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Yellow Red Sparks on the WPTS Summer Sessions

www.yellowredsparks.com Indie Folk band Yellow Red Sparks came into the studio today on a stop of their tour across the US, and they played us a few of their songs, on the first of soon to be many WPTS Summer Sessions! Check it out right here: We’ll be having a few more Summer Sessions soon. [...]

WPTS in TPN: The Legend of the Screaming Goats

In this week’s WPTS column in The Pitt News, Ali L’Esperance and Matt Singer team up to explore the internet meme of the screaming goat videos and its effect on music (and Taylor Swift’s image). You can read it online here, if you’re afraid of newsstands or allergic to paper.

The Carpathian Ensemble on the WPTS Live Show

http://www.music.pitt.edu/carpathian The department’s newest musical endeavor, the Carpathian Music Ensemble, was founded in fall 2008 and is directed by Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology Adriana Helbig. The ensemble performs Gypsy, Klezmer, Armenian, Moldavian, Ukranian, and Macedonian music. Along with their performances for Music at Pitt, the ensemble performs for enthusiastic crowds at local concert venues around [...]

The 2013 WPTS Zine is Here!

After a long semester of writing, editing, and designing, the WPTS #TEAMZINE is pleased to announce that the 2013 edition of the WPTS Radio zine has arrived! Come and read one, in its beautiful, matte-gloss form. Featuring everything from a WPTS Program Guide to a discourse on the importance of albums to a maze to [...]

Lyndsey Smith and The Soul Distribution on the WPTS Live Show

http://www.reverbnation.com/lyndseysmith Lindsay was born and raised in New Jersey where she got Her nickname “the goddaughter of soul” Upon moving to Pittsburgh, Lindsay and her husband Brandon founded sweet note entertainment, a live music company. Lindsey and Brandon work to assemble the members of soul distribution over several years. The current lineup has been together [...]