This is generally correct in terms of hiking, housing, bahn mi reviews, ect. I think even without a scene we are very fortunate for our venues when adjusting for size of city. Mr smalls, club Cafe, metal shows, Thunderbird, spirit, i think the more bluegrass bend one closed in southside... I would agree the hip hop is lacking. It's also very affordable to go to the smaller venues and we catch many artists traveling between dc/Philly and Chicago/Cleveland/Detroit

Poes law

I'm aware.

Looks like we're going to have to change this!

There is a winter fest at the East Brady underground storage facility next weekend.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-fest-underground-tickets-513229131147?fbclid=IwAR21GLi6Hh5JJnDHBDb2ymJ93oKrNuKObUEYeyn3OF-B5aNZPxvy-zCSctY

The one in East Brady does cars and there is a similar one in Beaver Co. Iron Mountain in Boyers does a bit of everything and even has substantial office space.

I thought the mushroom farm closed?

I'd be down if you want

That’s Iron Mountain up in Boyers probably.

This thing will still be a big success in terms of ticket sales I mean have you met the general public?

totally joking. i’m a teacher in the north hills…

Bar 11

True but not in this particular area, I’ve spent countless hours at this point sitting right there waiting for the light. I actually can’t even figure out how one would get in this position there

This wins

We went in 2020 (as another has commented, was before we really knew how COVID would go), we actually had a very good time. We got plenty of free samples, and I really enjoyed the vendors that were there.

It was pretty busy, but it wasn't like we were packed in sardine cans- probably too close for COVID, but luckily we were all good (group of about 8 of us).

Lots of different music in and around the city. Sooo many dive bars. A booker recently told me there's fewer bands than before covid. Personally, I'm just dipping my toe back in; had my first gig since covid a couple weeks ago. Summer is music festival season, that might be a good measure of how much music is still around. My gut feeling is there's still a lot.

Nizzy was going places

NSFW Pretty good if you’re into hardcore Rap

PA Rap

visiting soon, will be checking this out. thanks for sharing here (:

If you want to have some beer, independent brewing company is great imo.

What sort of atmosphere are you looking for? Because I can go from dive to upscale and brewery to cocktail bar.

We can still get snow for the next 2-3 months.

Oh for sure not expecting it to be Austin level! Honestly though I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve seen a million shows, both local and touring bands, and I’m happy with pretty low key stuff now. I just had no sense of if there was a local music scene to be heard of.

Tillies in McKeesport, thank me later

Local musician in a very active punk band. I’ve only lived here 5 years and in that time we have lost some great smaller dive bar type venues. Covid caused a lot of bands to quit rehearsing and they didn’t have the desire to begin again after so they just broke up.
It is definitely not Austin here. I’ve played there many times.
I honestly am kind of in the middle on pittsburghs scene. I stay pretty busy woth my own band so I’m certain I am missing a great deal of what’s going on with others. And I do fall on the rock side so I can’t speak for other genres. There could be amazing things happening and me just not in the know I do want to mention…it seemed someone was ragging on the cromags in a church basement.
It is out of the way. But!!!! It has been turned into a record store/venue/ etc. the owner is apparently straight edge. No booze at all not even byob. That aligns fairly well with cromags so it makes sense.

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