Ain't nothing but a rock'n'roll blog: New American Music Union Festival takes on Pittsburgh

By Jillian Mapes, Assistant Managing Editor

Photo by Jillian Mapes

Truth be told, I live for free stuff. Someone could offer me a free bag of used plastic silverware, and I’d probably be decently pumped. So when the organizers of American Eagle’s (yes, the store) New American Music Union Festival in Pittsburgh offered me a free press passes, I jumped on that opportunity like a diabetic five-year-old on a Little Debbie snack.
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