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Babes in Toyland – Sweet ’69 (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by jayne k on August 9, 2015
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I first saw Babes in Toyland in (I think) 1991. Around there. My friend Gypsy and I snuck our way into the Khyber Pass. It was probably my first packed to the gills bar show since I wasn’t 21 yet. All sweat and fun.

I really want Babes in Toyland to come to Pittsburgh. They have such great energy and they don’t seem to have missed a beat here.

These Arms are Snakes – Woolen Heirs (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by Feige on August 2, 2015
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Though These Arms are Snakes broke up quite a few years ago, now, I’ll always remember them as 1.) owning one of my favorite guitar tones of all time, and 2.) being the band I saw at just the right time in my life when a raucous, nihilistic live show seemed like the perfect form of therapy for my young adult angst. I still remember driving to Cleveland with my friend Nina to go see them and watching a crowd member get clocked in the head by a ladder that vocalist Steve Snere dug out of who-knows-where backstage. Keep reading after the jump for a look at how rowdy they could get when playing in front of a sizable crowd.

***An additional note for those of you that may have found your way to the blog over the weekend: Our weekly radio show is on tonight from 9PM – 12AM EST. Tune in to hear what Jim and I sound like when we’re sober/slightly more rational. 88.3FM if you’re in Pittsburgh, and streaming at www.wrct.org everywhere else in the world.***

Mescaline Eyes
Drinking From the Necks of the Ones You Love

Rehusar (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by jayne k on August 2, 2015
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Well, in our first excursion into international drunk music blogging on Friday we came across Rehusar. They are awesome. Lots of great anger. Is that a Brett Favre jersey?

Dum Dum Girls – Coming Down (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by Feige on July 26, 2015
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Dum Dum Girls’ re-imagining of Lee Hazlewood’s “Think I’m Coming Down” was always the moody, epic outlier on Only in Dreams, an album of otherwise shambolic 60’s girl-group pop. That moodiness lends itself quite well to a live setting, as you’ll see when the band knocks it out of the park in the video above.

Magik Markers @ Cafe OTO (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by jayne k on July 26, 2015
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It’s Sunday. The radio show is tonight. Here is some live music from magik markers.

Maps and Atlases – The Ongoing Horrible (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by Feige on July 19, 2015
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A short but charming one for you this week: Dave Davison does a solo take on his band’s “The Ongoing Horrible” and crams a lot of interesting guitar work into a two minute video.

The Hysterics – Live in Gothenburg, Sweden (Live Music Sunday)

Posted by jayne k on July 19, 2015
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Here it is. This should get you pumped for the week. The Interstellar Radio Shower happens in 11 hours (or less by now). And the Hysterics are awesome.

Songhoy Blues – Soubour

Posted by jayne k on July 18, 2015
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This is a bit of a departure for me style-wise, but damn, this is very good. It takes a more traditional blues rock sound and adds this strong Mali influence. And it’s awesome.

Radio Show in 3 Hours… Live Cardiel!

Posted by jayne k on July 12, 2015
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Radio shower commences in 3 hours. 9pm to midnight. 88.3FM in Pittsburgh. WRCT.org to stream.

Here is some live cardiel to get you pumped up! Every Sunday we’ll be posting live songs/shows to warm everyone up for the radio.

Widowspeak – Gun Shy

Posted by Feige on July 12, 2015
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New feature here on the blog, we’re gonna try to focus on live videos every Sunday to get things ramped up for the radio show. So here goes: let Widowspeak lull you into a blissful state of euphoria with a live rendition of “Gun Shy”, and then tune into WRCT (www.wrct.org) at 9PM tonight so Jim and I can finish the job and put you completely to sleep.