The Bloody Seamen (also known as The Flying Dutchmen for clean gigs) are the premier Pirate-Rock band in the Pittsburgh area. Their songs range from traditional accapella shanties to blistering, bombastic rock n’ roll. Their music can only be matched by their stage shows which include swordplay, firearms, audience participation, fisticuffs, and all sorts of high-seas skullduggery.

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Xander Demos is Pittsburgh’s premier shred guitar player. Currently he plays with Into The Arena which is one of the most reknown bands in the area. Xander has just released an EP called “Road To Guitarcadia” and has put a band together to support it.

Xander’s playing style is a mixture of the melodic to the insane. His influences range from Guthrie Govan to Steve Vai, Shawn Lane to Eric Johnson and Rusty Cooley to John Sykes. He effortlessly blends soaring melodic lead melodies with insane fretboard pyrotechnics.

Xander currently endorses Suhr Guitars, McNaught Guitars, Hughes and Kettner amps, Scott Dixon Cases, Jim Dunlop strings and effects, GraphTech, Warrior Instruments, V-Picks and EMG pickups.

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The Tilt Room started as a young, punk group back in 2002 as BACCHUS with Mike Swindell on guitar/vocals and Matt Dacierno on bass. They played their first show at Metropol in Pittsburgh, PA. It was shortly after their first 4‐song EP release in 2004 which went untitled that Ryan, their drummer, left the band.
There was no down time even without a drummer as Mike and Matt continued writing and developing their music diversity and style, eventually adding acoustic music to their repertoire. In 2006 they found a great drummer in Austin, playing consistently across Pittsburgh for 2 years, releasing their 2nd 4‐Track EP, The Tilt Room, in 2007. Early 2007 Austin left the band for personal reasons and Matt and Mike again continued on writing new material , and playing shows on and off until they met Jake Jartin in 2008, also changing the band name from BACCHUS to The Tilt Room. In 2009 Mike and Matt released a 12 track set of acoustic songs, titled Confront Your World.
With a background in music and jazz drumming, Jake offered Matt and Mike the opportunity to fully utilize all of their ideas. Playing at venues from Ohio and Pennsylvania, The Tilt Room released their third demo, a 7‐track entitled Achilles High Heels, in January of 2011 after which Jake left the group to aspire in other professional fields, but The Tilt Room continued writing and are finishing up their 1st full-length, a 16-track Acoustic album with the same title as their last acoustic album, Confront Your World.

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No front man. No makeup. No rockstar egos. No boys in girl pants. The Hang Lows just rock. The Hang Lows are the winners of the 2011 Hard Rock Cafe AND 105.9 fm the X Battle of the Bands, crowd favorite and overall winners awards. They rocked the Ska is Dead 09 tour as well! The Hang Lows have shared the stage with musical legends from all walks including the Toasters, the Slackers, Eddie Money, the Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, the Dirty Heads, Ballyhoo, Deals Gone Bad, B Foundation, and the Voodoo Glow Skulls.

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Chux Beta is a band with the both roots and wings. With origins as a teenage garage band assembled in the late 90s, the foursome came of age of in the barrooms of the Pittsburgh, emerging a decade later seasoned, matured and poised to take flight. Their 2009 release Now We Rise and We Are Everywhere put forward a strong set of heavy post-grunge anthems spiced-up with bits of power pop and even touches of neo-psychedelia. The band’s combination of a penetrating twin-guitar attack and texture…

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