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Blink-182 rocks 1st day of Four Chord Music FestivalVideo
In Blink-182’s song “Turpentine,” co-lead singers Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus join their voices together to belt out “What If I’m not like the others?” For any of the thousands of pop-punk/emo fans gathered Saturday at Four Chord Music Festival, they found plenty of kindred spirits as they sang, bounced...
Q&A: Guitarist Ryan Lee Crosby on how he discovered Bentonia bluesVideo
Singer-songwriter Ryan Lee Crosby calls his latest album an “authentically made modern-day analog field recording of a century-old blues tradition.” The new album, “At the Blue Front,” was released Aug. 20 and recorded at the Blue Front Cafe — considered the oldest juke joint in the U.S. — in Bentonia,...
Kourtney Kardashian visits Pittsburgh museum, restaurant with Blink-182 in town for music festival
Kourtney Kardashian paid a visit to a pair of Pittsburgh destinations Friday, with her husband Travis Barker’s band Blink-182 in town for the Four Chord Music Festival. The reality TV star and Barker, the drummer for the pop-punk band, each shared Instagram stories from the Andy Warhol Museum of “Ten...
Rilo Kiley bring reunion tour to Pittsburgh after long hiatusVideo
Rilo Kiley opened up a time capsule that took a sold-out Pittsburgh crowd back to the early 2000s. The long-absent indie rock band is back on the road for the first time in 17 years, with their Sometimes When You’re On You’re Really (Expletive) On tour making a stop Thursday...
Q&A: James McMurtry on touring, new album, why he writes ahead of Pittsburgh show
If James McMurtry doesn’t make it to Pittsburgh for his show next week, he already has a sneaking suspicion where he’ll be. “Hopefully they’ll let us back in from Canada the night before because we got to hop up to Toronto and do a date,” he said. “If we don’t...
Q&A: Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan on the band’s long-awaited return to Pittsburgh and moreVideo
It’s been 24 years since indie rockers Superchunk played a show in Pittsburgh, but vocalist/guitarist Mac McCaughan made a much more recent stop here. “I was on a family trip recently, and we came through Pittsburgh like a month ago. We had a great meal at this place, Apteka. It’s...
Q&A: Jimmy Eat World drummer Zach Lind, whose dad coached for the Pirates, back in town for Four Chord festivalVideo
Zach Lind will be at at Pittsburgh area ballpark on Saturday, but it’s not quite one he remembers from his youth. The Jimmy Eat World drummer will play Four Chord Music Fest 11 at EQT Park in Washington with his band and a host of others, including Blink-182, Hot Mulligan...
Q&A: Slow Joy’s Esteban Flores on new album, feeling like a ‘real artist’ and moreVideo
For Esteban Flores, who performs as Slow Joy, his first time in Pittsburgh last year made quite an impression. “I loved it. This is kind of ridiculous, but I’m a big ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ fan. When I saw the two yellow bridges, I got really excited,” he said with...
Trans-Siberian Orchestra bringing ‘The Ghosts of Christmas Eve’ winter tour to PittsburghVideo
Trans-Siberian Orchestra will make its annual stop in Pittsburgh over the holiday season. The theatrical rock group is bringing its The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More tour to PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Dec. 20. There will be a pair of shows at 2:30...
Pittsburgh local music spotlight: forty winksVideo
Pittsburgh noise rock band forty winks has only been around since 2024, but they’ve already made waves with their debut EP. The EP — “Love Is a Dog From Hell” — earned a review via noted music site pitchfork.com. “It was really exciting to make,” guitarist Connor McGee said. The...
Jerry Cantrell blends Alice in Chains past, solo present in Pittsburgh concertVideo
Jerry Cantrell offered a minor apology while toasting the crowd after Saturday night’s show at the Roxian Theatre in McKees Rocks. “We know it wasn’t perfect, but that’s (expletive) rock ‘n’ roll,” Cantrell said, while raising a non-alcoholic beer bottle. The flaws, if you want to call them that, were...
Q&A: Kiss the Tiger singer Meghan Kreidler on ‘Infinite Love’ and moreVideo
When Meghan Kreidler and Michael Anderson started Kiss the Tiger almost a decade ago, she wasn’t taking it too seriously. “It was just like, let’s see how this goes,” said Kreidler, the band’s singer. Now 10 years later, the Minneapolis rock group is trying to make a go of it...
Q&A: Molly Tuttle on moving beyond bluegrass, cold starts and her new eraVideo
When Molly Tuttle finishes “Everything Burns” — the song she’s been using to open her current The Highway Knows tour — she knows she can breathe. “It’s honestly terrifying for me because it starts with this fast guitar riff, which is the hardest guitar part I play on the new...
Q&A: PUP guitarist Steve Sladkowski on new album, Pittsburgh plans and moreVideo
PUP guitarist Steve Sladkowski already knows what he’s doing on the band’s off day before their show next week in Pittsburgh, and he won’t have far to go. The Canadian punk rock band will play Stage AE on Sept. 8, and Sladkowski planned to walk a few blocks down to...
Pittsburgh local music spotlight: Mike Urick and the ModelairesVideo
Mike Urick feels like is he is carrying on the legacy of his grandfather, Mike Cilli, with his band, Mike Urick and the Modelaires. “He was a great musician and an amazing person,” Urick said. “We were really close when I was young and I grew up listening to his...
Top September concerts in Pittsburgh: Hardy, Twenty One Pilots, Marilyn Manson
One of the nation’s top pop-punk festivals returns to the Pittsburgh region, as do a hard-rocking country star and alt pop rockers. Here’s a look at the top shows coming to the area in September: Top concerts Sept. 5: Hardy, Koe Wetzel, Stephen Wilson Jr., Sikarus at the Pavilion at...
Q&A: Guitarist Daniel Donato says Pittsburgh feels like home for his Cosmic Country soundVideo
To celebrate the release of his new album last Friday, Daniel Donato played three Nashville shows in one day — with a solo pop-up at a record store, his band’s headlining show at Ryman Auditorium and a late-night covers set at a honky-tonk around the corner. “Three is the cosmic...
Indie pop rocker Sombr’s rise highlighted by Pittsburgh venue changesVideo
Indie pop rocker Sombr should be feeling pretty happy right about now. The 20-year-old, whose real name is Shane Boose, released his debut album, “I Barely Know Her,” on Friday, and his concerts keep getting bigger. Sombr’s Late Nights & Young Romance tour will hit Pittsburgh on Oct. 5 —...
Pittsburgh’s Punchline returns with new album, old friends and Four Chord festival appearanceVideo
Punchline singer/guitarist Steve Soboslai believes the Pittsburgh-based band is in a very good place right now. In the past few years, they put together a podcast series providing an exhaustive look at the pop-punk band’s history, marked the 20th anniversary of their “Action” album with a huge hometown show and...
Rapper Playboi Carti bringing Antagonist tour to PittsburghVideo
Rapper Playboi Carti is bringing his Antagonist tour to Pittsburgh later this fall. Carti, whose “Music” album hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts earlier this year, will headline PPG Paints Arena on Nov. 1. He’ll be joined on the tour by his Opium labelmates Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, Homixide...
Jerry Cantrell talks new solo album, Pittsburgh memories, not messing up the Ozzy Osbourne showVideo
Guitarist Jerry Cantrell may be heavily associated with the Seattle music scene from his work with the seminal grunge band Alice in Chains. But Cantrell, now 59, spent around a year in the Pittsburgh region — Finleyville in Washington County, to be precise — while in eighth grade during the...
Pittsburgh local music spotlight: Essential MachineVideo
The indie rock trio Essential Machine is more than a band — it’s a family, comprised of a husband (RJ), wife (Karen) and their son (Robert). “The benefits are that when we go on tour, we don’t have to leave behind our families. We are lucky that we all get...
Sister Hazel guitarist Drew Copeland on Pittsburgh-born song, the band’s longevity and moreVideo
Sister Hazel rhythm guitarist Drew Copeland can easily recall what he ate — if not the restaurant’s name — the day he wrote “Roll On Bye” with singer Ken Block more than a decade ago. “I was just telling a story this past weekend. We had the Hazelnut Hang in...
Linkin Park enters new era with singer Emily Armstrong on From Zero tour stop in PittsburghVideo
If “the hardest part of ending is starting again” — a line from Linkin Park’s 2010 song “Waiting for the End” — then their most difficult moments may be in the past. The potential ending of the band came with the death of lead singer Chester Bennington by suicide in...
Ukrainian folk group Kommuna Lux brings music, humanitarian mission to PittsburghVideo
With their country under attack by Russia, the musicians in Ukrainian folk band Kommuna Lux have a two-fold mission. First, they put on shows blending Balkan swing with klezmer music and traditional Ukrainian folk to help preserve the music and culture of their homeland. And second, those shows help raise...
