The Local 913 Live: Kenia

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Kenia performed at WYEP's Local 913 Live local music happy hour February 16, 2018.

Photo by Hannah Brizzi.

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	The Local 913: The Regal Sweet The Regal Sweet is a “proper” rock-n-roll band. Fronted by singer Gary Musisko, The Regal Sweet don’t want to impress you with how much they know about music. They just want you to have a good time. "It’s less head music and more body music," says Musisko, "I think that’s the direction of a “... Listen Now »
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	The Local 913: The Living Street The Living Street is a band from Pittsburgh that has made it a point to get their music out to the masses. For Nick Guckert and Edward Angelo, that means a life of near constant touring. "Life on the road is incredibly fun," they say. "We love... Listen Now »
	The Local 913: Cody Piper Cody Piper has been surrounded by music, lots of it, for his entire life. "My grandpa was actually in the Pittsburgh Symphony for 55 years," he says. "He played the double bass and he also taught at Carnegie Mellon, which is where I went to... Listen Now »
	The Local 913: Drauve "I have absolutely no idea what I would be doing with my life if I didn’t have music. I’d just be this big ball of anxiety and sadness," says Victoria Draovitch, front woman for the Pittsburgh dream pop band Drauve. She’s quick to point to what... Listen Now »
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	The Local 913: Peter Perkins Peter Perkins spent most of his adult life building homes for other people, but now he’s ready to spend some of that energy on his own creative projects. "I’ve been writing songs all my life," he says. "But I figured there was a more secure career path and took that one. I would rather have... Listen Now »
	The Local 913: Zoom Grand Caravan "I think we start with a folk song and we make it into something more confusing," says Joe Kukula from Zoom Grand Caravan. Joe, along with his bandmate and writing partner Linus Morales, has a knack for turning something simple into something confusing and something confusing into something... Listen Now »
	The Local 913: Flower Crown It’s not always easy to categorize music these days. The lines between genres are often blurred and artists take influence from all over the place. Richie Colosimo of the Pittsburgh band Flower Crown laughed when I asked him to describe the... Listen Now »
	The Local 913: Sierra Sellers You’d never guess it if you saw her singing, but Sierra Sellers used to be afraid of the spotlight. Over the last few years, though, she’s really embraced the public side of her music career. "One thing that I was really focusing on was... Listen Now »
	The Local 913 Live: Molly Alphabet Molly Alphabet and her band performed at WYEP's Pittsburgh music happy hour on September 19, 2019. Listen Now »
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	The Local 913: String Machine String Machine’s new album Death of the Neon makes anxiety sound absolutely beautiful. That emotional honesty, paired with the group’s dense indie folk sound, makes for a compelling listen. Front man David Beck describes the... Listen Now »
	The Local 913: Tom Paul Tom Paul has been making music in Pittsburgh for a long time. "Well, I’ve been writing music probably since my twenties," he says, "And bought a 4-track reel-to-reel tape recorder with my first paycheck out of college and then bought a Stratocaster... Listen Now »
	The Local 913: Afro Yaqui Music Collective "Music can change the world and it has always changed the world. That’s why we make music – everyone can understand it!" That’s Gizelxanath Rodriguez from the Afro Yaqui Music Collective – a music and theater hybrid from Pittsburgh. Composer and saxophonist Ben Barson, along with the... Listen Now »
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	The Local 913: Brightside Brightside are an indie rock band with strong pop leanings. I think they’re kind of emo too, but maybe emo is a dirty word, at least according to frontman Matt Vituccio, "It is. But, we came from an emo revival scene, so we have to embrace it." Brightside were poised for success almost... Listen Now »
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	The Local 913: Chalk Dinosaur Music doesn’t have to be blunt to make a point. Sometimes the meaning of art is in the eye – or ears – of the beholder. John O'Hallaron from Pittsburgh band Chalk Dinosaur says, "I used to write every song with words. It was based on lyrics and words, but at a certain point, I started to be... Listen Now »
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