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FOLLOWING A FIRST YEAR SELL-OUT, THE PARTY HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO TWO DAYS — SEPTEMBER 28 AND 29 HEADLINED BY SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE (FEATURING MICHAEL ANTHONY, JASON BONHAM & VIC JOHNSON)WITH SPECIAL GUEST RICHIE SAMBORA THE BEACH BOYS, VINCE NEIL OF MÖTLEY CRÜE, NIGHT RANGER,BLUE ÖYSTER […]
Hard rockers Like A Storm and Through Fire have just announced their U.S. co-headline Firestorm Tour 2019. The tour starts on July 12th in Neillsville, WI and wraps in August 10th in Lincoln, NE and will include special guests Wilson and Stitched Up Heart. Tickets will go on sale starting Friday, May 31st. “After touring all over […]
Nashville indie-pop trio COIN, will be taking their infectious music and live show on the road next month as support for dates on Young the Giant and Fitz and the Tantrums’ North co-headline US arena tour, as well as select festival performances at Summerfest and more. They will be performing on June 27 at Stage AE Outdoors in Pittsburgh, […]
Thrash metal pioneers MEGADETH burst onto the scene in 1983, virtually inventing a genre and have earned their spot as one of metal’s most influential and respected acts of all time. Over the course of their illustrious 36-year career, the band has sold more than 38 million albums worldwide, notched […]
Death Valley Girls announce summer and fall tour dates in celebration of their latest album, Darkness Rains, out now on Suicide Squeeze Records! Pittsburgh fans can see them live on Aug. 15that Mr. Smalls Theatre w/The Distillers! Watch Kansas Bowling-directed video for “(One Less Thing) Before I Die” featuring footage the band shot of Mad Mike Hughes on his […]
THE RACONTEURS ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR DATES IN SUPPORT OF RECENTLY-ANNOUNCED NEW ALBUMHELP US STRANGERTICKETS ON SALE APRIL 12HELP US STRANGER OUT JUNE 21 Hot on the heels of announcing their new album HELP US STRANGER (out June 21 via Third Man Records), The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, […]
by Sophie Burkholder On a weekend of a series of some of the first intensely humid thunderstorms of the summer, the Benedum Center hosted the soulful indie rock of New York trio BAILEN and Irish singer-songwriter Hozier. After entering the theater under the yellow glow of the marquee, […]
Theory Of A Deadman have announced plans for a major U.S. headline tour. The dates get underway September 27th at The Tarheel in Jacksonville, NC and continue through early November. Tickets for all announced dates go on sale Friday, May 31st at 10:00AM local time. For complete details, please visit www.theoryofadeadman.com. […]
Legendary rocker Eddie Money (70) announced today that he is having a heart valve procedure. His doctors recommended the minimally invasive procedure after Money began to experience shortness of breath. The doctors preferred the surgery be completed last week, however, Money, ever the consummate showman, did not want […]
WHO: LUCETTEWHAT: PITTSBURGH PERFORMANCESUPPORTING DELTA RAEWHEN: JUNE 29 WHERE: REX THEATRE “It’s a bold expansion of Lucette’s melodic sensibilities, with arrangements that avoid the rootsy clichés of Americana music and, instead, double down on synthesizers, piano lines and the occasional horn solo.” – Rolling Stone Country Eclectic Canadian artist […]
Atlanta-based electronic funk duo called The APX. Their music has received massive love from names like Dam-Funk, Nick Cannon, Wu-Tang, and their music was featured last year on the Netflix movie Nappily Ever After. Currently, they are getting ready to head on their first world tour as well as release a […]
Heather Mae is co-headlining the Singing OUT Tour which takes place from 6/1-7/2 in honor of Pride month. https://www.facebook.com/events/427701191301046/ Unfazed by what a typical pop artist today is “supposed” to look like and how the typical pop artist is “supposed” to sound, Heather Mae, an award-winning songwriter whose evocative vocals […]
One of Australia’s hottest rising acts, Ocean Alley, will be coming through Pittsburgh on June 18th at Spirit Lodge. Hailing from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Ocean Alley have perfected an enchanting blend of psych, surf, reggae-infused rock, as showcased in their latest single “Stained Glass.” Having toured North America with Tash […]
Fury play Preserving HC June 16. Their new highly acclaimed album ‘Failed Entertainment’ came out this month on Run For Cover — it’s hands down one of the most compelling, sharp & dynamic rock records of the year. Fury have established themselves quickly. They built on the melodic […]
Wilder Maker debuts its new lineup on a series of U.S. dates that hits Pittsburgh on June 13th and culminates with an Aquarium Drunkard show to benefit the ACLU. The band will be taping an Audiotree Live session and releasing a new single along the way. James Joyce once said that if […]
CHECK OUT THE EVIL DELIGHTS HELD WITHIN ON THE UNBOXING VIDEO HERE: ALSO AVAILABLE: ‘THE NEAT ANTHOLOGY’ – GATEFOLD 22-TRACK DOUBLE LP AND 43 TRACK 2CD MEDIABOOK “These earthy historic thrills still take the breath away.” Metal Hammer “Eye-opening and earth-shattering in their cavernous onslaught.” Uncut “In the early 80s, […]
“Pioneer,” an adjective to be used carefully. Many wish they were, most are not. DIAMOND HEAD – the Stourbridge, England-born New Wave Of British Heavy Metal pioneers – return to the world stage with a new album. The Coffin Train is at once fresh and exuberant while also being a stone-cold classic […]
“Rabid Heart maintains a sharp, persistently moving narrative of the protagonist’s personal quandary and eventual flight. It’s immensely fun, and Rhonda Driscoll dishes out one-liners with panache…an endlessly entertaining zombie tale that checks off genre conventions with style.”– Kirkus Reviews“Rabid Heart evokes a mix of Misfits lyrics and grainy VHS […]
“The group showcases a keen gift for consuming vast swaths of pop music, digesting them simultaneously, and synthesizing them into a grandiose sound that’s so broadly appealing, it seems to contain everything that’s ever made anyone turn up a radio.” – NPR“Individual vocal stylings mesh seamlessly with elaborated harmonies […]
Punk rock trio Potty Mouth, who have been championed for their raw and energetic music by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, NPR, BBC Radio 1, Entertainment Weekly, The FADER, etc., will be performing on Friday, June 28th at Smalls Funhouse in Pittsburgh to support their 2019 North American Summer Tour with Dressy Bessy, Colleen Green and Justus Proffit. The […]
Fantasy artist and emerging NYC trio BAILEN were selected to open for Hozier on his sold-out U.S. tour this summer and will be playing with him in Pittsburgh, PA on 5/26 at the Benedum Center for Performing Arts. Rolling Stone recently gave their debut album Thrilled To Be Here a great review […]
Pix © 2019 MPap Photo Full review of the show: https://www.vindy.com/news/2019/may/21/concert-review-slayer-says-goodbye-brutal-fashion-/
On January 1, 1976 Stephen Holden of Rolling Stone magazine called the debut album by Crack The Sky “…one of year’s most impressive debuts.” Now, some 40 years later, the band cracked the charts with their highest charting debut in 40 years with their new studio album Living In Reverse. It charted at #7 Heatseekers, #31 […]
Australian trio MiddleKids who are opening for Local Natives at StageAE on June1st Their new EP New Songs For Old Problems will be released this month and they recently shared a new cut “Beliefs & Prayers.”LISTEN TO THEIR NEW SONG “BELIEFS & PRAYERS”
In 2014, DevilDriver and Coal Chamber frontman Dez Fafara peeled off his wetsuit and sat down next to his wife Anahstasia to watch the sun disappear into the Pacific. Fresh off yet another grueling tour, he had gone to the beach to wash the road off with a surf session. As the […]
” So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star?Well listen now, hear what I sayJust get an electric guitarTake some timeAnd learn how to play ” The Byrds ” So you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll star? Well listen now, hear what I say […]
GLEN SOBEL and the GOON SQUAD will be rocking Sub Alpine Club (108 9th St., Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania 15145) on Thursday, July 18, 2019 (the night before the Alice Cooper concert in Burgettstown).
On the Suspending Gravity Tour, Marianas Trench brought along, DJ George Thoms, as well as New Dialogue. DJ George Thoms, played while everyone was coming in. Thoms is a DJ and producer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
CORKY LAING — THE LEGENDARY DRUMMER FOR MOUNTAINAND WEST, BRUCE AND LAING – SET TO RELEASE NEW BOOK,TITLED “LETTERS TO SARAH” ON MOTHER’S DAY, SUNDAY, MAY 12 “LETTERS TO SARAH” – CHRONICLING THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LAING’S LIFE –FEATURES EXCERPTS OF TOUCHING, MEMORABLE, HUMOROUS, INTIMATE AND HEARTFELTLETTERS […]
words and pix: Ed Thompson © 2019 Let me just start by saying this. Adeltias Way will be as big as Greta Van Fleet is in two to three years. The vocals and songwriting ability that this band has can allow this band to skyrocket with success in […]
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