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If you enjoyed reading about stuff that exists (Pittsburgh music), consider reading about stuff that doesn’t necessarily exist! ### "Properties of the Cage" - published in Pinky Thinker Press (Editor's Choices Edition, 2025) "A Company Man" - published in BULL (2025) "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" - published in The Twin Bill (2025 World … Continue reading Fiction Writing →

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Bandcamp will be waiving its revenue share this Friday, July 3rd. Support black artists from the Pittsburgh area: The Childlike Empress Brittney Chantele Livefromthecity Saani Mac Jordan Montgomery INEZ Clara Kent Bilal Abbey Pharaoh Lum PK Delay jGGZ Patel Andrew Muse Madame Dolores The Universe Online Leila Rhodes Feralcat Think Good Audio Sierra Sellers Kai … Continue reading Support Black Pittsburgh Artists →

Daily Yinz – sorry face – unmarked car

The punk firebrands' prickly new EP is needle beach. Each of the EP's four tracks whips up a confrontational ruckus, but the most unruly offering is closer "unmarked car," which seethes like a pit of paranoid stomach acid. Roiling drums and agitated guitars build steadily in intensity while Noa Seese narrates queasy snippets pulled straight … Continue reading Daily Yinz – sorry face – unmarked car →

Daily Yinz – Mirabelle Skipworth – Rarely See The Sun

The folk singer and songwriter's latest album is When The Waters Part. The album enfolds the listener gently and brightly with wistful melodies, reflective strums, and rippling keys. Standout track "Rarely See The Sun," which unspools on the back of dawnbreak piano notes and breathy brass accents, finds Skipworth tucked away in a kind of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Mirabelle Skipworth – Rarely See The Sun →

Daily Yinz – PosterChild – Shot In The Chest

The quintet released its debut studio album, Leaving New Mexico, in January. The album, an ambitious, post-apocalyptic-ish concept piece that explores themes of disillusionment, acceptance, and familial return, centers on frontman Gabe Musisko's passionate, searching delivery. Backed by instrumentals that alternately soothe and seethe, Musisko--sometimes keening, sometimes murmuring, sometimes raging--muses with offbeat humor on the … Continue reading Daily Yinz – PosterChild – Shot In The Chest →

Daily Yinz – Fam Ross – SAMURAISAPPRENTICE

The Pen Lordz emcee's latest release is CRAZYWORK, a collaboration with producer RiceMasterYen. Fam Ross strikes me as a hip-hop classicist, somebody who practices his art purely out of love for the ways that certain combinations of words fit just so between the twos and fours of certain instrumentals. His music, rough and grimy, feels … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Fam Ross – SAMURAISAPPRENTICE →

Daily Yinz – 0-Six Female – C0ver the Earth

Dem0 is a series of demos from a new duo featuring former members of Come Holy Spirit and A Low Rose Trellis. Dem0's seven tracks tap into the primordial wellspring that powered Come Holy Spirit's avant-garde punk. The release finds CHS's Gina Favano and A Low Rose Trellis' Marti Albertz employing minimal instrumentation--grimy bass, urgent … Continue reading Daily Yinz – 0-Six Female – C0ver the Earth →

Daily Yinz – BBGuns – Outlanders

The versatile hip-hop duo's third LP is RUST BELT (U Don't Deserve This Beautiful Art). I don't think it's a coincidence that RUST BELT's artwork--denim, belt buckle, power stance--recalls the blue-collar middle Americana of Springsteen's Born In The U.S.A. Back in '84, Bruce belted his protest from the neglected underside of Reagan's would-be capitalist utopia, … Continue reading Daily Yinz – BBGuns – Outlanders →

Daily Yinz – Forest Counties – Blue Pine Vol. 4 Overture #1

The latest volume of Blue Pine, a recording series from Eric Stevens' Forest Counties project. Forest Counties is less a band than it is a state of mind, a grain-hazed, tape-warped bucolic, both spatially and temporally removed from the optimized gloss that marks our times. Eric Stevens (Michi Tapes' label head) masterminds the project on … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Forest Counties – Blue Pine Vol. 4 Overture #1 →

Yearly Yinz 2025: Albums

Bored In Pittsburgh’s 2025 album picks have migrated over to the Pittsburgh Manifold, a burgeoning independent news collective. In light of the cartoonishly evil Block family's recent closures of both the City Paper and the Gazette, it’s more important than ever to read and support outlets that do good, thoughtful, and independent reporting. Check out … Continue reading Yearly Yinz 2025: Albums →

Daily Yinz – Boy Wonders – Little Black Shadow

The trio follows up 2022's Happy Days Are Here Again with the recently released Character Study. Boy Wonders' sound has ripened nicely over the past three years. The music featured on Character Study feels fuller and more fleshed out than ever, and those omnipresent jangles chime even more brightly. "Little Black Shadow" brings the pomp … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Boy Wonders – Little Black Shadow →