Deutschtown Music Festival Artist Spotlight–The Sun Champs

Part 3 of the 2019 Deutschtown Music Festival In Review Photo "borrowed" from the band's Facebook page The Sun Champs are a funky jam band from Pittsburgh, made up of five guys with serious musical chops. I'd like to think that the band's name was inspired by the Dayman character featured in the notorious song from … Continue reading Deutschtown Music Festival Artist Spotlight–The Sun Champs

Deutschtown Music Festival Artist Spotlight–Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs!

Part 2 of the 2019 Deutschtown Music Festival In Review Photo borrowed from the band's Facebook page Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs! are Pittsburgh's resident dino-punkers. From what I can tell, they're into two things: herbal tea and prehistoric mammals. Just kidding; they like beer and dinosaurs, of course. After The Petals' set at Max's Allegheny Tavern ended, … Continue reading Deutschtown Music Festival Artist Spotlight–Fuck Yeah, Dinosaurs!

Deutschtown Music Festival Artist Spotlight–The Petals

Part 1 of the 2019 Deutschtown Music Festival In Review The Petals are a Pittsburgh group that we've heard of before; a few weeks ago, I spent 30 minutes trying to decide which band their song "Mercy Kill" reminded me of (spoiler, it ended up being Biffy Clyro). I kicked off my Deutschtown Music Festival … Continue reading Deutschtown Music Festival Artist Spotlight–The Petals

Beer and Clothing (and Music) in East Allegheny – Deutschtown Music Festival 2019

(To be clear, this piece is not about alcohol or apparel--although, at the festival, I did enjoy a few beers and buy some clothing from the awesome Ooh Baby--I just really needed to make that admittedly terrible Hunter S Thompson pun) ### "How is it that you guys can't just make us a flatbread?!" The … Continue reading Beer and Clothing (and Music) in East Allegheny – Deutschtown Music Festival 2019