Cassette tapes brought Veronika Cloutier to Pittsburgh. Vinyl LPs have kept her here. Before moving to Pittsburgh from North Carolina in 2021, the former vocalist and guitarist for the band Attack Cat measured the city’s livability by connecting with a local indie label that releases cassettes. “The fact that there
Squirrel Hill is lovingly known as “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” It’s the area of Pittsburgh where television icon Fred Rogers not only lived, but nurtured. “There is a cohesiveness of the neighborhood,” said Helen Wilson, vice-president of the Squirrel Hill Historical Society. “There is a network of support. People care here.”
Anyone with a taste for vinyl in Pittsburgh knows Jerry’s Records. The Squirrel Hill establishment attracted crate-digging music lovers for decades, including some famous people.
Jerry Weber, the beloved Pittsburgh purveyor of vinyl, has died. Weber owned Jerry’s Records on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill — a haven for vinylheads and a kingdom of records. “We are devastated to hear of Jerry’s passing,” the record store wrote Saturday on Facebook. “Our beloved founder and Pittsburgh’s
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