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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.

First/Last-Murder For Girls

“This is a rock band from Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Since 2013. Featuring members, now or then, of the Fuckies, Bunny Five Coat, Blindsider, and Lullaby Engine.”

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First/Last-Johnny Beauford

“Johnny Beauford (born November 24, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and front man of Americana project The Jack Kerowax and long-time Dallas rock band bravo, max! He also plays bass guitar in Dallas-based rock band Deadmoon Choir,…

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First/Last-Diamond Shapes

Check out Lianna at SoundCloud. I recently met Lianna as she performed at the inuagural HughShows Live @ Eide’s singing back-up with Household Stories…

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First/Last-Apache Fog

“A runaway freight train filled with bowling balls… side project by members of Pittsburgh’s The Long Knives.”

Check out the Pittsburgh indie rock band on Facebook, YouTube and SoundCloud. You can catch them play next month …

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First/Last-Sea Rights

Check out the band on Facebook and Soundcloud. The Pittsburgh based ‘Indie/Psychedelic/Progressive Rock’ quartet was formed in 2012 and have been playing …

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First/Last-House & Hawk

Check out the band on Facebook. As a music blogger I am regularly trolling one of my favorite sites BandCamp for any new and exciting bands, especially from…

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First/Last-Roger Harvey & The Wild Life

“Introducing Roger Harvey & The Wild Life. Coming of age in Pennsylvania’s snowbelt and traveling with bands since before he was a teenager, Harvey began cutting his songwriting teeth in his early 20s as Dandelion Snow while laying down new roots in…

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First/Last- Mark A D Williams

This Saturday, musician Mark A D Williams will be performing a Haitian Humanitarian benefit show in Wexford.

Check out the details courtesy of the Facebook Event Page: The Oven Pizza Co is partnering the …

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First/Last-Mammoth Indigo

“This brand new, up and coming, alternative indie rock band is embarking on their second US tour promoting their independently released, debut album. This group has secured meetings with representatives from Columbia Records and has met with journalist …

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Image of the Day-HughShows 10.1 with The Red Western

The Red Western at The Wilderness Recording Studio presents HughShows Live @ Eide’s on Saturday, January 11, 2014 in Pittsburgh, PA.

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First/Last-ZOOOOOOOOOOB!!!!

Nathan Zoob is a Pittsburgh based guitarist who plays with several Pittsburgh bands such as Wreck Loose, Broken Fences and…

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First/Last-White Light Spectrum

“In the Summer of 2013 White Light Spectrum came into being with the intention of writing an EP as a side project for 5 working musicians. Half way through the first practice 3 songs were written and the seed was planted that this may in fact be more than…

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Image of the Day-HughShows 10.1 with Paul Luc

Paul Luc at The Wilderness Recording Studio presents HughShows Live @ Eide’s on Saturday, January 11, 2014 in Pittsburgh, PA.

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First/Last-The Royal Streets

“Although all four members of The Royal Streets have gone to school and been friends with each other for the majority of their lives, it wasn’t until after high school that they decided to combine their efforts musically. They are based out of …

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First/Last-Quilt

“It’s not uncommon to form a band while in college, and that is exactly what Quilt did. Its primary members, Shane Butler and Anna Fox Rochinski (as well as Taylor Mcvay—who plays on much of the record, but has since left the band amicably) were all visual art students at the School of the Museum […]

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First/Last-Wilder Maker

“Wilder Maker’s sprawling second album, Year of Endless Light, concentrates at those drop-everything arresting moments, the type of holy fuck jolts that spur a compulsion to rewind/replay: listen listen listen and maybe if you listen just one more time you’ll finally get your head around some hidden secret.” – Nathan Huffstutter, The Fiddleback Check out […]

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Image of the Day-HughShows 10.1 with Household Stories

Household Stories at The Wilderness Recording Studio presents HughShows Live @ Eide’s on Saturday, January 11, 2014 in Pittsburgh, PA.

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First/Last-Pairdown

“Pairdown is the folk-blues & experimental group co-founded by singer-guitarists David Leicht & Raymond Morin. They’ve released two albums, the eponymous EP (2006) and Holykyle (2009), both featuring inter-dependent fingerstyle guitar work blended with …

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First/Last-Through a Glass Darkly

“Sometime around 900BC Dave and Lachy were playing as an acoustic duo just outside the lost city of Atlantis, when they were introduced to drummer Amelia by Poseidon, a mutual friend. In March 2011 the three piece played their first live set together, and …

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First/Last-Nude Human

“A new collaboration between two prolific and innovative Madison musicians, Pat Reinholz (Weather Duo, Lovely Socialite, Crane Your Swan Neck) and John Praw Kruse (Pushmi-Pullyu, Fambly Fun, John Praw). Reinholz is a music educator, composer, and …

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