How is a record made? What materials go into its creation? Who’s behind the work? Join WYEP’s Brian Siewiorek as we take a tour of Hellbender Vinyl, Pittsburgh’s vinyl record pressing plant in Lawrenceville! We’ll look at the specific functions of the vinyl pressing machine, see how the labels are “baked” and watch how quality control is done at Hellbender.
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The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes existential. -
It’s a quintessential Pittsburgh tale, involving a surging baseball team, one of its most beloved members, a proud community, enthusiastic sponsor, iconic, locally-based ad agency, revered Pittsburgh musicians, a 110-year tune penned by a Pittsburgh icon and… a bittersweet epilogue. -
Famously feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher have announced an Oasis reunion, 15 years after its dramatic breakup. Here's a brief timeline of their tumultuous history — and how they got here. -
"If I have to define my music in any way," Nick Cave says, "it's religious music." His new album is a gallery of encounters with spiritual, possibly divine figures, not all of whom are benevolent. -
Folk musician Brad Yoder has been a staple of the Pittsburgh scene for 30 years. Brad’s new album “Somewhere In The Constellation” sees his return to the studio for the first time in a decade. -
The multi-platinum-selling indie pop band is using research to inspire fans to take immediate action against climate change. -
Glass was in Pittsburgh with his ensemble in 2002 to play music with film — “a real time live music event,” as he called it. Glass sat with Rosemary Welsch to talk about the event, his musical adventures, and his work scoring films for Martin Scorsese and Peter Weir. -
Musician esperanza spalding was in college when she became a fan of Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento. Now she's made an album with him. -
Even social butterflies will, at times, feel a bit of alienation. Pittsburgh songwriter Anthony Vincent Jardine tackles that sense of being alone with your thoughts while the world spins on on his new song “Space Ghost.” -
WYEP pays tribute to the artists we lost in the summer of 2024. -
Last year, Mosaic Records, the respected jazz reissue label, released a six-CD box set of recordings by pianist Conrad Yeatis “Sonny” Clark (1931-1963), originally released by Blue Note records from 1957 to 1961. No longer a cult figure, Clark is now viewed worldwide as both a titan of the hard bop style and a Pittsburgh jazz icon. -
In the early 2000s, WYEP was producing “The CD Live Concert Series.” On March 9, 2004, we presented The Mavericks, a band that we had been championing, beginning with their first album. The band had recently returned following a hiatus and a change in line-up.
Celebrating music and culture from the African diaspora — tune in on Friday from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.