Pittsburgh City Paper

'Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body' Provokesnew

This provocative new anthology of videos explores the human body as weapon, symbol, object, subject or organism.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Bill O'Driscoll | 09-10-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Alberto Roblest and Andres Tapia-Urzua, Raw Tactics of the Subversive Body

'If You Can't Sing It, Scream It!' Takes Its Title Literallynew

Northern Aggression's songs brim with anger and passion, whether dealing with fair-weather punks or the Christian right.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Manny Theiner | 09-10-2007 | Reviews

Tags: If You Can't Sing It, Scream It!, Northern Aggression

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

Hip-hop Producer Emmai Alaquiva Celebrates Emmy Nominationnew

On Aug. 2, he received a Mid-Atlantic Emmy nomination, for music composition and arrangement for several WQED documentaries soundtracks, including In Country: A Vietnam Story, Jim Crow Pennsylvania and From Pennsylvania's Dutch Kitchens.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Omar-Abdul R. Lawrence | 09-10-2007 | Music

Tags: Emmai Alaquiva

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

The Van Allen Belt Offers a Feast of Psych-pop Nuggetsnew

Meal Ticket is a reverberating soup -- a low-fi version of Phil Spector's "wall of sound."

Pittsburgh City Paper | Aaron Jentzen | 07-24-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Meal Ticket to Purgatory, The Van Allen Belt

Paul Luc's Gentle Alt-popnew

Like Van Morrison, the singer-songwriter inhabits the intersection of rootsy folk, pop and slick R&B, melding and crisscrossing between those genres with his distinctive breathy yet raspy tenor.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Aaron Jentzen | 07-24-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Paul Luc, The Shelly Street Anthems

Wred Fright, Zinester Novelistnew

"Wred Fright" is the nom-de-zine of Dr. Fred Wright, an English professor outside Cleveland who wrote his doctoral thesis on zine culture -- he talks about his latest novel.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Aaron Jentzen | 07-24-2007 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus, Wred Fright

Innocence Institute to Become a Victim?new

Point Park University's widely touted Innocence Institute -- which has helped free nearly a dozen wrongfully convicted Pennsylvanians from prison -- is in jeopardy, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette may have signed its death warrant.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Charlie Deitch | 07-24-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

New Programs Hope to Reduce Home Foreclosuresnew

Pennsylvania homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure can expect to see some help this summer -- both from the government and from grassroots advocates.

Pittsburgh City Paper | Violet Law | 07-09-2007 | Economy

Tags: Economic Issues