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Deutschtown Music Festival Prepares for An Ambitious, Exciting Sixth Year

Artwork by Joe Mruk For Pittsburgh music fans, the month of July doesn’t just mean fireworks, grilling, and valiantly fighting the humidity with every trip outside. It means all that, and more: it means the Deutschtown Music Festival is almost [...]

June 30, 2018 Concert Calendar, Concert Preview, Feature, Interviews, Local Artists, Upcoming Shows

Know Your Host: A Q&A with Hugh Twyman

Hugh Twyman is a Pittsburgh music blogger and photographer known as HughShows. He has been covering the local scene going on 14 years. He commemorated his 10 years on the scene with a year long celebration at Eide’s Entertainment in [...]

February 17, 2018 Local Artists, Upcoming Shows

Best of 2017 Rock Awards Line-Up

Best of 2017 Rock Awards Spirit February 17, 2017 Sound Scene Express is proud to announce our 3rd annual “Best of Rock Awards” for 2017. We feel like we have curated our best line-up yet, bringing you some of the [...]

January 15, 2018 Local Artists, Upcoming Shows

Deutschtown Music Festival Gets Better Every Year

Poster by Joe Mruk Photos and recap by Whitney Lerch The 5th annual Deutschtown Music Festival rocked the North Side July 14th and 15th, like only DMF can do. Over 200 local bands, food trucks, vendors and thousands of people [...]

August 23, 2017 Concert Reviews, Festival Reviews, Local Artists

Deutschtown Music Festival Grows, In Size and Heart, For Exciting Fifth Year

Poster by Joe Mruk Summer’s in full swing here in Pittsburgh, which means one of the biggest local music events of the year is almost upon us. Deutschtown Music Festival will be taking over its eponymous North Side neighborhood this [...]

July 11, 2017 Concert Calendar, Concert Preview, Feature, Interviews, Local Artists, Upcoming Shows

Secret Santa, Secret Songs

HughShows Secret Santapalooza Kollar Club Saturday, December 19 Pittsburgh music blog, HughShows, led by Hugh Twyman pulled off his 2nd annual Secret Santapalooza at Kollar Club in the South Side. Each band played at least one cover song of another [...]

December 22, 2015 Concert Reviews, Local Artists

Santa’s Got A Secret

Santa has a secret and he’s not telling until December 19. That is when Hugh Twyman of HughShows music blog is bringing his Secret Santapalooza back for 2nd straight year. The show is billed as A Tribute to Pittsburgh Indie [...]

December 18, 2015 Local Artists, Upcoming Shows

HughShows TV Goes Live!

Hugh Twyman of Pittsburgh music blog HughShows officially released the finished pilot for his PCTV show called HughShows TV. The pilot features Meeting of Important People and Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto as the first guests. This is a very exciting [...]

October 27, 2015 Feature, Local Artists, Upcoming Shows

HughShows TV A Big Success

Article and photos by Randy Jarosz   “We’re all at a HughShow It’s a lot of fun ‘Cause he’s got all the answers Yeah he’s got them written down So let’s all watch a HughShows Till he gets to number [...]

October 13, 2015 Concert Reviews, Feature, Local Artists

HughShows Becomes a TV Show

If you’re ever wondering what happened to that awesome Pittsburgh band from 2008 that was doing shows every weekend and self released the album of the year to only fade away, or who’s who in the local music scene? Just [...]

October 7, 2015 Feature, Local Artists