Introduction

[manny at garfieldartworks.com]

all good, except that the Strip District nights are gone, they were
extremely short-lived.

> 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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