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This past autumn, the lights went out for good at The Rex Theater, one of Pittsburgh’s most-beloved rock clubs. Like many independent venues across the United States, the South Side stage fell silent earlier in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the live music industry without warning. But on Sept.

Twangy rock cover group OK Otter performed Friday night from the Bryce Jordan Center for THON 2021. The band’s set included classic, laidback rock songs that keep dancers in a good mood. It played for about an hour and delivered straight-up bops the whole set. The Philly and South Jersey-based band started out its set with a killer song choice, “All These Things That I’ve Done,” by The Killers. OK Otter’s jam band feel is just what late-night THON needs as the rest period nears. OK ...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A fierce activist who lent her voice and music to a range of grassroots causes — a self-described “hellraiser” and “troublemaker” — Anne Feeney spent decades turning the push for social justice into lyrics. “Anne, like a laser, would identify these issues and help people understand these in a very effective way,” said Larry Berger, a longtime friend and colleague...

NewsBlaze News Derek Woods Band Receives Hollywood Music in Media Awards ‘Best Americana/Folk/Acoustic Award’ Best Americana-Folk-Acoustic Award for their single Unforgiving Tree at the The prestigious award given to Derek Woods Band, which comprises of Derek Woods (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica), Joshua Carns (Lead Guitar), Chris Belin (Drums, Percussion), was presented by legendary saxophonist Scott Page of Pink Floyd, Supertramp, and Toto fame. Other winners from the night in...

MIDLAND — "Just My Luck" should bring good fortune to 16-year-old recording artist Gabriella Salvucci. Released today on major music platforms, "Just My Luck" is the lead track from the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School students debut EP on Misra Records of Pittsburgh. The original, piano-pop song compares the heartbreak of a dishonest relationship to a bogus prize sweepstakes too good to be true. "I wanted to tell the story of an experience I had where a person I thought ...

  Article Contributed by CK Communicati… | Published on Saturday, January 16, 2021 Three of New England’s top emerging artists will take the stage for a special episode of the The Ghost Light Series. Jay Psaros, Alice Howe will all perform Friday, January 22, at 7:30 PM on NECN. Jay Psaros, a longtime resident of the Northeast was born into a family of the self-employed. As a result, his music has ebbed and flowed in and out of “where the work is,” so to speak. Crossing genres a...

@MedleyCentre, the parody Twitter account for the shopping mall-turned-post-apocalyptic movie set in the heart of Irondequoit, whose witticisms on daily life in Rochester injected levity into the dreary existence of doomscrollers everywhere, has died. It was 6 years old. Its death appears to have been discovered Tuesday by CITY Editor David Andreatta, who had attempted to apologize publicly for referring to @MedleyCentre as “perhaps the town’s biggest blight” in a report he had ...

Pittsburgh concert venues like the Rex Theater, Howlers and Brillobox closed last year amid the financial hardships brought on by the pandemic. Hoping to ensure other live music sites dont go out of business, 60 local musicians rallied to record a benefit song.   “SOS 2020,” short for "Save Our Stages," comes out Friday on iTunes and major streaming platforms, and includes participation from Beaver Valley musicians like Keith Nelson, former lead guitarist from platinum-selling rock...

Screenshot from the SOS 2020 promo video Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pittsburgh music community has been shouting SOS — Save Our Stages. Musicians and venues alike rallied to bring awareness to the struggling live entertainment industry and to push the Save Our Stages Act, which if passed, would give venues across the U.S. funds to help them stay afloat while their doors remained shuttered. The call for help has come...

There is hope that live music is coming back in 2021. Rock, Reggae & Relief, a festival benefiting hospitality workers and food insecurity, has announced a lineup of artists. It’s scheduled for Aug. 28. “We feel safe that, by then, most people will have taken the (covid) vaccine, and it’s an outdoor event that we can keep people safe,” said Lucas Piatt, founder of the festival, and president Millcraft and Piatt Sotheby’s International Realty. He and well-known music promoter Rich Engl...