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WYEP's first broadcast was 50 years ago this Tuesday, April 30. Join us as we celebrate five decades of unconventional radio.
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Have you ever found yourself in the middle of someone else’s breakup? James the Seventh did and turned that experience into a song called “Centerpiece.”
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Sudden Little Thrills is a new music festival from C3 Presents (Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits) taking place in Pittsburgh at Hazelwood Green on Sept. 7-8.
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While WYEP has evolved over the years to be a music station with a general sound to it — a mix that is eclectic but still distinctive — the early years of the station were radically different. Every couple of hours could go in a sharply new direction, from music to talk and back again.
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It’s not always easy to be our fully realized selves, but it is always important to try. Pittsburgh musician LEVI recently put out their first project as a songwriter — an endeavor that called for some discomfort and lots of grace. Take a listen to the new song "sail."
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Chasing love and affirmation can be fun — but why does it feel like the pursued only feel the same way sometimes? That’s what The Bindley Hardware Co. set out to study on their new song “Deadbeat Daddy.”
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Broadcasting live concerts on WYEP wasn’t new. In fact, we aired live gigs from around the community during the station’s earliest months of existence, including daily broadcasts from the Shadyside Art Festival on Walnut Street in August 1974.
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Ancient History is the brainchild of Pittsburgh artist Don Ducote, whose music connects effect-driven, lo-fi experimentation to straightforward songs rooted in tried-and-true indie sensibilities. The new song “Clementines” appears on the album "Zero Dollar Consolation Prize."
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Since at least the early 2000s, many Pittsburgh acts have rehearsed at ABC Self Storage in Allentown. But that all changed when the space said they'd no longer be able to host local bands.
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Two blocks west of the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg, a Pennsylvania Department of Health building occupies 233 West Otterman Street. Nearly 58 years ago, an earlier building at that location was the site of rock music history.
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WYEP officially began broadcasting on April 30th, 1974. We're looking back at the first on-air transmission from the station.
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Do you remember that crazy Winnebago guy from the old YouTube video? Merce Lemon remembers and took his line “Will You Do Me a Kindness?” and turned it into a gorgeous new song about the inescapable loneliness we often feel as human beings.