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Artist: Sun Ray, Shining Light
Album: Lullabies for Calliope
Year Released: 2023
Genre: Instrumental Post-Rock
Local Connection: Band formed in Pittsburgh in 2010
Did you know? Originally recorded in 2012, the EP was shelved due to band commitments, technology limitations and finally released after a decade in the vaults
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Artist: The Wolf Tones
Album: Migration
Year Released: 2023
Genre: Bluegrass Jamz
Local Connection: Band formed in Pittsburgh in 2023
Did you know? The Wolf Tones are a ‘supergroup’ made up of members from Sweaty Already, Shelf Life String Band, and Jakob’s Ferry Stragglers
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Artist: The Telephone Line
Album: How’d We Get This Far?
Year Released: 2023
Genre: Bluegrass Rock/Pop/Soul
Local Connection: Band formed in Pittsburgh in 2013
Did you know? The Telephone Line have (sadly but amicably) decided to disband after 10 years together
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Artist: D’Arc’s Family Jams
Album: D’Arc’s Family Jams
Year Released: 2023
Genre: Psychedelic Soul
Local Connection: Originally from Johnstown, PA
Did you know? D’Arc’s Family Jams is comprised of brothers Jake and Mike D’Arc who’s first band was Peanut Butter Lovesicle
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Album: Cheap & Used
Year Released: 2023
Genre: Rock & Roll
Local Connection: Band formed in Pittsburgh in 2020
Did you know? The Freeloaders debut album Cheap & Used was recorded and mixed by Jake Hanner (Donora, Meeting of Important People, Bad Custer) and mastered by Mike Hillier at Metropolis Studios London which recently named it one of their Mastering Highlights of the Week along with Peter Gabriel’s Panopticon.
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Song: “Killing the Au Pair”
Artist: Sommelier
Album: Single Release
Year Released: 2022
Genre: Pop / Post-Punk
Local Connection: Band formed in Greensburg in Spring 2020 during quarantine
Did you know? Sommelier (pronounced suh-muhl-yei) is a wine seward, or highly trained wine professional who tests through four levels of knowledge: introductory, certified, advanced, and master
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Song: “Termites”
Album: Hayday
Year Released: 2021
Genre: Fuzz Rock
Local Connection: Band formed in Pittsburgh in 2021
Did you know? feeble little horse has signed to Saddle Creek Records, who will re-issue their debut full-length on vinyl
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Song: “Ahimsa”
Artist: Sapphirecut (w/ Jake Knights)
Album: Single Release
Year Released: 2018
Genre: Trance
Local Connection: Born and raised in Pittsburgh
Did you know? Sapphirecut (Megan Taylor) got her stage name when she realized that a sapphire needle is used to create a dub plate as she was helping physically balance a friend’s new dub plate press and learned that these were used as the original template of vinyls
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Song: “All I Want”
Artist: Cristina Black
Album: The Ditty Sessions
Year Released: 2010
Genre: Pop
Local Connection: Born and raised in Pittsburgh
Did you know? Cristina Black has written articles for various publications including The Village Voice, Nylon, Dazed and Confused, Time Out New York, and LA Weekly
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Song: “Pointless”
Artist: Thirty Years Later
Album: The Deep Now
Year Released: 2021
Genre: Rock
Local Connection: Band formed in Pittsburgh in 2013
Did you know? Thirty Years Later members Joe Hale (Guitar/Vocals) and Gary Burdelski started playing together in 1982 in the band Zero Factor. Subsequent bands included Quest, Blind Vengeance, Lone Rangers, Steel Henge, The Amazements, Half Pound Hot Dog and Javerblöö
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Song: “Sangreal”
Artist: Horehound
Album: Horehound
Year Released: 2016
Genre: Heavy Metal
Local Connection: Formed in Pittsburgh in 2015
Did you know? Horehound vocalist Shy Kennedy runs the record label Blackseed as well as organizing the Descendents of Crom festival
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Song: “A Grand Nite for Swinging”
Artist: Mary Lou Williams
Album: Mary Lou Williams
Year Released: 1951
Genre: Jazz
Local Connection: Grew up in Pittsburgh
Did you know? She is one of three women to appear in the iconic photograph by Art Kane “A Great Day in Harlem” in 1958
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Song: “Suicide Blonde”
Artist: INXS
Album: X
Year Released: 1990
Genre: Rock
Local Connection: Last song as the encore INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence ever played in public at the Coca-Cola Starlake Amphitheater outside of Pittsburgh in Burgettstown, PA on September 27th, 1997 before his untimely death less than a month later
Did you know? INXS carried on without their charismatic lead singer until 2012 when they announced onstage in their native Australia at a concert opening for Matchbox Twenty that they were disbanding for good
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Song: “esketit”
Artist: lys scott
Album: punk kidwell
Year Released: 2022
Genre: Rap
Local Connection: Resides in Pittsburgh
Did you know? lys scott’s debut full-length squashed dreams and broken wings was released in June of 2021
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Song: “Two Kinds of Love”
Artist: LaRue June
Album: The Sadness
Year Released: 2021
Genre: Folk
Local Connection: Formed near Pittsburgh in 2020
Did you know? LaRue June is the solo project from Casey Hanner, lead singer and guitarist for the indie pop band Donora
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Song: “Star in Your Own Life”
Artist: Nia Sioux
Album: Single Release
Year Released: 2015
Genre: Pop
Local Connection: Born in Pittsburgh in 2001
Did you know? Nia Sioux gained attention as the longest tenured dancer on the TV program Dance Moms
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Song: “Algo Bueno”
Artist: Roy Eldridge (w/Dizzy Gillespie)
Album: Roy and Diz
Year Released: 1954
Genre: Swing
Local Connection: Born in Pittsburgh in 1911
Did you know? Roy Eldridge, as the featured trumpet soloist in Artie Shaw and Gene Krupa’s bands, was something of an exception, as black musicians in the 1930s were not allowed to appear in public with white bands
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Song: “Pushing Daisies”
Artist: Big Hurry
Album: Gets Me Low
Year Released: 2011
Genre: Indie Rock
Local Connection: Band formed in Pittsburgh in 2008
Did you know? Big Hurry played their last show before disbanding at Brillobox on Oct 21, 2011
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Song: “Keep Pushing Me Underwater”
Artist: Yotzeret Sheydim
Album: Teaching Myself to Swim Through Barbed Wire
Year Released: 2021
Genre: Noise
Local Connection: Currently resides in Pittsburgh
Did you know? Yotzeret Sheydim also releases music under the moniker WRETCHED CRAWLER and creates jewelry, instruments, sculptures, and experimental art as Alyxill
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Song: “Bed Bug Boogie”
Artist: Chizmo Charles
Album: Up All Night
Year Released: 1999
Genre: Blues
Local Connection: Born in Pittsburgh in 1928
Did you know? Chizmo Charles began singing in the 1950’s but did not release his first solo album until 1999 at age 70
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