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Woodz Band. Let Glabicki, Berlin and Ba company send you on your way into s 2014. (Oh, and no teens sneaking into this one, please; it’s 21 and over.) AM ple E. Carson St., South Side. $40. 9 p.m.1602 E 412-381-6811 or www.rextheater.com
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invite you to relive your Prom Night or make up for your last one at this New Years Eve’s
Second Chance Prom
• Women receive a corsage and Men receive a complimentary flask • Get your picture taken as the “King and Queen” of Prom. • Balloon Drop at Midnight • Assortment of appetizers and hors d’oeuvres will be provided • Music provided by DJ Steve with EventuresLive • Open bar from 9:00 p.m. until 2 a.m. featuring Woodchuck Cider 140 6TH STREET • PITTSBURGH, PA • 15222 • 412.255.0525 www.olive-twist.com 26
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[LOCAL] + TUE., DEC. 31 Here’s yet another way to ring in the New Year: Year with a bunch of local bands and DJs at a the Ultra Dive! Tonight, The Harlan Har Twins reprise a past role as Belvedere’s New Year’s Eve house Belve band, and a bring with them hard rockers Outsideinside and DJs Pandemic Pandem Pete and Nice Rec. It’s sure to be a diverse assortment of music, and it’s also the one night a year you can drink drin champagne at Belvedere’s, so there’s there that. AM 9 p.m. 4016 Butler St., Lawrenceville. $10. 412-687-2555 Law
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[WORLD-POP] + TUE., DEC. 31 Was a time when the biggest ticket in town — for twentysomethings, and for teens who o were getting away with a little e something — was Rusted Root’s ot’s annual New Year’s Eve show. Those kids are grown up now, but Pittsburgh’s h’s biggest band of the ’90s is back for another go this year. It’s at the Rex Theater on the South Side, and the Root is joined by a couple other local bands: Bastard Bearded Irishmen men and Derek
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He did time as a James Brown impersonator, had stints of homelessness sness and was the subject of a biographical raphical documentary; now Charles Bradley, adley, y on the heels of his 2013 release se Victim of Love, plays Pittsburgh’s h’s First Night celebration. The now-65-year-old Bradley broke e out in 2011 with his debut, No o Time for Dreaming, on Daptone ne Charles Records, which has a knack forr Bradley finding underappreciated soull musicians and putting them in n the limelight. Not unlike the man he once impersonated, Bradley ey is renowned for the physical endurance he demonstrates on stage, and the whole family can an check him out tonight at the Highmark Stage, on Penn Avenue, enue, Downtown. Andy Mulkerin 10:45 p.m. (First Night events run from 6 p.m. to after midnight.) .) Cultural District, Downtown. All-access buttons $8-10. All ages. 412-456-6666 56-6666 or www.firstnightpgh.org
Fuzzy, early-emo-sounding guitar rock started its comeback in 2013; Pity Sex showed up just in time. The sh Ann Arbor four-piece released its first full-length, Feast of Love, summer on Run for Cover, this sum recalling any number of punk and bands of the late ’90s and early indie ban from Weston to I Hate Myself. ’00s — fro The band sstarts its early-2014 run of shows with one tonight at the Smiling Self Defense Family, Lvl Up Moose. S Adventures open. AM 6:30 p.m. and Adve Carson St., South Side. 1306 E. C $10. All ages. 412-431-4668 or a www.smiling-moose.com www