About a decade ago, Rusted Root founding member Jim Donovan set out to create something new with his band Sun King Warriors. Their new album is coming out soon and features the song “The Way You Shine.”
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Pittsburgh band The Buckle Downs put out a couple of new songs recently with the promise of more to come. Check out "Unstoppable."
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For a few years in the 1960s, a building in Downtown Pittsburgh housed Gateway Records, an independent record company that produced music by local bluegrass bands, polka performers and the beloved “Chiller Theater.”
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How is a record made? What materials go into its creation? Who’s behind the work? Join WYEP’s Brian Siewiorek as we take a tour of Hellbender Vinyl, Pittsburgh’s vinyl record pressing plant in Lawrenceville! We’ll look at the specific functions of the vinyl pressing machine, see how the labels are “baked” and watch how quality control is done at Hellbender.
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Music festivals are canceling their events like maybe never before. Call it the music festival recession.
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The singer and guitarist was part of sibling quintet that took over the pop world in 1969 — it released four consecutive No. 1 hits — and launched a family entertainment dynasty that lasted decades.
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South Side music venue Club Cafe will close at year's end, its owner announced this week.
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Ron Esser has been running Moondog's for 35 years now, hosting live musicians playing blues, rock, and other genres at the little spot on Freeport Road.
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Gibson Musisko has been writing songs and playing in bands for a decade, though he’s just 19 years old. His latest project — PosterChild — recently released the album Vengeance Says.
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The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes existential.
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It’s a quintessential Pittsburgh tale, involving a surging baseball team, one of its most beloved members, a proud community, enthusiastic sponsor, iconic, locally-based ad agency, revered Pittsburgh musicians, a 110-year tune penned by a Pittsburgh icon and… a bittersweet epilogue.
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Famously feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have announced an Oasis reunion, 15 years after its dramatic breakup. Here's a brief timeline of their tumultuous history — and how they got here.
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"If I have to define my music in any way," Nick Cave says, "it's religious music." His new album is a gallery of encounters with spiritual, possibly divine figures, not all of whom are benevolent.
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