Photos on this page courtesy of photographer Ron Lutz II unless otherwise noted. Check out his link and more photos below.
My goal in creating this site was to put together something that was safe for browsing at work or in the presence of children or clergy. However, just in case there might be a couple folks out there who might be unaware of this, here’s a bulletin: Punk rock has been known to sometimes deal in profanity or violence. I can’t vouch for the content in any web sites but my own. Click on any of these links and you’re on your own.
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My goal in creating this site was to put together something that was safe for browsing at work or in the presence of children or clergy. However, just in case there might be a couple folks out there who might be unaware of this, here’s a bulletin: Punk rock has been known to sometimes deal in profanity or violence. I can’t vouch for the content in any web sites but my own. Click on any of these links and you’re on your own.
While the focus of this site is, of course, remembering the good times we had at the Electric Banana, I've also come to recognize that there's a staggering amount of "younger" talent in Pittsburgh presently. We don't have the room or inclination to put all of their links here but I've included just a few young folks' sites that I think you'll like.
Adventures
Code Orange side project.
https://adventurespgh.bandcamp.com/
https://runforcoverrecords.bandcamp.com/album/supersonic-home
The Affordable Floors
Code Orange side project.
https://adventurespgh.bandcamp.com/
https://runforcoverrecords.bandcamp.com/album/supersonic-home
The Affordable Floors
Agnostic Front
https://www.reverbnation.com/agnosticfront
Alberta's Pizza
Pittsburgh-area food truck and caterer whose menu includes - get this - the Electric Banana pizza.
https://www.albertaspizzapgh.com/
Brittany Anjou
Jazz pianist recorded and performed with the newly constituted Stick Against Stone.
Arabesque
The Baffler
Barbed Wire Dolls
https://www.facebook.com/barbedwiredollspgh/
Barefoot Serpents
https://barefootserpents.bandcamp.com/
The Bats
http://bats-pgh.bandcamp.com/
The Battle for Net Neutrality
Do you like your internet slow? Wanna pay extra to make it faster? Want your ISP to decide what web sites you can access? Me neither.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
The Beat
Also known as The Reggae Beat or The Reggae and African Beat at various times, like Trouser Press this was essential reading back in the 1980s but is now defunct. They still update their blog once in a while.
http://byebyebeat.blogspot.com/
"America’s leading voice of interesting and
unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories,
poems and art" and "the journal that blunts the cutting edge."
https://thebaffler.com/Barbed Wire Dolls
https://www.facebook.com/barbedwiredollspgh/
Barefoot Serpents
https://barefootserpents.bandcamp.com/
The Bats
http://bats-pgh.bandcamp.com/
The Battle for Net Neutrality
Do you like your internet slow? Wanna pay extra to make it faster? Want your ISP to decide what web sites you can access? Me neither.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
The Beat
Also known as The Reggae Beat or The Reggae and African Beat at various times, like Trouser Press this was essential reading back in the 1980s but is now defunct. They still update their blog once in a while.
http://byebyebeat.blogspot.com/
David Bellard
Artist and Pittsburgh native who was a regular at the Electric Banana in 1985-86.
http://www.davidbellard.com/
Joe Bendik, formerly of the Windows, Gag, the Zippatones,
Nominal Bond, and Savage Amused, now plying his trade in New York as part of
the Anti-Folk scene.
https://joebendik.bandcamp.com/
https://joebendik.bandcamp.com/
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Big Stir Records
California label sports a roster of musicians that includes the Armoires, Dolph Chaney, Corner Laughers, the Cyrkle, the Flashcubes, the Forty Nineteens, the Jack Rubies, Graham Parker, Popular Creeps, Sorrows, and Tony Valentino.
Black Flag
Bomp! Records
Who didn't love getting that catalog in the mail and sending away for those punk and power pop 45s?
https://www.bompstore.com/
Who didn't love getting that catalog in the mail and sending away for those punk and power pop 45s?
https://www.bompstore.com/
Break My Face
"An Archive of Underachieving and Underrated Punk Rock Pioneers." Includes articles on the Fingers, who were the first Pittsburgh punk band to make a record, and Black Flag.
http://www.breakmyface.com/
"An Archive of Underachieving and Underrated Punk Rock Pioneers." Includes articles on the Fingers, who were the first Pittsburgh punk band to make a record, and Black Flag.
http://www.breakmyface.com/
The Breakup Society
Ed Masley's Arizona band.
Brutally Honest Rock Album Reviews
"Where the truth is unvarnished, no one gets an unearned review, and sacred cow is always on the menu." The author doesn't review any punk or new wave - at least as far as we can tell - but there's much interesting reading here.
buRgandy juRk
Cardboards - Geniuses ahead of their time.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170305041943/http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/12/the-new-wave-legend-that-never-was-pittsburgs-the-cardboards.html
http://www.furious.com/perfect/cardboards.html
http://www.furious.com/perfect/cardboards.html
Carl's Guitar Corner
The former owner of Pittsburgh Guitars supplied many of the bands listed on these pages. If not for him, we may have spent our nights at the Electric Banana listening to guys bang on logs.
The former owner of Pittsburgh Guitars supplied many of the bands listed on these pages. If not for him, we may have spent our nights at the Electric Banana listening to guys bang on logs.
http://www.carlsguitarcorner.com/
Carol Blaze
A.T. Vish has kept busy since the days when he was Thickhead Grin's drummer.
http://www.carolblaze.com/
Carsickness
https://www.facebook.com/carsickness
Carol Blaze
A.T. Vish has kept busy since the days when he was Thickhead Grin's drummer.
http://www.carolblaze.com/
Carsickness
https://www.facebook.com/carsickness
Cash Registers
One-time Savaged Amused guitarist/drummer John Bendik's New York punk band.
https://cashregistersnyc.bandcamp.com/
Castle Blood
https://www.reverbnation.com/castleblood
CBGB & OMFUG
If you need this one explained, you're on the wrong web site.
Chantillion
New local band with roots in the Electric Banana scene.
https://chantillion.bandcamp.com/
The Cheats
https://www.therealcheats.com/
Dennis Childers
The drummer's artistic side.
http://www.dennischilders.com/
Chocolate USA at the Electric Banana
https://ranchococoa.blogspot.com/2012/08/tunesday-tuesday-chocolate-usa.html
Citizen Seen's YouTube Page
We wouldn't usually provide a link to anybody's YouTube page, but this one is hard to ignore. Loads of rare tracks of bands that emerged from the Electric Banana scene, mostly Hector in Paris, also the Windows, Nominal Bond, Monkey on a Stick, and Blond Venus, et. al., and some radio interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWy2wzf5NAgiOyo0yY0OXQ/videos
We wouldn't usually provide a link to anybody's YouTube page, but this one is hard to ignore. Loads of rare tracks of bands that emerged from the Electric Banana scene, mostly Hector in Paris, also the Windows, Nominal Bond, Monkey on a Stick, and Blond Venus, et. al., and some radio interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWy2wzf5NAgiOyo0yY0OXQ/videos
Code Orange
Pittsburgh's two-time Grammy Award nominees for Best Metal Performance for their songs "Forever" (2017) and "Underneath" (2020).
http://codeorangetoth.com/
Pittsburgh's two-time Grammy Award nominees for Best Metal Performance for their songs "Forever" (2017) and "Underneath" (2020).
http://codeorangetoth.com/
Get Hip recording artist Paul Collins Beat. The self-proclaimed King of Power Pop, which
would sound arrogant if it weren’t so darned true.
Copacetic Comics, the webmaster’s favorite place to shop,
a pop culture emporium with comics, CDs, books, DVDs, art, and vinyl by The Five and Reid Paley. Now strictly an online, mail-order store.
Scroll down for a direct link to order The Five.
Copper & Wool Films
COVID-19 Projections
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations' projections for the entire United States and each state individually, assuming full social distancing, updated daily.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Creature People
https://creaturepeople.org/
Crumbs of Happiness/Chance Wayne
https://chancewayne.bandcamp.com/
Vince Curtis
Half Life, Real Enemy, and White Wreckage.
https://vincecurtis.bandcamp.com/
The Cynics
Nobody played at the Electric Banana more times.
Cyrus Gold
http://cyrusgold.bandcamp.com/
The Damaged Pies
http://thedamagedpies.bandcamp.com/
http://www.reverbnation.com/thedamagedpies
The Dancing Cigarettes, a Bloomington, Indiana band that played at the Electric Banana just once, but that’s all it took to leave their mark on Pittsburgh.
Dangerhouse Records
You'd pay a small fortune to get their old 45s and EPs today. Or you could download them here for relative peanuts.
Debt Begins at 20,
a documentary about the early Pittsburgh punk rock scene, with live
performances by the Cardboards, the Shakes, and the Dykes as well as a trip to Jim’s
Records.
Peggy Ahwesh wrote this excellent essay for Storyboard, the Carnegie Museum of Art blog:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221222050512/https://storyboard.cmoa.org/2017/01/bored-in-pittsburgh-the-obscure-film-that-immortalized-1980s-punk/
Deliberate Strangers
http://members.tripod.com/Deliberate_Strangers/index.html
Dick Tracy Meets the Punks
A plot line from 1979. It's the first appearance by a punk rocker in the daily comics.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/dick_tracy_meets_the_punks1
Direct Action
https://directaction.bandcamp.com/
Doomed Planet Comics
Deliberate Strangers
http://members.tripod.com/Deliberate_Strangers/index.html
Dick Tracy Meets the Punks
A plot line from 1979. It's the first appearance by a punk rocker in the daily comics.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/dick_tracy_meets_the_punks1
Direct Action
https://directaction.bandcamp.com/
Doomed Planet Comics
Copacetic Comics physical satellite store.
Don Caballero
http://doncaballero.bandcamp.com/
Don't Call Me Crazy On The 4th Of July
Why couldn't Lansberry get his mail? Check out this documentary.
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rp3h/lansberry/film.html
http://doncaballero.bandcamp.com/
Don't Call Me Crazy On The 4th Of July
Why couldn't Lansberry get his mail? Check out this documentary.
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rp3h/lansberry/film.html
Doughnut Economics Action Lab
A new way to think about economics in the 21st Century, one that meets the needs of all people.
Dreamland Music Video
Ever wonder what ever happened to the Imprints? Sure you have. Wonder no more.
http://www.dreamlandmusicvideo.com/
Dress Up As Natives
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/07/dress-up-as-natives-you-had-to-be-there.html
Duro Sport
"52.25 Years of Innovation!"
EOE
https://www.reverbnation.com/eoerecords
Essential Machine
https://essentialmachine.net/
Eviction
https://www.facebook.com/evictionmetal
Facewreck
https://facewreck.bandcamp.com/
The Five
http://s3.amazonaws.com/CopaceticOldSchool/THEFIVE.html
https://www.reverbnation.com/eoerecords
Essential Machine
https://essentialmachine.net/
Eviction
https://www.facebook.com/evictionmetal
Facewreck
https://facewreck.bandcamp.com/
The Five
http://s3.amazonaws.com/CopaceticOldSchool/THEFIVE.html
Floating Mill Records
Pittsburgh-based label focusing on forgotten postpunk and DIY bands.
FOE, a hardcore fanzine and record label from the Lehigh Valley. This amazing site has every issue and album available for free download or enjoying on your computer. There are interviews with Half Life and many other bands who played at the Electric Banana.
The Forty Nineteens
https://www.thefortynineteens.com/
https://www.thefortynineteens.com/
Frampton Brothers/Johnny Rhythm and the Dimestore 45s
https://fbmusic.bandcamp.com/Frenchy Burrito & the Folk Pistols
Friendship Perk and Brew
We do love our coffee around here. Here's a nice place in the Friendship/Bloomfield area.
https://perkandbrew.net/The Full Counts
https://thefullcounts.bandcamp.com/
https://thefullcounts.bandcamp.com/
Fungus Books & Records
The Fuzztones at the Electric Banana
Get Hip Records
"Get Hip or get lost!"
"Get Hip or get lost!"
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth bassist, as if you didn't know.
The Gothees
"Imagine the bubblegum pop tunes of the Monkees and the Archies interpreted by The Velvet Underground with Ian Curtis of Joy Division as lead vocalist," says the web site. OK, I'm sold.
http://gothees.com
The Gotobeds
A band named for Wire's drummer. I love it.
https://thegotobeds.bandcamp.com/
The Great Kat
Shred guitar/violin virtuoso.
http://www.greatkat.com/
Half Life
"The reasonably official website."
Hector in Paris
Richard Hell
"I called him," says [Mike] Watt. "I said, 'Is this Hell?' And he said, 'Yeah.' And I got scared and I hung up. That, to me, was punk." - from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
www.richardhell.com
Hepcat Dilemma
https://hepcatdilemma.com/
Hidden Truth
https://www.reverbnation.com/hiddentruth12
The Hipsters
The last remaining active band that was included on Made in Pittsburgh, Vol. 3.
http://www.thehipsters.org/
Hepcat Dilemma
https://hepcatdilemma.com/
Hidden Truth
https://www.reverbnation.com/hiddentruth12
The Hipsters
The last remaining active band that was included on Made in Pittsburgh, Vol. 3.
http://www.thehipsters.org/
Horror Realm
Hugh's Ominous Valve Works
Art, valves, radio, computers, movies, and pizza.
http://www.ominous-valve.com/
Hungry Bill
Ig Nition F-Models Memorial Gig
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ig-Nition-FModels-Memorial-Gig/263295753835053?ref=stream
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ig-Nition-FModels-Memorial-Gig/263295753835053?ref=stream
Igor Records
Bone of Contention, Love Letters, Harry Von Zells, et. al.
"Bill Imprint" and the Cadillac with the Tiger in it
http://www.thecadillacwiththetigerinit.com/
http://www.thecadillacwiththetigerinit.com/
Inner Groove Record Store
Located in Monaca, they'll stock local bands' music and merch alongside the classic rock.
Insect Surfers
Fun with the Internet Archive:
The Cynics live at WFMU studios on 7/29/06 and 10/6/07 (unplugged) and 11/26/11.
Liverball live at the Electric Banana in 1997 and the Fallout Shelter on 2/5/11 and on WRCT (date unknown).
Stone at the Electric Banana on 8/28/99---possibly the last show recorded there?
Somewhere in this lengthy Spanish-language program you can hear Zoetrope at the Electric Banana on 6/27/88.
Swans at the Electric Banana on 10/6/83.
The Cynics live at WFMU studios on 7/29/06 and 10/6/07 (unplugged) and 11/26/11.
Liverball live at the Electric Banana in 1997 and the Fallout Shelter on 2/5/11 and on WRCT (date unknown).
Stone at the Electric Banana on 8/28/99---possibly the last show recorded there?
Somewhere in this lengthy Spanish-language program you can hear Zoetrope at the Electric Banana on 6/27/88.
Swans at the Electric Banana on 10/6/83.
Reid Paley live in Cambridge, MA on 11/17/10.
The Love Letters live on WRCT on 2/4/10. This fits nicely on a CD with a download of their double 45.
Eavesdrop on a couple Stick Against Stone practice sessions from 1984.
The Love Letters live on WRCT on 2/4/10. This fits nicely on a CD with a download of their double 45.
Eavesdrop on a couple Stick Against Stone practice sessions from 1984.
How about 90 minutes of W.T. Koltek on WYEP on 10/6/85?
These “unofficial” recordings have been on the Internet Archive for
quite some time, so we assume they’re there with the consent of the bands. If we’re wrong about that and you represent
these bands, contact us and the links will be removed---although this matter
would probably be better taken up with the folks at the Internet Archive.
Internet Radio
A comprehensive directory of internet radio stations that you can listen to without leaving the page, organized by genre, including punk, new wave, reggae, and metal.
Internet Radio
A comprehensive directory of internet radio stations that you can listen to without leaving the page, organized by genre, including punk, new wave, reggae, and metal.
Io
Jimmer, formerly of the Rave-Ups.
http://jimmermusic.com/
Joy Division
Greater Manchaster band so beloved that a group of Pittsburgh musicians were inspired to form their own version for one night in 1983.
http://joydivisionofficial.com/
http://jimmermusic.com/
Joy Division
Greater Manchaster band so beloved that a group of Pittsburgh musicians were inspired to form their own version for one night in 1983.
http://joydivisionofficial.com/
Kaibur Coffee
Located in the building which houses Doomed Planet Comics and Pleasant Dreams Records in Polish Hill.
http://kaiburcoffee.com/
Killer of Sheep
https://www.reverbnation.com/KILLEROFSHEEP
https://killerofsheep1.bandcamp.com/
Ki11erpancake Illustration
"Cursed art for the damned and divine."
https://killerpancakeillustration.com/
Evan Knauer Art
The Electric Banana spawned an astounding number of musicians who were also visual artists.
https://www.facebook.com/Evan-Knauer-Art-1026913124053389/
Knauer Brothers
https://www.facebook.com/knauerbros/
DK on Pittsburgh Sports
Dejan Kovacevic used to play guitar at the Electric Banana. Now he's doing something else and we hear that it's working out OK for him.
http://dkpittsburghsports.com/
Tony Landolina, encaustic artist and 2019 Emerging Artist Scholarship Award winner.
Last Word on Sports
Jim Laugelli - Art
Erstwhile sax man for Stick Against Stone and Hector in Paris, now into visual art.
Erstwhile sax man for Stick Against Stone and Hector in Paris, now into visual art.
The Leonards, the only band ever to play at the Electric Banana and be stopped by the Pittsburgh Police for being too loud!
http://www.thefortynineteens.com/the-leonards
Check out the Forty Nineteens while you're there.
Leprosy
https://www.reverbnation.com/leprosysplattergoremetal
Life In Balance
https://www.reverbnation.com/lifeinbalance
The Little Wretches
http://www.littlewretches.com/
Liveburgh Studio
Find out why Chris has been called "the soccer Mom for bands."
https://liveburghstudio.com/
Liverball
https://www.reverbnation.com/liverball
https://liverball.bandcamp.com/
Long Journey
https://longjourney.bandcamp.com/
Los Vampiros Amarillos
https://losvampirosamarillos.bandcamp.com/
https://themetoos.bandcamp.com/
Low Doses
Formed in 2014, this New Jersey power pop band came to an abrupt end with their founder's untimely passing. They would have fit right in at the Electric Banana during its pre-hardcore era.
https://lowdoses.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/the-low-doses
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Low_Doses/
Ron Lutz II ~ Photographer
It's rare that a professional photographer would give a generous supply of photos to a site like this one, but that's what Ron did. We hope you'll keep that in mind and patronize him if you're looking for a photographer in Wisconsin and you're a former or current punker, a transplanted Pittsburgher, or even just a regular person.
http://www.ronlutzii-photographer.com/
Mark's Record Reviews
This guy is one serious music lover. Thousands of record reviews and over 100 in-depth interviews. Many of the subjects graced the stage at the Electric Banana. The site was "retired" in 2011, but no matter; there's enough interesting reading there to keep you busy for years.
http://www.markprindle.com
Meat Puppets
http://themeatpuppets.com/
Lisa Miles Violin, formerly of the Feral Family and Black Light Discipline. Her resume puts James Brown, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, to shame.
http://www.lisamilesviolin.com
Mind Cure Records
Mission of Burma
missionofburma.com
Modern Fossils
Multi-generational band that debuted at Bananastock.
https://www.facebook.com/ModernFossilsPGH/
Tom Moran
Art: https://www.facebook.com/tommoranart/
Music: http://tommoran-blog.tumblr.com/
or https://soundcloud.com/tommoran-2
Documentary: https://spinninggoat.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/online-premiere-improvising-the-divine-the-music-of-tom-moran-today-documentary-indie/
Modern Fossils
Multi-generational band that debuted at Bananastock.
https://www.facebook.com/ModernFossilsPGH/
Tom Moran
Art: https://www.facebook.com/tommoranart/
Music: http://tommoran-blog.tumblr.com/
or https://soundcloud.com/tommoran-2
Documentary: https://spinninggoat.wordpress.com/2021/01/01/online-premiere-improvising-the-divine-the-music-of-tom-moran-today-documentary-indie/
Karl Mullen
Singer/guitarist of Carsickness and Ploughman's Lunch, now half of Long Journey (see above) and a practitioner of visual art.
Singer/guitarist of Carsickness and Ploughman's Lunch, now half of Long Journey (see above) and a practitioner of visual art.
Bill Munz, erstwhile guitarist for Scapegrace, now with a couple new projects.
https://www.reverbnation.com/musician/billmunz4
Bill Munz & Various Lubricants
https://www.reverbnation.com/billmunzvariouslubricants
Brendan Munz/The Toxic S'Mores Project
Metal/alternative guitarist has joined his dad Bill (see above) in Munzi and Modern Fossils.
https://www.reverbnation.com/brendan6
Murder for Girls
The Neats
Boston band with Pittsburgh roots that played at the Banana.
Necropolis
https://necropolispgh.com/
https://necropolispgh.com/
The Needmores
Need we say more? Probably, but this is all you're getting.
https://www.facebook.com/theneedmores
The Nib
If you like indie nonfiction comics with a healthy dose of political satire, these folks got 'em. If you don't, they got 'em anyway.
https://thenib.com/
The Nib
If you like indie nonfiction comics with a healthy dose of political satire, these folks got 'em. If you don't, they got 'em anyway.
https://thenib.com/
99 Cents
Non-Punk Pittsburgh
Curated by Dennis Childers and Larry Rippel.
https://www.facebook.com/NonPunkPittsburgh/?ref=page_internal
The exhibit has concluded but we'll keep the link here for as long as the page is up because of all the cool photos and videos there.
Curated by Dennis Childers and Larry Rippel.
https://www.facebook.com/NonPunkPittsburgh/?ref=page_internal
The exhibit has concluded but we'll keep the link here for as long as the page is up because of all the cool photos and videos there.
OFF!
Bill J. Oliver
Blue Collar, The Trial, and Rip It Up
Blue Collar, The Trial, and Rip It Up
The opd
https://soundcloud.com/the-opd
Ben Opie, erstwhile saxophonist with, inter alios, Water Shed and Carsickness.
https://benopie.com/
http://benopie.blogspot.com/
Page Dairy Mart
Located at East Carson Street and Becks Run Road, the home of the Electric Banana sundae.
https://pagedairymart.net/
https://soundcloud.com/the-opd
Ben Opie, erstwhile saxophonist with, inter alios, Water Shed and Carsickness.
https://benopie.com/
http://benopie.blogspot.com/
Page Dairy Mart
Located at East Carson Street and Becks Run Road, the home of the Electric Banana sundae.
https://pagedairymart.net/
Reid Paley, former lead singer of the Five, now with an active, prolific solo career.
Pauline & the Perils
Buffalo band who made frequent appearances at the Electric Banana in 1981-82.
Megan Paullet
Former Damaged Pie and alumnus of St. Vincent College. (Take a wild guess where Joe went to college.)
The New Pitt Stadium
Could it happen in Oakland?
Pleasant Dreams Records
Now in the space once occupied by Mind Cure Records and Cruel Noise Records.
Pluto's Archives
The Feral Family, Salt Chunk Mary, and the Shunts.
https://plutosarchives.bandcamp.com/
The Feral Family, Salt Chunk Mary, and the Shunts.
https://plutosarchives.bandcamp.com/
Popular Creeps
Physical media paradise, performance center, hardcore museum in New Kensington
Mike Psyche's YouTube Page
Another great video collection that's hard to ignore.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MIKEPSYCHE/videos
Punk Rock and Trailer Parks by Derf
http://www.derfcity.com/comix/prtp/PRTP.html
This graphic novel is a work of fiction, but you'll swear that you knew Otto. We'd call it a "good read," except we hate it when verbs are used as nouns.
RaisedByMachines
Another great video collection that's hard to ignore.
https://www.youtube.com/user/MIKEPSYCHE/videos
Punk Rock and Trailer Parks by Derf
http://www.derfcity.com/comix/prtp/PRTP.html
This graphic novel is a work of fiction, but you'll swear that you knew Otto. We'd call it a "good read," except we hate it when verbs are used as nouns.
RaisedByMachines
Rave-Up Records
Italian punk label that's released vinyl albums by Carsickness and the Features.
http://www.raveuprecords.com
The Rea Coffeehouse at Chatham University, the site, however unlikely, of Pittsburgh's first punk rock show. Read all about it.
http://reacoffeehousearchive-blog.tumblr.com/
Record Store Day. Really,
what could be cooler?
recordstoreday.com/Home Recycle This Pittsburgh
Everything you'd ever want to know about recycling in Pittsburgh, and if it's not there, you can ask.
http://recyclethispgh.com/
The Residents
Because . . . just because.
Resistance Wire
https://harmreductionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2015
https://www.facebook.com/resistancewire/timeline?ref=page_internal
Rickety Records
Formed in 2018, the band includes former members of the Ultimatics, the Cheats, the Addicts, and Kill Bossa.
Sad Healthy Meals
Three comments from the webmaster: 1.) I hate blogs, for the same reason I hate all social media, because I'm not interested in every minute detail of everybody's boring life. 2.) I don't get the current fad where everybody is taking pictures of their meals and posting them to social media. 3.) This link has nothing to do with anything else on this site.
That said, this is just downright hilarious:
https://sadhealthymeals.wordpress.com/
Save Our Stages
Three comments from the webmaster: 1.) I hate blogs, for the same reason I hate all social media, because I'm not interested in every minute detail of everybody's boring life. 2.) I don't get the current fad where everybody is taking pictures of their meals and posting them to social media. 3.) This link has nothing to do with anything else on this site.
That said, this is just downright hilarious:
https://sadhealthymeals.wordpress.com/
Save Our Stages
If you're here, you know what this is about already.
Scapegrace
"Scapegrace is an up and coming band born at the Banana. Keep an eye on them." - Johnny Banana, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/28/94.
http://www.reverbnation.com/scapegrace
"Scapegrace is an up and coming band born at the Banana. Keep an eye on them." - Johnny Banana, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/28/94.
http://www.reverbnation.com/scapegrace
Steve Sciulli
Veteran multi-instrumentalist with Carsickness, Life In Balance, Monkey On A Stick, Ploughman's Lunch, Raised By Machines, Standing Wave, Steve and The Millers - did we miss any? Probably.
Veteran multi-instrumentalist with Carsickness, Life In Balance, Monkey On A Stick, Ploughman's Lunch, Raised By Machines, Standing Wave, Steve and The Millers - did we miss any? Probably.
Steve Sciulli: The Singing Life of Plants
Screaming Crow Records
Screaming Mailboxes of Destiny
Frank Secich
The Infidels, Deadbeat Poets, Blue Ash, Club Wow, Stiv Bators
Steve Seel
Local musician with A.T.S., inter alios.
Shanley on Music
Mike Shanley of Bone of Contention, the Love Letters, and Harry Von Zells.
The S/CKS
http://thesicks.bandcamp.com/
Side Eye
https://pghsideeye.bandcamp.com/
Silver Eye Photography
http://thesicks.bandcamp.com/
Side Eye
https://pghsideeye.bandcamp.com/
Silver Eye Photography
Successor organization for Blatent Image Gallery.
Peg Simone
Pleasure Head's Debra Catanzaro left Pittsburgh for New York and adopted a pseudonym but she can't elude our mighty search engine skills.
http://www.pegsimone.com/ (Same domain, different site.)
Sir Dave
Bassist provides a generous supply of mp-3's of Stick Against Stone and his other projects.
http://sirdave.com/SirDave.html
Bassist provides a generous supply of mp-3's of Stick Against Stone and his other projects.
http://sirdave.com/SirDave.html
Sonic Youth
http://www.sonicyouth.com/
Sour Wine Cult
http://sourwinecult.com/
The Spectres
Greenfield garage band.
https://thespectres.bandcamp.com/
Spuds
Sour Wine Cult
http://sourwinecult.com/
The Spectres
Greenfield garage band.
https://thespectres.bandcamp.com/
Spuds
www.spuds.com
SST Records
This label really needs no introduction here. Many of their bands played at the Electric Banana.
https://www.sstsuperstore.com/
SST Records
This label really needs no introduction here. Many of their bands played at the Electric Banana.
https://www.sstsuperstore.com/
Standing Wave, a project of Carsickness and Ploughman's Lunch founding members Stephen Sciulli and Dennis Childers. "Country music from an imaginary country" and "trance dance music."
https://www.facebook.com/pghstandingwave
Steve and The Millers
Stick Against Stone
https://stickagainststone.bandcamp.com/
Sweet Olive
https://www.reverbnation.com/sweetolive
Take Me With You
https://tmwy.bandcamp.com
Thin White Line
https://www.facebook.com/Babalonkids/?fref=nf
Sweet Olive
https://www.reverbnation.com/sweetolive
Take Me With You
https://tmwy.bandcamp.com
Thin White Line
https://www.facebook.com/Babalonkids/?fref=nf
Thirty Years Lit
"The works of the late John H. Creighton Jr. - musician, singer, poet, activist, humanist."
https://medium.com/thirty-years-lit
"The works of the late John H. Creighton Jr. - musician, singer, poet, activist, humanist."
https://medium.com/thirty-years-lit
Through Our Eyes
"Short stories by the people who helped build the Pittsburgh hardcore scene."
https://www.instagram.com/through_our_eyes_book/
"Short stories by the people who helped build the Pittsburgh hardcore scene."
https://www.instagram.com/through_our_eyes_book/
Through the Fence Baseball
Trouser Press
This was the Bible of the New Wave back in its hey-day. Maybe we shouldn't say "was." The magazine may be no more but their web site is loaded with great info. New and improved - if you haven't checked it out in a while, take a look.
This was the Bible of the New Wave back in its hey-day. Maybe we shouldn't say "was." The magazine may be no more but their web site is loaded with great info. New and improved - if you haven't checked it out in a while, take a look.
Trundle Manor
Truth and Deliberation
Amy knows of what she writes.
Untamed
http://www.reverbnation.com/untamed2k
The Urinals
Seminal minimalist Los Angeles punk band, big influence on the Minutemen.
http://www.theurinals.com/
Venus in Furs
www.venusinfursrocks.com
www.venusinfursrocks.com
Bill von Hagen, the late computer expert and former drummer of the Puke, Cardboards, 24 Minutes, and the Cynics.
The Waitresses
They played two memorable shows at the Electric Banana. Their guitarist/songwriter Chris Butler produced an unreleased EP for Carsickness.
http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/waitresses/index.htm
The Andy Warhol Museum
http://www.warhol.org/
They played two memorable shows at the Electric Banana. Their guitarist/songwriter Chris Butler produced an unreleased EP for Carsickness.
http://www.hardcafe.co.uk/waitresses/index.htm
The Andy Warhol Museum
http://www.warhol.org/
Mike Watt’s Hoot Page
Jah Wobble
WRCT
Its reach is farther than in the old days, thanks to a stronger over-the-air signal and, of course, the internet.
http://www.wrct.org/
The Wurms
https://www.facebook.com/thewurms/
http://www.reverbnation.com/thewurms
Its reach is farther than in the old days, thanks to a stronger over-the-air signal and, of course, the internet.
http://www.wrct.org/
The Wurms
https://www.facebook.com/thewurms/
http://www.reverbnation.com/thewurms
WXXP
Pittsburgh's alternative radio station is back as an internet-only station.
http://www.wxxp.com/
X-ray Spex
The apparent favorite band of the early Pittsburgh punkers, as evidenced by their underlying presence on Debt Begins at 20, where they appear on T-shirts and turntables and Poly Styrene is given a shout-out. "ART-I-FICIAL!"
http://www.x-rayspex.com/
Nick Z's Boss Super Summer
Nick Zeigler of Mary's Danish, the Leonards, and the Forty Nineteens, with a little help from his friends.
https://nickzsbosssupersummer.bandcamp.com/
Nick Zeigler of Mary's Danish, the Leonards, and the Forty Nineteens, with a little help from his friends.
https://nickzsbosssupersummer.bandcamp.com/
Zarra’s Restaurant
http://www.zarraspgh.com/
Outside the Electric Banana, 1986
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| Punk rock was alive and well in Pittsburgh, and that ain't just blowing smoke! |
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| Deformed. |
Not related to the Electric Banana but interesting Pittsburgh connections nonetheless
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| Dave Wakeling, center, brought his new edition of the English Beat to Station Square on 7/11/13. It was a homecoming of sorts for toaster Antonee First Class, second from left in the red shirt, who once owned a record store in Wilkinsburg. Photo by Dom. |