So, I’m talking to my buddy Jesus.  No, not that Jesus.  If I talked to that one I’d probably be bilking you for donations and pretending to heal people.  Anyways, he’s on his way to the Korn show in Rostraver.  Freakin’ Rostraver.  Belle Vernon, PA.  Like well out of Pittsburgh.  Why would Korn open their […]

They’re a little bit electro, a little bit rock n’ roll and now, Toronto, ON’s award nominated electro / industrial rockers The Rabid Whole are taking their unique sound on the road once again for American and Canadian tour dates to support Italy’s Dope Stars Inc. along with dates to support Edmonton’s King Doom’s Canadian dates in Ontario, […]

Real old electric blues had a specific tonality and sound. Robert Johnson, Muddy and even Buddy Guy didn’t have any Bonamassa, or Hendrix “Red House” tones, like any of the big “blues” guys today. Missing was the “Dumble” sound or any of what I would call contemp-blues tones in their guitars. Doyle Bramhall III maybe […]

“The promoter wanted me to tell everyone in the seats way up there that this building has an excellent ventilation system,” Wayne Coyne began to express to the Pittsburgh crowd, “and he said it’s okay that you guys smoke pot up there.”  Wayne Coyne is a funny dude, not in a comedic sense, although that […]

Crucial Velocity Earth Rocker D.C. Sound Attack! Subtle Hustle Book, Saddle, and Go Cyborg Bette The House that Peterbilt The Mob Goes Wild Profits of Doom Escape from the Prison Planet Spacegrass Mr. Freedom Unto the Breach Oh, Isabella The Wolf Man Kindly Requests… Motherless Child A Shogun Named Marcus Electric Worry One Eye Dollar […]

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Last night Metal Blade Recording artist, Job For A Cowboy, swept into Pittsburgh for the first night of their tour with Hatebreed, Every Time I Die, Terror and This is Hell.  What followed was nothing short of brutality.  The good kind. Having released “Demonacracy” a year ago in April 2012, JFAC has been hitting the […]

Review and photos by David Mondine and Mike Mendlowitz photos copyright 2013 Pittsburgh Music Magazine and DMondine/MMendlowitz On Thursday March 28, 2013 one of the biggest out breaking bands straight out of Florida played at Pittsburgh’s own Stage AE.  The one and only A Day to Remember played at Stage AE during their Right Back […]

A letter to Billie Joe: Maybe it was the sight of a drunken, dirty Easter bunny throwing candy to the capacity crowd at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh on Easter Sunday night.  Maybe it was the super soaker hoses, and the toilet paper rollers, and the t-shirt launchers.  Or maybe it was the jaded cynical […]

“I’m starting a petition to banish black licorice,” states Jesse Barnett (lead singer of Stick To Your Guns) to the packed Altar Bar crowd in the historic Strip District of Pittsburgh.  Myself, along with the crowd, and guitarist Josh James, was not quite sure where this was going.  But if you’ve seen STYG before, you […]