Pittsburgh music scene: The FYI on DIY
By Maggie Young, Senior Staff Writer
June 30, 2019
For those interested in pursuing a career in the music industry, Pittsburgh is a pretty good place to start.
Students shimmy on Schenley at annual bash
By Zane Crowell | Staff Writer
April 16, 2018
Thousands crowded Schenley Drive on 2018’s hottest day yet to partake in food truck specialties and play lawn games — accompanied by a bass-heavy DJ set. Bigelow Bash — a one-day musical festival complemented by food trucks — is organized by the Pitt Program Council with help from WPTS, the st...
MisterWives to headline at Bigelow Bash
By Salina Pressimone | Assistant News Editor
March 12, 2018
Pitt Program Council announced Bigelow Bash, Pitt’s annual spring concert, will feature MisterWives as the headliner band April 14. PPC tweeted the news Monday afternoon, about a month after it sealed the contract with the help of an outside agency. Zach Linn, special events director, said PPC...
WPTS creates playlists after hectic day at Pitt
By Lexi Kennell / Culture Editor
September 18, 2017
With the Cathedral flooding and Pitt students standing up to homophobia in a counter protest at Towers yesterday, our news writers had more than enough to write about. The hectic Monday inspired the new media director of WPTS, Josh Chamberlain, to create two playlists to match the mood — Cathy ...
Waxahatchee takes hazy, but triumphant head trip on third album
By Jack Trainor / Staff Writer
March 26, 2015
WaxahatcheeIvy TrippGrade: A-Katie Crutchfield’s third LP as Waxahatchee, Ivy Tripp, should be in the music library of every college student approaching graduation. She reaches some inconvenient truths about adult life on this record, which she translates into piercingly sincere words for the rest o...
This Weekend…: Sept. 25
By The A&E Staff
September 24, 2014
Friday, Sept. 26Cloud Nothings with Shaky ShrinesWilliam Pitt Union Assembly RoomTime: 8:00 p.m.Admission: $12 advance / $15 at doorThe WPTS annual fall show brings Cloud Nothings and their aggressively hooky brand of punk to the Union. Possibly WPTS’ most high-profile act to date, Cloud Nothings come...
The undisputed Pitt webmail reform, Google Helpouts, and Twitter demographics
By Harrison Kaminsky / Social Media Editor |
November 25, 2013
Special Thanks to Robert Sica, Tech Talk Host Tech Talk is a weekly show on WPTS Radio. Pitt Webmail: Microsoft Office 365 vs Google Apps for Education If you haven't already heard that Pitt administrators and Student Government Board have been discussing changing Pitt's current webmail service, Enter...
Bluegrass’s complex evolution isn’t about to end
By Joey Wilks / WPTS Contributor
September 19, 2013
Coming from a West Virginian family, I have learned to love country and western music. From that point, it was only a small jump over to bluegrass. My first experience with bluegrass was during my sophomore year of high school when I found a CD by the band The Blue Rags on the discount rack at my loc...
WPTS Column: It’s time to shed outdated “world music” label
By Sammy Wagner / WPTS Contributor
September 4, 2013
I hate world music.I have nothing against the ecstatic boom of Bollywood, the ache and longing heard in chanson realiste or any other form of music hailing from any particular corner of the globe. It’s the phrase itself — “world music” — that gets me riled up. You see, world music means n...
WPTS Column: Hipster Culture
By Dan Willis / WPTS Music Director
August 28, 2013
Picture a late 1960’s performance by famed activist and singer Joan Baez. As she stands upon a stage, playing her guitar and singing protest songs to her audience, her words are sincere, and her audience is unified and captivated. Seldom are there self-satisfied chuckles from the back row, and few in th...