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The band's third and final album is the wacky INFORMATION SUPERHIGH. Grand Piano's swan song finds the quintet saying goodbye on its own, strange terms. INFORMATION SUPERHIGH's got werewolves, mummies, phantoms, and lots of pungent smoke. There's a character called the "Grim Reefer Man," whose theme song saunters along on the strength of finger-snapping grooves, … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Grand Piano – Grim Reefer Man
A single from the band's debut EP, set for an early 2025 release on Crafted Sounds. Under the Instagram post announcing forty winks' signing with Crafted Sounds, you'll find a comment from the account run by trailblazing Philly shoegazers (trailgazers?) They Are Gutting A Body Of Water. It reads, "I just want to say this … Continue reading Daily Yinz – forty winks – Spurs
A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Trace Remains - Leverage the Tides Rousing, churning post-hardcore that draws its strength not from aggression, but from clarity of vision. More from Trace Remains Follow on Instagram and Facebook Artwork by Annie Heisey ### Sawyr - Blood Red … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 12.13.24
With Pittsburgh, Transylvania, the band bends country music into unusual configurations. Westinghouse Atom Smasher are masters when it comes to quiet longing. It seeps into their songs like winter air through the cracks of an ill-insulated, fire-lit living room. "Somebody Else's Country House" aches with the feeling. Backed by measured acoustic strums, keening synths, and … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Westinghouse Atom Smasher – Somebody Else’s Country House
The debut album from Yesness (Don Caballero's Damon Che + El Ten Eleven's Kristian Dunn) is See You at the Solipsist Convention (Joyful Noise). The album contains an array of sounds and moods that range from subdued skitter to confrontational swagger, minor-key tension to buoyant, major-key release, all anchored by Che's powerhouse drumming. It's technical … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Yesness – Occasional Grape?
The emcee assumes a comic book villain identity on KINGPEN, a collaboration with NJ producer Brainorchestra. The album's vinyl form comes along with a comic book that Beedie himself created by "remixing" vintage Amazing Spider Man panels to create a new storyline centered on the supervillain Kingpin-- a process modeled after the tried-and-true art of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Beedie – 30’s With No Credit Score
Extinction Burst is the Pittsburgh/Morgantown band's second album. Extinction Burst introduces a bit more polish to the songwriting and compositional chops that Mother of Earl flashed on their 2021 debut, Look Alive! The sound is bigger this time around, more cinematic, which makes sense in the context of the personal upheavals--deaths, breakups, moves--that inspired the … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Mother of Earl – I Saw Stars
The first single from the band's upcoming EP, Otherworldly Pictures. "Slow Down" swirls, starry-eyed, to the tick of a swishing rumba rhythm. Frontman Chad Monticue, his head way up in the interstellar clouds, muses on the intertwined natures of life and reality, singing, "I'm gonna live this way / Another life is strange / I'm … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Animal Scream – Slow Down
An R&B collaboration between Berlin's Noa Erni and Pittsburgh's Nardo Says. BEAMS, SCREENS, & THE SOUND OF LOVE (Kommerz Records) is the result of a long, transcontinental musical partnership between two devotees of soulful melodies and lush, knocking beats. On the album, Noa Erni acts as composer, while Nardo Says, himself a producer on other … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Noa Erni and Nardo Says – STANDBY
A gentle debut single that finds solace in the chirps of insects. Burkett's first release finds her using a minimal arrangement to her advantage, positioning lightly strummed chords and faint, layered harmonies behind a vocal delivery that's as mellow and bright as a stream. Burkett's lyrics, sung to herself in third person, reflect on past … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Skye Burkett – Bugs and Honey
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