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A trio of local indie label heads are behind the operation: "This is phase one of making Pittsburgh a music city along the lines of Nashville."

Featuring collaborators from across the Drag City universe and a repertoire of gospel, country, pop, and rock covers, Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s lockdown double-album is playful and spirited.

Indie singer-songwriter royalty stay sane by enlisting labelmates for quirkily eclectic collaboration frenzy

Cassandra Jenkins is stomping through a foot and a half of snow in Central Park, looking for what she calls the “perfect plop-portunity.” Plopping is, for the unfamiliar, a form of therapy Jenkins has invented that involves throwing yourself into a particularly inviting swath of snow to cool off mid-walk. Once she finds a satisfactory clearing, she falls to the ground, like a tree cut down at its base. She makes the frigid act look fun, and I can’t help but join her. We stay plop...