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A new Johnny Cash song got NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich thinking about music released after a beloved artist dies. Check out "Well Alright," plus new music by Arooj Aftab and Tems on 8 Tracks.
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Have you ever found yourself in the middle of someone else’s breakup? James the Seventh did and turned that experience into a song called “Centerpiece.”
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“Before you could even play any record from that library, you could smell it first” — WYEP’s Rosemary Welsch
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Pittsburgh's own Rachel Ann Bovier stopped by the WYEP studios to record her poem about the station's 50th anniversary.
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Through mutual friends and SoundCloud, four Pittsburgh college students found themselves in a band known as feeble little horse playing local house shows. Almost three years later, with significantly less time to rehearse and write songs together, the band is now making its way to bigger stages.
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Sudden Little Thrills is a new music festival from C3 Presents (Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits) taking place in Pittsburgh at Hazelwood Green on Sept. 7-8.
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While WYEP has evolved over the years to be a music station with a general sound to it — a mix that is eclectic but still distinctive — the early years of the station were radically different. Every couple of hours could go in a sharply new direction, from music to talk and back again.
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It’s not always easy to be our fully realized selves, but it is always important to try. Pittsburgh musician LEVI recently put out their first project as a songwriter — an endeavor that called for some discomfort and lots of grace. Take a listen to the new song "sail."
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At the Desk, Sleater-Kinney was all business — as wiry and vital as ever.
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From a Grammy award-winning Beck album to a posthumous Johnny Cash release and a pair of records by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, there’s something for almost everyone
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Musically, 2004 was a big year for dance music, brit pop, electro acoustic projects, and for an emerging sub-genre of music, still referred to as indie rock.
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As host of WYEP’s classic alternative rock show Slacker Rewind, WYEP's Mike Sauter is often playing tracks from 1994. Since we’re going to be playing all music from 1994 today for Decades Week, here are a handful of songs from that year both well-known and under-the-radar.
Celebrating music and culture from the African diaspora — tune in on Friday from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.