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HughShows Blog has featured thousands of original live band photos and has conducted over 1000 musician interviews (including Brian Wilson, Mavis Staples, and Bruce Hornsby) since starting. With the original ‘First/Last’ questionnaire, you get a sense of where the musician has come from and where they are going with their artistic expression.

Image Of The Day-“Detroit ’67”

Posted on March 9, 2009

There seems to be a wealth of relatively unknown Canadian bands that are way more popular in their home country. Sam Roberts falls into that category, as he easily fills arenas up there but plays rooms that hold 125 people down here…

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Image of the Day-“A Wound You Hardly Could See!”

Posted on March 4, 2009

Going into this night, I hadn’t realized that this would be the Pittsburgh debut of the band’s new line-up. Besides sounding REALLY good,..

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Image of the Day-“From The Roots Of The Mountains To Your Holy Temple”

Posted on March 1, 2009

It’s been awhile since I caught these guys. They have rotated many band members since then but with Adam and Leo remaining the constant have significantly grown as songwriters…

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Image of the Day-“This Town”

It’s been awhile since I have seen Emily play a set proper. She has just signed to my absolute favorite label Misra. The Mendoza Line, Centro-matic, Hallelujah The Hills and Emily Rodgers! Sounds great to me. The new songs sounded absolutely wonderful…

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Image of the Day-“Greensleeves/Silver Bells”

Silver & Gold w/James Hart, Carrie Battle, Paul Zyla, and Hallie Pritts WYEP Holiday Hootenanny…

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Image of the Day-“Doing All The Things That Wouldn’t Make Your Parents Proud”

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Tuesday February 10, 2009 Garfield Artworks Larryville

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Image of the Day-“Come Saturday”

Larryville While this band was sure competent enough, there is talk that they will blow up soon ala Vampire Weekend. I doubt that will happen but as nice as they are they sure deserve it…

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Image of the Day-“This Love Is Fucking Right!”

Larryville It’s very interesting how I stumble onto bands. It could be the name alone of the band that piques my interest (Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s), or possibly a short blurb in a review that gets me excited (The Harlan Twins!!), or in the case with this particular band, the drummer…

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Image of the Day-“Sky Ghosts”

The Depreciation Guild Tuesday February 10, 2009 Garfield Artworks Larryville…

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Image of the Day-“White Moth”

Larryville I was really excited to shoot this show. It was a long time since I graced the doors of GA and the bands on the bill were building some industry buzz. The Depreciation Guild comes onstage and…turns out ALL the lights. Great, no shots of them tonight…

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