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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 Otter kept putting on hit after hit with other classics such as The Band’s “Atlantic City,” Da...
TribLIVE's 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 of Feeney’s and executive producer of the “Saturday Light Brigade” radio show. Folk singer, ...
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 included two-time Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Kenny Loggins, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, and S...
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 student's 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 I knew had been hiding their true self all along," Salvucci, a singer-songwriter and new artist o...