The Draw Us Lines College Primer: Places / Media

Hey. How’s it going? Good, great. So, yeah, you might be new here. Maybe you’re a freshman at Pitt or CMU or somewhere else. That’s terrific and we applaud your good choice in city. But maybe you’re not exactly new here, and you’re finding yourself ready to explore the town and uncover it’s wonders. You’re [...]

The Draw Us Lines College Primer: Venues

Hey. How’s it going? Good, great. So, yeah, you might be new here. Maybe you’re a freshman at Pitt or CMU or somewhere else. That’s terrific and we applaud your good choice in city. But maybe you’re not exactly new here, and you’re finding yourself ready to explore the town and uncover it’s wonders. You’re [...]

The Draw Us Lines College Primer: Bands

Hey. How’s it going? Good, great. So, yeah, you might be new here. Maybe you’re a freshman at Pitt or CMU or somewhere else. That’s terrific and we applaud your good choice in city. But maybe you’re not exactly new here, and you’re finding yourself ready to explore the town and uncover it’s wonders. You’re [...]

Pittsburgh Releases / September 2011

Words by Brendan So, I posted a similar version of this article over on my personal blog last week, but I found myself with more things to say, some shows already happened, some popped up on my radar, etc. Also, the readership over here is much larger, to say the least. And hey, I JUST [...]

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