Always a band to effortlessly - and sometimes controversially - mash up rock, metal, glam, and punk, Chip DiMonick has been on fire supporting their bombastic fifth album, Uncaged.
Chip DiMonick's music has gotten extensive FM airplay in its home state of Pennsylvania and has been loved and reviewed around the world, including by Europe's Power Play magazine, which called it "cocksure and nasty, but appealing."
Chip DiMonick is a promoter's favorite unsigned act to pair with national acts. The band has opened for a wide variety of both currently hot bands (In This Moment, Texas Hippie Coalition, Huntress, Adelita’s Way, Art of Dying, Wednesday 13) and legendary hard rock forefathers (Quiet Riot, Winger, Lynch Mob, L.A. Guns, Faster Pussycat, Pretty Boy Floyd, Britny Fox, Tom Kiefer of Cinderella, Sebastian Bach of Skid Row).
Genre
Rock, Alternative, Punk, Post Hardcore
Band Members
Kevin Hartranft - vox/guitar
Levi Jiorle - bass
Richard Blackmore - drums/vox
Hometown
East Stroudsburg, PA
Short Band Biography | AYM has existed in some form since 1997, riding for the ashes of local Pgh band BullGoose Looney. It’s more about the exploration of music and sound, for the sheer joy of it rather than creating a marketable product. All songs produced mixed and mastered at The Incubation Station@AYM Studios
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An accomplished veteran of the Pittsburgh, MIdwest and East Coast music scenes since 1965, Dave counts The Beatles as his primary influence. His debut CD, "Mid-Century Man," will be released in late summer 2019.
The songs on the "Mid-Century Man" CD will be an eclectic mix of styles reflecting the varied influences Dave listened to while growing up in the Sixties as well as world music, reggae, prog rock, psychedelia, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Peter Gabriel and many others.
DAvid J MolterDave views "Mid-Century Man" as a vehicle to spread a positive message about the power of love in today's world. The songs have the unifying theme of love -- as Dave sings in "Mid-Century Man" -- "an emotion we don't have enough of."
Says Dave, "It's all in there: first love; love lost; love squandered; love regained; stupid love; funny love; love unrequited; love that makes you want to scream from the rooftops. Love that makes you kick furniture. I mean ... doesn't everyone?
"John Lennon said it best in 1968: 'All you need is love.' I still believe it."
From Beaver Falls Pa, the band Concrete soul, has been playing together for quite a few years as Ozo Remedy. In January of 2017 the band found new drummer Carl Miller who brought a much needed new sound into a band that has a long standing reputation as being one of Beaver counties best blues laced rocking trios. Miller's hard hitting power punching sound gave life to the band's new name - Concrete Soul. Steven Anthony is the smokey voiced lead guitarist and writes all of the originals. Steve Spear is on bass and is considered one the counties best bass guitarists.
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Short Band Biography | The Drive Back Home is an indie, surfy, island rock band from Louisville, Kentucky that provides a soundtrack for your drive home. |
Gene the Werewolf has never paid attention to trends. Nor has the Pittsburgh-based quintet been part of a scene or the hipster's band of choice. They are iconoclasts by virtue of their music, rock 'n' roll survivors in thrall to the genre's power andenergy. And they're damn good at it, even if they are a dying breed. "It's strange to feel like you are one of the last of your own kind," says Gene, the band's dynamic frontman and lead singer. Thus, "The Loner," Gene the Werewolf's third studio album.
The band, formed in 2007, is comprised of 5 native Pittsburghers. With self-released albums "Light Me Up" and "Wicked Love" under their belts, as well as 2012's worldwide release of "Rock 'n' Roll Animal" on Frontiers Records, the band is ready to deliver their knockout blow with "The Loner". In a perfect world it's music that should be blasting on car radios from Asbury Park to Hermosa Beach, on jukeboxes in dives and biker bars. Posters of the hirsute Gene and his band mates-- guitarist Drew Donegan, bassist Tim Schultz, drummer Nick Revak and keyboard player Aaron Mediate-- should be on the walls of kids from Seattle to South Beach. Put Gene the Werewolf on stage at the Whisky A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip or The Troubadour in West Hollywood in 1989, and they'd kill. But times have changed. These guys don't have access to a time machine. The next best thing is an album like "The Loner" that takes you to those halcyon days when rock 'n' roll was hip and cool and fearless. If you yearn for rock music that echoes Motley Crue, Alice Cooper and Guns 'N Roses, with dashes of Whitesnake and Winger in the mix, "The Loner" deserves your attention.
The album features 10 tracks of uniformly excellent quality. In a musical climate dominated by drip-feeding content, single-by-single, the band still takes great pride in making a conventional album. "We wrote and demoed close to 25 songs for the album, so there was a lot of variety and unique ideas being kicked around," Gene says. Those ideas were fleshed out at Red Medicine Studios in Pittsburgh, where producer Sean McDonald has become one of Western Pennsylvania's most respected musical alchemists. Having worked with The Clarks, Jim Donovan (formerly of Rusted Root) and many other of the best musicians in Pittsburgh, McDonald helped the band reach its full potential. "It seems a cliche to say this, but Sean really was a sixth member of the band." Donegan says. "He worked asa songwriter, engineer and producer, elevating our craft to levels we didn't think were possible."
There are no duds on "The Loner." The first song, "The Walking Dead," is Gene's take on a zombie apocalypse and features two dazzling guitar solos by Pittsburgh native Reb Beach, who currently performs with Whitesnake and Winger. The final track, "The Best I Can" showcases the honky-tonk piano of Randy Baumann of WDVE-FM and slide guitar by The Clarks' guitar maestro, Rob James. Sandwiched in between
are eight songs that will satisfy the most discriminating rock 'n' roll fan. And then there's Gene himself, who is merely the best rock 'n' roll singer too many people have never heard. He sings, he wails, he screams, he hits notes that haven't been reached since Vince Neil was a pup. In a perfect world, he'd be a star, as would the band. But we all know the musical world is a fragile, fragmented and dam
aged place where stars are manufactured, not earned. Not that Gene the Werewolf cares about stardom. Give them a stage, let them play. That's all they want to do.
Bottle Rat are the switchblade knife sticking in your kidneys. They're the back alley blood bath on the wrong side of town. They're a punk rock brick to the back of your f###ing skull. Every song is a 72 second blitzkrieg pouring from this denim and leather clad trio like molten steel. Not for the faint of heart and with a list of side effects longer than a phone book, Bottle Rat delivers pulse-pounding drum beats and bass lines that'll make your brain explode out the back of your head. These guys combine that with gritty guitar riffs that could only have been composed in a Pittsburgh basement and a stage presence that rivals a public hanging. So lace up your Chucks and see if you have what it takes to hang with THE F###ING RAT!
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Short Band Biography | Bio
After signing to Sparrow Heart Records in 2022, Sarah Halter follows up A Clockwork Destiny, a two-song single released in 2021, with a completely self-produced, self-performed, and self-recorded four-song EP -The Doom That Binds Us. Teaming up again with Matt Very of Very Tight Recordings for mixing and mastering, Sarah utilizes a modern metal sound that draws influence from progressive, alternative, symphonic, and death metal that brings a fresh approach to songwriting and musicianship in the metal world. |
Hailing from State College, Pennsylvania, Befell is composed of Bruce Boring (Guitar, Vocals), Mitchell Caprio (guitar), Jon Perini (Bass) and Jace Ebersole (Drums). Lovers of killer riffs and melodies, they combine thrashy and quick riffs with layered choruses that will get any crowd singing along. If metalcore needed any revival of the savage riffage and grooviness it once had, this is the band that will do it. They have no problem stepping outside traditional boundaries and structures while making the listener have a feeling of familiarity and comfort and have all the potential to bring in a new wave of metal with sheer ferocity. Having formed in the middle of the pandemic, writing remotely usually doesn't generally generate the chemistry one would expect, but even over video calls and messages, it was clear the chemistry was top notch. The band all has the common goal of wanting to take their music out on the road and tour and despite Jace living an hour away and having met the others while forming the band, the common mindset of wanting to take this out and play live to people all around the world every night is what's letting this machine fire on all cylinders.
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