WYEP Music Blog

Friday mornings on WYEP, Chef Bill Fuller (Corporate Chef for big Burrito) joins Cindy Howes at 7:30am for Pairings! Bill & Cindy challenge each other to pair up your favorite music with matching food and drink.. Let’s see what they came up with this week.

Listen to the audio:

Cindy’s song pick: Taj Mahal “She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule To Ride)”

Bill’s menu pairing: Creamy potato salad and cole slaw, pulled pork sandwiches, soda pop, iced tea and Bell’s Oberon beer

Bill’s menu pick: Food for a spur of the moment ladies’ camping trip! Take-out fried chicken, Chex Mix, Combos, Slim Jims, packs of gum, cartons of Bandit wine and cans of Yeungling so you can shoot the cans with your BB gun.



Cindy’s song pick: Wild Flag “Romance”

Every Wednesday at 9:13 am, one of Pittsburgh’s finest music writers joins me (Cindy Howes) on the Morning Mix to play a couple favorite new songs and share some insight. Today we welcome Scott Mervis of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

In case you missed it here’s what he played with commentary by Scott:

Vampire Weekend, “Diane Young” – I’m still on the fence about this song because the autotune really is kind of annoying, but I like everything else that goes around it. Despite cribbing from Paul Simon and Talking Heads, this over-hyped band sounded fresh when it first popped up, and two albums later, that feeling remains.

Of Monsters and Men, “Mountain Sound” – Here I am doing my job of breaking new bands on the 9:13 Buzz. Just kidding. There’s almost no way you haven’t heard this band, unless you only listen to talk radio,
in which case you’re probably not reading this anyway. This play was a nod to summer concerts, and this one should be a highlight (Stage AE, June 12, as it’s one of the few bands coming we haven’t seen before. Whether you like Top 40 or indie rock, it’s hard to argue that Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir has a gorgeous voice.

Friday mornings on WYEP, Chef Bill Fuller (Corporate Chef for big Burrito) joins Cindy Howes at 7:30am for Pairings! Bill & Cindy challenge each other to pair up your favorite music with matching food and drink.. Let’s see what they came up with this week.

Listen to the audio:

Cindy’s song pick: Donovan “Colours”

Bill’s menu pairing: sandwiches wrapped in wax paper; white bread with sliced turkey and lettuce and tomato and a little mayonnaise; roasted corn on the cob; cans of Narragansett beer, jug of red wine, lemonade and soda

Bill’s menu pick: Creamy polenta; bowl of steamed mussels with red sauce; Italian sausages; rustic bread with plates of olive oil and bottles of crisp gavi di gavi (white wine).

Cindy’s song pairing: The Felice Brothers “Frankie’s Gun”

Every Wednesday at 9:13 am, one of Pittsburgh’s finest music writers joins me (Cindy Howes) on the Morning Mix to play a couple favorite new songs and share some insight. Today we welcome Andy Mulkerin of Pittsburgh’s City Paper.

In case you missed it here’s what he played with commentary by Andy:

Futurebirds, “Serial Bowls” – Nice alt-country-ish tune from the Athens, Ga., group that just released its Fat Possum debut (though the band’s been around a few years and released records elsewhere). It has that crunchy guitar tone I’m known to enjoy.

The Joy Formidable, “This Ladder Is Ours” – I’m a big fan of this Welsh three-piece with the big rock sound. The new record, Wolf’s Law, is a little more upbeat and a little more consistent than the first; some say that makes it inferior, but I tend to disagree.