Mike Shanley

“The Meat Shoes sounds like a terrible name for a band, like so terrible it’s…

“Karen was like, ‘I want to play drums. Get them out of the basement.’” By…

Whole months were each devoted exclusively to playing toy piano, alto saxophone and trombone By…

David Torn is more than happy to speak about his work in great detail. He…

Beat Circus deliver the goods with a punch Brian Carpenter sings like a man who…

By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com Followers of Daryl Shawn’s YouTube channel or…

Ravish Momin describes Turning Jewels Into Water as “folk music from nowhere.” He quickly clarifies…

One of Gil Scott-Heron’s first poems has become something of a cultural quote: “The Revolution…

By Mike Shanley Pittsburgh Current Contributing Writer info@pittsburghcurrent.com On an average week in Pittsburgh, a…