[The Lookahead is a monthly segment where we get to be all newsy and point out cool stuff going down in the next 30 days or so. We'll have cool Pittsburgh music shows and events, local album releases, and some national releases of interest. This is the good stuff we've heard about. Come back on the 1st of each month for more!] Lot of stuff going down in the Pittsburgh music scene this month! The Three Rivers Arts Festival is ongoing this week with [...]
[The Lookahead is a monthly segment where we get to be all newsy and point out cool stuff going down in the next 30 days or so. We'll have cool Pittsburgh music shows and events, local album releases, and some national releases of interest. This is the good stuff we've heard about. Come back on the 1st of each month for more!] Spring is here and concert season has definitely sprung. In this April edition of the monthly Lookahead, we have a long list [...]
Boca Chica - Marlene Boca Chica , ou le groupe qui semble se spécialiser dans la catégorie des disques arrivés trop tard pour finir dans mon top de fin d’année. Déjà en 2009 l’album Lace Up Your Workboots avait raté le top 2009 à quelques semaines près : idem pour ce nouvel album reçu la semaine de Noël dans la boîte aux lettres. Get Out Of Sin City reprend les choses là où on les avaient laissées avec l’album précédent, un [...]
It's that time of year to look back on the past 12 months and say "what the hell happened to the last 12 months?!". It's also that time of year where us music bloggers and self-proclaimed critics take the time to put together some Best Of lists for your reading pleasure. They don't really mean a whole lot and you can love 'em or leave 'em, but it seems like the right thing to do to sum up the year in preparation of the next. This year we're featuring personal lists from all of our fantastic writers. [...]
So we typically toss a video onto a post when highlighting a new band, a show preview, or something and let you draw your own conclusion about it. Sometimes we'll just round 'em all up for you. Most of these videos are of artists we have previously talked about here on Draw Us Lines, so we won’t be telling you much about the bands themselves, just some musings that really aren’t worth a damn. If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a video must be worth a trillion. Do it! [...]
Words by Jim Is it really that time of year already? I swear two weeks ago it was 100 degrees, sunny, and we were eating apple pie and shooting off fireworks. I won’t complain too much, though. I love the Christmas (err...Holiday) Season and get a lot of enjoyment out of the decorations, the good will, shopping and giving to loved ones, and eating and drinking until I explode. Not to mention the time off from work is much needed and appreciated. To help us get in the holiday spirit at DUL, and to [...]
Words by Jim Chemistry, in music, is that undefined element that when present, heightens a band's overall potential, and when lacking, is utterly crippling. History is pretty clear when it comes to this. You can have the best musicians in the world, but if there's no chemistry between them it's the equivalent of them playing separate but in close proximity. Likewise, the crappiest of musicians, if on the same page, can produce some truly inspiring tunes. The absolute best is when awesome musicians just click and the sum of the whole is just [...]
Indie country from Pittsburgh band Boca Chica , band or collective ? well over the past few years there has being a shifting line up of contributors who have between them released a series of albums, EP’s and singles ( discography ), the group are led my songwriter Hallie Pritts (acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals) on Get Out Of Sin City she’s joined by Susanna Meyer (electric and upright bass, flute, vocals), Ricky Moslen (drums and percussion) j.vega (electric guitar, Wurlitzer, Organ, Banjo, vocals), James Hart (pedal steel, banjo, mandolin, Wurlitzer, vocals), Kraig Decker (piano, organ Wurlitzer, [...]
En un par de ocasiones nos hemos referido a esta banda con anterioridad, la primera de ellas con motivo del Ep que publicaron a principios del año 2010 en el sello Indiecater Records, y la segunda, hace apenas unos meses, ocasión en la que hablamos del sencillo que grabaron para EardrumsPop. Ahora volvemos a fijarnos en la banda de Pittsburgh, debido a que el próximo 15 de noviembre verá la luz su nuevo lanzamiento, un álbum llamado "Get Out Of Sin City" con el que podemos disfrutar de una colección de hermosas [...]
Hey. How's it going? Good, great. So, yeah, you might be new here. Maybe you're a freshman at Pitt or CMU or somewhere else. That's terrific and we applaud your good choice in city. But maybe you're not exactly new here, and you're finding yourself ready to explore the town and uncover it's wonders. You're like a goddamn pearl diver, ready to take the plunge and come up for air with a little bit of treasure. Well, we're here to help you with that whole situation. It could definitely seem like a staggering endeavor. We understand. We went through it [...]
The Blogophilia repost project continues... We've been busy with a lot of good submissions, and that's a good thing. It's time to take a breather. Today, we move forward with our goal of re-posting past volumes of Blogophilia due to demand. Remember, we're doing this all the way to volume 22, and then phhffttt! We're stopping there. Volumes 23-28 are currently active (zip format only for volumes 23-27), and we're making re-posted volumes available for about a week. Get 'em while you can. Blogophilia 15 [...]
Boca Chica, dont j’avais déjà parlé ici , revient bientôt avec un nouvel album, un disque qui a été financé par Kickstarter (comme le dernier Marissa Nadler). Une des récompenses (pour avoir donné 425$!!) était de choisir un thème sur lequel le groupe écrirait une chanson: le résultat est For Jacob with Malaria . En y ajoutant deux autres chansons (celle en écoute plus une reprise), on obtient un Ep à télécharger gratuitement ici . Idéal pour attendre la sortie du prochain album!
listenseefeel : Boca Chica - Like Sheep In The Night (by eric arnstein )
Tweet For Jacob with Malaria (mp3) Boca Chica http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Boca-Chica/70779842320 米ピッツバーグの、女 性中心に構成されたイ ンディーフォークバン ド。 牧歌的でしかも爽やか なサウンドです。今年 の4月になって彼らの EPがノルウェーの音楽 ログ、イアードラム さん主催のネットレ ベル eardrumspopより無料でリ ースされました。 http://www.eardrumspop.com/201 1/04/11/epop016-boca-chica/ タンブラーもやってま す http://yamamiya.tumblr.com/ Afternoon Tea (mp3) Twitter投稿用のショー URL (music tweet via Song.ly) http://song.ly/2kfzr [...]
Part of what I love about my job at WDVX is the opportunity it sometimes gives me to interact with the artists I love and share with you here on the site. It doesn't happen with alarming frequency, but I love getting the chance to interact with artists in the studio, live, on the air, to hear their stories and their songs in a one-on-one setting. Friday, it happened twice. Boca Chica and Rebecca Pronsky are two artists I've featured a few times on the site, and both [...]
Words by Brendan. Pittsburgh photo courtesy of Hugh Twyman Summer concert season is getting underway, and this weekend is perfect evidence of that. There are plenty of options and we're sure you'll find a show you'll want to see. You might even find too many! Stream some songs right here and read up on the bands hitting stages all over town in the next few days. And wish that you had a teleporter and a time machine to make it to all of them. Nik [...]
am 26. april auf kill rock stars , eine längst überfällige zusammenarbeit, meint man, oder, hätte man doch glatt selbst drauf kommmen können: selftitled, bitte sehr: thao & mirah - how dare you wir bekommen es ab 10. mai mit keith zariello (vocal, guitar) und jo schornikow (piano) zu tun, das album dazu heißt simpel "more" und erscheint via silence breaks: the shivers - used to be große freude über ein neues album von ihr, "fantastic lies of grizzly [...]
Los amigos de EardrumsPop nos acercan su nuevo lanzamiento, referencia 16 del sello, que tiene por protagonista a la deliciosa banda de Pittsburgh, Boca Chica, a los que conocimos hace cosa de un año, con motivo del Ep que entonces publicaban en el sello Indiecater Records . Y como es habitual, nos sirven esta nueva entrega en la modalidad de descarga gratuita desde la página oficial del sello discográfico , como muestra, aquí tenéis dos de sus canciones, que las disfrutéis. MySpace [...]
I'm about a little twainy, but I believe that sometimes we most expand our horizons into other genres. From the city of Pittsburgh comes Boca Chica which in Spanish translates to small mouth, but I don't think this has anything to do with it. The band is an Indie/ Folk band that writes catchy dark lyrics under folk sounds, the idea might not be very new, but if is done correctly it can create beautiful music. Boca Chica - Afternoon Tea Boca [...]
Every year just after Christmas I go out raiding other people's blogs for Christmas songs. I firmly believe you can never have enough. The other day I plugged "christmas" into the search box in my music library and 18.9 hours' worth of tunes popped up. I should figure out how to add in what would show up with "holiday," too (minus the duplicates, of course) and then see what all I've got. It's a pointless exercise, of course, because as I say, you can never have enough! Here are a few new [...]
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