Pittsburgh Music History
From Ella Fitzgerald to Buffalo Rose: The Many Lives of Three Rivers Arts Festival Music
The Three Rivers Arts Festival has always treated music as part of Pittsburgh’s public square—from a river barge in…
Stories of the Republic
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Pittsburgh Culture
The North Shore Beyond Game Day: What Pittsburgh’s Stadium District Is Becoming
Pittsburgh’s North Shore is growing beyond baseball and football, with new housing, riverfront programming, science, music, and a more…
Pittsburgh Music History
What Pittsburgh Sounded Like in 1985
In 1985, Pittsburgh was hearing arena rock, garage punk, early rap, college radio and a city in musical transition—often…
Pittsburgh Culture
Can Pittsburgh Become a 24-Hour City Again?
Pittsburgh still has a night scene, but not yet a 24-hour city. The next phase depends on transit, late…
Pittsburgh Music
The Wylie Is About to Change Pittsburgh’s Concert Map
With an October 1 opening, Citizens Live at The Wylie brings a 4,500-capacity room to the Lower Hill—and a…
Pittsburgh Music History
The Skyliners, Knoxville, and the Pittsburgh Heartbreak Behind “Since I Don’t Have You”
Before it became a doo-wop standard, “Since I Don’t Have You” was a Pittsburgh teenage dream: written in a…
Pittsburgh Culture
At Pittsburgh’s Church Festivals and Ethnic Clubs, Music Is the Part That Keeps the Door Open
From Oakland Greek festivals to Teutonia’s North Side choirs, Pittsburgh’s church halls and ethnic clubs keep neighborhood music traditions…
Pittsburgh Stories & Takes
Millvale After Dark: How Mr. Smalls Turned a Church into a Neighborhood Soundtrack
Inside Millvale’s Mr. Smalls Theatre, a former church became a landmark venue—and a way to hear the borough’s industrial…
Pittsburgh Music
How Pittsburgh Sounds: The Genres, Scenes, and Places That Made the City Musical
From Wylie Avenue jazz to punk basements, neighborhood rap, polka halls, and late-night techno, Pittsburgh’s music is shaped by…
Pittsburgh Culture
A Pittsburgh Listening Guide: From Wylie Avenue Jazz to the Sound of the Airwaves
Follow Pittsburgh’s musical map from Hill District jazz clubs and Homewood piano brilliance to August Wilson, KDKA, and the…