Introduction

[jdecay at att.net]

On the local band front, while I'd recommend all of them, in particular if you're into old school Goth, there's The Burning Path and Violaria, and on the Terror-EBM front, Rein[Forced].

We cover a wide gamut of sound, from Power Noise (Prometheus Burning), to Ethereal (Patricia Wake), to Coldwave / Industrial Rock (Singine, Wreckreation, and Agnes Wired for Sound), to Dark Ambient (Requiem, and ahem, my project, Jordan Decay) and a number of others. Oddly, we seem to have a larger percentage of Trip-Hop acts - Surviving The Odyssey, Una De Luna, and Debutante.

As mentioned by Gwen, the longest running and largest club night in Pittsburgh recently ceased activities. There are a number of smaller club nights though, including two at the Smiling Moose on Saturdays and Sundays, two in the Strip district (Delerium and Nemesis), the recently posted Empire in Lawrenceville, and Halcyon (more lounge / ambient type stuff) on the South Side.

For shopping, ignoring the omnipresent (and in my opinion unwanted) Hot Topic, there's Slacker and FTB Ink on the South Side for clothing, jewelry, and more. For music, there's Eides Entertainment in the Strip and Wicked Discs in North Oakland.

And finally, at the risk of sounding self-aggrandizing, I also do a small free zine called The Burnt Library. It comes out every two months and includes a list of upcoming concerts.

-------------- Original message from gwen <gwenix at gmail.com>: -------------- 


> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:24 PM, joel monyok wrote: 
> > Hello, 
> > I am brand new to this list and wanted to say greetings. My name is 
> > XXX-Sasha-XXX and I'm a goth from long ago. I enjoy listening to the 
> > old stuff, like Bauhaus or The Cure, but over the years I have 
> > enjoyed, Switchblade Sympathy, Faith and The Muse, Cruxshadows, and 
> > Black Tape for Blue Girl. More recently I have been following 
> > Aggrotech and terror EBM. I live in Greensburg,PA and looking to make 
> > friends in the community. 
> 
> Greetings. Are you planning to make it into Pittsburgh, or are you 
> stuck in Greensburg? I am unfamiliar with most of Greensburg, I only 
> know the Palace Theater (happily saw Social D there recently-ish!) and 
> Red Star Brewery there, neither of which are fundamentally goth. 
> 
> However, here in Pittsburgh we have a few events around town, and some 
> up and coming things. Last night I went to The Upstage Nation at The 
> Smiling Moose in the Southside; they played mostly EBM/Synthpop hits 
> from the past few years, so it may be up your alley from your brief 
> description. 
> 
> Does anyone else have any other suggestions? I've been out of the 
> loop mostly, so can't really attest to much personally. But it might 
> also be prudent for us to use this as an excuse to update ourselves on 
> what is available now that Ceremony is gone. 
> 
> -- 
> Gwendolyn R. Schmidt 
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