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The band's latest single is a slice of space cadet funk. Throughout music's long history, people have been giving it to other people, as well as asking other people to give it to them. The giving usually occurs in a bedroom, but it can also take place in a low-lit club, a forest clearing, or … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Jack Swing – Give It To You
Get In The Weeds with the quintet's debut EP. In The Weeds' four tracks are lively, shaggy, and wry, full of knowing observations about life's drearinesses and small pleasures. Opener and lead single "RED LEMON" deals with the many bad things--defined by the "ties and the suits"--that actually feel quite good. We've all heard it … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Doll Trap – RED LEMON
The new self-titled release from Jake Yencik's Blood Menace project hybridizes blistering metal and glitchy electronica. Blood Menace finds deathcore-inspired metal clawing at itself as furious digital boils break out on its skin; they grow and consume until the music's very fabric is warped into a bubbling, melting, howling pile of goop. "Texas A&M," a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Blood Menace – Texas A&M
Craving Runs This Hurting World is a two-track release from DepthWorks Audio Geometry, a sub-label of Berger's Trackland umbrella. "Confessions" is a flitting, elusive piece of jazz-inspired electronic music. Each muted percussive hit sounds inquisitive and alive, like it's learning on the fly its place in the greater sequence. The beat is overlaid with a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Ali Berger & the Next Level Commitment – Confessions
Local favorites' latest album is Soft New Magic Dream. Black Moth Super Rainbow live in a realm different from our own, one without right angles, in which sight lines are photochemically blurred, in which organic and inorganic matter have begun to meld. "The Dripping Royalty," which hits midway through Soft New Magic Dream, would be … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Black Moth Super Rainbow – The Dripping Royalty
The duo's second album is Hooby Dooby. I love goofy music. Two of my favorite albums are Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica--a collection of atonal garbage pail blues freakouts--and Blectum from Blechdom's Haus De Snaus--a lo-fi gutter opera about critters that eat toes and have sex with each other. Bath Time's music, which sounds like … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Bath Time – Mothman, Dave, and Sasquatch
The emcee released the City Says EP in advance of his upcoming mixtape, God As My Witness. The EP's five tracks are full of energy; as Live himself puts it in the album notes, "This one ain’t for the background." Second track "City Whoopin'" finds Live in the club, winking at the ladies with one … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Livefromthecity – City Whoopin’
Saturday, May 17th The Polkamaniacs I arrived at the second day of the 2025 Millvale Music Festival with little pieces of dirt embedded in both eyes. It had been a windy five-mile trek from Squirrel Hill, and plenty of grit snuck in under my sunglasses along the way. I regarded the joyous masses that lined … Continue reading Millvale Music Festival 2025 – Day 2
Strayline. (a side project of Threaded's Ian Flasik) recently released three singles in advance of an upcoming LP. "Subtracting," which features Jake McClarnon (Crash Nebula, Urban Doctors) on bass and producer Tyler McGuire on drums and backing vocals, feels like it's emanating from a seafloor cavern, beckoning like a siren song. The echoes on this … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Strayline. – Subtracting
feeble little horse guitarist/producer Sebastian Kinsler debuts his solo project. find my friends' self-titled release contains eight compact tracks stuffed full of chipper digital beats, topsy-turvy synths, textured guitars, and sly melodic hooks. The songs are brief, but they're not mere sketches; each is rendered in intricate detail, like the works that certain dextrous visual … Continue reading Daily Yinz – find my friends – Call
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