![]() Originally from the California Bay Area, Lamm has found a home among other WRCT DJs and in Pittsburgh’s thriving underground electronic scene. ![]() That is, you’re as likely to hear a nightcore version of Taylor Swift’s “Romeo and Juliet” as you are a UK drum-and-bass sample. Malcolm Threat DJ sets combine the headrush of chronically online tunes with house-music staples. A Cognitive Science major by day and emerging DJ by night, Lamm takes inspiration from English electronic groups like The Orb, Prodigy, and Orbital, as well as CMU grad Yaeji, who also got her start at WRCT. and you’ll hear the house and techno tunes of the affable Malcolm Threat, aka Charlotte Lamm. Tune into Carnegie Mellon University’s college radio station WRCT 88.3 on a Friday at 4 p.m. Farine cites those groups and indie touchstones like The Strokes as inspiration for Valleyview’s music, an influence apparent in the driving bass lines on the EP’s closing track “Hiding.” Combine that with the song’s sad-quirky lyrics (“I don’t care as long as it feels like fate”) and you’ve got a band worth sweating in a dusty South Oakland basement for.ĭJ Malcolm Threat at Carnegie Mellon’s WPTS Radio Station ![]() The Valleyview Bandcamp page defines its sound as “American Windmill Music,” a reference to a wave of contemporary English post-punk bands including Black Midi, Squid, and Black Country, New Road, that got their start at the pub/oddball-music venue The Windmill in London. While they aren’t reinventing the wheel, the surprisingly catchy riffs and vocals that lurk underneath the mix - warm and glazy on “Cure Song” and fuzzed-out on “Television”- have a way of sticking in your head longer than the average collegiate post-punk outfit. Valleyview’s debut five-track EP I Feel Like You're Haunting Me, released March 17, is a showcase of the members’ musical chemistry and a confident indicator of the band’s potential. Give their song “Nevermind” a spin and Farine’s sonorous voice and strident guitar playing will have you thinking you’re hearing a late-30s Paul Banks. The four guys - Jesse Farine (vocals, guitars), Benjamin Volk (drums), Ethan Herring (bass), and Jared Anderson (guitar) - who comprise Valleyview are all in their early-20s, some in school, others college dropouts. Want to support them? See them live and buy their music. With that in mind, the following six artists serve as a sample of some of the noteworthy, surprising, and innovative music happening in Pittsburgh right now. The abundance of talent also means an abundance of omissions - this list easily could have stretched to 20 bands forging paths in Pittsburgh, representing genres such as hardcore, experimental acoustic, and power-pop. This list focuses on the young talent cropping up around the city, though it also includes an older force new to the scene, a three-year-old trio forging inclusive spaces under the radar, and a band keeping their Pittsburgh roots despite a fan base stretching to the West Coast. ![]() Trying to put together a list of up-and-coming Pittsburgh bands, singers, DJs, and rappers is like asking me to name all the bridges in this city. ![]()
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