AltWeeklies Wire
Building A Followingnew
Musicians like Jonathan Coulton build a grassroots following through Twitter follows.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
01-25-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jonathan Coulton
How to Become Google's No. 1 Female Rappernew
Plenty of Pittsburgh-based musicians are skilled with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other standard online promotion tools. But Kellee Maize operates on a different level. Just Google "female rapper," and behold her spot at No. 1.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
01-24-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Google, Kellee Maize
Traces Hip Hop's Storynew
Paradise Gray has worn many hats since his early days as a gang member in the South Bronx: photographer; performer; collector; promoter; techie; and now, curator. Selections from his memorabilia are now at the August Wilson Center, exhibited as Hip Hop History: Highlights of the Paradise Collection.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
01-18-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Conversation with The Low Anthem's Ben Knox Millernew
Miller is getting antsy. It seems he wants nothing more than to get back into the band's studio -- back to the collection of oddball instruments so gorgeously layered on Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, including zither, oil drum, and Tibetan singing bowls.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
08-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Butch Walker Rises From the Ashesnew
Butch Walker's music has grown more nuanced, and he's also grown quite successful as a pop producer -- think Katy Perry, Avril, Pink, The Academy Is and so on.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
03-16-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Canada's Constantines Sail Down 'Credit River'new
Assembling a song that responds to current events is a long process, lagging far behind the speed we've grown to expect in the internet era. the best you can hope for is that changes in the world will make one of your songs unexpectedly topical and timely -- that is exactly what's happened with the Constantines song "Credit River."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
01-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Group Formula412 Releases its Long-Anticipated Albumnew
Back in early 2006, the local supergroup burst onto the scene with a couple of high-profile shows and immediately went into the studio. As that hype turned into more live opportunities, the album sat on the back burner.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
10-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pittsburgh Legends Don Caballero Return with 'Punkgasm'new
Meet the new Don Caballero. Or rather, the new new Don Cab.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
09-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Don Caballero, Punkgasm
How Long Can Girl Talk Run?new
Just hours before his new album is sent to the Internet, Gregg Gillis is at home: a two-room Wilkinsburg apartment crammed with the detritus of his life on the road as internationally acclaimed mashup artist Girl Talk.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
09-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Slowcore' Legends American Music Club Play the Warholnew
AMC is back with a second album for Merge, The Golden Age, for which Eitzel and longtime guitarist Vudi recruited Sean Hoffman on bass and Steve Didelot on drums.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
04-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Black 47 Brings an Edge to St. Patrick's Day Festivitiesnew
Since 1989, the New York City-based group has combed the emotional weight of traditional Irish melodies and instruments with gutsy working-class rock 'n' roll and Kirwan's rapid-fire, Joe Strummer-esque sneer.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
03-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Songwriting Collective Company Borrows From Byrds, Buffalos and Voltronnew
The songwriting collective's latest album, Old Baby, comes from a different place than most of us live in today, sharing more in ethos and feel with The Band and Dylan's Basement Tapes than with the contemporary music scene.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
02-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Yves Jean Creates Exotic Rhythms on 'For Love and Desperation'new
Yves Jean's pretty hard to miss in Pittsburgh's music scene -- you can't walk into just any rock bar around here and see a 6-foot-5 Haitian-American who combines mainstream pop-rock vocals and hooks with his rippling bass and African and Caribbean rhythms.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
02-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Real World Experience Helping Band Succeednew
Ra Ra Riot graduated from being a college band to a real band in the world and are just trying to live up to that.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
02-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ra Ra Riot
Jeffrey M. Robinson Deconstructs the Warhol Museumnew
If you've ever seen a guy loitering in a bustling museum with some stereo mics and a laptop, you may already be in Jeffrey M. Robinson's work.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
01-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeffrey M. Robinson
