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Photo courtesy Neil Richmond
Erika is a local singer-songwriter who has been dubbed the “Renaissance Queen of the Pittsburgh Scene”. She has had her hand in all kinds of arts based functions around town. She will be releasing her latest album soon and will be opening for…
read more ➜I have been going to Boca Chica shows for several years now and through the dozens of incarnations the band takes on, there is always one constant, singer-songwriter Hallie Pritts. She is celebrating the band’s latest release ‘Get Out of Sin City’ tomorrow, Friday, November 18 with a show at Brillobox. Along for support are […]
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I was cramming in all the rock and roll I could in one night (as I sometimes do) and my first stop was seeing Neighbors play the Smiling…
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Amazingly, this was my first show at GA this year. I was actually there in the Spring but bailed when Fergus & Geronimo were running late and weren’t playing till 11 p.m. on…
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I will remember this show as the gig that broke my camera. At the start of the second tune, my beloved Canon 30D shits the bed and although I am expecting…
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As a concert photographer I was so excited when they announced these shows. Six bands that I would have probably gone to see anyway if they were playing themselves. All …
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Image courtesy Mike Juneau
TPC are an indie/garage/pop band from Ontario who are playing Pittsburgh tomorrow at CMU with local openers 1,2,3. These college concerts always bring in the coolest bands and should be a blast. The band’s keyboardist Graham Wright was nice enough to take a few minutes to participate …
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The guys invited me over to their practice to take some rehearsal shots for possible publicity purposes (the above photo not considered, I am sure) as they plan…
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This show was killer. I was really looking forward to it (which I rarely do nowadays) and he did not disappoint. Opening…
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Talk about a dynamic performer! I knew a little about her and the fantastic band’s live sets but she came out of the gate on fire and never let up. All the…
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For the second straight year, Bruce and Joe put on a pair of shows that may as well be locks for the best of the year. Scoring a photo pass is probably the…
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The new Donora video dropped last night and this might be my favorite of theirs…
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Tonight is the first of two the big Grushecky/Springsteen gigs in Oakland. Hopefully these will become an annual event as last November’s show was one of the…
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I really love going to these college shows. Even though I may turn out to be the oldest fogey in the room, the energy generating from the band to the crowd…
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As I was listening to these local guys, I couldn’t help but think to myself what an idiot I have been in only seeing them play once before four years ago…
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I was out and about on Friday and received an email blast from the band…
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Tony Mott is a rock photographer based out of Australia. This collection gathers Mott’s work from the last 30 years shooting almost anyone you can think of in music…
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The last time I saw them play was in 2002 at Farm Aid. They were on way early in thd day a round noon, right before Drive By Truckers…
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What a surprise this set turned out to be. I know exactly two Mott The Hoople tunes and went solely on the basis that…
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Two of my favorite local bands coming out of ‘hiding’ to play a double bill in a place I’ve never been? Nothing was stopping me from seeing this gig. Unfortunately,…
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