AltWeeklies Wire
Kokayi Spreads 'Mass Instructions'new
There's more than one way for a rapper to spread his name around the world. For rapper Kokayi, that involves becoming a goodwill ambassador.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
01-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kokayi, Mass Instructions
Music on the Edge Series Fetes Giants of Microtonal Musicnew
For a musician and composer to reach that age while maintaining a high degree of accomplishment for five decades, and for his work to remain vital right up to this day -- that's a veritable cause for cultural celebration.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
01-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ezra Sims
Prog-rockers Rainstation Zero Release Debutnew
In a genre dominated by dudely musicians and dudely fans, having a female singer is a difference that immediately sets them apart for the better.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
12-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rainstation Zero
What do Nirvana, Bob Mould and Marilyn Manson Have in Common?new
For one, Rasputina's Melora Creager, who served as cellist for Nirvana's In Utero tour, and whose merry band of miscreants opened for these other acts during Rasputina's late-'90s stint on Columbia Records.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
12-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Oh Perilous World, Rasputina
Pop Chameleon Todd Rundgren on the Biznew
Rundgren's eclectic and critically lauded albums, which range from pop and rock to soul, a capella and zany experiments (often all at the same time) have left an indelible mark on music.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Ben Karakh |
12-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Todd Rundgren
A Conversation with John Schmersal of Enonnew
Now located in Philadelphia, Enon is breaking the silence with the corrugated clatter and dark grooves of Grass Geysers ... Carbon Clouds, just out on Touch & Go.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
10-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
New Invisible Joy Hits Road After Two Years in Studionew
From the conceptual packaging to the interwoven themes of mortality and loss, Kontakt is a pop-rock record by a Pittsburgh-based group that has no business in the local CD section; bearing traces of The Psychedelic Furs, U2, Coldplay and The Verve.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
09-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kontakt, New Invisible Joy
Icarus Witch Channels Rob Halford and Ronnie James Dionew
The Pittsburgh-based classic metal band has been, oh, playing German festivals with Metal Church, opening for Yngwie Malmsteen, getting the gear ripped off in Chicago ... and recording another scorcher of a full-length.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
09-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Icarus Witch, Songs for the Lost
PIttsburgh Band's Studio Turns into Community Centernew
Local band The 9th Ward's Blackberry Studios isn't in the Lawrenceville of little boutiques and hipster bars -- it's the Lawrenceville of used-car lots and Section 8 housing. But then it became more than a studio.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
09-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The 9th Ward
Brokeback: Post-Tortoise Post-Rocknew
The story of bassist Doug McCombs unfolds like a tapestry of the Chicago music scene.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
07-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brokeback
Magic Wolf Updates Cock Rock for New Generationnew
While the trio isn't trying to intellectualize rock 'n' roll by any means, the band's not as mindless as it may pretend to be.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Magic Wolf
The 69 Eyes: Goth 'n' Rollnew
For the past couple years The 69 Eyes have been gathering steam in America, but the band's been a fixture in Helsinki for ages.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
06-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The 69 Eyes
Jennifer Herrema Believes in the Future of Rock 'n' Rollnew
If the RTX frontwoman did not exist, it would be necessary to invent her -- the world just needs a badass arty hesher who's part studio rat, part Calvin Klein model.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
05-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: RTX
In Search of True Believers: The Locust, Cattle Decapitation, and Daughtersnew
Are 15-year-old "Brittany Brutals" really into gore metal?
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Jake McGee |
04-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Locust
A Wintry Tone-poemnew
This Too Will Pass is, if not a somber affair, a reserved one -- the electronic beats pulse rather than skitter, never breaking above a gentle mid-tempo.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
03-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The One AM Radio
