Incredibly sweet ‘wooden’ music from the guys. Little old me got a shout out from the stage…thanks fellas. Some audience members scored some video action here…

As promised, this show was great. I always enjoy seeing Dean & Britta. What made it extra awesome was the venue. Not a bad seat in the house…

What an incredible game last night! Perfectly timed to watch the outcome and to be able to catch an amazing show in Oakland. Here are some photos from my one (and hopefully not only) Steelers game with an official photo pass. Let’s go JETS! More here….

The band is playing a special show tonight in Oakland. The set consists entirely of songs from Dean’s former group, Galaxie 500. So that means probably no Tiger Lily…sniff. Opening the night are local favs Meeting Of Important People doing a rare all acoustic set. Seriously, this is the year’s first not miss show. Dean & Britta released one of my favorite albums of last year and were kind enough to participate in this special ‘preview’ edition of First/Last…

Basement Birds are an Australian ‘supergroup’ made up of established singer-songwriters who got together to release a really good album last year that you might not have heard about. One of them birds, Josh Pyke, was cool enough to participate and begin this new year of First/Last Friday…

Thanks to my friends at the PSO, Ms. McLachlan has the distinct honor eight days in to be my very first show of the year. So, yeah…she’s got that going for her. Performing the always fan satisfying “An Evening With…” format,..

I previewed this show a couple of months ago when the band’s guitarist Josh participated in …

After many times trying, this was my first time seeing the band. My man Jon gave me the hook-up. Thanks buddy. I encourage everyone who reads my blog to please support live local music…

When I first stumbled upon this book, I was immediately under the impression that it would be a take on the whole ‘family tree’ concept of musicians who either played or recorded music together in some sort of collaborative way. I was sort of right. This book offers a history of rock by pointing out influences and how almost any band is affected by the groups who came before them…

New Shouts are a local band you really have to hear. If you haven’t, I have a feeling you will soon enough. They are so much fun live and you can …

Neighbours opened this night with their hip, soulful, and infectiously fun as hell music. My absolutely favorite aspect of going to shows is seeing a band for the first time, not knowing a single note from them and coming away a fan. I am really looking forward to seeing them again. Listen to some live love here…

This band headlined one of the most joyous nights of music I have seen in a long while. With two other awesome Pittsburgh bands on the bill, who I will feature over the next two days, this turned out to be one of the best shows I saw last year. Without any…

What can I say about this band that I haven’t said before? How about how cool they are as people and it’s been a great pleasure of mine to meet and eventually get to know them this year. Expect a follow up to their debut sometime in the near future. More photos…

Over the next few weeks I’ll be backtracking and bringing you a bunch of images from local bands, many who I saw for the first time. These guys aren’t one of them. I really can’t tell you how many times I have seen them perform and it’s so fitting for me for them to be the last band I saw play in 2010. More photos…

Happy New Year Pittsburgh! 2010 was such an incredible year for me. I sincerely want to thank the countless people who have supported me over the last twelve months. It means a lot. I am hoping that 2011 will be even better and to kick things off, I am giving away…

As I previously stated, the band Dark Dark Dark came out of nowhere this year and put out a little EP called Bright Bright Bright. You can listen to it here. It was unequivocally my favorite release this …

As the band came out to the most amazingly spectacular opening I will ever see, Wayne knocks me in the head with his huge balloon. He looks at me to see if I was all right and giving a wink to only me, proceeds to put on the funnest show this year…

As I wrap up the year, I wanted to post some photos of bands that I never gave a proper shout out to after their show. It’s not that these groups were bad at all, it’s that I just simply never got around to preparing a review for them. I usually use the …

How cool it is to be a music fan and watch people create? I have been incredibly lucky this year to be able to be that ‘fly on the wall’…