By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com “Forget me not, I’ll always be around,” Jaren Love sang, almost knowingly, on a posthumous single The Lampshades released after the trio…
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By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing inf@pittsburghcurrent.com Audiophiles and home-recording aficionados will not believe their ears when they hear Gaadge, it’s that simple. Frontman Mitch DeLong, who founded the project…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current C0ntributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Radon Chong swears up and down that it’s not a – patent pending – Thinking Man’s Band, despite lots of mounting evidence…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Here’s the set-up. The Pittsburgh-based soul musician known as Dr. D had just gone through a break-up a while back and was…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Music Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com The new TRVSS song “Malaria” is as infectious as its title indicates. Of course, it falls seven songs into the trio’s second…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com The U.S. House late last week passed a $3 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that includes, among several measures, efforts to normalize legalized…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Chris Kohan is staring down some tough economic decisions. His business, which boasts three Pittsburgh-area locations, is doing well, all things considered,…
By Justin Vellucci info@pittsburghcurrent.com Playing guitar in an indie-rock band in 2020 requires some genre knowledge and a lot of muscle memory, that ability to reproduce the fingers shifting between…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com In the bowels of Edgewood’s C.C. Mellor Library in late February, Rebecca Taksel squeezed between boxes of donated books stacked from floor…
By Justin Vellucci Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Noise-rock – NOUN – A type of rock music characterized by the use of dissonance or inharmonious noise, especially loud distorted guitar,…