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Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA.... It was the 15th annual WYEP Summer Music Festival.    Dr. Dog onstage  Dr. Dog had released their seventh album, Be the Void , a few months earlier, their fourth consecutive release to make the Billboard album chart. They frequently play in Pittsburgh, so it was great to be able to host them for the WYEP Summer Music Festival. (They had visited WYEP for a Live & Direct Session on 3/1/2012, so it was good to welcome them back.)  Great Lake Swimmers had done a Final Fridays show at Schenley Plaza in 2009, so they were returning to trodden ground after the release of their fifth album New Wild Everywhere .  And Sharon Van Etten had also just released her latest album  Tramp  (coincidentally, on the same day as Dr. Dog's latest), which was the first of three straight album's she would get onto the Billboard album chart. See her SMF setlist below. Pittsburgh's own Donora took the opening slot, as the band had ch...

Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA..... It was part of the Three Rivers Arts Festival.     sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!      

Byham Theater, Pittsburgh, PA post continues.... Setlist: Gentle on My Mind Galveston By the Time I Get to Phoenix Try a Little Kindness Where's the Playground Susie? Didn't We I Can't Stop Loving You True Grit Lovesick Blues Dueling Banjos Hey Little One Any Trouble She Thinks I Still Care The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Wichita Lineman Rhinestone Cowboy (encore break) Southern Nights A Better Place

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA   post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA   post continues.... sorry, I haven't yet written about this show... add your own comments if you were also there!

Bedford Square at Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, PA For WYEP's Rock the Block event, we closed off the street in front of the station building and had musical performances, food, drink, and other fun. This was maybe the 7th or 8th time seeing the band and would turn out to be my last. They were always a fun band to see live. I don't now recall their rider for backstage refreshments, but I'd guess based on past experience that it included Jameson Irish Whiskey.   Fountains of Wayne

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA Part of WYEP's Final Fridays concert series.   Schenley Plaza   me with the band prior to the show after an interview on WYEP

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA.... Sean is a singer/songwriter from the Albany, NY, area with a deep, rumbly voice that needs its own ZIP code. He did a bunch of great songs from his first nationally distributed album, Magic, including "Jonathan." He also did a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel," Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning," and a Tom Waits song for his encore.      Rowe on stage

Heinz Field, Pittsburgh, PA My fifth time seeing U2. It was a very enjoyable show, although if I had to rank them, it might be last. At best, tied for fourth. post continues.... The show started off great, with four songs from Achtung Baby and the concert had a terrific final third. Somewhere in the middle it the set list was a tad soft, although I'm not sure exactly why. The set was interesting to look at at first, but not although that great in enhancing the show (unlike, say, the Zoo TV tour staging). Bono's voice definitely couldn't hit all of the high notes of old, although he pulled off the Pavarotti part in "Miss Sarajevo" quite gracefully. Setlist: Even Better Than the Real Thing The Fly Mysterious Ways Until the End of the World I Will Follow Get On Your Boots I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Stay (Faraway, So Close!) Beautiful Day Elevation Pride (In the Name of Love) Miss Sarajevo Zooropa City of Blinding Lights Ve...

Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA   Amos Lee  Lucinda Williams setlist: Can't Let Go Metal Firecracker Pineola I Don't Know How You're Livin' Copenhagen I Envy the Wind Born to Be Loved Changed the Locks Joy Honey Bee encore break Blessed Get Right With God 

Schenley Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA It was the WYEP Summer Music Festival.   Songs played by Fitz & The Tantrums included "MoneyGrabber," "Don't Gotta Work It Out," "Breakin' the Chains of Love," "Rich Girls," and a cover of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)."

Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA.... Seth and Scott Avett had visited WYEP that afternoon for an interview and I did the stage announcements at the concert, so it was fun being backstage being treated like a VIP. The Avetts introduced me to their father Jim (who joined the band on "Salvation Song"), and I chatted with my old NJ friend Nicole Atkins (who was a friend of the Avetts during her brief time in NC). It was a great show, of course.   The Avett Brothers   Nicole Atkins   me with Seth & Scott Avett me introducing the Avetts on stage     Avett Brothers setlist: Go to Sleep Tin Man I Killed Sally's Lover Shame The Fall Will You Return? Laundry Room Paranoia in B-Flat Major Never Been Alive The Prettiest Thing Distraction #74 January Wedding Hard Worker Kick Drum Heart Colorshow The Once and Future Carpenter Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise I and Love and You And It Spread encore break Magazines Salvation Song Talk on Indolence 

The Queen, Wilmington, DE.... Part of the NonCommvention.    The Jayhawks setlist: Wichita Guilder Annie Miss Williams' Guitar Take Me With You (When You Go) She Walks in So Many Ways Black-Eyed Susan Real Light Over My Shoulder I'd Run Away Blue 

The Queen, Wilmington, DE.... Part of the NonCommvention. Ben Harper & Relentless7 Raphael Saadiq Junip Conor Oberst Ben Harper setlist: Don't Give Up on Me Now I Will Not Be Broken Waiting on a Sign Pray That Our Love Sees the Dawn Rock 'n' Roll Is Free Dirty Little Lover