Introduction

[Tara Tempalski]

Here is a Google Map of various"goth / alternative" places of interest;
including club nights, venues, bars, places to shop (many of which were
mentioned by Jordan & Manny). Might be handy as you can get directions
easily from the links.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=40.471796,-79.960663&spn=0.0087,0.019441&z=16&msid=111689695720494572798.00044d1c7631a23fbab37

Hope this helps,
--Tara




On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:47 PM, <jdecay at att.net> wrote:

> 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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