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
Black Tape For A Blue Girl Unspools, Then Winds Up As 10 Neuroticsnew
On the latest release from Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Sam Rosenthal uses narrative sketches and characters to explore salacious subject matter: S&M; furries; adulterers; exhibitionists; humiliation play; and anonymous sex.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Parker |
01-18-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
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
Dean & Britta Revisit the Music of Galaxie 500new
Galaxie 500 played stark songs, where the simplest chords could cast a hypnotic spell and many songs ended with long, psychedelic guitar solos.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Mike Shanley |
01-17-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dean & Britta
Idiosyncratic Fred Eaglesmith Outgrows Americana Rootsnew
Singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith started moving on once Americana began attracting young guys who had goatees and flannel before they "discovered" cowboy boots.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Parker |
12-30-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fred Eaglesmith
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
Black Moth Super Rainbow Prepares New Releasenew
Even as Black Moth Super Rainbow has emerged as a national touring act, a reputation for being press-shy and mysterious has clung to the keyboard-based psychedelic sextet. It's finally time to set the record straight.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Mike Shanley |
04-27-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Forward-Thinking Pittsburgh Band Drugdealer Releases 'Tits' EPnew
Drugdealer's Tits EP is a tiny masterpiece of art-damaged skree, reminiscent of Hella, Naked City and Ruins and inundated with odd time signatures and lots of twists and turns.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
03-16-2009 |
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
Motorpsychos Grow As They Release Their Third Albumnew
With almost nine years under their leather belts, and the same personnel for most of it, Motorpsychos show no signs of slowing or toning down their pummeling punk-metal attack.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Mike Shanley |
02-02-2009 |
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
Athens' Dead Confederate Locks In on 'Wrecking Ball'new
The group's scorching new sound boasts killer rock tracks and layered guitars -- heavy and lumbering without being overbearing, accented by the Cobain-gone-South drawl of singer Hardy Morris.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Hassiotis |
12-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jazz Violinist Billy Bang Revisits Vietnam in Music for Veterans Daynew
"When I was writing that music, I remember actually crying again and seeing the nightmares I'd been trying to get away from."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Mike Shanley |
11-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jolie Holland Conjures the Supernatural with 'The Living and the Dead'new
There's something slightly otherworldly about Jolie Holland. And it's not just the rhythmic swing and tonal lilt of her voice, and such lyrics as "Nobody likes a spook / Or so I've deduced / But I've loved some ghosts in my time."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
11-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
