The latest RadioPGH stories filed under Pittsburgh Music History.
Kennywood’s soundtrack runs from trolley-park bandstands and big-band broadcasts to carousel organs, Garden Theater shows, and generations of Pittsburgh memories.
Point State Park has hosted jazz legends, folk protest songs, giant radio concerts and free festivals. Here’s how The Point became a Pittsburgh music…
Above National Record Mart on Forbes Avenue, Gateway Records captured Harold Betters, Lou Christie, Louis Armstrong, and a wide slice of Pittsburgh music history.
From KQV-FM and album rock to Jimmy Roach, Steve Hansen, local bands, and the Steelers, WDVE helped define how Pittsburgh heard itself.
The Three Rivers Arts Festival has always treated music as part of Pittsburgh’s public square—from a river barge in 1960 to Arts Landing in…
In 1985, Pittsburgh was hearing arena rock, garage punk, early rap, college radio and a city in musical transition—often on different dials and in…
Before it became a doo-wop standard, “Since I Don’t Have You” was a Pittsburgh teenage dream: written in a car, shaped in Knoxville, and…
From Cardillo’s piano bar to a 2025 revival, Club Cafe’s story is really the story of South Side music: intimate, resilient, and always in…
