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A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Cpt. Bisquick - Drinking Cup Deadpan, hyper-literate rock that periodically jolts itself out of a folksy sway using bursts of atonal guitar, background vocal chatter, and one excellent Spongebob scream. Reminds me fondly of Cake's absurdist, cubicle-core musings. More from … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.25.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Nardo Says - The Arrival (feat. Robin Brown) Multi-hyphenate artist pays tribute to his late compatriot, Reese Vex Brown--a venerable figure within Pittsburgh's DJ community--with a woozy, lush instrumental album. Its opener, which leads with a voicemailed co-sign from Brown's … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.19.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### SUREFIRE - 10,000 Miles (ft. The Living Street) Collaboration between rockers and folkier rockers produces a lighters-in-the-air, hair-blowing-in-wind power ballad. Had me nostalgic for high school afternoons spent tuning in to the local Top 40 station hoping for a few … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.11.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week. ### Flash J - Bad Trip Tuneful hip-hop that simultaneously channels Kid Cudi and Chief Keef. Flash J, popping Advils after a negative chemical experience, stays committed to his work despite a broken heart. The instrumental's desolate whistling evokes an early … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.04.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week. ### Connie Roses - ADOBO Warm, lush hip-hop, in which sentiments of growth, gratefulness, and grace flow between measures like water through an irrigation channel, feeding the first shoots of green in a field that's long laid fallow. More from Connie … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 01.28.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week. ### Mrissa - bert lied to us. The artist formerly known as Her Royal Lowness uses spare guitar and echoing vocal harmonies to preserve a peaceful nighttime moment like an insect in amber. She's got to play quietly, though, because her … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 01.21.22
Oh boy! This site started out of personal necessity after I moved to Pittsburgh because I had no friends and nothing to do when I got home from work except to shame-binge Friends and get hunted by my cat. I still have no friends, and my cat still hunts me, but Bored In Pittsburgh has … Continue reading Introducing: Weekly Wrap-Up
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