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A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Sweat - Ice Cream Man A big block of 70s-throwback cheese that features swaggering riffs, sparkling keyboards, and soaring vocals. The bands named after places--Boston, Kansas, etc--would be proud. More from Sweat Follow on Instagram and Facebook Artwork by Studio … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 06.30.23
Metal quartet Unfurl's third album, Ascension, is an apocalyptic merging of bruising and melodic styles. Unfurl will just as soon weave you a tapestry of gauzy arpeggios and gentle vocals as they will pummel you with blastbeats, pile-driver guitars, and ghoulish howls. The evocatively-named "Hyperviolet Estuary" rides intricate, fretboard-traversing riffs through passages of crushing savagery … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Unfurl – Hyperviolet Estuary
Clara Kent's THE FOUR WINDS: EAST EP is the first of a four-part series honoring the Medicine Wheel, a symbol central to her Lakota heritage. It's fitting that the FOUR WINDS series would begin at the Medicine Wheel's Eastern quadrant, which is associated with Springtime rejuvenation. The EP bloomed from seeds sown during years of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Clara Kent – EUPHORIA
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Reliable Child - Little Conversations A nostalgic, bittersweet ballad in which Michael Berginc's hitching vocal twang recalls Lord Huron at his most wistful. More from Reliable Child Follow on Instagram and Facebook ### How Things Are Made - Kittens A … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 06.23.23
Silver Car Crash's latest release, Shattered Shine (Crafted Sounds), finds the band reckoning with the transition from young adulthood to actual adulthood. Over the course of the album, angular guitars and propulsive rhythms soundtrack the dawning realization that, in order to claw yourself out of the sucking morass of faded youth, you have to actually, … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Silver Car Crash – Crime
The crate-digging Bossy's latest mixtape is called Baby Ol' Head. On "Mona Lisa's Mean Mug," producer RVMSES flips a keening soul sample, creating a candlelit atmosphere for Bossy to engage in some of his signature wordplay. He backs up his boasts with tight internal rhymes ("Blood splatter all over the Mona Lisa/This the art you … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Bossy – Mona Lisa’s Mean Mug
The noise-poppers broaden their sound on Girl With Fish (Saddle Creek). For a band that trades in blown-out fuzz, feeble little horse use a good deal of acoustic guitar on Girl With Fish. "Slide" sees the group pair homespun picking with gentle, effervescent synths; a contemplative backdrop that allows Lydia Slocum, in sleepy deadpan, to … Continue reading Daily Yinz – feeble little horse – Slide
To make up for Bored In Pittsburgh's inactivity over the past several weeks--which were spent moving a bunch of stuff from one apartment to another--here's an extra long look at some local music that hit the spot recently ### Sherry CD-ROM - No Living Dead (feat. Shanax Bars) A soul-baring computer rock suite that rides … Continue reading Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 06.14.23
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