The humble beginnings of what woul become GRAIN began at a books & music store, in Pittsburgh, PA., as Wayne Smith (guitars) and Carla Simmons (vocals, words) perfected the art of avoiding customers and hiding from management, all the while working on plans to start a rock and roll band. The mutual experience of growing up on 70’s rock along with an appreciation for country music…

The Feel Bad Hit Of The Winter is a three piece band from Kansas City, Missouri who formed in early 2014, by the looks of things. The Feel Bad Hit Of The Winter play an impossibly catchy and hard to ignore style of music that draws inspiration from several subgenres of independent music, which includes indie rock, grunge, lo-fi, and post punk…

Thrift is an innovative indie-rock duo consisting of Anna Carmela and Mark Malagise. The Pittsburgh, PA based “dirty disco” band recently released their debut concept EP in early 2014 to critical acclaim, and their songs “Mockingbird”, “Warning Signs”, and “Dead & Buried” have already gained popularity in both the United States and the U.K…

E Street Band has been musician Bruce Springsteen’s primary backing band since 1972. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. When not working with Springsteen, members of the band have recorded solo material and have pursued successful careers as session musicians, record producers, songwriters, actors, and other roles in entertainment…

“Listen to this: there’s a new EP by a new New York City band coming straight out of Connecticut. That’s right: Connecticut. The 100 WattSuns, with their singer Steve Broderick who is a seen-it-all Lower-East-Side-after-hours veteran, has traded in the Manhattan apartment for a suburban spread in Mystic, Connecticut..

From their start as a full band, Speedy Ortiz found a warm reception in the Bay State’s rock underground, from Boston’s basements to Western Massachusetts’ experimental scene. In March 2012, the band recorded and self-released a two-song single…

McLovins specialize in the creation of dynamic and improvised sound, influenced by the members’ disparate and eclectic music influences. The band consists of Jason Ott, Jake Huffman, Justin Berger and Atticus Kelly. These early twenty-year-olds embrace simultaneous and intricate improvisation with a more versatile front line in which all members are singing in four-part harmony, writing lyrics and music,..

Check out the band on Facebook, BandCamp and ReverbNation. The trio plays a ‘punk-alternative’ hybrid of rock and have a few singles out. They play locally and you can catch them next this Friday at…

“With a melodic jerky weirdness reminiscent of the dB’s or Game Theory, Dingbats finds Casper & the Cookies pushing as hard as they’ve ever pushed. It’s a white-knuckle flight, a struggle between melody and envy, magazines and neglect. They foreground the failure, the fear of getting older, the sound of one’s voice in a void echoing back to you, and channel it all
into the most compelling album of their lives. Sometimes when you’re lost, the best thing to do is close your eyes and floor it.”…

Cold Weather at The Wilderness Recording Studio presents HughShows Live @ Eide’s on Saturday, March 8th, 2014 in Pittsburgh, PA…

If you’re looking for a traditional rock band with a sweet female vocalist, keep looking. Bible Belt Sinners have never been typical. Bringing to the table the raw power of a growling blues vocal with all the grittiness of a punk rock band, BBS combines such influences for an original sound and unforgettable experience. The drummer of BBS plays standing up, and makes it look easy. Grotto combines savvy style with high energy and often ends a song from three feet in the air…

Chet Vincent & The Big Bend at The Wilderness Recording Studio presents HughShows Live @ Eide’s on Saturday, March 8, 2014 in Pittsburgh, PA…

Together since birth and fueled by our shared love of bad jokes, good music, and Kung-Fu movies… We are The Danzas. We’re not pretty*, we’re not rocketing towards fame and glory, and we’re definitely not in it for the money – so why bother? We’d like to claim that we’re motivated by some high calling or that we’re a three-man armada out to change the world with our vision…

The Harlan Twins at The Wilderness Recording Studio presents HughShows Live @ Eide’s on Saturday, February 8th, 2014 in Pittsburgh, PA….

“Great Caesar first formed as a trio out of Madison, Connecticut, where the original three members, Farrell included, went to school. They released their self-titled EP in 2007 with a subsequent string of singles throughout 2010. Over time, they grew to the self-proclaimed “sextet” that they are today, blasting truly original tunes that are as tenacious as they are musically unclassifiable. “We threw the term “chamber rock” around for a while,” says Farrell, “but I’m not sure it’s ever stuck…. I usually just say we’re a six-piece rock band with a brass section.” – Groove Magazine…

“Jonathan Segel is a composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist. He plays guitar, violin, computer, keyboards, electric bass and sings. He has played in the band Camper Van Beethoven for the past 30 years!”…

“From deep within the urban forest of Pittsburgh’s East End, the Squirrel Hillbillies often emerge to share their eclectic mix of folk, country and blues. The duo has been writing, arranging, and performing original music since 2010, with recent …