Mike Palm stories, Page 4

Melvins guitarist/singer Buzz Osborne has learned quite a bit about touring in his 40-plus years with the sludge metal pioneers. Before touring, Osborne sits down with a map and a calendar, plotting a route that will, mostly, hit the bigger cities on weekdays and the smaller markets on weekends. “Chicago...

Singer-songwriter Maya de Vitry recently released an alternate version of her song “Flowers,” drawing a parallel to an Edvard Munch display she saw on a trip to an art museum in Norway. “He had all these different versions of his work, like this one was sort of blue-colored, and this...

Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa is coming home for a show at the Pavilion at Star Lake. The “Black and Yellow” singer, who grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, will play the Pavilion at Star Lake on July 19. For the Good Vibes...

The indie rock group Mamalarky just released their latest album, “Hex Key,” on April 11, with guitarist/singer Livvy Bennett describing the experience as “bittersweet.” “We self-produce our records, so we’re very involved in, like top to bottom, just making these songs happen. So when it’s done, I’m usually emotional,” she...

The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, which is relocating to the Strip District for this year only, announced its musical lineup on Monday. Chief among the four-day festival’s headliners are Suzanne Vega (“Tom’s Diner” and “Luka”) and Lisa Loeb (“Stay (I Missed You).” The festival, presented by the Pittsburgh...

It’s been a whirlwind couple of days for a Greensburg couple who were married Tuesday night — almost as chaotic as the crowd surrounding them during their vows. That’s because Chris and Erica Curtis got married in the middle of a mosh pit, as death metal legends Cannibal Corpse played...

New Ghost Hounds singer SAVNT felt like he had the perfect name for a song off their new album. With the lyric of “No, you’ll never find me, I’m a renegade,” that last word fit just right, but he didn’t know its significance in Western Pennsylvania. “I have to say...

There aren’t many national bands that can promise the opportunity to buy shirts and records directly from their mothers at the merchandise booth. The Linda Lindas, however, can and did that Saturday night in an energetic, sold-out show at Spirit Hall in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood. Touring in support of their...

Although Everclear frontman Art Alexakis shot to fame with the song “Santa Monica,” he now lives a little further away in Pasadena, Calif. But he’d been out of his house for almost four months after it sustained smoke and water damage during the southern California wildfires earlier this year. The...

It’s been more than 15 years since Damon Che, the inventive drummer for defunct Pittsburgh instrumental pioneers Don Caballero, played a show in the area. That will change April 26 when Yesness, his new instrumental duo with El Ten Eleven bassist Kristian Dunn, headlines a show at Spirit Lodge in...

A pair of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hard rockers are coming to the Pittsburgh area this fall. Shock rocker Alice Cooper and British metal icons Judas Priest will co-headline a show Oct. 1 at the Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown, with Corrosion of Conformity opening the show....

The first album collaboration between Pittsburgh’s Dereos Roads and Baltimore’s Jumbled is chock full of samples — all from dollar bin records — from Jackie Cain and Herb Alpert to The Band and Donovan. “I like how this is a true collaboration. For most of the previous projects, when I...

Spiritbox’s Tsunami Sea tour proved to be aptly named, as the Canadian band unleashed wave after wave of crushing guitar and heavy-hitting metalcore Saturday night. The Grammy-nominated band played their first headline show in Pittsburgh, selling out the UPMC Events Center in Moon, on the strength of their “Tsunami Sea”...

Canadian country rocker Cory Marks has never played a show in Pittsburgh, but he’s looking forward to a return visit to the area later this month for sentimental reasons. “Pittsburgh’s got a piece of my heart, for sure,” Marks said in a recent phone call. That’s because Marks got engaged...

Five For Fighting (aka John Ondrasik) had a pair of platinum records in the early 2000s, on the strength of songs like “100 Years” and “Superman (It’s Not Easy),” with the latter becoming an anthem after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and earning him a spot on the lineup for...

Back in 2016, Rolling Stone tabbed Michigan Rattlers as one of 10 new country artists to watch, alongside Luke Combs and others. Nine years later, frontman Graham Young certainly doesn’t consider the band country now, if he ever did at all. “No, definitely not. You know, it’s just funny. I...

When The Linda Lindas played in Pittsburgh in September as part of Green Day’s show at PNC Park, drummer Mila de la Garza sported a T-shirt covered with Campbell’s Soup cans. It didn’t come from the nearby Andy Warhol Museum though. “The venue was right next to the museum, too,”...