Mike Palm

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With Matt Andersen’s latest album, “The Hammer & The Rose,” producer Josh Van Tassel convinced the veteran Canadian singer-songwriter to try a different approach from his previous effort. “He’d seen me live a bunch, and the moments when we’d chill out on stage a lot, those parts in the show really grabbed him, so he wanted to chase that for a whole album,” Andersen said in a recent call.

1 week ago | triblive.com | Mike Palm

The eighth installment of an annual music festival is getting a new name this year: the Kip London Memorial Pittsburgh Blues & Roots Festival. This year’s event, scheduled for July 25-27 at the Pittsburgh Shrine Center Pavilion in Harmar, will pay tribute to London, a Greensburg native who died in 2022. A posthumous album, “The Last Dance,” will also released on July 25 by MoMojo Records.

1 week ago | triblive.com | Mike Palm

Allegheny County announced its lineup for the 2025 summer concert series, with a diverse lineup ranging from country to jazz to the British Invasion to funk. The free concerts, which start May 30, take place at either the South Park Amphitheater or Hartwood Acres Park Amphitheater in Allison Park.

1 week ago | triblive.com | Mike Palm

Melvins guitarist/singer Buzz Osborne has learned quite a bit about touring in his 40-plus years with the sludge metal pioneers. Before touring, Osborne sits down with a map and a calendar, plotting a route that will, mostly, hit the bigger cities on weekdays and the smaller markets on weekends. “Chicago on a Friday is kind of silly. Sometimes you have to do that,” Osborne said in a recent phone call. “There’s just no way around it.

1 week ago | centredaily.com | Mike Palm

May 2-Singer-songwriter Maya de Vitry recently released an alternate version of her song "Flowers," drawing a parallel to an Edvard Munch display she saw on a trip to an art museum in Norway. "He had all these different versions of his work, like this one was sort of blue-colored, and this one was multicolored, and this is just a sketch, and then this one is really vibrant or something. And I feel like this is the sketch," de Vitry said in a recent call.