Worth getting up for in March: Frontier Ruckus and Low Anthem and the Deep Dark Woods Daytrotter sessions; Jim Avett, Superchunk oh oh oh Superchunk, the Rural Alberta Advantage, Wye Oak, Holy Ghost at the Cradle, Tim Barry, Oberhofer, J. Roddy Walston & the Business; ACC college baseball; the ACC basketball tournament, mostly; the NCAA…
Month: March 2011
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in march
The Low Anthem — Smart Flesh: there was no way that this year’s follow-up to 2009’s stunning Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was going to be anything less than incredible, but Smart Flesh manages to be even more painfully honest and heartbreaking, more complex and intricate musically, and intimate and quiet and huge, than both…
mike watt + the missingmen @ local 506
I went to see Mike Watt + the missingmen at the 506 last night out of a confluence of circumstances; mostly, frankly, curiosity and generosity. My punk education — my history of punk education, I guess — continues apace at Pam’s hands, with help from H. and Dr. Nick in West Fucking Virginia, but I…
j. roddy walston & the business @ kings
When I told him that I was going to see a rock band from Baltimore last night, the Cowboy said, “I didn’t think they had those. I thought they were just making electronica up there.” Not in a bad way — just in a vaguely perplexed way, because they make a lot of electronica in…
college baseball: duke @ unc, march ’11
Four. We only made one game of the three in the series that we had tickets for, yesterday’s 11-2 UNC win. Circumstances, and weather. It feels like December here, cold winds and cold temperatures and cold rain, though it’s almost April. I’m sluggish and restless today, but freezing to death watching baseball wasn’t the answer,…
tim barry @ local 506
Tim Barry, much like Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, is one of those rare songwriters who has the ability to make me feel jubilant and heartbroken all at once. He writes with the fierce punk ethos of Avail, even when he’s self-admittedly failing at playing the guitar, when he’s intimated by crowd and using his…
spirit family reunion & the magnolia collective @ the pinhook
TOO MANY SHOWS. Did an extra 500,000 people move into the Triangle in the past 8 months? — Ross Grady of Triangle Rock to ch-scene I agree, Ross. I agree. But great sets from both bands last night; I hadn’t been to the Pinhook since last fall and it was nice to get back. Good…
oberhofer & cloudlines @ local 506
Straight up: all I knew about Oberhofer before last night was that Brad and Pete were supremely charming guys; I shot their interview with Speakers In Code back in February, but missed their following set at the Cradle for another show. I was delighted last night, though, when they took the stage to play the…
holy ghost tent revival @ cat’s cradle
For all intents and purposes, except for the pattern of the tie and the quality of the shot, those two images could be from the same night, though obviously they’re not. The top shot was taken with my Nikon Coolpix L3 on October 21, 2008, when Holy Ghost was the local open for Jersey band…
college baseball: miami @ wake forest
Three. One of those rare non-Carolina ACC game for me. Austin Stadler Nuke-LaLooshed it up, Bryan Radziewski and poor eyes at the plate confounded Wake into only four hits, and it was basically not a very good game that Miami won 4-1. It was a beautiful night, though, and Wake Forest offers chili and slaw…
brand new kind of photography 