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Welcome, come to a show! Below is a list of shows going on in and around Southwest PA.

10-15 The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
10-16 The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, night 2, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
10-17 Days N Daze, Bridge City Sinners, Apes of State, Crazy and the Brains, Pittsburgh @Spirit
10-23 Slapshot, Sheer Terror, Next Step Up, Iron Price, Skullcrack, Frederick MD @Cafe 611
10-23 Punktober Fest, Hagard Wulf, Rutabaga Suicide, Defiant Blood, All the Damn Vampires, The Homisides, Cumberland MD @Dig Deep Brewing Co
10-27 Mephiskapheles, Children of October, Boiled Denim, Pittsburgh @Ormsby Ave Cafe
10-31 GAG, Heavy Discipline, Necroheads, Pittsburgh @Collision
10-31 Sheer Terror, Submachine, Pittsburgh @Rock Room
11-9 The Slackers, Fubar, Inco Fido, Pittsburgh @the Crafthouse
11-9 Bad Religion, Alkaline Trio, Pittsburgh @Stage AE
11-11Dying Fetus, Terror, Pittsburgh@Spirit
11-13 Fubar, Inco Fido, Sneaky Heat Missiles, The Biscuits, Greensburg @Green Beacon Gallery
11-14 Enforced, Steel Nation, Settle for Nothing, Vulgar Royalty, Morgantown WV @123 Pleasant Street
11-19, Municipal Waste, Crowbar, Skeletal Remains, Dead Heat, Pittsburgh @Spirit
11-20 Anti-Flag, Suicide Machines, Punchline, Bad Cop Bad Cop, Doll Skin, Swiss Army, Pittsburgh @Roxian Theater
11-20 VCTMS, Born A New, Gravebirth, Ire, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground
11-21 Protomartyr, The Gotobeds, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
11-26 Koffin Kats, Pittsburgh @Club Cafe
11-28 Exhorder, Take Offense, Extinction AD, Plague Years, Pittsburgh @Crafthouse
12-8 Blood Incantation, Primitive Man, Sissy Spacek, Jarhead Fertilizer, Pittsburgh @Funhouse Mr. Smalls
12-19 Bushido Code, Steel Nation, Age of Ruin, Fire in the Blood, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground
1-5 Spotlights, Eternal Sleep, Pittsburgh @Preserving Hardcore
1-25 Fucked Up, David Comes to Life, Empath, Pittsburgh @Mr. Smalls
2-28 Meshuggah, Converge, Torche, Pittsburgh @Stage AE
3-13 Sepultura, Sacred Reich, Crowbar, Art of Shock, Pittsburgh @Thunderbird Cafe
3-13 Blitzkid, more, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground
3-29 Circle Jerks, 7 Seconds, Negative Approach, Pittsburgh @Mr. Smalls
4-14 DRI, Truckstop, Pittsburgh @Preserving Underground

Sunday, September 6, 2015

8-30 Blackalicious, George Hollow, New Breed Brass Band, Fortified PhonetiX, Pittsburgh @Altar Bar

We were pretty stoked for this rap show. Blackalicious is the shit and I was hopeful about the other groups too. We got there a little bit late and we missed Fortified PhonetiX. We saw him before, I think at the Cannibal Ox show, and he was good. But we didn't see him on this night.

George Hollow - He was super good. One white dude with funny hair on the raps, and another white dude who can't rap on the turntables. I'm not sure if the rapper was George Hollow, or if that is the name for the two of them together. I liked his stage presence. He kind of roams around slinging raps. I enjoyed it, for sure.

New Breed Brass Band - This band was officially the shit. A 6 piece, two drummers, two trombone, a tuba, and a trumpet. Marching band style, had an awesome New Orleans feel to them, which makes sense because that's where they're from. They were more of a jazz band with some hip hop flavor. If they ever come back to Pittsburgh I will most definitely go see them again.

Blackalicious - Never could be disappointed with them. Gift of Gab is an amazing rapper. His flow is unparalleled. The DJ Chef Xcel is awesome too. The best surprise however was The Truth Speaker. Dude can sing and rap and he is awesome. They played for a long time, the new songs are dope, the old songs are dope, everything about Blackalicious is dope.

So I was, like at many rap shows, kind of surprised and maybe a little disappointed that the entire crowd was white. Out of probably 150 in attendance, maybe 6 black people were there. I guess I just don't understand. Why doesn't the black community actually support a lot of underground hip hop groups? For the life of me I can't understand why this is.

Highs - All the groups, everything.
Lows - Nothing.

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